Acts 21:24

New American Bible - revised edition

Take these men and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses that they may have their heads shaved. In this way everyone will know that there is nothing to the reports they have been given about you but that you yourself live in observance of the law.

Cross References

Job 1:5

And when each feast had run its course, Job would send for them and sanctify them, rising early and offering sacrifices for every one of them. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” Job did this habitually. The Interview Between the Lord and the Satan.

Job 41:25

Upon the earth there is none like him, he was made fearless.

Exodus 19:10

the Lord said to Moses: Go to the people and have them sanctify themselves today and tomorrow. Have them wash their garments

Exodus 19:14

Then Moses came down from the mountain to the people and had them sanctify themselves, and they washed their garments.

Numbers 6:13

This is the ritual for the nazirites: When the period of their dedication is complete they shall go to the entrance of the tent of meeting,

Numbers 6:18

Then at the entrance of the tent of meeting the nazirite shall shave his or her dedicated head, take the hair of the dedicated head, and put it in the fire under the communion sacrifice.

Numbers 6:5

While they are under the nazirite vow, no razor shall touch their hair. Until the period of their dedication to the Lord is over, they shall be holy, letting the hair of their heads grow freely.

Numbers 6:9

If someone dies very suddenly in their presence, defiling their dedicated heads, they shall shave their heads on the day of their purification, that is, on the seventh day.

John 11:55

Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before Passover to purify themselves.

John 3:25

Now a dispute arose between the disciples of John and a Jew about ceremonial washings.

Acts 18:18

Paul remained for quite some time, and after saying farewell to the brothers he sailed for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. At Cenchreae he had his hair cut because he had taken a vow.

Acts 21:26

So Paul took the men, and on the next day after purifying himself together with them entered the temple to give notice of the day when the purification would be completed and the offering made for each of them. Paul’s Arrest.

Acts 24:18

While I was so engaged, they found me, after my purification, in the temple without a crowd or disturbance.

1 Corinthians 9:20

To the Jews I became like a Jew to win over Jews; to those under the law I became like one under the law—though I myself am not under the law—to win over those under the law.

Galatians 2:12

For, until some people came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he began to draw back and separated himself, because he was afraid of the circumcised.

Judges 13:5

for you will conceive and bear a son. No razor shall touch his head, for the boy is to be a nazirite for God from the womb. It is he who will begin to save Israel from the power of the Philistines.