Numbers 6:12

“And he shall consecrate unto the Lord the days of his separation, etc.] He was to begin his account again, from the time of his shaving his head, and devote as many days to the service of the Lord as what he had vowed before: and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering; we see how much trouble and expense were brought by a single act of pollution, and that involuntary too; how much more need is there of an atoning sacrifice for the sins of men, even for all of them, and for which only the sacrifice of Christ is sufficient? but the days that were before shall be lost; which were before the pollution, how near soever the time of Nazariteship being at an end was, whether…”

“The law of the Nazarite is appropriately added to other enactments which concern the sanctity of the holy nation. That sanctity found its highest expression in the Nazarite vow, which was the voluntary adoption for a time of obligations to high and strict modes of self-dedication resembling, and indeed in some particulars exceeding, those under which the priests were placed. The present enactments do not institute a new kind of observance, but only regulate one already familiar to the Israelites Numbers 6:2. Numbers 6:2 A Nazarite - Strictly, Nazirite. This term signifies “separated” i. e., as the words following show, “unto God.” It became a technical term at an early date; compare Judges…”

“The days of his separation - As many days as he had before vowed to God. Lost - Heb. fall, to the ground, that is, be void or of none effect. Numbers 6:14”

“a trespass: Lev 5:6, Lev 14:24 but the: Eze 18:24; Mat 3:15, Mat 24:13; Joh 8:29-31; Jam 2:10; Jo2 1:8 lost: Heb. fall Numbers 6:13”