²⁶ The next day Paul took the men and purified himself along with them. Then he went to the temple to give notice of the date when the days of purification would end and the offering would be made for each of them.^(A)

¹⁸ I was ceremonially clean^(A) when they found me in the temple courts doing this. There was no crowd with me, nor was I involved in any disturbance.^(B)

²⁰ To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews.^(A) To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law),^(B) so as to win those under the law.

²⁴ Take these men, join in their purification rites^(A) and pay their expenses, so that they can have their heads shaved.^(B) Then everyone will know there is no truth in these reports about you, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law.

¹³ “‘Now this is the law of the Nazirite when the period of their dedication is over.^(A) They are to be brought to the entrance to the tent of meeting.^{(B) 14} There they are to present their offerings to the Lord: a year-old male lamb without defect^(C) for a burnt offering, a year-old ewe lamb without defect for a sin offering,^(D) a ram^(E) without defect for a fellowship offering,^{(F) 15} together with their grain offerings^(G) and drink offerings,^(H) and a basket of bread made with the finest flour and without yeast—thick loaves with olive oil mixed in, and thin loaves brushed with olive oil.^(I)

¹⁶ “‘The priest is to present all these^(J) before the Lord^(K) and make the sin offering and the burnt offering.^{(L) 17} He is to present the basket of unleavened bread and is to sacrifice the ram as a fellowship offering^(M) to the Lord, together with its grain offering^(N) and drink offering.^(O)

¹⁸ “‘Then at the entrance to the tent of meeting, the Nazirite must shave off the hair that symbolizes their dedication.^(P) They are to take the hair and put it in the fire that is under the sacrifice of the fellowship offering.

¹⁹ “‘After the Nazirite has shaved off the hair that symbolizes their dedication, the priest is to place in their hands a boiled shoulder of the ram, and one thick loaf and one thin loaf from the basket, both made without yeast.^{(Q) 20} The priest shall then wave these before the Lord as a wave offering;^(R) they are holy^(S) and belong to the priest, together with the breast that was waved and the thigh that was presented.^(T) After that, the Nazirite may drink wine.^(U)