Numbers 6:17 (ASV)

Passage

and he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto Jehovah, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering thereof.

Nearby Context

Numbers 6:15 and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their meal-offering, and their drink-offerings.

Numbers 6:16 And the priest shall present them before Jehovah, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his burnt-offering:

Numbers 6:17 and he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto Jehovah, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering thereof.

Numbers 6:18 And the Nazirite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tent of meeting, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace-offerings.

Numbers 6:19 And the priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazirite, after he hath shaven [the head of] his separation;

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "shall", "offer", "sacrifice", "peace-offerings", "jehovah", "basket", "unleavened", and "bread". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "shall" and "offer", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 16's "And the priest shall present them before..." into verse 18's "And the Nazirite shall shave the head...", so "shall" and "offer" belong inside that flow. In Numbers context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "shall" and "offer" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.