Numbers 6

Numbers 6:2

Woman] Women might be Nazarites, Num. VI. 2. And such likely was Sampsons mother, Judg. XIII. 4.

The word Nazarite signifieth one that is separate: And the name Pharisee is of the same signification. And of these Nazarites, some were for a certaine time, of moneths, or years, at their own choice, by their own special vow; as Acts XVIII. 18. and Ch. XXI. 24. Of whom these Lawes here are chiefly to be understood. Some for terme of life; as Sampson, Judg. XIII. 5. and so Samuel, 1 Sam. I. 11, 28. And John Baptist, Luke I. 15. Our Saviour was not a Nazarite, as hath beene commonly mis-conceived, out of a mis-translation, and mis-understanding of that text, Matth. II. 23.