Take them with you and purify yourself with them and pay for them to have their heads shaved. Then everyone will understand that none of what they have heard about you is true, but that you yourself follow (live in accordance with) the teaching [Torah – Gk. nomos] and keep (guard) it.
Four Messianic Jews in the congregation had soon completed a Nazirite vow. The word Nazirite comes from the Hebrew verb nazar, which means to separate. It is a voluntary vow to abstain from wine – this good thing in life – and to serve the Lord and seek him in a special way. Both men and women could do this for a time, see Num. 6:1–21. Paul is asked to be present at the concluding ceremony in the temple when they shave their heads, see Num. 6:18. He was also to pay for the extensive sacrifices, see Num. 6:14–15. He himself did not participate in this Nazirite vow, since the shortest period was thirty days, and it only lasted seven days, see verse 27. However, Paul did shave his hair in Corinth, see Acts 18:18. If it was a Nazirite vow, he may have fulfilled parts of it here.

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