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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 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 made themselves honourable, and distinguished themselves from their neighbours. It is very probable that there were those before the making of this law who went under the character of Nazarites, and were celebrated by that title as persons professing greater strictness and zeal in religion than other... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 6:13

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 of his vow, and what he is to do in case of any defilement; or to what follows after, what is binding upon him, what offerings he is to bring, and what rites and ceremonies are to be observed by him when he has finished his vow: when the days of his separation , or Nazariteship: are... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 6:14

And he shall offer his offering unto the Lord ,.... The Nazarite was to present his offering at the door of the tabernacle, to the priest, in order to be offered for him to the Lord: one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering ; according to the law, manner, and custom of a burnt offering, as Aben Ezra observes, which, whether of the herd or of the flock, was to be a male and unblemished, and not more than a year old, Leviticus 1:3 , and one ewe lamb of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 6:15

And a basket of unleavened bread ,.... As at the consecration of Aaron and his sons, Exodus 29:2 ; though for peace offerings for thanksgiving leavened bread was offered, Leviticus 7:13 , cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil ; ten of each sort, as Jarchi says, ten cakes and ten wafers, see Exodus 29:9 , and their meat offering and their drink offering ; which always used to attend every sacrifice. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 6:16

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. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 6:17

And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord ,.... After he had offered the other two: with the basket of unleavened bread ; which went along with that: the priest shall also offer his meat offering, and his drink offering : of which he had his part, and were the usual appendages of other sacrifices; see Numbers 28:1 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 6:18

And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation ,.... The Targum of Jonathan is,"and the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation without,'without the tabernacle, the door of it, where the people assembled together; so that this was to be done publicly, that it might be known of all, and no offence taken at the Nazarite's drinking wine, and concerning himself for the dead, and attending funerals, for by this action it was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 6:19

And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram ,.... The left shoulder, for the right shoulder, which is the heave shoulder of every peace offering, belonged to the priest by another law; and by this law of the Nazarite, he had also the other shoulder, and so had both, which was peculiar to this case; the vow of the Nazarite being a very sacred thing and he being enabled to perform it, a greater expression of gratitude for it was expected and required of him: this shoulder was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 6:20

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 and forwards, upwards and downwards, testifying hereby the goodness of God unto him, his sovereign dominion over him, that all he had depended on him, and was received from him; and that all he did, particularly in keeping his vow of Nazariteship, was through his assistance, and for which he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 6:21

This is the law of the Nazarite, who hath vowed ,.... The vow of a Nazarite; what he is obliged to do when his Nazariteship is up: and of his offering unto the Lord for his separation ; of the several offerings required of him, to offer to the Lord, for and upon his going through his Nazariteship, his burnt offering, sin offering, sacrifice of peace offerings, his meat offering and drink offering; together with the basket of unleavened bread, cakes and wafers: besides that that... read more

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