Numbers 6:24-26 (LSB)

Passage

Yahweh bless you, and keep you; Yahweh make His face shine on you, And be gracious to you; Yahweh lift up His face on you, And give you peace.’

Nearby Context

Numbers 6:22 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Numbers 6:23 “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘Thus you shall bless the sons of Israel. You shall say to them:

Numbers 6:24 Yahweh bless you, and keep you;

Numbers 6:25 Yahweh make His face shine on you, And be gracious to you;

Numbers 6:26 Yahweh lift up His face on you, And give you peace.’

Numbers 6:27 So they shall invoke My name on the sons of Israel, and I then will bless them.”

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "yahweh", "bless", "keep", "make", "face", "shine", and "gracious". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "yahweh" and "bless", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 23's "Speak to Aaron and to his sons..." into verse 27's "So they shall invoke My name on...", so "yahweh" and "bless" 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 "yahweh" and "bless" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.