Numbers 6:16

Good News Translation

The priest shall present all these to the Lord and offer the sin offering and the burnt offering.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The Kohen shall present them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering.

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

Lexham English Bible
The priest will present before Yahweh and offer his sin offering, his burnt offering;

New Century Version
"‘The priest will give these offerings to the Lord and make the sin offering and the burnt offering.

New English Translation
"‘Then the priest must present all these before the Lord and offer his purification offering and his burnt offering.

Amplified Bible
'Then the priest shall present them before the LORD and shall offer the person's sin offering and his burnt offering.

New American Standard Bible
'Then the priest shall present them before the LORD and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The which the Priest shal bring before the Lorde, and make his sinne offering and his burnt offering.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then the priest shall bring them near before Yahweh and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.

Contemporary English Version
The priest will take these gifts to my altar and offer them, so that I will be pleased and will forgive you.

Complete Jewish Bible
The cohen is to bring them before Adonai , offer his sin offering, his burnt offering,

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

Easy-to-Read Version
"The priest will give these things to the Lord , and then the priest will make the sin offering and the burnt offering.

English Standard Version
And the priest shall bring them before the Lord and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering,

George Lamsa Translation
And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering:

Christian Standard Bible®
“The priest is to present these before the Lord and sacrifice the Nazirite’s sin offering and burnt offering.

Literal Translation
And the priest shall bring them before Jehovah, and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the prest shall brynge it before the LORDE, and shal make his synofferynge and his burntofferynge,

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

Bible in Basic English
And the priest will take them before the Lord, and make his sin-offering and his burned offering;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the priest shall bryng them before the Lorde, and offer his sinne offeryng and his burnt offeryng.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his burnt-offering.

King James Version (1611)
And the Priest shall bring them before the Lord, and shall offer his sinne offering, and his burnt offering.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the priest shall bring them before the Lord, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his whole-burnt-offering.

English Revised Version
And the priest shall present them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
whiche the preest schal offre bifor the Lord, and schal make as wel for synne as in to brent sacrifice.

Young's Literal Translation
`And the priest hath brought [them] near before Jehovah, and hath made his sin-offering and his burnt-offering;

Update Bible Version
And the priest shall present them before Yahweh, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his burnt-offering:

Webster's Bible Translation
And the priest shall bring [them] before the LORD, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his burnt-offering:

World English Bible
The priest shall present them before Yahweh, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering.

New King James Version
"Then the priest shall bring them before the LORD and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering;

New Living Translation
The priest will present these offerings before the Lord : first the sin offering and the burnt offering;

New Life Bible
Then the religious leader will give all these to the Lord and his sin gift and his burnt gift.

New Revised Standard
The priest shall present them before the Lord and offer their sin offering and burnt offering,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then shall the priest bring them near before Yahweh, - and offer his sin-bearer and his ascending-sacrifice;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the priest shall present them before the Lord, and shall offer both the sin offering and the holocaust.

Revised Standard Version
And the priest shall present them before the LORD and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Then the priest shall present them before the LORD and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.

Contextual Overview

¹ The Lord commanded Moses ² to give the following instructions to the people of Israel. Any of you, male or female, who make a special vow to become a nazirite and dedicate yourself to the Lord ³ shall abstain from wine and beer. You shall not drink any kind of drink made from grapes or eat any grapes or raisins. ⁴ As long as you are a nazirite, you shall not eat anything that comes from a grapevine, not even the seeds or skins of grapes. ⁵ As long as you are under the nazirite vow, you must not cut your hair or shave. You are bound by the vow for the full time that you are dedicated to the Lord , and you shall let your hair grow. ⁶Your hair is the sign of your dedication to God, and so you must not defile yourself by going near a corpse, not even that of your father, mother, brother, or sister. ⁸ As long as you are a nazirite, you are consecrated to the Lord . ⁹ If your consecrated hair is defiled because you are right beside someone who suddenly dies, you must wait seven days and then shave your head; and so you become ritually clean. ¹⁰ On the eighth day you shall bring two doves or two pigeons to the priest at the entrance of the Tent of the Lord 's presence. ¹¹ The priest shall offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, to perform the ritual of purification for you because of your contact with a corpse. On the same day you shall reconsecrate your hair

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Numbers 8:12 - the one

Cross-References

Genesis 7:16
as God had commanded. Then the Lord shut the door behind Noah.

Genesis 8:6
After forty days Noah opened a window

2 Samuel 6:16
As the Box was being brought into the city, Michal, Saul's daughter, looked out of the window and saw King David dancing and jumping around in the sacred dance, and she was disgusted with him.

2 Kings 9:30
Jehu arrived in Jezreel. Jezebel, having heard what had happened, put on eye shadow, arranged her hair, and stood looking down at the street from a window in the palace.

Ezekiel 41:16
were all paneled with wood from the floor to the windows. These windows could be covered.

Ezekiel 42:3
On one side it faced the space 34 feet wide which was alongside the Temple, and on the other side it faced the pavement of the outer courtyard. It was built on three levels, each one set further back than the one below it.

Luke 13:25
The master of the house will get up and close the door; then when you stand outside and begin to knock on the door and say, ‘Open the door for us, sir!' he will answer you, ‘I don't know where you come from!'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The law of the Nazarite is appropriately added to other enactments which concern the sanctity of the holy nation. That sanctity found its highest expression in the Nazarite vow, which was the voluntary adoption for a time of obligations to high and strict modes of self-dedication resembling, and indeed in some particulars exceeding, those under which the priests were placed. The present enactments do not institute a new kind of observance, but only regulate one already familiar to the Israelites Numbers 6:2.

Numbers 6:2

A Nazarite - Strictly, Nazirite. This term signifies “separated” i. e., as the words following show, “unto God.” It became a technical term at an early date; compare Judges 13:5, Judges 13:7; Judges 16:17.

Numbers 6:3

Liquor of grapes - i. e. a drink made of grape-skins macerated in water.

Numbers 6:4

From the kernels even to the husk - A sour drink was made from the stones of unripe grapes; and cakes were also made of the husks Hosea 3:1. This interdict figures that separation from the general society of men to which the Nazarite for the time was consecrated.

Numbers 6:5

Among the Jews the abundance of the hair was considered to betoken physical strength and perfection (compare 2 Samuel 14:25-26), and baldness was regarded as a grave blemish (compare Leviticus 21:20 note, Leviticus 13:40 ff; 2 Kings 2:23; Isaiah 3:24). Thus, the free growth of the hair on the head of the Nazarite represented the dedication of the man with all his strength and powers to the service of God.

Numbers 6:7

The consecration of his God - i. e. the unshorn locks: compare Leviticus 25:5 note, where the vine, left during the Sabbatical year untouched by the hand of man, either for pruning or for vintage, is called simply a “Nazarite.”

The third rule of the Nazarite interdicted him from contracting any ceremonial defilement even under circumstances which excused such defilement in others: compare Leviticus 21:1-3.

Numbers 6:9-12

Prescriptions to meet the case of a sudden death taking place “by him” (i. e. in his presence). The days of the dedication of the Nazarite had to be recommenced.

Numbers 6:13

When the days of his separation are fulfilled - Perpetual Nazariteship was probably unknown in the days of Moses; but the examples of Samson, Samuel, and John the Baptist, show that it was in later times undertaken for life. Again, Moses does not expressly require that limits should be assigned to the vow; but a rule was afterward imposed that no Nazarite vow should be taken for less than thirty days. To permit the vow to be taken for very short periods would diminish its solemnity and estimation.

Numbers 6:14, Numbers 6:15

The sin-offering (compare the marginal references), though named second, was in practice offered first, being intended to expiate involuntary sins committed during the period of separation. The burnt-offering (Leviticus 1:10 ff) denoted the self-surrender on which alone all acceptableness in the Nazarite before God must rest; the peace-offerings (Leviticus 3:12 ff) expressed thankfulness to God by whose grace the vow had been fulfilled. The offerings, both ordinary and additional, required on the completion of the Nazarite vow involved considerable expense, and it was regarded as a pious work to provide the poor with the means of making them (compare Acts 21:23 ff; Acts 1:0 Macc. 3:49).

Numbers 6:18

Shave the head - As the Nazarite had during his vow worn his hair unshorn in honor of God, so when the time was complete it was natural that the hair, the symbol of his vow, should be cut off, and offered to God at the sanctuary. The burning of the hair “in the fire under the sacrifice of the peace offering “represented the eucharistic communion with God obtained by those who realised the ideal which the Nazarite set forth (compare the marginal reference).

Numbers 6:20

The priest shall wave them - i. e. by placing his hands under those of the Nazarite: compare Leviticus 7:30.

Numbers 6:21

Beside that that his hand shall get - The Nazarite, in addition to the offerings prescribed above, was to present free-will offerings according to his possessions or means.