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Chapter 5 covers the separation from defilement (separation from those unclean). The unclean included the leper and the one defiled by physical secretion or by contact with physical [[death]]. This condition incapacitated one to serve the living [[God]], and illustrates the necessity of judging and putting away [[sin]] as a barrier to divine fellowship and service.

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Restitution had to be made when a person committed wrong in the camp. This restitution is covered in verses 5-10. Unconfessed [[sin]] cannot be condoned among [[God]]'s people. The [[grace]] of [[God]], which grants unlimited forgiveness, would be tragic if it did not discipline the believer. As believers, we must deny un[[Godliness]] and worldly lusts, and live soberly and righteously before [[God]] in this present evil world.

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Chapter 6 is a continuation of the laws begun in chapter 5. Verses 1-8 cover the vow of the Nazarite. This was a voluntary dedication of a person of himself to the [[Lord]]. It involved abstinence from [[wine]], symbolic of the natural pleasures of life ( Psalm 104:15), and even of grapes in any form, representing earthly joys harmless in themselves, but which cannot give the believer the delight in the [[Lord]] which his heart craves. The Nazarite vow also involved long hair, which is, in [[New Testament]] teaching, considered to be a reproach to a man (1 Corinthians 11:14). His long hair was the outward badge that he was willing to bear rejection for the [[Lord]]. The vow also entailed rigid separation from ceremonial uncleanness contracted by contact with a dead body, even that of a close loved one. Although Samson, [[Samuel]], and [[John]] the Baptist were Nazarites, yet the type finds its complete fulfillment in our incarnate [[Lord]], who, completely devoted to the Father, allowed no natural tie to distract Him from His heavenly mission. He was holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners.

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Various sacrificial rituals were prescribed for the cleansing of the Nazarite from defilement. All of them point to the finished redemptive work of Christ. Defilement of a dedicated saint is cleansed only by confession and forgiveness (1 [[John]] 1:7-9).

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		+	Chapter 5 covers the separation from defilement (separation from those unclean). The unclean included the leper and the one defiled by physical secretion or by contact with physical [[death]]. This condition incapacitated one to serve the living [[God]], and illustrates the necessity of judging and putting away [[sin]] as a barrier to divine fellowship and service.
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		+	Restitution had to be made when a person committed wrong in the camp. This restitution is covered in verses 5-10. Unconfessed [[sin]] cannot be condoned among [[God]]'s people. The [[grace]] of [[God]], which grants unlimited forgiveness, would be tragic if it did not discipline the believer. As believers, we must deny un[[Godliness]] and worldly lusts, and live soberly and righteously before [[God]] in this present evil world.
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		+	Chapter 6 is a continuation of the laws begun in chapter 5. Verses 1-8 cover the vow of the Nazarite. This was a voluntary dedication of a person of himself to the [[Lord]]. It involved abstinence from [[wine]], symbolic of the natural pleasures of life ( Psalm 104:15), and even of grapes in any form, representing earthly joys harmless in themselves, but which cannot give the believer the delight in the [[Lord]] which his heart craves. The Nazarite vow also involved long hair, which is, in [[New Testament]] teaching, considered to be a reproach to a man (1 Corinthians 11:14). His long hair was the outward badge that he was willing to bear rejection for the [[Lord]]. The vow also entailed rigid separation from ceremonial uncleanness contracted by contact with a dead body, even that of a close loved one. Although Samson, [[Samuel]], and [[John]] the Baptist were Nazarites, yet the type finds its complete fulfillment in our incarnate [[Lord]], who, completely devoted to the Father, allowed no natural tie to distract Him from His heavenly mission. He was holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners.
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		+	Various sacrificial rituals were prescribed for the cleansing of the Nazarite from defilement. All of them point to the finished redemptive work of Christ. Defilement of a dedicated saint is cleansed only by confession and forgiveness (1 [[John]] 1:7-9).