Numbers 6:8

8 He will be holy for Yahweh all the days of his separation.

Numbers 6:8 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 6:8

All the days of his separation he [is] holy unto the Lord.
] Set apart for his service, separate from all others, especially the dead, and under obligation to abstain from the above things; from drinking wine, from shaving his hair, and from defiling himself for the dead, and to be employed in holy and religious exercises during the time his vow is upon him.

Numbers 6:8 In-Context

6 " 'All the days of keeping himself separated for Yahweh he will not go to a person who is dead;

7 for even his father, mother, brother, or sister he will not make himself unclean {by their death}, because the separation to his God [is] on his head.

8 He will be holy for Yahweh all the days of his separation.

9 " 'If someone dies suddenly and makes the head of his separation unclean, he will shave off [the hair of] his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he will shave it off.

10 On the eighth day he will bring two turtledoves or two {young pigeons} to the priest by the doorway of the tent of assembly,

Footnotes

• [a] That is, "the Nazirite"