Numbers 6:10 (BSB)
On the eighth day he must bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
From Numbers 6. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Numbers 6:10
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 6:1-21: After the law for the discovery and shame of those that by sin had made themselves vile, fitly follows this for the direction and encouragement of those who by their eminent piety and devotion had made themselves honourable, and distinguished themselves from their neighbours.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 6:10: And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering,.... That is, one of the turtles or young pigeons for the one kind of sacrifice, and one for the other sort; both being necessary; the one to expiate sin, and the other as a gift to God by way of thankfulness for acceptance of the former: and...
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 6:9-11: Num 6:9-11 But if any one died suddenly in a moment “by him” (עליו, in his neighbourhood), and he therefore involuntarily defiled his consecrated head, he was to shave his head on the day of his purification, i.e., on the seventh day (see Num 19:11, Num 19:14, Num 19:16, and Num 19:19), not “because such uncleanness was more especially caught and retained by the hair,”...