Numbers 6:16 (LSB)

Passage

Then the priest shall bring them near before Yahweh and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.

Nearby Context

Numbers 6:14 And he shall bring his offering near to Yahweh: one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering and one ewe-lamb a year old without blemish for a sin offering and one ram without blemish for a peace offering,

Numbers 6:15 and a basket of unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers spread with oil, along with their grain offering and their drink offering.

Numbers 6:16 Then the priest shall bring them near before Yahweh and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.

Numbers 6:17 He shall also offer with the ram a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, together with the basket of unleavened cakes; the priest shall likewise offer its grain offering and its drink offering.

Numbers 6:18 The Nazirite shall then shave the head of hair for his Nazirite vow at the doorway of the tent of meeting and take the hair of his head of his Nazirite vow and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "priest", "shall", "bring", "near", "before", "yahweh", and "offer". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "priest" and "shall", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 15's "and a basket of unleavened cakes of..." into verse 17's "He shall also offer with the ram...", so "priest" and "shall" 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 "priest" and "shall" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.