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Discover the Arts! Each day a different image from the Literary, Performing, or Visual Arts representing a portion of Scripture plus an explanation with links 2017 May 15
Image 1: Self-Portrait in a Fur-Collared Robe (1500)
Albrecht Durer (1471-1528)
Northern Renaissance Style
Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Image Source: Web Gallery of Art
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Image 2: The Blessing Christ (c. 1492)
Fernando Gallego (c. 1440 - 1507)
Gothic Hispano-Flemish Style
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
Image Source: Web Gallery of Art
SPECIAL NOTE:
[ I will again be working through the Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation. I will be adding links, resources, images, and the like, upgrading the former work-through which began with the 2013-10-12 posting which can be found, along with the full Genesis to Revelation postings, in the Archive Page. Postings will be at midnight Eastern Time, as I am able. However, no days will be skipped, even though a posting may be late. And all postings will be housed in the Archive Page. ]
Explanation: Numbers 6 begins with the regulations for the Nazarites and ends with a formula which the priests were to use in blessing Israel. Men or women who wanted to take a vow of a Nazarite (which was a vow of separation) were required, during the time of the vow, to refrain from all products of the vine -- from wine to the husk (skins) of the grape (1-4).
Also, his or her hair was to remain uncut until the vow ended (5).
He was not to touch a dead body, not even his closest relatives (6-8).
If someone died suddenly beside him and defiled him, he was required to shave his head seven days later and offer two pigeons or two turtledoves, the one for a sin offering, the other for a burnt offering. He was then to offer a yearling lamb for a trespass offering. His time for being separated would then have to start over from the beginning (9-12).
When his vow was fulfilled he was to offer a burnt offering, a sin offering, peace offerings (including a ram's breast for a wave offering plus a ram's shoulder for a heave offering, plus the rest of the ram), a meal (grain) offering, and a drink offering. When he presented the peace offerings he was also to present his hair which he had shaved off at the entrance to the Tabernacle, symbolizing the end of his vow; and he was to burn it in the fire with the peace offerings.
The chapter concludes with the formula for blessing Israel. By using it the priest put the LORD's name upon the children of Israel; and the LORD promised to bless them (22-27).
[ Sermons: Robert S Rayburn 1. Robert S Rayburn 2. Various. ]
[ Illustration: The paintings above illustrate the two main sections of the chapter 6. The first painting illustrates the length of hair which one might expect to see on a Nazarite. The second painting illustrates the act of blessing -- not merely (as in this chapter) from a priest, or the high priest, but from the Great High Priest, Jesus Christ. ]
RESOURCES
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[ THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES: Numbers 6: [1] Judges 13:5; 1 Samuel 1:11; Isaiah 11:1; Matthew 2:23; Mark 1:24; Luke 1:26.
[2] Leviticus 27:2.
[7] Leviticus 21:2-3, 11.
[14] Matthew 15:5-6; Mark 7:11.
[15] Numbers 15:3.
[23] Leviticus 9:22. -- From the KJV Reference Bible and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers ]
[ CHRONOLOGY: GENERAL. Patriarchs (Traditional). Judges # 1. Judges # 2. Kings # 1. Kings # 2. Prophets # 1. Prophets # 2. NT # 1. NT # 2. NT # 3. ]
[ MAPS: Maps # 1. Maps # 2. Maps # 3. Maps # 4. Maps # 5. ]
[ COMMENTARIES, ETC: GENERAL: Bible Study Tools; Bible Hub: Study Light; Blue Letter Bible // PSALMS: Monergism: Precept Austin: The Treasury of David; John Gill; John Calvin - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
[ MUSIC: GENERAL: The Cyber Hymnal // PSALMS: Genevan Psalter (Instrumental). VARIOUS ARTISTS: Micha'el Ben David. Sons of Korah. Fernando Ortega. Janet Isaac Morrison. Music of the Bible Revealed - Suzanne Haik-Vantoura. Dr. David Erb. Gregorian Chants. ]
HARMONY OF THE LAW
HEBREW AND GREEK INTERLINEAR BIBLES
Pentateuch Detailed Outline:
Genesis Detailed Outline:
Exodus Detailed Outline:
Leviticus Detailed Outline
Old Testament Offerings Chart
Numbers Detailed Outline
Numbers 6
NUMBERS (COVENANT INSTRUCTION CONTINUES: LAWS OF COMMUNITY LIFE)
Note: "It is the only age in the Bible in which miracle is a daily fact of life."
(Richard Elliott Friedman, Commentary on the Torah, [San Francisco]: HarperSanFrancisco, 2001, 421)
True of Exodus through Deuteronomy and up to Joshua 5:12.
1. Preparations to Journey from Sinai (Nu 1:1 - Nu 10:10) 1445 B.C. Sinai
a. Instruction & Census to Authenticate Tribal Pedigrees (Nu 1:1 - Nu 2:34) 1445 B.C. Sinai
{Pentateuch Outline: 14. Generations of Aaron & Moses (Nu 3:1 - Dt 34:12) 1445 - 1406 B.C. Sinai}
b. Moses & Aaron Begin the Tabernacle Service (Nu 3:1 - Nu 10:10) 1446-1445 B.C. Sinai
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 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:
3 He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.
4 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing [not from all] that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.
5 All 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 the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.
6 All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body.
7 He 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.
8 All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD.
9 And if any man die [one dying should die] very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.
10 And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
11 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day.
12 And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.
13 And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be bought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
14 And he shall offer his offering unto the LORD, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,
15 And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings.
16 And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:
17 And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering.
18 And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.
19 And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair of his separation is shaven:
20 And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.
21 This is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, and of his offering unto the LORD for his separation, beside that that his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation.
22 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
23 Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them,
24 The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:
25 The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
27 And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.
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