Numbers 6:12 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Numbers 6:12

10 Then ^aon the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting;

11 and the priest shall offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned in regard to the corpse; and he shall sanctify his head that same day.

12 He shall consecrate to the Lord the days of his separation, and bring a male lamb in its first year ^aas a trespass offering; but the former days shall be¹ lost, because his separation was defiled.

13 ‘Now this is the law of the Nazirite: ^aWhen the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the tabernacle of meeting.

14 And he shall present his offering to the Lord: one male lamb in its first year without blemish as a burnt offering, one ewe lamb in its first year without blemish ^aas a sin offering, one ram without blemish ^bas a peace offering,

15 a basket of unleavened bread, ^acakes of fine flour mixed with oil, unleavened wafers ^banointed with oil, and their grain offering with their ^cdrink offerings.

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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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If any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration—Cases of sudden death might occur to make him contract pollution; and in such circumstances he was required, after shaving his head, to make the prescribed offerings necessary for the removal of ceremonial defilement (Leviticus 15:13; Numbers 19:11). But by the terms of this law an accidental defilement vitiated the whole of his previous observances, and he was required to begin the period of his Nazaritism afresh. But even this full completion did not supersede the necessity of a sin offering at the close. Sin mingles with our best and holiest performances, and the blood of sprinkling is necessary to procure acceptance to us and our services.

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