What’s a Nazarite Vow? – Numbers E2

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

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🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Confession of sins, strange water rituals, Nephilim, and Nazarite vows—Numbers 5 and 6 might feel like a confusing mix of laws, but the scroll’s author is cleverly reminding us of the Hebrew Bible melody we first encountered in Genesis 1-9. In this episode, Tim and Jon talk about four odd laws that are part of the intricate story we’ve been following through the Torah.

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0:00.0	Last week we began reading the scroll of numbers.
0:08.6	It's the fourth scroll in the Torah.
0:11.5	Torah means teaching, often translated law.
0:15.4	And it's easy to think of the Torah as a big list of laws because it has many of Israel's
0:21.4	ancient law code in it.
0:24.0	But the Torah is predominantly a story with law code sprinkled in between narratives.
0:30.3	It's important to remember that the laws that we have here are not a complete law code,
0:35.2	but a highly curated sample of laws.
0:38.4	And this is essential to keep in mind as we get to these four laws in the book of numbers
0:44.1	that we'll look at today.
0:45.4	These four laws, each of them, were probably actual rituals and laws in the life of ancient
0:50.5	Israel.
0:51.5	The author of the Torah has selected out and arranged them in a sequence to communicate
0:56.4	a literary message through the cycling of themes.
0:59.8	This whole section is a riddle.
1:01.6	So we're going to read four laws about ritual impurity, disputes between brothers, adultery,
1:08.5	and a custom known as the Nazarite vow.
1:12.6	Why are these here?
1:13.9	Why are these in the order that they're in?
1:16.2	Why is this so strange?
1:18.0	Just get ready.
1:19.0	These are four really odd stories.
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