1. Evidently, then, the requirements for lifetime Nazirites differed in some ways from those for voluntary Nazirites.

2. But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.

3. Nazirites were to abstain from the product of the vine and all intoxicating beverages, requiring self-denial.

4. Nazirites were under a vow that included a ban on drinking alcoholic beverages and on cutting their hair.

5. Only those set aside as Nazirites, such as Samson, did not cut their hair. —Numbers 6:5; Judges 13:5.

6. And that same day he shall Consecrate his head, and shall dedicate to the Lord his days as a Nazirite, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering; but the former days will be void because his separation was defiled