(KJV) Numbers 61
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⥃The Nazirite Vow [ Judges 13:1–25 ]
[1] And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, [2] Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When2 either man or woman shall separate [themselves3] to vow4 a vow of a Nazarite, to separate [themselves5] unto the Lord: [3] He shall separate [himself] from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.67 [4] All the days of his separation8 shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree9, from the kernels even to the husk. [5] All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor10 come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth [himself] unto the Lord, he shall be holy, [and] shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow. [6] All the days that he separateth [himself] unto the Lord he shall come11 at no dead body. [7] He shall not make himself unclean12 for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration13 of his God [is] upon his head. [8] All the days of his separation he [is] holy unto the Lord.14 [9] And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he15 hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave16 his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it. [10] And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:17 [11] And the priest shall offer18 the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall19 hallow his head that same day. [12] And he shall consecrate unto the Lord the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass20 offering: but the21 days that were before shall be lost22, because his separation was defiled.
[13] [¶]And this [is] the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled23: he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: [14] And he shall offer his offering unto the Lord, one he24 lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe25 lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram26 without blemish for peace offerings, [15] And a basket27 of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed28 with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink29 offerings. [16] And the priest shall bring [them] before the Lord, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering: [17] And he shall offer the ram [for] a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering. [18] And the Nazarite shall shave the head30 of his separation [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put [it31] in the fire which [is] under the sacrifice of the peace offerings. [19] And the priest shall take the sodden32 shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put [them33] upon the hands of the Nazarite, after [the hair of] his separation is shaven: [20] And the priest shall34 wave them [for] a wave offering before the Lord: this [is] holy for the priest, with the wave35 breast and heave shoulder: and after36 that the Nazarite may drink wine. [21] This [is] the law37 of the Nazarite who hath vowed, [and of] his offering unto the Lord for his separation, beside [that38] that his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation.
⥃Aaron’s Blessing
[22] And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, [23] Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them,39 [24] The Lord40 bless thee, and keep thee41: [25] The Lord42 make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious43 unto thee: [26] The Lord lift up44 his countenance upon thee, and give thee45 peace. [27] And they shall put my46 name upon the children of Israel; and I will47 bless them.
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Num 6:1, The law of the Nazarite in the days of his separation; Num 6:13, and after their completion; Num 6:22, The form of blessing the people. ↩
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Num 6:5-6; Exod 33:16; Lev 20:26; Prov 18:1; Rom 1:1; 2Cor 6:16; Gal 1:15; Heb 7:27 ↩
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The word yaphli, rendered "shall separate themselves," signifies, "the doing of something extraordinary," and is the same word as is used concerning the making a singular vow. (Lev 27:2); it seems to convey the idea of a person's acting from extraordinary zeal for God and religion. ↩
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Lev 27:2; Judg 13:5; 1Sam 1:28; Amos 2:11-12; Luke 1:15; Acts 21:23-24 ↩
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or, to make themselves Nazarites, Lahazzir, from nazar, to be separate; hence nazir, a Nazarite, i.e., a person separated; one peculiarly devoted to the service of God by being separated from all servile employments. The Nazarites were of two kinds. Such as were devoted to God by their parents in their infancy, or even sometimes before they were born; and such as devoted themselves. The former were Nazarites for life; and the latter commonly bound themselves to observe the laws of the Nazarites for a limited time. The Nazarites for life were not bound to the same strictness as the others, concerning whom the laws relate. ↩
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Besides the religious nature of this institution, it seems to have been partly of a civil and prudential use. The sobriety and temperance which the Nazarites were obliged to observe were very conducive to health. Accordingly, they were celebrated for their fair and ruddy complexion; being said to be both whiter than milk and more ruddy than rubies (Lam 4:7); the sure signs of a sound and healthy constitution. It may here be observed, that when God intended to raise up Samson, by his strength of body, to scourge the enemies of Israel, he ordered, that from his infancy he should drink no wine, but live by the rule of the Nazarites, because that would greatly contribute to make him strong and healthy; intending, after nature had done her utmost to form this extraordinary instrument of his providence, to supply her defect by his own supernatural power. See Jenning's Jewish Antiquities, B. I. c. 8. ↩
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Lev 10:9; Judg 13:14; Prov 31:4-5; Jer 35:6-8; Amos 2:12; Luke 1:15; Luke 7:33-34, Luke 21:34; Eph 5:18; 1Thess 5:22; 1Tim 5:23 ↩
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or, Nazariteship, Num 6:5, Num 6:8-9, Num 6:12-13, Num 6:18-19, Num 6:21 ↩
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Heb. vine of the wine ↩
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Judg 13:5, Judg 16:17, Judg 16:19; 1Sam 1:11; Lam 4:7-8; 1Cor 11:10-15 ↩
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Num 19:11-16; Lev 19:28; Jer 16:5-6; Ezek 24:16-18; Matt 8:21-22; Luke 9:59-60; 2Cor 5:16 ↩
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Heb. separation, This expression, "the consecration, or separation, of God is on his head," denotes his hair, which was the proof and emblem of his separation, and of his subjection to God through all the peculiarities of his Nazarate. St. Paul probably alludes to this circumstance in 1Cor 11:10 by considering a married woman as a Nazarite for life, i.e., separated from all others, and united to her husband, to whom she is subject. ↩
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Lev 1:14, Lev 5:7-10, Lev 9:1-21, Lev 12:6, Lev 14:22-23, Lev 14:31, Lev 15:14, Lev 15:29; Rom 4:25; John 2:1-2 ↩
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Ezek 18:24; Matt 3:15, Matt 24:13; John 8:29-31; Jas 2:10; 2John 1:8 ↩
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Heb. fall ↩
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Num 15:5, Num 15:7, Num 15:10; Isa 62:9; Joel 1:9, Joel 1:13, Joel 2:14; 1Cor 10:31, 1Cor 11:26 ↩
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The hair, which was permitted to grow for this purpose, was shaven off, as a token that the vow was accomplished. Num 6:5, Num 6:9; Acts 18:18, Acts 21:24, Acts 21:26 ↩
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Ps 16:10-11; Eccl 9:7; Isa 25:6, Isa 35:10, Isa 53:10-12; Zech 9:15, Zech 9:17, Zech 10:7; Matt 26:29; Mark 14:25; John 17:4-5, John 19:30; 2Tim 4:7-8 ↩
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Gen 14:19-20, Gen 24:60, Gen 27:27-29, Gen 28:3-4, Gen 47:7, Gen 47:10, Gen 48:20; Lev 9:22-23; Deut 10:8, Deut 21:5, Deut 33:1; Josh 8:33; 1Chr 23:13; Luke 24:50-51; Rom 1:7; 1Cor 1:3; 2Cor 13:14; Heb 7:1, Heb 7:7, Heb 11:20-21; 1Pet 1:2; 2Pet 1:2-3; 2John 1:3 ↩
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Ruth 2:4; Ps 134:3; 1Cor 14:16; Eph 6:24; Phil 4:23; Rev 1:4-5 ↩
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Ps 91:11, Ps 121:4-7; Isa 27:3, Isa 42:6; John 17:11; Phil 4:7; 1Thess 5:23; 1Pet 1:5; Jude 1:24 ↩
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Ps 21:6, Ps 31:16, Ps 67:1, Ps 80:1-3, Ps 80:7, Ps 80:19, Ps 119:135; Dan 9:17 ↩
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Ps 29:11; Isa 26:3, Isa 26:12, Isa 57:19; Mic 5:5; Luke 2:14; John 14:27, John 16:33; John 20:21, John 20:26; Acts 10:36; Rom 5:1, Rom 15:13, Rom 15:33; Eph 2:14-17, Eph 6:23; Phil 4:7; 2Thess 3:16 ↩
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Exod 3:13-15, Exod 6:3, Exod 34:5-7; Deut 28:10; 2Chr 7:14; Isa 43:7; Jer 14:9; Dan 9:18-19; Matt 28:19 ↩
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Num 23:20; Gen 12:2-3, Gen 32:26, Gen 32:29; 1Chr 4:10; Ps 5:12, Ps 67:7, Ps 115:12-13; Eph 1:3 ↩