Numbers 6:7

For his father, or for his mother; wherein he was equal to the high priest, Leviticus 21:11, being, in some sort, as sacred a person, and as eminent a type of Christ, Hebrews 7:26, and therefore justly required to prefer the service of God, to which he had so fully and peculiarly given himself, before the expressions of his affections to his dearest and nearest relations. The consecration, i.e. the token of his consecration, to wit, his long hair. Of his God, i.e. whereby he hath devoted himself to his God in an eminent manner. The genitive case of the object.