Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 6:20
And the priest shall wave them [for] a wave offering before the LORD: this [is] holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.
20. shall wave them ] The portions of a peace-offering which fell to the priest were not appropriated by him until a peculiar ritual had been performed. The breast and in the present case the boiled shoulder and part of the meal-offering also were waved or swung, that is, apparently, moved towards the altar and back, as a symbol that the priest first gave them to God, and that God then gave them back to him for his own use (cf. Num 5:25, Exo 29:27). The word ‘wave,’ however, is sometimes employed more loosely, and denotes simply ‘to offer’; see Num 8:11; Num 8:13; Num 8:15; Num 8:21.
heave thigh ] thigh of contribution. See on Num 5:9.
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And return to his former freedom and manner of living; he is discharged from his vow. Of the wave-offering and heave-offering, see Lev 7:30,32.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
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:
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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20. Wave offering See Lev 7:30, note.
After that the Nazarite may drink wine The Hebrew yayin is the most general term for wine which intoxicates. It is an open question whether the strong condemnation pronounced by the Bible against the effects of wine is not rather directed against intoxication and excess than against the substance itself. He who quotes the Nazarite as an example of total abstinence should also quote this permission of wine drinking after the period of his vow. The Pauline reason for abstinence, the removal of all stumbling-blocks from the path of the weak brother, is the only unanswerable, scriptural argument. Rom 14:21, note. This removes the question from the sphere of immutable morality, into which extremists have wrongfully thrust it, to the sphere of prudential morality, where it belongs.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Num 6:20 And the priest shall wave them [for] a wave offering before the LORD: this [is] holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.
Ver. 20. The Nazarite may drink wine. ] The Popish votaries will needs fetch colour and approbation for their superstitious vows, from this order of Nazarites. But the abolishing of this ordinance is declared in Act 21:25 , and they are so far from the abstinence of Nazarites, that they eat of the best, and drink of the sweetest: the most generous wine in Louvain and Paris is known by the name of Vinum Theologicum, the divines, those Sorbonists, do so whiff it off.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
wave offering. See note on Exo 29:27.
holy. See note on Exo 3:5.
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the priest shall: Num 5:25, Exo 29:27, Exo 29:28, Lev 9:21, Lev 10:15, Lev 23:11
with the wave: Num 18:18, Lev 7:31, Lev 7:34
and after: Psa 16:10, Psa 16:11, Ecc 9:7, Isa 25:6, Isa 35:10, Isa 53:10-12, Zec 9:15, Zec 9:17, Zec 10:7, Mat 26:29, Mar 14:25, Joh 17:4, Joh 17:5, Joh 19:30, 2Ti 4:7, 2Ti 4:8
Reciprocal: Lev 7:30 – General Lev 7:32 – General Lev 10:9 – Do not Num 8:11 – offering
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Num 6:20-21. May drink wine And return to his former manner of living. That his hand shall get Besides what he shall voluntarily give according to his ability.