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Numbers 6:16

in Numbers 6

The priest is to present all these before the LORD and make the sin offering and the burnt offering.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the priest shall present them before Jehovah, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his burnt-offering:

KJV

And the priest shall bring them before the Lord, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:

This verse in Numbers 6

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

The priest is to present all these before the LORD

on Numbers 6:16-18

The Nazirite shaves at the entrance and puts the hair “on the fire under the peace offering”. The token of the vow burns with the sacrifice. Adam Clarke reads the hair as the man’s own offering, since no human flesh could go on the altar.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), for atonement must be made for our sins before any of our sacrifices can be accepted. And it is very observable that even the Nazarite, who in the eye of men was purer than snow and whiter than milk, yet durst not appear before the holy God without a sin-offering.

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), for these always accompanied the burnt-offerings and peace-offerings: and, besides these, a basket of unleavened cakes, and wafers. (5.) Part of the peace-offering, with a cake and wafer, was to be waved for a wave-offering (

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And the priest shall bring them before the Lord,.... All the above offerings to the altar of burnt offering, and there present them to the Lord in the name of the Nazarite: and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering: here they stand in the proper order in which they were offered.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

when the days of his separation are fulfilled, &c.--On the accomplishment of a limited vow of Nazaritism, Nazarites might cut their hair wherever they happened to be (Ac 18:18); but the hair was to be carefully kept and brought to the door of the sanctuary.

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The words behind it

9 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.

  • וְהִקְרִ֥יבand he will bring [them] near

    vehikrivH7126 →280 times

  • הַכֹּהֵ֖ןthe priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 times

  • לִפְנֵ֣י<to> before

    lifneiH6440 →2123 times

  • יְהוָ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • וְעָשָׂ֥הand he will offer

    veasahH6213 →2628 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • חַטָּאת֖וֹsin offering his

    chatatoH2403 →295 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • עֹלָתֽוֹ׃burnt offering his

    olatoH5930 →287 times

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

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.

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