Numbers 6:17 (WEB)

Passage

He shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its meal offering, and its drink offering.

Nearby Context

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

Numbers 6:16 The priest shall present them before Yahweh, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering.

Numbers 6:17 He shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its meal offering, and its drink offering.

Numbers 6:18 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 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 on the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaved the head of his separation;

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "shall", "offer", "sacrifice", "peace", "offerings", "yahweh", "basket", and "unleavened". 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 "The priest shall present them before Yahweh..." into verse 18's "The Nazirite shall shave the head of...", 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.