Discovery BoxNumbers 6:15-17 
Context6:15 and a basket of bread made without yeast, cakes of fine flour mixed with olive oil, wafers made without yeast and smeared with olive oil, and their 1 grain offering and their drink offerings. 2
6:16 “‘Then the priest must present all these 3 before the Lord and offer 4 his purification offering and his burnt offering. 6:17 Then he must offer the ram as a peace offering 5 to the Lord, with the basket of bread made without yeast; the priest must also offer his grain offering and his drink offering.
1 tn The suffixes in the MT are plural in this verse, whereas in v. 17 they are singular. This seems to be a matter of stylistic choice, referring to whomever may be taking the vow.
2 sn The offerings for the termination of the Nazirite vow would not have been inexpensive. This indicates that the person making the short term vow may have had income, or have come from a wealthier section of society. Short term vows had to be considered carefully as this ruling required a good amount of food to be brought.
3 tn “all these” is supplied as the object.
4 tn Heb “make.”
5 tn The “peace offering” is usually written as “a sacrifice of peace” (זֶבַח שְׁלָמִים, zevakh shÿlamim). The word “sacrifice” is related to the word “to slaughter,” and so indicates that this is a bloody offering in celebration of peace with God.
