“ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ”
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 volun...
Regulations for Nazirites. A Nazirite was one, whether man or woman (2), who undertook either for life or for a shorter time a vow to observe certain rules, involving various abstinences. An instan...
the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4. spake. See note on Numbers 1:1 .
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, No JFB commentary on this verse.
The Law of the Nazirite. The Priestly Benediction 1-21. The Law of the Nazirite. A Nazirite (from Heb. nazir , 'to separate') is a man or woman 'separated,' i.e consecrated to Jehovah by means o...
NAZARITISM: THE BLESSING OF AARON Numbers 6:1-27 1. THE custom of Nazaritism, which tended to form a semi-religious caste, is obscure in its origin. The cases of Samson and Samuel imply that be...
the Vow of Separation Numbers 6:1-12 The law of the Nazarite is full of instruction, because he is a type of the child of God who is separated from evil, that he may be wholly surrendered and g...
Having provided for the purity of the camp by the exclusion of the unclean, special instructions were given concerning cases of personal and voluntary devotion to a life of peculiar separation to God...
CONTENTS As the preceding chapter contained the law respecting, unclean persons, in this we have the law concerning the Nazarites who were devoted to the LORD by their vows. The chapter is rendered...
And the Lord spake unto Moses ,.... At the same time, or immediately after the law concerning the woman suspected of adultery was given; with which the following law concerning Nazarites may be thou...
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Ver. 1. And the Lord spake. ] Est Venus in vinis: therefore after the law for the privy harlot, here is a law given for abstinence from wine and strong dri...
The foregoing law about women, suspected of adultery, is here followed by another relating to the conduct of those who, by a singular course of religious devotion, were desirous to prevent all such s...
THE NAZARITE VOW (vs.1-12) The vow of a Nazarite was voluntary, except in such cases as Samson and Samuel, both of whom were Nazarites from birth, by the decree of God ( Judges 13:5 ; 1 Samuel 1...
The Law Concerning Nazarites. B. C. 1490. 1 And the L ORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2...
NUMBERS CHAPTER 6 The law of the Nazarites; from what they should abstain; how, becoming unclean, they were to be purified, Numbers 6:1-12 . The vow of separation being fulfilled, the ceremonies...
Chapter 6 The Nazirite Vow ( Numbers 6:1-21 ) And The Blessing of Yahweh ( Numbers 6:22-27 ). It will be noted that in the introductory scheme (see Chapter Comments for Numbers 5 and the Book C...
THE VOW OF THE NAZARITE, OR ACCEPTABLE CONSECRATION TO GOD ( Numbers 6:1-8 ) “The previous chapter has provided for the exclusion from the pale of God’s people of certain forms of guilt and defil...
Moses, saying There is a beautiful moral order in chapters 6-7. separation, ( Numbers 6:1-12 ); worship, ( Numbers 6:13-21 ); blessing, ( Numbers 6:22-27 ) service, ( Numbers 7:1-8...
Numbers 6:2 . Man or woman vow a vow. A boy of thirteen, and a girl of eleven years of age might vow a vow unto the Lord, unless restrained by their father. A woman might also vow, unless restrain...
A vow of a Nazarite. The law of vows (with special reference to the Nazarite) 1. The principle of the vow is that God has placed earth’s good things at man’s disposal; and it is a becoming thin...
EXPOSITION THE VOW Or THE NAZIRITE ( Numbers 6:1-4 ). Note.— The Hebrew Nazir has been written Nazarite in English under the mistaken impression that there is some connection between...
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 6:1