Numbers 6:4

_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:_ When either man or woman shall ... vow a vow of a Nazarite, х_ NAAZIYR_ (H5139)] - 'a separated one,' from a Hebrew word, to separate [Septuagint, hafagnisasthai hagneian, to purify purity.] And 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 the disposal of themselves (Numbers 30:4), and for a limited period-usually a month or a life-time ...

1-21 The word Nazarite signifies separation. Some were appointed of God, before their birth, to be Nazarites all their days, as Samson and John the Baptist. But, in general, it was a vow of separation from the world and devotedness to the services of religion, for a limited time, and under certain rules, which any person might make if they pleased. A Nazarite is spoken of as well known; but his obligation is brought to a greater certainty than before. That the fancies of superstitious men might not multiply the restraints endlessly, God gives them rules. They must not drink wine or strong drink, nor eat grapes. Those who separate themselves to God, must not gratify the desires of the body, but keep it under. Let all Christians be very moderate in the use of wine and strong drink; for if the love of these once gets the mastery of a man, he becomes an easy prey to Satan. The Nazarites wer...

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...

EXPOSITION THE VOW Or THE NAZIRITE (Numbers 6:1). _Note.—_The Hebrew _Nazir _has been written Nazarite in English under the mistaken impression that there is some connection between Nazir and Nazarene (Matthew 2:23). A very little reflection will show that "the Nazarene" not only was no Nazir, but that he even took pains to let it be seen that he was not. John the Baptist was the Nazir of the New Testament, and in all outward things the contrast was strongly marked between them (Luke 7:14, Luke 7:33,...

ALL THE DAYS OF HIS SEPARATION SHALL HE EAT NOTHING THAT IS MADE OF THE VINE TREE,.... Of its leaves, branches, and fruit, especially the latter, put into any sort of food, or infused into any liquor, or mixed with any sauce for food: the days or time of separation were according as the vow was made, for a shorter or longer time; though the Jews t say, where the vow is, absolutely expressed, it is always to be understood of thirty days, during which time the Nazarite was not to eat or drink of any composition that had anything the vine in it: FROM THE KERNELS EVEN TO THE HUSK; the Jews u are divided about the two words here used, which of them signifies the outermost part of the grape, and which the innermost; Ben Gersom agrees with us, but it matters not much who are in the right, since both are forbidden: by this part of the law, the people of God, who are spiritual Nazarites, are tau...

CHAPTER 6 The Nazarite _ 1. The vow of a Nazarite (Numbers 6:1)_ 2. The defilement of the Nazarite (Numbers 6:9) 3. The law of the Nazarite (Numbers 6:15) 4. The blessing of Aaron and his sons (Numbers 6:22) The word Nazarite means, one who is separated. The vow of the Nazarite meant separation unto Jehovah and separation in three things: 1. Separation from wine and strong drink, vinegar of wine, vinegar of strong drink, liquor of grapes, moist or dried grapes, from all that is made of the wine-tree, from the kernels even unto the husks. 2. His hair was to grow long and no razor was to come upon hi

REGULATIONS FOR NAZIRITES. A Nazirite was one, whether man or woman (2), who undertook either for life or for a shorter time a vow to observe certain rules, involving various abstinences. An instance of a lifelong vow is afforded by Samson (Judges 13:7): examples of temporary vows occur only outside the OT (1Ma_3:49, _cf._ perhaps Acts 18:18; Acts 21:23 f.), though it is to the latter kind alone that the regulations here prescribed relate. The three requirements insisted on are (1) abstinence from all intoxicants and all products of the vine (_cf._ Amos 2:11 f.); (2) abstinence from cutting the hair; (3) precautions against incurring defilement th

SEPARATION. Nazariteship. VINE TREE. grape vine....

_First regulation_. Abstinence from intoxicating liquors and from any produce of the vine, liquid or solid....

ALL THE DAYS OF HIS SEPARATION— It is not said how many days, for there was no stated number; every one devoted himself for as long time as he chose. But not for a less time, says Houbigant, than might be sufficient for the hair to grow, which, at the completion of the time, the Nazarite was to burn in the fire of the altar, (see Numbers 5:18.) whereby those Jews are refuted who assign the number of thirty days to Nazariteship. They should have assigned a year at least; for the hair can scarcely grow in a less interval from a shorn head. Some, however, were _perpetual_ Nazarites, being peculiarly devoted to God from the womb; as Samson, and John the Baptist. It is considered as a happiness, and mark of God's favour to the Jewish nation, to have such persons raised up among them to be examples of a holy life. I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites.