Mínshùjì 6:18

18 Ná xì ĕr rén yào zaì huì mù ménkǒu tì lí sú de tóu , bǎ lí sú tóu shàng de fā fàng zaì píngān jì xià de huǒ shàng .

Mínshùjì 6:18 Meaning and 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 known that his Nazariteship was at an end; and whereas the hair of the Nazarite was consecrated to the Lord by his vow, and this vow being punctually fulfilled, it was sacred, and to be presented to the Lord, and to be of no use and service to himself or others, and therefore to be all clean shaven off; for, as Maimonides ^F26 says, if two hairs only were left, nothing was done, and the command of shaving not kept:

and shall take the hair of the head of his separation;
being cut off and shaved;

and put [it] in the fire which [is] under the sacrifice of the peace
offerings;
under the pot or cauldron, as the Targum of Jonathan, in which the ram for the peace offerings was boiled: this was done in the court of the women in later times, at the southeast of which was a chamber called the chamber of the Nazarites, where they bailed their peace offerings, and shaved their hair and cast it under the pot ^F1; and this might not be put, as before observed, to any other use; if any of it was made use of in a sack that was made of hair cloth, we are told ^F2 that sack was to be burnt.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 Hilchot Nezirut, c. 8. sect. 6.
F1 Misn. Middoth, c. 2. sect. 5. T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 16. 1.
F2 Misn. Orlah, c. 3. sect. 3.

Mínshùjì 6:18 In-Context

16 Jìsī yào zaì Yēhéhuá miànqián xiàn nà rén de shú zuì jì hé Fánjì .

17 Yĕ yào bǎ nà zhǐ gōng yáng hé nà kuāng wú jiào bǐng xiàn gĕi Yēhéhuá zuò píngān jì , yòu yào jiàng tóng xiàn de sù jì hé diàn jì xiànshang .

18 Ná xì ĕr rén yào zaì huì mù ménkǒu tì lí sú de tóu , bǎ lí sú tóu shàng de fā fàng zaì píngān jì xià de huǒ shàng .

19 Tā tì le yǐhòu , jìsī jiù yào qǔ nà yǐ zhǔ de gōng yáng yī tiaó qián tuǐ , yòu cóng kuāngzi lǐ qǔ yī gè wú jiào bǐng hé yī gè wú jiào baóbǐng , dōu fàng zaì tā shǒu shàng .

20 Jìsī yào ná zhèxie zuòwéi yáo jì , zaì Yēhéhuá miànqián yáo yī yáo . zhè yǔ suǒ yáo de xiōng , suǒ jǔ de tuǐ tóng wéi shèngwù , guī gĕi jìsī . ránhòu ná xì ĕr rén kĕyǐ hē jiǔ .