What Does Numbers 6:13 Mean in the King James?
And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The Nazarite’s separation shares its Hebrew root with his name, and its appointed end is an opening into meeting.
THE MEANING
A set-apart season has a measure: when its days are full, it brings you to the entrance of meeting. Separation reaches a threshold; it does not mean endless distance.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that being set apart means remaining cut off: the separation has an appointed end at the entrance of meeting.
THE ROOT
נִזְרוֹ
nizro
GROWS FROM
נזר
n-z-r
to set apart or consecrate; the word family also names consecration and its sign, a crown or diadem
Nazarite and separation come from the same Hebrew root, joining the person to the consecrated period. When that period is full, the separated life reaches the entrance of meeting.
ALSO GROWS
nazir: a consecrated person, a Nazarite
נָזִיר
The title names someone by the very quality that defines this period: being set apart.
nezer: consecration; a crown or diadem as its sign
נֵזֶר
The same root links being set apart with a visible mark of consecration.
פֶּתַח
petach
GROWS FROM
פתח
p-t-ḥ
to open; an opening or entrance
The word translated door also means an opening. The completion of separation arrives at a threshold where meeting can begin.
ALSO GROWS
patach: to open
פָּתַח
The doorway is named through the act of opening, giving the endpoint of the vow the shape of access.
petach: an opening, entrance, or doorway
פֶּתַח
The Nazarite arrives at an opening into the meeting place, not at an endpoint of permanent distance.
THE PATTERN
A set-apart life reaches its purpose through presentation into God’s presence and work.
This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.THE THREAD
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.The same NZR root names both the Nazarite and his separation here. The next verse shows the completion enacted at the same doorway: the outward sign of the set-apart period is removed and placed into the offering.
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