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Numbers 5:1-8:26

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Numbers 5:1-8:26

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This song belongs to the Numbers collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.

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[Intro] No blade on my head. No wine on my tongue. [Verse 1] A woman can take the vow as well. The priest told me it's true. No wine, no vinegar, no raisins, not a grape skin, not a seed to chew. No razor comes near my head. I let it grow and grow. I will not stand beside the dead, not my own father, even so. [Pre-Chorus] It is not a chain. It is a sign. Every day I keep it, it is His. Every hair that falls against my neck says whose I am, and what this is. [Chorus] Put Your name upon the people. Put Your name on me. Watch over me and hold me near. Turn Your face so I can see. Look my way, and let me be at peace. Put Your name on me. [Verse 2] Then a man dropped dead beside me in the market in the heat. I never touched him. It did not matter. He fell down at my feet. Seven days, and I shaved it off. I brought two doves to the door. Every day I'd kept was gone, and I started it once more. [Chorus] Put Your name upon the people. Put Your name on me. Watch over me and hold me near. Turn Your face so I can see. Look my way, and let me be at peace. Put Your name on me. [Bridge] When the days are done, I'll stand at the door and let the razor through. I'll lay my hair into the fire under the peace offering too. Then I'll drink the cup, and Aaron's sons will lift their hands and say the words that put His name on us, and He will bless us on that day. [Final Chorus] Put Your name upon the people. Put Your name on me. Watch over me and hold me near. Turn Your face so I can see. Look my way, and let me be at peace. Put Your name on me. Every hair, every day. Put Your name on me. [Outro] No blade on my head. Only Your name.

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Numbers 5: Defilement, restitution, and a disputed accusation

The holiness of Israel's camp reaches into three very different kinds of disorder. Ritual uncleanness can require temporary exclusion without implying moral guilt. A trespass against another person requires confession, repayment, an added fifth, and atonement, so religious ritual does not erase the debt owed to the injured party. The longest case concerns a husband's jealousy when adultery is suspected but no witness or ordinary proof exists. The procedure is severe and unequal, yet Numbers repeatedly preserves the possibility that the woman is innocent. The husband does not administer his own sentence; the priest presents the case before the LORD, states a conditional oath, and conducts the prescribed rite. The chapter therefore refuses one blanket category for impurity, proven wrongdoing, and suspicion. Each condition receives its own kind of response.

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Numbers 6: A voluntary vow and a blessing for Israel

Numbers 6 moves from a voluntary period of unusual consecration to a blessing spoken over the whole congregation. A man or woman may take a Nazirite vow, marked by total abstention from products of the vine, uncut hair, and separation from the dead. The chapter regulates accidental interruption as carefully as deliberate completion, showing that even an unplanned defilement can restart the vow's days without permanently excluding the person. Completion has its own offerings and ceremony, after which ordinary permission to drink wine returns. Then the focus widens. Aaron and his sons are given words to place the LORD's name upon Israel: blessing, keeping, grace, divine attention, and peace. The special separation chosen by some therefore ends beside a blessing that belongs to the covenant people as a whole.

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Numbers 7: Twelve offerings receive twelve full entries

The longest chapter in this opening portion of Numbers is deliberately repetitive. Israel's leaders first provide wagons and oxen for the tabernacle's transport, and the distribution follows the actual burdens of Gershon, Merari, and Kohath rather than a rule of equal equipment. Then each tribal prince receives one full day and one full entry for the altar's dedication. The gifts are identical, but the givers are not collapsed into a single line. Only after twelve named presentations does Numbers total the silver, gold, and sacrificial animals. The accounting closes with a different kind of event. Moses enters the tabernacle and hears the voice speaking from above the mercy seat. After a chapter crowded with objects that can be weighed and counted, the final reality is a voice that cannot be entered on the inventory.

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