The priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved the head of his separation;
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The priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved the head of his separation;
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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:
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And the priest shall take the shoulder of the ram when it is sodden, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazirite, after he hath shaven his consecrated head.
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Passages linked to Numbers 6:19 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Leviticus 7:30 With his own hands he shall bring the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before Yahweh.
- 1 Samuel 2:15 Yes, before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, “Give meat to roast for the priest; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw.”
- Exodus 29:23-28 and one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Yahweh. You shall put all of this in Aaron’s hands, and in his sons’ hands, and shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh. You shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar on the burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma before Yahweh: it is an offering made by fire to Yahweh. “You shall take the breast of Aaron’s ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It shall be your portion. You shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the wave offering, which is waved, and which is raised up, of the ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons. It shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel; for it is a wave offering. It shall be a wave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their wave offering to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 8:27 He put all these in Aaron’s hands and in his sons’ hands, and waved them for a wave offering before Yahweh.
- Leviticus 8:31 Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, “Boil the meat at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Num 6:19 And the priest shall take the sodden…
Num 6:19 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:
Ver. 19. The sodden shoulder,] i.e., The left shoulder; for the right was due unto him raw. {Lev 7:32} This taught the Nazarite special thankfulness: dignity requires duty.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The sodden shoulder; the left shoulder, as it appears…
The sodden shoulder; the left shoulder, as it appears from Num 6:20, where this is joined with the heave-shoulder, which was the right shoulder, and which was the priest’s due in all sacrifices, Lev 7:32, and in this also. But here the other shoulder was added to it, as a special token of thankfulness from the Nazarites for God’s singular favours vouchsafed into them.
Upon the hands of the Nazarite, that he may give them to the priest, as his peculiar gift.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the priest shall wave them for a wave…
And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord,.... Putting his hands under the Nazarite's, as in other cases where this ceremony was used; and so moving them to and fro, backwards and forwards, upwards and downwards, testifying hereby the goodness of God unto him, his sovereign dominion over him, that all he had depended on him, and was received from him; and that all he did, particularly in keeping his vow of Nazariteship, was through his assistance, and for which he made this grateful acknowledgment by delivering the above, together with what follows, to his priest:
this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder; besides these which were given him by another law, the wave shoulder of the Nazarite's ram was given him to eat; it was holy, and set apart for his use, and his only, and it belonged not in common to the course of the priests then on duty, but to him only that officiated in this peculiar service; and so it is observed by the Jewish writers (c), that the Nazarite's ram and some other things were not given to every priest, but to him that offered the sacrifice, as it is said, "he shall wave this is holy to the priest"; upon which it is observed, that it follows from hence, that the priest that waves is he that eats the sacrifice:
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and after that the Nazarite may drink wine; and cut his hair, and shave his head, and be defiled for the dead as other persons, the vow of his Nazariteship being fulfilled.
(c) Maimon. in Misn. Challah, c. 4. sect. 9.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The shoulder - The left-shoulder, as it appears from…
The shoulder - The left-shoulder, as it appears from ver. 20, where this is joined with the heave-shoulder, which was the right- shoulder, and which was the priests due in all sacrifices, Lev. vii, 32, and in this also. But here the other shoulder was added to it, as a special token of thankfulness from the Nazarites for God's singular favours vouchsafed unto them. The hands - That he may give them to the priest, as his peculiar gift.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Num 6:19. The shoulder — The left shoulder, as…
Num 6:19. The shoulder — The left shoulder, as it appears from Num 6:20, where this is joined with the heave-shoulder, which was the right shoulder, and which was the priests’ due in all sacrifices, (Lev 7:32,) and in this also. But here the other shoulder was added to it, as a special token of thankfulness from the Nazarites for God’s singular favours vouchsafed unto them. The hands — That he may give them to the priest, as his peculiar gift.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 19. Sodden — Cooked, usually boiled.
19. Sodden — Cooked, usually boiled.
Unleavened — See Lev_2:11, note.
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Wafer — A thin cake. For the mode of baking it see Lev_2:4, wood-cut.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 19. the sodden shoulder] It had been previously sodden,…
19. the sodden shoulder] It had been previously sodden, i.e. boiled, elsewhere in readiness.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The sodden shoulder, or boiled shoulder; the left. The…
The sodden shoulder, or boiled shoulder; the left. The right, or heave shoulder, was already the priest"s, according to the general rule. (Lev_7:32) That the other shoulder was also "waved" and accepted by God as his portion, to be consumed in his name by the priest, was a further token of the gracious acceptance of the self-dedication of the Nazirite, and of the fullness of eucharistic communion into which he had entered with his God.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 the boiled shoulder of the ram
the boiled shoulder of the ram
This means that he had boiled the ram's shoulder. This can be stated in active form. AT: "the shoulder of the ram that he boiled" (See: Active or Passive)
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indicating separation
Here "separation" means "dedication." Also, this abstract noun can be expressed with the verb "separated." AT: "indicating dedication" or "indicating that he has dedicated himself to Yahweh" (See: Idiom and Abstract Nouns)
The priest must wave them
After handing the items to the Nazirite, the priest takes them back to offer them to Yahweh. The full meaning of this statement can be made clear. AT: "Then the priest must take them back and wave them" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
together with
"as well as"
that was waved
This can be stated in active form. AT: "that the priest waved" (See: Active or Passive)
that was presented
This can be stated in active form. AT: "that he presented" (See: Active or Passive)
translationWords
ewe
bread
yeast
Nazirite
raise
Yahweh
holy
wine
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