25 The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
25 The LORD H3068 make his face H6440 shine H215 upon thee, and be gracious H2603 unto thee:
25 Jehovah make his face to shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
25 `Jehovah cause His face to shine upon thee, and favour thee;
25 Jehovah make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee;
25 Yahweh make his face to shine on you, And be gracious to you.
25 May the light of the Lord's face be shining on you in grace:
Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.
Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.
And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.
Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth. Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us. Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
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Commentary on Numbers 6 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 6
In this chapter we have,
Num 6:1-21
After the law for the discovery and shame of those that by sin had made themselves vile, fitly follows this for the direction and encouragement of those who by their eminent piety and devotion had made themselves honourable, and distinguished themselves from their neighbours. It is very probable that there were those before the making of this law who went under the character of Nazarites, and were celebrated by that title as persons professing greater strictness and zeal in religion than other people; for the vow of a Nazarite is spoken of here as a thing already well known, but the obligation of it is reduced to a greater certainty than hitherto it had been. Joseph is called a Nazarite among his brethren (Gen. 49:26), not only because separate from them, but because eminent among them. Observe,
Num 6:22-27
Here,