Numbers 6:12

12. Consecrate Separate. The term of his original vow must begin anew, and the previous days count for nothing. For the spiritual lesson, see Ezekiel 33:13.

Trespass offering See Leviticus 5:6, note, and introductory note. This was the proper offering for an inadvertent sin. See Leviticus 5:15, note. He has become delinquent “for having prolonged the days of separation through his carelessness with regard to the defilement; that is to say, for having extended the time during which he led a separate, retired, and inactive life, and suspended his duties to his own family and the congregation, thus doing injury to them, and incurring a debt in relation to them through his neglect.” Knobel.