^18 (A)Then the Nazirite shall shave his consecrated head at the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and shall take the hair from his consecrated head and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offering.

²⁴ Take them and be purified with them, and pay their expenses so that they may ^(A)shave their heads, and that all may know that those things of which they were informed concerning you are nothing, but that you yourself also walk orderly and keep the law.

⁹ ‘And if anyone dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles his consecrated head, then he shall ^(A)shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it.

Paul Returns to Antioch

¹⁸ So Paul still remained ^[a]a good while. Then he took leave of the brethren and sailed for Syria, and Priscilla and Aquila were with him. ^(A)He had his hair cut off at ^(B)Cenchrea, for he had taken a vow.

⁶ to the praise of the glory of His grace, ^(A)by which He ^[a]made us accepted in ^(B)the Beloved.

Arrested in the Temple

²⁶ Then Paul took the men, and the next day, having been purified with them, ^(A)entered the temple ^(B)to announce the ^[a]expiration of the days of purification, at which time an offering should be made for each one of them.

¹⁰ So likewise you, when you have done all those things which you are commanded, say, ‘We are ^(A)unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do.’ ”

⁵ ‘All the days of the vow of his separation no ^(A)razor shall come upon his head; until the days are fulfilled for which he separated himself to the Lord, he shall be holy. Then he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.