Moses
Numbers 6:1WEB·traditional attribution

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Matthew Henry Presbyterian

The Nazarite vow distinguishes those who profess greater strictness and zeal in religion than their neighbors. Some were lifelong Nazarites by divine appointment or parental dedication; this law concerns those who bind themselves voluntarily for a season. A woman might take this vow under the conditions given. These separated ones devoted themselves to the Lord's service, to the study of His law, and to devotion.

AI summary

Commenting on Numbers 6:1-21

John Gill Reformed Baptist

And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... At the same time, or immediately after the law concerning the woman suspected of adultery was given; with which the following law concerning Nazarites may be thought to have a close connection, as some Jewish writers observe, women being concerned in it as well as men; and as wine leads to adultery, as Jarchi observes, abstinence from it, which...

Geneva Bible Notes Reformed

Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity. (o) The man might accuse his wife on suspicion and not be reproved.