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Numbers 6:19

Numbers 6:19
And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair of his separation is shaven:

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord,.... Putting his hands under the Nazarite's, as in other cases where this ceremony was used; and so moving them to and fro, backwards…

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

the sodden shoulder It had been previously sodden, i.e. boiled, elsewhere in readiness.

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