Numbers 6:16
New International Version
“’The priest is to present all these before the LORD and make the sin offering and the burnt offering.

New Living Translation
The priest will present these offerings before the LORD: first the sin offering and the burnt offering;

English Standard Version
And the priest shall bring them before the LORD and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering,

Berean Standard Bible
The priest is to present all these before the LORD and make the sin offering and the burnt offering.

King James Bible
And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:

New King James Version
‘Then the priest shall bring them before the LORD and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering;

New American Standard Bible
Then the priest shall present them before the LORD and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.

NASB 1995
Then the priest shall present them before the LORD and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.

NASB 1977
‘Then the priest shall present them before the LORD and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then the priest shall bring them near before Yahweh and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.

Amplified Bible
Then the priest shall present them before the LORD and shall offer the person’s sin offering and his burnt offering.

Christian Standard Bible
“The priest is to present these before the LORD and sacrifice the Nazirite’s sin offering and burnt offering.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The priest is to present these before the LORD and sacrifice the Nazirite’s sin offering and burnt offering.

American Standard Version
And the priest shall present them before Jehovah, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his burnt-offering:

Contemporary English Version
The priest will take these gifts to my altar and offer them, so that I will be pleased and will forgive you.

English Revised Version
And the priest shall present them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"The priest will bring these offerings to the LORD and make the offering for sin and the burnt offering.

Good News Translation
The priest shall present all these to the LORD and offer the sin offering and the burnt offering.

International Standard Version
The priest is to come into the LORD's presence and present his sin and burnt offerings.

Majority Standard Bible
The priest is to present all these before the LORD and make the sin offering and the burnt offering.

NET Bible
"'Then the priest must present all these before the LORD and offer his purification offering and his burnt offering.

New Heart English Bible
The priest shall present them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his burnt-offering:

World English Bible
The priest shall present them before Yahweh, and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And the priest has brought [them] near before YHWH, and has made his sin-offering and his burnt-offering;

Young's Literal Translation
And the priest hath brought them near before Jehovah, and hath made his sin-offering and his burnt-offering;

Smith's Literal Translation
And the priest brought before Jehovah, and did his sin and his burnt-offering.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the priest shall present them before the Lord, and shall offer both the sin offering and the holocaust.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And the priest shall offer them before the Lord, and he shall perform both the sin offering and the holocaust.

New American Bible
The priest shall present them before the LORD, and shall offer up the purification offering and the burnt offering for them.

New Revised Standard Version
The priest shall present them before the LORD and offer their sin offering and burnt offering,
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering:

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And the Priest shall bring it before LORD JEHOVAH and he shall offer his sin offering and his burnt peace offering.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his burnt-offering.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the priest shall bring them before the Lord, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his whole-burnt-offering.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Nazirite Vow
15together with their grain offerings and drink offerings—and a basket of unleavened cakes made from fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers coated with oil. 16The priest is to present all these before the LORD and make the sin offering and the burnt offering. 17He shall also offer the ram as a peace offering to the LORD, along with the basket of unleavened bread. And the priest is to offer the accompanying grain offering and drink offering.…

Cross References
Leviticus 8:14-21
Moses then brought the bull near for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head. / Moses slaughtered the bull, took some of the blood, and applied it with his finger to all four horns of the altar, purifying the altar. He poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it so that atonement could be made on it. / Moses also took all the fat that was on the entrails, the lobe of the liver, and both kidneys and their fat, and burned it all on the altar. ...

Leviticus 9:2-4
He said to Aaron, “Take for yourself a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and present them before the LORD. / Then speak to the Israelites and say, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, a calf and a lamb—both a year old and without blemish—for a burnt offering, / an ox and a ram for a peace offering to sacrifice before the LORD, and a grain offering mixed with oil. For today the LORD will appear to you.’”

Leviticus 23:18-19
Along with the bread you are to present seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the LORD, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings—a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD. / You shall also prepare one male goat as a sin offering and two male lambs a year old as a peace offering.

Exodus 29:38-42
This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old. / Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight. / With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives, and a drink offering of a quarter hin of wine. ...

Leviticus 1:3-9
If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he is to present an unblemished male. He must bring it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for its acceptance before the LORD. / He is to lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, so it can be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him. / And he shall slaughter the young bull before the LORD, and Aaron’s sons the priests are to present the blood and splatter it on all sides of the altar at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. ...

Leviticus 3:1-5
“If one’s offering is a peace offering and he offers an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he must present it without blemish before the LORD. / He is to lay his hand on the head of the offering and slaughter it at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. Then Aaron’s sons the priests shall splatter the blood on all sides of the altar. / From the peace offering he is to bring a food offering to the LORD: the fat that covers the entrails, all the fat that is on them, ...

Leviticus 4:23-26
When he becomes aware of the sin he has committed, he must bring an unblemished male goat as his offering. / He is to lay his hand on the head of the goat and slaughter it at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered before the LORD. It is a sin offering. / Then the priest is to take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. ...

Leviticus 7:11-15
Now this is the law of the peace offering that one may present to the LORD: / If he offers it in thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil. / Along with his peace offering of thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of leavened bread. ...

1 Samuel 1:24-28
Once she had weaned him, Hannah took the boy with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine. Though the boy was still young, she brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh. / And when they had slaughtered the bull, they brought the boy to Eli. / “Please, my lord,” said Hannah, “as surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD. ...

2 Chronicles 29:31-36
Then Hezekiah said, “Now that you have consecrated yourselves to the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.” So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all whose hearts were willing brought burnt offerings. / The number of burnt offerings the assembly brought was seventy bulls, a hundred rams, and two hundred lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD. / And the consecrated offerings were six hundred bulls and three thousand sheep. ...

Ezra 6:17
For the dedication of the house of God they offered a hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and a sin offering for all Israel of twelve male goats, one for each tribe of Israel.

Ezekiel 46:4-7
The burnt offering that the prince presents to the LORD on the Sabbath day shall be six unblemished male lambs and an unblemished ram. / The grain offering with the ram shall be one ephah, and the grain offering with the lambs shall be as much as he is able, along with a hin of oil per ephah. / On the day of the New Moon he shall offer a young, unblemished bull, six lambs, and a ram without blemish. ...

Romans 12:1
Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

Hebrews 10:5-10
Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me. / In burnt offerings and sin offerings You took no delight. / Then I said, ‘Here I am, it is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God.’” ...

Hebrews 13:15-16
Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name. / And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.


Treasury of Scripture

And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:

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The priest is to present all these before the LORD
In the context of the Nazirite vow, the priest acts as a mediator between the individual and God, highlighting the importance of priestly intercession in the Old Testament. This presentation before the LORD signifies the dedication and consecration of the offerings, emphasizing the holiness and reverence required in worship. The act of presenting offerings is a recurring theme in the Old Testament, seen in Leviticus and Exodus, where offerings are brought to the tabernacle or temple as a sign of devotion and obedience to God.

and make the sin offering
The sin offering is a crucial aspect of the sacrificial system, designed to atone for unintentional sins and restore the individual's relationship with God. This offering underscores the seriousness of sin and the need for purification. The sin offering points forward to the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus Christ, who, as the Lamb of God, takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29). The concept of atonement through sacrifice is central to the biblical narrative, foreshadowing the redemptive work of Christ.

and the burnt offering
The burnt offering represents complete surrender and dedication to God, as it is wholly consumed on the altar. This offering signifies the worshiper's total commitment and desire to please God. The burnt offering is one of the oldest forms of sacrifice, dating back to the time of Noah (Genesis 8:20) and Abraham (Genesis 22:2-13). It symbolizes the believer's call to live a life fully devoted to God, paralleling the New Testament call to present our bodies as living sacrifices (Romans 12:1). The burnt offering also typifies Christ's complete obedience and submission to the Father's will, culminating in His sacrificial death on the cross.

Persons / Places / Events
1. The Priest
In the context of Numbers 6, the priest plays a crucial role in mediating between God and the people, specifically in the rituals associated with the Nazirite vow. The priest is responsible for presenting offerings to the LORD.

2. The LORD
The covenant name of God, Yahweh, who is the recipient of the offerings and the one who sanctifies the Nazirite through the priest's actions.

3. The Nazirite Vow
A special vow of separation to the LORD, which includes abstaining from wine, not cutting hair, and avoiding contact with the dead. This vow is a voluntary act of dedication and consecration.

4. Sin Offering
A sacrifice made to atone for unintentional sins, symbolizing purification and reconciliation with God.

5. Burnt Offering
A sacrifice that signifies complete dedication and surrender to God, as the entire offering is consumed by fire.
Teaching Points
The Role of the Priest
The priest acts as a mediator, highlighting the importance of intercession and the need for a mediator between God and humanity. In the New Testament, Jesus is our High Priest who intercedes for us.

The Significance of Offerings
The sin offering and burnt offering represent atonement and dedication. Believers are called to live lives of repentance and complete surrender to God.

The Nazirite Vow as a Model of Dedication
The Nazirite vow exemplifies a life set apart for God. Christians are encouraged to live distinct and holy lives, dedicated to God's service.

Understanding Sacrifice in the New Covenant
While the Old Testament sacrifices are no longer required, they point to the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus. Believers are called to live sacrificially, offering themselves to God.

Holiness and Separation
The Nazirite vow teaches the importance of holiness and separation from worldly influences. Christians are called to be in the world but not of it, maintaining purity and devotion to God.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The priest
הַכֹּהֵ֖ן (hak·kō·hên)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3548: Priest

is to present all these
וְהִקְרִ֥יב (wə·hiq·rîḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7126: To come near, approach

before
לִפְנֵ֣י (lip̄·nê)
Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct
Strong's 6440: The face

the LORD
יְהוָ֑ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

and make
וְעָשָׂ֥ה (wə·‘ā·śāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

the sin offering
חַטָּאת֖וֹ (ḥaṭ·ṭā·ṯōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2403: An offence, its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, expiation, an offender

and
וְאֶת־ (wə·’eṯ-)
Conjunctive waw | Direct object marker
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

the burnt offering.
עֹלָתֽוֹ׃ (‘ō·lā·ṯōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5930: Whole burnt offering


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