OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 6:18

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The Nazirite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the Tent of Meeting, take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings.

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Verse 18. Fire, on the altar, where the ram has been sacrificed. Abulensis. Lyranus thinks it was burnt on the fire, with which the meat was boiled. Menochius. Chaldee. Tirinus.—The Sept., Philo. and so forth understand it in the former sense; and Theodoret says the consecrated hair was placed upon the victim on the fire. Calmet.

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