Tractate of the Talmud | |
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English: | Nazirite |
Seder: | Nashim |
Number of mishnahs: | 60 |
Chapters: | 9 |
Babylonian Talmud pages: | 66 |
Jerusalem Talmud pages: | 47 |
Tosefta chapters: | 6 |
Nazir (Hebrew: נזיר) is a treatise of the Mishnah and the Tosefta and in both Talmuds, devoted chiefly to a discussion of the laws of the Nazirite laid down in Numbers 6:1-21. In the Tosefta its title is Nezirut ("Nazariteness"). In most of the editions of the Mishnah, this treatise is the fourth in the order Nashim, and it is divided into 9 chapters, containing 48 paragraphs in all.