Numbers 6:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman takes an oath to keep himself separate and give himself to the Lord;

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Referenced Verses

  • Judg 13:5 : 5 For you are with child and will give birth to a son; his hair is never to be cut, for the child is to be separate to God from his birth; and he will take up the work of freeing Israel from the hands of the Philistines.
  • Amos 2:11-12 : 11 And some of your sons I made prophets, and some of your young men I made separate for myself. Is it not even so, O children of Israel? says the Lord. 12 But to those who were separate you gave wine for drink; and to the prophets you said, Be prophets no longer.
  • Rom 1:1 : 1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, an Apostle by the selection of God, given authority as a preacher of the good news,
  • 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
  • Gal 1:15 : 15 But when it was the good pleasure of God, by whom I was marked out even from my mother's body, through his grace,
  • Heb 7:27 : 27 Who has no need to make offerings for sins every day, like those high priests, first for himself, and then for the people; because he did this once and for ever when he made an offering of himself.
  • Luke 1:15 : 15 For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth.
  • Acts 21:23-24 : 23 Do this, then, which we say to you: We have four men who have taken an oath; 24 Go with these, and make yourself clean with them, and make the necessary payments for them, so that they may be free from their oath: and everyone will see that the statements made about you are not true, but that you put yourself under rule, and keep the law.
  • Judg 16:17 : 17 And opening all his heart to her, he said to her, My head has never been touched by a blade, for I have been separate to God from the day of my birth: if my hair is cut off, then my strength will go from me and I will become feeble, and will be like any other man.
  • 1 Sam 1:28 : 28 So I have given him to the Lord; for all his life he is the Lord's. Then he gave the Lord worship there.
  • Prov 18:1 : 1 He who keeps himself separate for his private purpose goes against all good sense.
  • Exod 33:16 : 16 For is not the fact of your going with us the sign that I and this people have grace in your eyes, so that we, that is, I and your people, are separate from all other people on the face of the earth?
  • Lev 20:26 : 26 And you are to be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy and have made you separate from the nations, so that you may be my people.
  • Lev 27:2 : 2 Say to the children of Israel, If a man makes a special oath, you will give your decision as to the value of the persons for the Lord.
  • Num 6:5-6 : 5 All the time he is under his oath let no blade come near his head; till the days while he is separate are ended he is holy and his hair may not be cut. 6 All the time he is separate he may not come near any dead body.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 6:1
    87%

    1 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 6:18-22
    5 verses
    81%

    18 Then let his long hair, the sign of his oath, be cut off at the door of the Tent of meeting, and let him put it on the fire on which the peace-offerings are burning.

    19 And the priest will take the cooked leg of the sheep and one unleavened cake and one thin cake out of the basket, and put them on the hands of the separate one after his hair has been cut,

    20 Waving them for a wave offering before the Lord; this is holy for the priest, together with the waved breast and the leg which is lifted up; after that, the man may take wine.

    21 This is the law for him who takes an oath to keep himself separate, and for his offering to the Lord on that account, in addition to what he may be able to get; this is the law of his oath, which he will have to keep.

    22 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 6:3-6
    4 verses
    80%

    3 He is to keep himself from wine and strong drink, and take no mixed wine or strong drink or any drink made from grapes, or any grapes, green or dry.

    4 All the time he is separate he may take nothing made from the grape-vine, from its seeds to its skin.

    5 All the time he is under his oath let no blade come near his head; till the days while he is separate are ended he is holy and his hair may not be cut.

    6 All the time he is separate he may not come near any dead body.

  • Num 6:12-13
    2 verses
    76%

    12 And he will give to the Lord his days of being separate, offering a he-lamb of the first year as an offering for error: but the earlier days will be a loss, because he became unclean.

    13 And this is the law for him who is separate, when the necessary days are ended: he is to come to the door of the Tent of meeting,

  • Lev 27:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1 And the Lord said to Moses,

    2 Say to the children of Israel, If a man makes a special oath, you will give your decision as to the value of the persons for the Lord.

  • Num 6:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8 All the time he is separate he is holy to the Lord.

    9 If death comes suddenly to a man at his side, so that he becomes unclean, let his hair be cut off on the day when he is made clean, on the seventh day.

  • Num 30:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2 And Moses said to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, This is the order of the Lord.

    3 When a man takes an oath to the Lord, or gives an undertaking having the force of an oath, let him not go back from his word, but let him do whatever he has said he will do.

  • Judg 13:7
    72%

    7 But he said to me, You are with child and will give birth to a son; and now do not take any wine or strong drink or let anything unclean be your food; for the child will be separate to God from his birth to the day of his death.

  • Num 5:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5 And the Lord said to Moses,

    6 Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman does any of the sins of men, going against the word of the Lord, and is in the wrong;

  • Num 30:6
    71%

    6 But if her father, hearing of it, makes her take back her word, then the oaths or the undertakings she has given will have no force; and she will have forgiveness from the Lord, because her oath was broken by her father.

  • Judg 13:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    4 Now then take care to have no wine or strong drink and to take no unclean thing for food;

    5 For you are with child and will give birth to a son; his hair is never to be cut, for the child is to be separate to God from his birth; and he will take up the work of freeing Israel from the hands of the Philistines.

  • Amos 2:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11 And some of your sons I made prophets, and some of your young men I made separate for myself. Is it not even so, O children of Israel? says the Lord.

    12 But to those who were separate you gave wine for drink; and to the prophets you said, Be prophets no longer.

  • Num 30:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9 But if her husband, hearing of it, makes her take it back, then the oath she made and the undertaking she gave without thought will have no force or effect, and she will have the Lord's forgiveness.

    10 But an oath made by a widow or one who is no longer married to her husband, and every undertaking she has given, will have force.

  • Lev 6:1
    69%

    1 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 5:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11 And the Lord said to Moses,

    12 Say to the children of Israel, If any man's wife does wrong, sinning against him

  • Lev 12:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1 And the Lord said to Moses,

    2 Say to the children of Israel, If a woman is with child and gives birth to a male child, she will be unclean for seven days, as when she is unwell.

  • Judg 13:14
    69%

    14 She is to have nothing which comes from the vine for her food, and let her take no wine or strong drink or anything which is unclean; let her take care to do all I have given her orders to do.

  • Lev 22:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

    17 And the Lord said to Moses,

    18 Say to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel, If any man of the children of Israel, or of another nation living in Israel, makes an offering, given because of an oath or freely given to the Lord for a burned offering;

  • Lev 22:1
    68%

    1 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Lev 15:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1 And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron,

    2 Say to the children of Israel: If a man has an unclean flow from his flesh, it will make him unclean.

  • Lev 19:1-2
    2 verses
    67%

    1 And the Lord said to Moses,

    2 Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.

  • Lev 21:16
    67%

    16 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Lev 17:8
    67%

    8 And say to them, If any man of Israel, or any other living among them, makes a burned offering or other offering,

  • Exod 19:6
    66%

    6 And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.

  • Num 8:6
    66%

    6 Take the Levites out from among the children of Israel and make them clean.

  • Exod 31:12
    66%

    12 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 19:1
    66%

    1 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

  • Lev 21:6
    66%

    6 Let them be holy to their God and not make the name of their God common; for the fire offerings of the Lord and the bread of their God are offered by them, and they are to be holy.

  • Num 27:6
    66%

    6 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Ezek 44:22
    66%

    22 And they are not to take as wives any widow or woman whose husband has put her away: but they may take virgins of the seed of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.