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Numbers 6:12

Numbers 6:12
And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And this is the law of the Nazarite,.... This has respect either to what goes before; those are the things he is obliged to that vows the vow of a Nazarite; what he is to abstain from during the time…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Numbers 6:1-21

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Numbers 6:1-21

After the law for the discovery and shame of those that by sin had made themselves vile, fitly follows this for the direction and encouragement of those who by their eminent piety and devotion had…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

he shall separate&c. He shall separate anew the whole period of the vow upon which he had originally entered.

a guilt-offering This was the most expensive part of the ritual. Opinions differ as to the…