Bilangan 6:15

6:15 and a basket of bread made without yeast, cakes of fine flour mixed with olive oil, wafers made without yeast and smeared with olive oil, and their ¹  grain offering and their drink offerings. ² 

Bilangan 27:14

27:14 For ³  in the wilderness of Zin when the community rebelled against me, you ⁴  rebelled against my command ⁵  to show me as holy ⁶  before their eyes over the water – the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.”

[6:15]  ¹ tn The suffixes in the MT are plural in this verse, whereas in v. 17 they are singular. This seems to be a matter of stylistic choice, referring to whomever may be taking the vow.

[6:15]  ² sn The offerings for the termination of the Nazirite vow would not have been inexpensive. This indicates that the person making the short term vow may have had income, or have come from a wealthier section of society. Short term vows had to be considered carefully as this ruling required a good amount of food to be brought.

[27:14]  ³ tn The preposition on the relative pronoun has the force of “because of the fact that.”

[27:14]  ⁴ tn The verb is the second masculine plural form.

[27:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “mouth.”

[27:14]  ⁶ sn Using the basic meaning of the word קָדַשׁ (qadash, “to be separate, distinct, set apart”), we can understand better what Moses failed to do. He was supposed to have acted in a way that would have shown God to be distinct, different, holy. Instead, he gave the impression that God was capricious and hostile – very human. The leader has to be aware of what image he is conveying to the people.