Numbers 6:16

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The Kohen shall present them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering.

King James Version
And the priest shall bring them before the Lord , and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:

Lexham English Bible
The priest will present before Yahweh and offer his sin offering, his burnt offering;

New Century Version
"‘The priest will give these offerings to the Lord and make the sin offering and the burnt offering.

New English Translation
"‘Then the priest must present all these before the Lord and offer his purification offering and his burnt offering.

Amplified Bible
'Then the priest shall present them before the LORD and shall offer the person's sin offering and his burnt offering.

New American Standard Bible
'Then the priest shall present them before the LORD and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The which the Priest shal bring before the Lorde, and make his sinne offering and his burnt offering.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then the priest shall bring them near before Yahweh and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.

Contemporary English Version
The priest will take these gifts to my altar and offer them, so that I will be pleased and will forgive you.

Complete Jewish Bible
The cohen is to bring them before Adonai , offer his sin offering, his burnt offering,

Darby Translation
And the priest shall present them before Jehovah, and shall offer his sin-offering and his burnt-offering:

Easy-to-Read Version
"The priest will give these things to the Lord , and then the priest will make the sin offering and the burnt offering.

English Standard Version
And the priest shall bring them before the Lord and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering,

George Lamsa Translation
And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering:

Good News Translation
The priest shall present all these to the Lord and offer the sin offering and the burnt offering.

Christian Standard Bible®
“The priest is to present these before the Lord and sacrifice the Nazirite’s sin offering and burnt offering.

Literal Translation
And the priest shall bring them before Jehovah, and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the prest shall brynge it before the LORDE, and shal make his synofferynge and his burntofferynge,

American Standard Version
And the priest shall present them before Jehovah, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his burnt-offering:

Bible in Basic English
And the priest will take them before the Lord, and make his sin-offering and his burned offering;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the priest shall bryng them before the Lorde, and offer his sinne offeryng and his burnt offeryng.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his burnt-offering.

King James Version (1611)
And the Priest shall bring them before the Lord, and shall offer his sinne offering, and his burnt offering.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the priest shall bring them before the Lord, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his whole-burnt-offering.

English Revised Version
And the priest shall present them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:

Berean Standard Bible
The priest is to present all these before the LORD and make the sin offering and the burnt offering.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
whiche the preest schal offre bifor the Lord, and schal make as wel for synne as in to brent sacrifice.

Young's Literal Translation
`And the priest hath brought [them] near before Jehovah, and hath made his sin-offering and his burnt-offering;

Update Bible Version
And the priest shall present them before Yahweh, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his burnt-offering:

Webster's Bible Translation
And the priest shall bring [them] before the LORD, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his burnt-offering:

World English Bible
The priest shall present them before Yahweh, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering.

New King James Version
"Then the priest shall bring them before the LORD and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering;

New Living Translation
The priest will present these offerings before the Lord : first the sin offering and the burnt offering;

New Life Bible
Then the religious leader will give all these to the Lord and his sin gift and his burnt gift.

New Revised Standard
The priest shall present them before the Lord and offer their sin offering and burnt offering,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then shall the priest bring them near before Yahweh, - and offer his sin-bearer and his ascending-sacrifice;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the priest shall present them before the Lord, and shall offer both the sin offering and the holocaust.

Revised Standard Version
And the priest shall present them before the LORD and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Then the priest shall present them before the LORD and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.

Contextual Overview

¹ God spoke to Moses: "Speak to the People of Israel; tell them, If any of you, man or woman, wants to make a special Nazirite vow, consecrating yourself totally to God, you must not drink any wine or beer, no intoxicating drink of any kind, not even the juice of grapes—in fact, you must not even eat grapes or raisins. For the duration of the consecration, nothing from the grapevine—not even the seeds, not even the skin—may be eaten. ⁵ "Also, for the duration of the consecration you must not have your hair cut. Your long hair will be a continuing sign of holy separation to God . ⁶"Also, for the duration of the consecration to God , you must not go near a corpse. Even if it's the body of your father or mother, brother or sister, you must not ritually defile yourself because the sign of consecration to God is on your head. ⁸ "For the entire duration of your consecration you are holy to God . ⁹"If someone should die suddenly in your presence, so that your consecrated head is ritually defiled, you must shave your head on the day of your purifying, that is, the seventh day. Then on the eighth day bring two doves or two pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. The priest will offer one for the Absolution-Offering and one for the Whole-Burnt-Offering, purifying you from the ritual contamination of the corpse. You resanctify your hair on that day and reconsecrate your Nazirite consecration to God by bringing a yearling lamb for a Compensation-Offering. You start over; the previous days don't count because your consecration was ritually defiled. ¹³"These are the instructions for the time set when your special consecration to God is up. First, you are to be brought to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. Then you will present your offerings to God : a healthy yearling lamb for the Whole-Burnt-Offering, a healthy yearling ewe for an Absolution-Offering, a healthy ram for a Peace-Offering, a basket of unraised bread made of fine flour, loaves mixed with oil, and crackers spread with oil, along with your Grain-Offerings and Drink-Offerings. The priest will approach God and offer up your Absolution-Offering and Whole-Burnt-Offering. He will sacrifice the ram as a Peace-Offering to God with the basket of unraised bread, and, last of all, the Grain-Offering and Drink-Offering. ¹⁸ "At the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, shave off the hair you consecrated and put it in the fire that is burning under the Peace-Offering. ¹⁹"After you have shaved the hair of your consecration, the priest will take a shoulder from the ram, boiled, and a piece of unraised bread and a cracker from the basket and place them in your hands. The priest will then wave them before God , a Wave-Offering. They are holy and belong to the priest, along with the breast that was waved and the thigh that was offered. "Now you are free to drink wine. ²¹ "These are the instructions for Nazirites as they bring offerings to God in their vow of consecration, beyond their other offerings. They must carry out the vow they have vowed following the instructions for the Nazirite."

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Numbers 8:12 - the one

Cross-References

2 Kings 9:30
When Jezebel heard that Jehu had arrived in Jezreel, she made herself up—put on eyeshadow and arranged her hair—and posed seductively at the window. When Jehu came through the city gate, she called down, "So, how are things, ‘Zimri,' you dashing king-killer?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the priest shall bring [them] before the Lord,.... All the above offerings to the altar of burnt offering, and there present them to the Lord in the name of the Nazarite:

and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering: here they stand in the proper order in which they were offered.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The law of the Nazarite is appropriately added to other enactments which concern the sanctity of the holy nation. That sanctity found its highest expression in the Nazarite vow, which was the voluntary adoption for a time of obligations to high and strict modes of self-dedication resembling, and indeed in some particulars exceeding, those under which the priests were placed. The present enactments do not institute a new kind of observance, but only regulate one already familiar to the Israelites Numbers 6:2.

Numbers 6:2

A Nazarite - Strictly, Nazirite. This term signifies “separated” i. e., as the words following show, “unto God.” It became a technical term at an early date; compare Judges 13:5, Judges 13:7; Judges 16:17.

Numbers 6:3

Liquor of grapes - i. e. a drink made of grape-skins macerated in water.

Numbers 6:4

From the kernels even to the husk - A sour drink was made from the stones of unripe grapes; and cakes were also made of the husks Hosea 3:1. This interdict figures that separation from the general society of men to which the Nazarite for the time was consecrated.

Numbers 6:5

Among the Jews the abundance of the hair was considered to betoken physical strength and perfection (compare 2 Samuel 14:25-26), and baldness was regarded as a grave blemish (compare Leviticus 21:20 note, Leviticus 13:40 ff; 2 Kings 2:23; Isaiah 3:24). Thus, the free growth of the hair on the head of the Nazarite represented the dedication of the man with all his strength and powers to the service of God.

Numbers 6:7

The consecration of his God - i. e. the unshorn locks: compare Leviticus 25:5 note, where the vine, left during the Sabbatical year untouched by the hand of man, either for pruning or for vintage, is called simply a “Nazarite.”

The third rule of the Nazarite interdicted him from contracting any ceremonial defilement even under circumstances which excused such defilement in others: compare Leviticus 21:1-3.

Numbers 6:9-12

Prescriptions to meet the case of a sudden death taking place “by him” (i. e. in his presence). The days of the dedication of the Nazarite had to be recommenced.

Numbers 6:13

When the days of his separation are fulfilled - Perpetual Nazariteship was probably unknown in the days of Moses; but the examples of Samson, Samuel, and John the Baptist, show that it was in later times undertaken for life. Again, Moses does not expressly require that limits should be assigned to the vow; but a rule was afterward imposed that no Nazarite vow should be taken for less than thirty days. To permit the vow to be taken for very short periods would diminish its solemnity and estimation.

Numbers 6:14, Numbers 6:15

The sin-offering (compare the marginal references), though named second, was in practice offered first, being intended to expiate involuntary sins committed during the period of separation. The burnt-offering (Leviticus 1:10 ff) denoted the self-surrender on which alone all acceptableness in the Nazarite before God must rest; the peace-offerings (Leviticus 3:12 ff) expressed thankfulness to God by whose grace the vow had been fulfilled. The offerings, both ordinary and additional, required on the completion of the Nazarite vow involved considerable expense, and it was regarded as a pious work to provide the poor with the means of making them (compare Acts 21:23 ff; Acts 1:0 Macc. 3:49).

Numbers 6:18

Shave the head - As the Nazarite had during his vow worn his hair unshorn in honor of God, so when the time was complete it was natural that the hair, the symbol of his vow, should be cut off, and offered to God at the sanctuary. The burning of the hair “in the fire under the sacrifice of the peace offering “represented the eucharistic communion with God obtained by those who realised the ideal which the Nazarite set forth (compare the marginal reference).

Numbers 6:20

The priest shall wave them - i. e. by placing his hands under those of the Nazarite: compare Leviticus 7:30.

Numbers 6:21

Beside that that his hand shall get - The Nazarite, in addition to the offerings prescribed above, was to present free-will offerings according to his possessions or means.