Numbers 6:13

וְזֹאת תּוֹרַת הַנָּזִיר בְּיוֹם מְלֹאת יְמֵי נִזְרוֹ יָבִיא אֹתוֹ אֶל־פֶּתַח אֹהֶל מוֹעֵֽד׃

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Hebrew

וְזֹ֥את תּוֹרַ֖ת הַנָּזִ֑יר בְּי֗וֹם מְלֹאת֙ יְמֵ֣י נִזְר֔וֹ יָבִ֣יא אֹת֔וֹ אֶל־פֶּ֖תַח אֹ֥הֶל מוֹעֵֽד׃

Greek (Septuagint)

καὶ οὗτος ὁ νόμος τοῦ εὐξαμένου· ἧ ἂν ἡμέρᾳ πληρώσῃ ἡμέρας εὐχῆς αὐτοῦ, προσοίσει αὐτὸς παρὰ τὰς θύρας τῆς σκηνῆς τοῦ μαρτυρίου·

Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0

Latin (Vulgate)

Ista est lex consecrationis. Cum dies, quos ex voto decreverat, complebuntur, adducet eum ad ostium tabernaculi fœderis,

Spanish

“‘Esta es la ley del nazareo: cuando se cumpla el tiempo de su consagración, será llevado a la entrada de la Tienda del Encuentro,

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Esta es, pues, la ley del Nazareo el día que se cumpliere el tiempo de su nazareato: Vendrá á la puerta del tabernáculo del testimonio;

English

Now this is the law of the Nazirite when his time of separation is complete: He must be brought to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,

✦ What the text says

Summary

Numbers 6:13 introduces the legal procedure that governs the end of the Nazirite vow. It states that once the vow period is completed, the Nazirite is to be brought to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.

Key words

Zot ("this", H2063) — demonstrative particle opening the verse, pointing forward to the regulation that follows, a common formula introducing legal instruction (torah).
torat ("law of", H8451) — feminine singular construct noun; the construct form links it directly to ha-nazir, producing "the law of the Nazirite."
na.Zir ("Nazirite", H5139) — gentilic noun with the definite article ha- (H9009), marking a specific category of person rather than a proper name.
me.loT ("are completed", H4390) — Qal infinitive of the verb "to fill/complete"; used temporally after the preposition be- ("on") + yom ("day"), giving the sense "on the day of the completing of."
ya.Vi' ("he/one will bring", H0935P) — Hiphil (causative) imperfect third person; the causative stem indicates that the subject causes the object to be brought, but the identity of that subject is not made explicit in the verb form itself.

What the text says

The verse opens with the formula ve-zot torat ha-nazir ("and this is the law of the Nazirite"), a construct phrase that frames what follows as codified instruction rather than narrative. The temporal clause be-yom melo't yemei nizro ("on the day of the completion of the days of his consecration") uses the infinitive melo't governed by the preposition be-, a common Biblical Hebrew construction for expressing "when X happens," rather than a finite verb clause.

The main clause, yavi oto el-petach ohel mo'ed ("he/one will bring him to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting"), uses the Hiphil imperfect yavi without an explicit subject, while the direct object marker 'et plus suffix (oto, "him") clearly refers back to the Nazirite. This grammatical structure leaves open, in the Hebrew itself, whether the Nazirite brings himself or is brought by someone else, since Biblical Hebrew imperfect verbs of this kind can carry either a specific or an impersonal/passive-like sense depending on context.

Differences between versions

The LXX renders the ambiguous subject explicitly with προσοίσει αὐτὸς ("he himself will bring/offer"), adding the pronoun αὐτὸς to specify that the Nazirite performs the action himself, a clarification not grammatically forced by the Hebrew yavi. The Vulgate's adducet eum ("he will bring him") preserves an ambiguity similar to the Hebrew, using a third-person verb without a stated subject and the object pronoun eum ("him"). The Hebrew ohel mo'ed ("Tent of Meeting") is translated by the LXX as σκηνῆς τοῦ μαρτυρίου ("tent of testimony/witness"), reflecting a different nuance for mo'ed (H4150I) than "meeting."

This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.