Num. 6:2

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Num 6:5; Num 6:6; 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. (Le 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; Amos 2:12; Luke 1:15; Acts 21:23; Acts 21:24

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.