Numbers 6:6-16

6 '¹All the days of his separation to the LORD he shall not go near to a dead person.

7 'He ²shall not make himself unclean for his father or for his mother, for his brother or for his sister, when they die, because his separation to God is on his head.

8 'All the days of his separation he is holy to the LORD.

9 'But if a man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his dedicated head of hair, then ³he shall shave his head on the day when he becomes clean; ⁴he shall shave it on the seventh day.

10 'Then on the eighth day he shall bring ⁵two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the doorway of the tent of meeting.

11 'The priest shall offer ⁶one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him concerning * his sin because of the dead person. And that same day he shall consecrate his head,

12 and shall dedicate to the LORD his days as a Nazirite, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering; but the former days will be void because his separation was defiled.

13 'Now this is the law of the Nazirite ⁷when the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall bring the offering to the doorway of the tent of meeting.

14 'He shall present his offering to the LORD: one male lamb a year old without defect for a burnt offering and one ⁸ewe-lamb a year old without defect for a sin offering and one ram without defect for a peace offering,

15 and a basket of ⁹unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers spread with oil, along with ¹⁰their grain offering and their drink offering.

16 'Then the priest shall present them before the LORD and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.

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Numbers 6:6-16 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 6

In this chapter is given the law concerning Nazarites, Nu 6:1,2; which directs what they were to abstain from, from drinking wine, or any strong liquors, from shaving their heads, and defiling themselves with the dead, Nu 6:3-8; and in case of a defilement, directions are given what offerings a Nazarite should bring to be offered for him, Nu 6:9-12; and when the time of his Nazariteship was up, an account is given of what rites and ceremonies should then be performed, Nu 6:13-21; and the chapter is concluded with the form of blessing the children of Israel, to be used by Aaron and his sons, Nu 6:22-27.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 10

1. Leviticus 21:1-3; Numbers 19:11-22
2. Numbers 9:6
3. Leviticus 14:8, 9
4. Numbers 6:18
5. Leviticus 5:7; Leviticus 14:22
6. Leviticus 5:7
7. Acts 21:26
8. Leviticus 14:10; Numbers 15:27
9. Exodus 29:2; Leviticus 2:4
10. Numbers 15:1-7

Footnotes 4

[a]. Lit "because of that which he sinned"
[b]. Or "of dedication"
[c]. I.e. one separated
[d]. Lit "it"