Chapter 6

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When Num 6:5-6; Exod 33:16; Lev 20:26; Prov 18:1; Rom 1:1; 2Cor 6:16; Gal 1:15; Heb 7:27

separate themselves The word yaphli, rendered "shall separate themselves," signifies, "the doing of something extraordinary," and is the same word as is used concerning the making a singular vow. (Lev 27:2); it seems to convey the idea of a person's acting from extraordinary zeal for God and religion.

to vow Lev 27:2; Judg 13:5; 1Sam 1:28; Amos 2:11-12; Luke 1:15; Acts 21:23-24

to separate themselves or, to make themselves Nazarites, Lahazzir, from nazar, to be separate; hence nazir, a Nazarite, i.e., a person separated; one peculiarly devoted to the service of God by being separated from all servile employments. The Nazarites were of two kinds. Such as were devoted to God by their parents in their infancy, or even sometimes before they were born; and such as devoted themselves. The former were Nazarites for life; and the latter commonly bound themselves to observe the laws of the Nazarites for a limited time. The Nazarites for life were not bound to the same strictness as the others, concerning whom the laws relate.


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Besides the religious nature of this institution, it seems to have been partly of a civil and prudential use. The sobriety and temperance which the Nazarites were obliged to observe were very conducive to health. Accordingly, they were celebrated for their fair and ruddy complexion; being said to be both whiter than milk and more ruddy than rubies (Lam 4:7); the sure signs of a sound and healthy constitution. It may here be observed, that when God intended to raise up Samson, by his strength of body, to scourge the enemies of Israel, he ordered, that from his infancy he should drink no wine, but live by the rule of the Nazarites, because that would greatly contribute to make him strong and healthy; intending, after nature had done her utmost to form this extraordinary instrument of his providence, to supply her defect by his own supernatural power. See Jenning's Jewish Antiquities, B. I. c. 8.

Lev 10:9; Judg 13:14; Prov 31:4-5; Jer 35:6-8; Amos 2:12; Luke 1:15; Luke 7:33-34, Luke 21:34; Eph 5:18; 1Thess 5:22; 1Tim 5:23


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separation or, Nazariteship, Num 6:5, Num 6:8-9, Num 6:12-13, Num 6:18-19, Num 6:21

vine tree Heb. vine of the wine


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razor Judg 13:5, Judg 16:17, Judg 16:19; 1Sam 1:11; Lam 4:7-8; 1Cor 11:10-15


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he shall come Num 19:11-16; Lev 19:28; Jer 16:5-6; Ezek 24:16-18; Matt 8:21-22; Luke 9:59-60; 2Cor 5:16


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unclean Num 9:6; Lev 21:1-2, Lev 21:10-12; Ezek 44:25

consecration Heb. 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 1Cor 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.


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2Cor 6:17-18


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and he Num 19:14-19

shave Num 6:18; Acts 18:18, Acts 21:23-24; Phil 3:8-9


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Lev 1:14, Lev 5:7-10, Lev 9:1-21, Lev 12:6, Lev 14:22-23, Lev 14:31, Lev 15:14, Lev 15:29; Rom 4:25; John 2:1-2


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offer Lev 5:8-10, Lev 14:30-31

and shall Num 6:5


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a trespass Lev 5:6, Lev 14:24

but the Ezek 18:24; Matt 3:15, Matt 24:13; John 8:29-31; Jas 2:10; 2John 1:8

lost Heb. fall


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are fulfilled Acts 21:26


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one he Lev 1:10-13; 1Chr 15:26, 1Chr 15:28-29

one ewe Lev 4:2-3, Lev 4:27, Lev 4:32; Mal 1:13-14; 1Pet 1:19

one ram Lev 3:6


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a basket Lev 2:4, Lev 8:2, Lev 9:4; John 6:50-59

anointed Exod 29:2

drink Num 15:5, Num 15:7, Num 15:10; Isa 62:9; Joel 1:9, Joel 1:13, Joel 2:14; 1Cor 10:31, 1Cor 11:26


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shave the head The hair, which was permitted to grow for this purpose, was shaven off, as a token that the vow was accomplished. Num 6:5, Num 6:9; Acts 18:18, Acts 21:24, Acts 21:26

and put it Luke 17:10; Eph 1:6


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the sodden Lev 8:31; 1Sam 2:15

put them Exod 29:23-28; Lev 7:30, Lev 8:27


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the priest shall Num 5:25; Exod 29:27-28; Lev 9:21, Lev 10:15, Lev 23:11

with the wave Num 18:18; Lev 7:31, Lev 7:34

and after Ps 16:10-11; Eccl 9:7; Isa 25:6, Isa 35:10, Isa 53:10-12; Zech 9:15, Zech 9:17, Zech 10:7; Matt 26:29; Mark 14:25; John 17:4-5, John 19:30; 2Tim 4:7-8


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the law Num 5:29

beside that Ezra 2:69; Gal 6:6; Heb 13:16


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Gen 14:19-20, Gen 24:60, Gen 27:27-29, Gen 28:3-4, Gen 47:7, Gen 47:10, Gen 48:20; Lev 9:22-23; Deut 10:8, Deut 21:5, Deut 33:1; Josh 8:33; 1Chr 23:13; Luke 24:50-51; Rom 1:7; 1Cor 1:3; 2Cor 13:14; Heb 7:1, Heb 7:7, Heb 11:20-21; 1Pet 1:2; 2Pet 1:2-3; 2John 1:3


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The Lord Ruth 2:4; Ps 134:3; 1Cor 14:16; Eph 6:24; Phil 4:23; Rev 1:4-5

keep thee Ps 91:11, Ps 121:4-7; Isa 27:3, Isa 42:6; John 17:11; Phil 4:7; 1Thess 5:23; 1Pet 1:5; Jude 1:24


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The Lord Ps 21:6, Ps 31:16, Ps 67:1, Ps 80:1-3, Ps 80:7, Ps 80:19, Ps 119:135; Dan 9:17

gracious Gen 43:29; Exod 33:19; Mal 1:9; John 1:17


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lift up Ps 4:6, Ps 42:5, Ps 89:15; Acts 2:28

give thee Ps 29:11; Isa 26:3, Isa 26:12, Isa 57:19; Mic 5:5; Luke 2:14; John 14:27, John 16:33; John 20:21, John 20:26; Acts 10:36; Rom 5:1, Rom 15:13, Rom 15:33; Eph 2:14-17, Eph 6:23; Phil 4:7; 2Thess 3:16


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put my Exod 3:13-15, Exod 6:3, Exod 34:5-7; Deut 28:10; 2Chr 7:14; Isa 43:7; Jer 14:9; Dan 9:18-19; Matt 28:19

and I will Num 23:20; Gen 12:2-3, Gen 32:26, Gen 32:29; 1Chr 4:10; Ps 5:12, Ps 67:7, Ps 115:12-13; Eph 1:3


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