Numbers 6:12 - Easy To Read Version

¹² This means that person must again give himself to the Lord for another time of separation. That person must bring a one-year-old male lamb. He must give this lamb as a guilt offering. All of the days that he was separated are forgotten. The man must start over with a new time of separation. This must be done because he touched a dead body during his first time of separation.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And he shall consecrate and separate himself to the Lord for the days of his separation and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass or guilt offering; but the previous days shall be void and lost, because his separation was defiled.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And he shall separate unto Jehovah the days of his separation, and shall bring a he-lamb a year old for a trespass-offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.

Common English Bible

¹² The person will be rededicated to the LORD as a nazirite and bring a one-year-old male lamb for a compensation offering. The previous period will be invalid, because the nazirite promise was defiled.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And he shall consecrate to the Lord the days of his separation, offering a one-year-old lamb for sin, yet in such a manner that the former days will be made null and void, because his sanctification was polluted.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² And shall consecrate to the Lord the days of his separation, offering a lamb of one year for sin: yet so that the former days be made void, because his sanctification was profaned.

Numbers 6:12 Cross References

Exodus 12:5

The lamb must be a one-year-old male, and it must be completely healthy. This animal can be either a young sheep or a young goat.

Ezekiel 18:24

“Now, maybe a good man might stop being good. He might change his life and begin to do all the terrible things that bad person had done in the past. (That bad person changed, so he can live!) So if that good person changes and becomes bad, then God won’t remember all the good things that person did. God will remember that that man turned against him and began to sin. So that man will die because of his sin.”

Leviticus 14:24

The priest will take the lamb for the guilt offering and the oil, and the priest will offer them as a wave offering before the Lord.

Leviticus 5:6

He must bring his guilt offering to the Lord for the sin he did. He must bring a female lamb or a female goat as a sin offering. Then the priest will {do the things that will} make that person pure [44] from the sin that person did.

Leviticus 5:7

“If the person can’t afford a lamb, he must bring two doves or two young pigeons to the Lord. These will be the guilt offering for his sin. One bird must be for a sin offering, and the other must be for a burnt offering.

Numbers 6:11

Then the priest will offer one as a sin offering. He will offer the other as a burnt offering. The burnt offering will be a payment for the Nazirite’s sin. (He sinned because he was near a dead body.) At that time, the person will again promise to give the hair on his head as a gift to God.

Numbers 6:13

“After his time of separation is ended, a Nazirite must go to the entrance of the Meeting Tent [92]

Matthew 24:13

But the person that continues strong to the end will be saved.

Matthew 3:15

Jesus answered, “Let it be this way for now. We should do all things that are right.” So John agreed to baptize {\cf2\super [45]} Jesus.

James 2:10

And you might follow all of God’s law. But if you fail to obey only one command, then you are guilty of breaking all the commands in that law.