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Numbers 6:6
New English Translation
Numbers 6:6
New English Translation
6 “‘All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he must not contact[a] a dead body.[b]
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- Numbers 6:6 tn The Hebrew verb is simply “enter, go,” no doubt with the sense of go near.
- Numbers 6:6 tn The Hebrew has נֶפֶשׁ מֵת (nefesh met), literally a “dead person.” But since the word נֶפֶשׁ can also be used for animals, the restriction would be for any kind of corpse. Death was very much a part of the fallen world, and so for one so committed to the Lord, avoiding all such contamination would be a witness to the greatest separation, even in a family.
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