Números 6:18

18 »Después el nazareo se afeitará la cabeza en la entrada del tabernáculo. Tomará el cabello que dedicó y lo pondrá en el fuego, debajo del sacrificio de la ofrenda de paz.

Números 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.


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.

Números 6:18 In-Context

16 El sacerdote presentará estas ofrendas ante el Señor
: primero la ofrenda por el pecado y la ofrenda quemada;
17 enseguida el carnero como ofrenda de paz, junto con la cesta de pan preparado sin levadura. El sacerdote también presentará al Señor
las ofrendas obligatorias de grano y de líquido.
18 »Después el nazareo se afeitará la cabeza en la entrada del tabernáculo. Tomará el cabello que dedicó y lo pondrá en el fuego, debajo del sacrificio de la ofrenda de paz.
19 Después de que el nazareo se afeite la cabeza, el sacerdote tomará una espaldilla hervida del carnero; también tomará de la cesta un pan y una oblea preparados sin levadura, y los pondrá en las manos del nazareo.
20 Entonces el sacerdote los levantará ante el Señor
como ofrenda especial. Estas son las porciones santas para el sacerdote, junto con el pecho de la ofrenda especial y el muslo de la ofrenda sagrada que se levanta ante el Señor
. Después de esta ceremonia el nazareo podrá volver a beber vino.
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