Numbers 6:2
“Speak to the sons of Israel, and you have said to them: When a man or woman does extraordinarily by vowing a vow of a Nazarite, to be separate to YHWH,
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
1And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,
Cross References
Exodus 33:16and in what is it known now, that I have found grace in Your eyes—I and Your people—is it not in Your going with us? And we have been distinguished—I and Your people—from all the people who [are] on the face of the ground.”
Leviticus 27:2“Speak to the sons of Israel, and you have said to them: When a man makes a special vow in your valuation of persons to YHWH,
Numbers 30:3And when a woman vows a vow to YHWH, and has bound a bond in the house of her father in her youth,
Judges 13:5for behold, you are conceiving and bearing a son, and a razor does not go up on his head, for the youth is a Nazarite to God from the womb, and he begins to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”
Judges 16:17that he declares all his heart to her, and says to her, “A razor has not gone up on my head, for I [am] a Nazarite to God from the womb of my mother; if I have been shaven, then my power has turned aside from me, and I have been weak, and have been as all of mankind.”
Proverbs 18:1He who is separated seeks [his own] desire, || He interferes with all wisdom.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 6:2-22
The Law Concerning Nazarites. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the Lord : 3 He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried. 4 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is… Read the whole commentary →