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Text -- Numbers 6:5-27 (NET)
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6:5 “‘All the days of the vow of his separation no razor may be used on his head until the time is fulfilled for which he separated himself to the Lord . He will be holy , and he must let the locks of hair on his head grow long.
6:6 “‘All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he must not contact a dead body .
6:7 He must not defile himself even for his father or his mother or his brother or his sister if they die , because the separation for his God is on his head .
6:8 All the days of his separation he must be holy to the Lord .
Contingencies for Defilement
6:9 “‘If anyone dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his consecrated head , then he must shave his head on the day of his purification – on the seventh day he must shave it.
6:10 On the eighth day he is to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest , to the entrance to the tent of meeting .
6:11 Then the priest will offer one for a purification offering and the other as a burnt offering , and make atonement for him, because of his transgression in regard to the corpse . So he must reconsecrate his head on that day .
6:12 He must rededicate to the Lord the days of his separation and bring a male lamb in its first year as a reparation offering , but the former days will not be counted because his separation was defiled .
Fulfilling the Vows
6:13 “‘Now this is the law of the Nazirite : When the days of his separation are fulfilled , he must be brought to the entrance of the tent of meeting ,
6:14 and he must present his offering to the Lord : one male lamb in its first year without blemish for a burnt offering , one ewe lamb in its first year without blemish for a purification offering , one ram without blemish for a peace offering ,
6:15 and a basket of bread made without yeast , cakes of fine flour mixed with olive oil , wafers made without yeast and smeared with olive oil , and their grain offering and their drink offerings .
6:16 “‘Then the priest must present all these before the Lord and offer his purification offering and his burnt offering .
6:17 Then he must offer the ram as a peace offering to the Lord , with the basket of bread made without yeast ; the priest must also offer his grain offering and his drink offering .
6:18 “‘Then the Nazirite must shave his consecrated head at the entrance to the tent of meeting and must take the hair from his consecrated head and put it on the fire where the peace offering is burning .
6:19 And the priest must take the boiled shoulder of the ram , one cake made without yeast from the basket , and one wafer made without yeast , and put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his consecrated head;
6:20 then the priest must wave them as a wave offering before the Lord ; it is a holy portion for the priest , together with the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the raised offering . After this the Nazirite may drink wine .’
6:21 “This is the law of the Nazirite who vows to the Lord his offering according to his separation , as well as whatever else he can provide . Thus he must fulfill his vow that he makes , according to the law of his separation .”
The Priestly Benediction
6:22 The Lord spoke to Moses :
6:23 “Tell Aaron and his sons , ‘This is the way you are to bless the Israelites . Say to them:
6:24 “The Lord bless you and protect you;
6:25 The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you;
6:26 The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace .”’
6:27 So they will put my name on the Israelites , and I will bless them.”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
NAZARITE |
Nazirite |
HAIR |
Samson |
Fraternity |
Priest |
Offerings |
SACRIFICE, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, 2 |
John the Baptist |
Basket |
FIRSTBORN; FIRSTLING |
Bless |
BENEDICTION |
Razor |
Sin-offering |
LORD'S SUPPER; (EUCHARIST) |
Jesus, The Christ |
Shaving |
Benedictions |
Intercession |
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expand allCommentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes
NET Notes -> Num 6:5; Num 6:5; Num 6:5; Num 6:5; Num 6:5; Num 6:6; Num 6:6; Num 6:7; Num 6:7; Num 6:7; Num 6:7; Num 6:7; Num 6:9; Num 6:9; Num 6:9; Num 6:10; Num 6:11; Num 6:11; Num 6:11; Num 6:11; Num 6:11; Num 6:11; Num 6:12; Num 6:12; Num 6:12; Num 6:12; Num 6:13; Num 6:14; Num 6:14; Num 6:15; Num 6:15; Num 6:16; Num 6:16; Num 6:17; Num 6:18; Num 6:18; Num 6:18; Num 6:19; Num 6:20; Num 6:20; Num 6:20; Num 6:21; Num 6:21; Num 6:21; Num 6:22; Num 6:23; Num 6:23; Num 6:23; Num 6:24; Num 6:24; Num 6:25; Num 6:26; Num 6:27
NET Notes: Num 6:5 The Piel infinitive absolute functions as a verb in this passage; the Piel carries the sense of “grow lengthy” or “let grow long....
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NET Notes: Num 6:6 The Hebrew has נֶפֶשׁ מֵת (nefesh met), literally a “dead person.” But since the wor...
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NET Notes: Num 6:7 The genitive could perhaps be interpreted as possession, i.e., “the vow of his God,” but it seems more likely that an objective genitive w...
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NET Notes: Num 6:9 The expression is figurative for the vow that he took; the figure is the metonymy because the reference to the head is a reference to the long hair th...
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NET Notes: Num 6:10 The imperfect tense in this verse is still instructional rather than a simple future. The translations can vary, but the point that it is directive mu...
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NET Notes: Num 6:11 The verb simply means “to consecrate,” but because it refers to a vow that was interrupted, it must here mean to “reconsecrate.̶...
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NET Notes: Num 6:12 The similar expression in v. 9 includes the word “head” (i.e., “his consecrated head”). The LXX includes this word in v. 12 as...
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NET Notes: Num 6:13 The Hebrew text has “he/one shall bring him”; since there is no expressed subject, this verb should be taken in the passive sense – ...
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NET Notes: Num 6:14 The peace offering שְׁלָמִים (shÿlamim) is instructed in Lev 3 and 7. The form is always in...
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NET Notes: Num 6:15 The offerings for the termination of the Nazirite vow would not have been inexpensive. This indicates that the person making the short term vow may ha...
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NET Notes: Num 6:18 Heb “which is under the peace offering.” The verse does not mean that the hair had to be put under that sacrifice and directly on the fire...
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NET Notes: Num 6:19 The line does not include the word “head”; it literally has “after the consecrating of himself his consecrated [head].” The in...
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NET Notes: Num 6:20 The imperfect tense here would then have the nuance of permission. It is not an instruction at this point; rather, the prohibition has been lifted and...
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NET Notes: Num 6:22 This brief section records the blessing of the priest, especially the high priest after he emerges from the holy of holies to bless the people (see Le...
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NET Notes: Num 6:23 Here is the only use of the verb אָמַר (’amar) as an infinitive absolute; it functions as a verb form, an imperati...
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NET Notes: Num 6:24 The verb “to keep” concerns the divine protection of the people; its basic meaning is “to exercise great care over,” “to...
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NET Notes: Num 6:25 Whereas the first line of the blessing had three Hebrew words, the second has five, and the third has seven. In this second line and the following thi...
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NET Notes: Num 6:26 The last line of the blessing also has first the image and then the parallel interpretation – for God to lift up his face is for God to give pea...
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