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Text -- Numbers 6:9-12 (NET)
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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 .
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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 |
Samson |
HAIR |
Fraternity |
John the Baptist |
Offerings |
Sin-offering |
Lamb |
Atonement |
SACRIFICE, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, 2 |
BALDNESS |
CONSECRATE; CONSECRATION |
SHAVING |
KNIFE |
Dead Body |
Dove, Turtledove |
RAZOR |
DOVE |
BIRDS |
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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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