Leviticus 19:27 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. ”

• Leviticus 19:27 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Certain pagan customs, several of them connected with magic, are here grouped together. The prohibition to eat anything with the blood may indeed refer to the eating of meat which had not been prop...

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• Leviticus 19:27 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Ye shall not (k) round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. (k) As did the Gentiles in sign of mourning.

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• Leviticus 19:27 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Miscellaneous Precepts, all found elsewhere, except the last. Most of the forbidden actions have some magical significance, e.g. cutting the hair in a special fashion, or maiming oneself (origina...

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• Leviticus 19:27 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  not round the corners of your heads: i.e. to cut round, so as to have. tuft of hair, like the Canaanitish priests. Compare Jeremiah 9:26 ; Jeremiah 25:23 ; Jeremiah 49:32 . corners of thy bear...

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• Leviticus 19:27 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  27. Ye shall not round the corners. It clearly appears that God had no other object than by the interposition of this obstacle to sever His people from heathen nations. For there is nothing...

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• Leviticus 19:27 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. Ye shall not round the corners your heads - This and the following verse evidently refer to customs whic...

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• Leviticus 19:27 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, &c.— i.e. "Ye shall not cut off the hair from the corners, namely, from the temples and forepart of the head, nor from the extremities of your...

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• Leviticus 19:27 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. Ye shall not round ... It seems probable that this fashion had been learned by the Israelites in...

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• Leviticus 19:27 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Various Laws, mainly of a Moral and Humane Character This chapter was very naturally regarded by Jewish authorities as an embodiment of the Decalogue. It will be observed that in general the prece...

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• Leviticus 19:27 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Round the corners of your heads. — That is, they are not to shave off the hair around the temples and behind the ears, so as to leave the head bald except a dish-like tuft upon the crown, thus impa...

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• Leviticus 19:27 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE LAW OF HOLINESS (CONCLUDED) Leviticus 19:1-37 WE have in this chapter a series of precepts and prohibitions which from internal evidence appear to have been selected by an inspired redactor...

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• Leviticus 19:27 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The more positive habits of separation are insisted on by the repetition of laws already given, with one reiterated emphasis, namely, the fact that the God of this people is Jehovah. There was, first...

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• Leviticus 19:27 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  These precepts are rather obscure. It is probable, that they refer to the heathenish practices of the idolatrous neighbours around Israel. And if so, they serve to teach, that everything which hath t...

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• Leviticus 19:27 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Ye shall not round the corners of your heads ,.... The extremities of the hairs of the head, round about, on the forehead, temples, and behind the ears; this is done, as Jarchi says, when any one ma...

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• Leviticus 19:27 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. Ver. 27. Ye shall not round. ] Because the Arabians their neighbours did so, and they should not be c...

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• Leviticus 19:27 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The corners of your heads That is, your temples; ye shall not cut off the hair of your heads round about your temples. This the Gentiles did, either for the worship of their idols, to whom young me...

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• Leviticus 19:27 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  MANY LAWS GROUPED TOGETHER (vv. 1-37) We have seen at the beginning and end of chapter 18 God's announcement, “I am the Lord your God.” In chapter 19 the expression “I am the Lord” occurs 15 times...

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• Leviticus 19:27 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen co...

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• Leviticus 19:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The corners of your heads; i.e. your temples: Ye shall not cut off the hair of your heads round about your temples. This the Gentiles did, either for the worship of the devils or idols, to whom you...

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• Leviticus 19:27 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Bans In Religious Matters: Warnings Against Pagan Practises ( Leviticus 19:26-29 ). There now follow in the name of Yahweh a number of provisions banning various aspects connected with ‘other-worl...

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• Leviticus 19:27 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  Practical Piety: Religion in all Relationships SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 19:2 .—Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say: Nowhere else in the whole of Leviticus doe...

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• Leviticus 19:27 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The leading precepts of the law are here repeated to give them new force, and with many additions and illustrations, that they might be better understood. Most of these having already been explained,...

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• Leviticus 19:27 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Ye shall not round the corners of your heads. That is, they are not to shave off the hair around the temples and behind the ears, so as to leave the head bald except a dish-like tuft upon the crow...

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• Leviticus 19:27 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION From the prohibition of moral uncleanness exhibiting itself in the form of incest and licentiousness, the legislator proceeds to a series of laws and commandments against other kinds...

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• Leviticus 19:27 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ezekiel 44:20 ; Ezekiel 7:18 ; Isaiah 15:2 ; Jeremiah 16:6 ; Jeremiah 48:37 ; Leviticus 21:5

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• Leviticus 19:27 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The corners of your heads — That is your temples, ye shall not cut off the hair of your heads round about your temples. This the Gentiles did, either for the worship of their idols, to whom young m...

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