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Verse 21

"This is the law of the Nazirite who voweth, and of his oblation unto Jehovah for his separation, besides that which he is able to get: according to his vow which he voweth, so he must do after the law of his separation."

This is a summary of the preceding, but seems also to imply that the feast of the Nazirite with his friends after the completion of the vow was to be augmented by whatever else the Nazirite was able to bring in addition to these required items. The man's friends also probably enriched the occasion by their own contributions. Plaut says that, "The friends of the Nazirite provide the offerings when he is too poor to do so."[13] Josephus records how Agrippa, having returned from Rome in possession of the kingdom from Claudius Caesar, and greatly enriched, "ordained that many of the Nazirites should have their heads shorn,"[14] the charges, of course, being paid for by Agrippa. Many students suppose that a similar thing occurred in Acts 21:23-26, where Paul is said to have paid charges for certain Jews having fulfilled a vow.

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