Numbers 6:8

The NET Bible®

All the days of his separation he must be holy to the Lord .

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
All the days of his separation he is holy to the LORD.

King James Version
All the days of his separation he is holy unto the Lord .

Lexham English Bible
He will be holy for Yahweh all the days of his separation.

New Century Version
While they are Nazirites, they belong to the Lord in a special way.

Amplified Bible
'All the time of his separation he is holy to the LORD.

New American Standard Bible
'All the days of his consecration he is holy to the LORD.

Geneva Bible (1587)
All the dayes of his separation he shalbe holy to the Lord.

Legacy Standard Bible
All the days of his Nazirite vow he is holy to Yahweh.

Complete Jewish Bible
Throughout the time of his being a nazir he is holy for Adonai .

Darby Translation
All the days of his separation he is holy to Jehovah.

Easy-to-Read Version
It is holy because you have given yourself fully to the Lord for the full time of that dedication.

English Standard Version
All the days of his separation he is holy to the Lord .

George Lamsa Translation
All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD.

Good News Translation
As long as you are a nazirite, you are consecrated to the Lord .

Christian Standard Bible®
He is holy to the Lord during the time of consecration.

Literal Translation
All the days of his separation he shall be holy to Jehovah.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and ye whole tyme of his abstinence shall he be holy vnto the LORDE.

American Standard Version
All the days of his separation he is holy unto Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English
All the time he is separate he is holy to the Lord.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
All the dayes of his seperation, he is holy vnto the Lorde.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
All the days of his Naziriteship he is holy unto the LORD.

King James Version (1611)
All the dayes of his separation he is holy vnto the Lord.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
All the days of his vow he shall be holy to the Lord.

English Revised Version
All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible
Throughout the time of his separation, he is holy to the LORD.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
ech dai of his departyng schal be hooli to the Lord.

Young's Literal Translation
all days of his separation he [is] holy to Jehovah.

Update Bible Version
All the days of his separation he is holy to Yahweh.

Webster's Bible Translation
All the days of his separation he [is] holy to the LORD.

World English Bible
All the days of his separation he is holy to Yahweh.

New King James Version
All the days of his separation he shall be holy to the LORD.

New Living Translation
This requirement applies as long as they are set apart to the Lord .

New Life Bible
He is holy to the Lord all the days he is set apart.

New Revised Standard
All their days as nazirites they are holy to the Lord .

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
All his days of separation hallowed, is he unto Yahweh.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All the days of his separation he shall be holy to the Lord.

Revised Standard Version
All the days of his separation he is holy to the LORD.

THE MESSAGE
"For the entire duration of your consecration you are holy to God .

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'All the days of his separation he is holy to the LORD.

Contextual Overview

¹ Then the Lord spoke to Moses: ² "Speak to the Israelites, and tell them, ‘When either a man or a woman takes a special vow, to take a vow as a Nazirite, to separate himself to the Lord , ³ he must separate himself from wine and strong drink, he must drink neither vinegar made from wine nor vinegar made from strong drink, nor may he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or raisins. ⁴ All the days of his separation he must not eat anything that is produced by the grapevine, from seed to skin. 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 "‘All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he must not contact a dead body. 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. ⁸ All the days of his separation he must be holy to the Lord . 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. 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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

2 Corinthians 6:17, 2 Corinthians 6:18

Reciprocal: Numbers 6:4 - separation

Cross-References

Genesis 6:12
God saw the earth, and indeed it was ruined, for all living creatures on the earth were sinful.

Genesis 6:17
I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,

Genesis 19:19
Your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I am not able to escape to the mountains because this disaster will overtake me and I'll die.

Psalms 84:11
For the Lord God is our sovereign protector. The Lord bestows favor and honor; he withholds no good thing from those who have integrity.

Psalms 145:20
The Lord protects those who love him, but he destroys all the wicked.

Proverbs 3:4
Then you will find favor and good understanding, in the sight of God and people.

Proverbs 8:35
For the one who finds me finds life and receives favor from the Lord .

Proverbs 12:2
A good person obtains favor from the Lord , but the Lord condemns a person with wicked schemes.

Jeremiah 31:2
The Lord says, "The people of Israel who survived death at the hands of the enemy will find favor in the wilderness as they journey to find rest for themselves.

Luke 1:30
So the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

All the days of his separation he [is] holy unto the Lord. Set apart for his service, separate from all others, especially the dead, and under obligation to abstain from the above things; from drinking wine, from shaving his hair, and from defiling himself for the dead, and to be employed in holy and religious exercises during the time his vow is upon him.

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.