“‘All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come on his head, until the days are fulfilled, in which he separates himself to Yahweh. He shall be holy. He shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.
⛓ Read Numbers 6 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The Nazirite law that no razor touch the head during the vow's duration (the hair grown then shaved) underlies the haircut-as-vow-completion in v.18. Recurrence with Numbers 6:18 anchors the Nazirite frame.
Medium confidencePaul was 'found purified in the temple' with offerings; this reflects completion of a Nazirite-style vow of purification (cf. Acts 21:23-26), the rite of Numbers 6 requiring offerings at the sanctuary. Concrete ritual referent; medium.
Medium confidence