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Numbers 6:11

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And the priest is to offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to make atonement for him, because he has sinned by being in the presence of the dead body. On that day he must consecrate his head again.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and the priest shall offer one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering, and make atonement for him, for that he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day.

KJV

And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day.

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This verse in Numbers 6

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

A sin-offering - Because such a pollution was, though not his sin, yet the chastisement of his sin. He sinned - That is, contracted a ceremonial uncleanness, which is called sinning, because it was a type of sin, and a violation of a law, tho' through ignorance and inadvertency.

This site's exposition

And if any man die very suddenly by him

on Numbers 6:9-11

A death nobody could have foreseen still defiles the vow, and the remedy runs on the seven days and the eighth that Numbers 19:11 sets later in this book for anyone who touches a corpse. He shaves, brings two turtles or two young pigeons, and verse 11 has the priest make atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead. John Wesley reads that word as the ceremonial pollution rather than a fault of the man's own doing. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown take the sin offering as the mark that even a kept vow needs blood at the end of it.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

This teaches us that sins of infirmity, and the faults we are overtaken in by surprise, must be seriously repented of, and that an application must be made of the virtue of Christ's sacrifice to our souls for the forgiveness of them every day, 1 John ii.

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְעָשָׂ֣הand he will offer

    veasahH6213 →2628 times

  • הַכֹּהֵ֗ןthe priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 times

  • אֶחָ֤דone [bird]

    ʾechadH259 →971 times

  • לְחַטָּאת֙to a sin offering

    lechatatH2403 →295 times

  • וְאֶחָ֣דand one

    veechadH259 →971 times

  • לְעֹלָ֔הto a burnt offering

    leolahH5930 →287 times

  • וְכִפֶּ֣רand he will make atonement

    vekhiperH3722 →102 times

  • עָלָ֔יוon him

    ʾalavH5921 →5755 times

  • מֵאֲשֶׁ֥ר<from> because

    measherH834 →5497 times

  • חָטָ֖אhe sinned

    chata'H2398 →238 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הַנָּ֑פֶשׁthe corpse

    hanafeshH5315 →754 times

  • וְקִדַּ֥שׁand he will consecrate

    vekidashH6942 →171 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • רֹאשׁ֖וֹhead his

    roshoH7218 →599 times

  • בַּיּ֥וֹםon the day

    baiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • הַהֽוּא׃<the> that

    hahu'H1931 →1879 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 6 →

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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