Numbers 6:6

Numbers 6:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)All the days that he separateth himself unto the Lord he shall come at no dead body.
• New International Version (NIV)“ ‘Throughout the period of their dedication to the Lord, the Nazirite must not go near a dead body.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he shall not go near a dead body.
• New King James Version (NKJV)All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he shall not go near a dead body.

Context of Numbers 6:6

4All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk. 5All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto Yhwh, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow. All the days that he separateth himself unto Yhwh he shall come at no dead body. 7He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head. 8All the days of his separation he is holy unto Yhwh.

Numbers 6:6 word by word

כָּל־יְמֵ֥י הַזִּיר֖וֹ לַיהוָ֑ה עַל־נֶ֥פֶשׁ מֵ֖ת לֹ֥א יָבֹֽא׃Read the interlinear

• All the daysיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• that he separatethנָזַרnâzar · be a NazariteH5144
• unto Yhwhיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• he shall comeבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
• at no deadמוּתmûth · to dieH4191
• bodyנֶ֫פֶשׁnephesh · soul: deadH5315

Cross-references for Numbers 6:6

• Numbers 19:11He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.
• Leviticus 19:28Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am Yhwh.
• Jeremiah 16:5For thus saith Yhwh, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith Yhwh, even lovingkindness and mercies.
• Ezekiel 24:16Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
• Matthew 8:21And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
• Luke 9:59And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
• 2 Corinthians 5:16Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.

Commentaries on Numbers 6:6

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-21Verses 1-21 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…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-8Touching dead bodies made people ceremonially unclean (9:6–10). Priests could only touch the dead bodies of close relatives (Leviticus 21:1–4). But Nazirites could not touch any dead body at all.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-222-8. When either man or woman ... shall vow a vow of a Nazarite--that is, "a separated one," from a Hebrew word, "to separate." It was used to designate a class of persons who, under the impulse of extraordinary piety and with a view to higher degrees of religious improvement, voluntarily renounced the occupations and pleasures of the world to dedicate themselves unreservedly to the divine service. The vow might be taken by either sex, provided they had…Read the comment

Topics related to Numbers 6:6

• Fraternity
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Commentaries on Numbers 6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings