Numbers 6:7
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| 1 | The law of the Nazarite in the days of his separation; |
| 13 | and after their completion. |
| 22 | The form of blessing the people. |
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Numbers 6:7 (King James Version)
He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.
- unclean
- 9:6 Leviticus 21:1 Leviticus 21:2 Leviticus 21:10-12 ; Ezekiel 44:25
- consecration
- Hebrew separation.
- This expression, "the consecration, or separation, of God is on his head," denotes his hair, which was the proof and emblem of his separation, and of his subjection to God through all the peculiarities of his Nazarate
- St. Paul probably alludes to this circumstance in 1 ; Co 11:10 ; by considering a married woman as a Nazarite for life, i
- e., separated from all others, and united to her husband, to whom she is subject.