Leviticus 19:28 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD. ”

Leviticus 19:28 - 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...
Leviticus 19:28 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any (l) marks upon you: I [am] the LORD. (l) By whipping your bodies or burning marks in them.
Leviticus 19:28 - 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...
Leviticus 19:28 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

cuttings. . practice in Canaanitish heathen worship. Compare Leviticus 21:5 . Deu 14:1. 1 Kings 18:28 ; Jeremiah 48:37 . the dead . a dead soul. Hebrew. nephesh (App-13). Thus there is such....
Leviticus 19:28 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD. Any cuttings in your flesh for the dead - That the ancients were very violent in their grief,...
Leviticus 19:28 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ye shall not make any cuttings, &c.— The Egyptians, and many other idolaters, did this when they mourned for their friends; defiling their bodies with slashes and cuttings, as some say, to expr...
Leviticus 19:28 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD. Ye shall not make any cuttings ... The practice of making deep gashes on the face and a...
Leviticus 19:28 - 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...
Leviticus 19:28 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Cuttings in your flesh for the dead. — It was not only the custom for mourners to let their hair grow long and wear it in a disorderly manner (see Leviticus 10:6 ), but the bereaved in the East to...
Leviticus 19:28 - 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...
Leviticus 19:28 - 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...
Leviticus 19:28 - 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...
Leviticus 19:28 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead ,.... Either with their nails, tearing their cheeks and other parts, or with any instrument, knife, razor, c. Jarchi says, it was the custom...
Leviticus 19:28 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I [am] the LORD. Ver. 28. Ye shall not make any cuttings. ] Another heathenish custom, of such as mourned...
Leviticus 19:28 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Cuttings in your flesh Which the Gentiles commonly did, both in the worship of their idols and in their solemn mournings, Jeremiah 16:6 .
Leviticus 19:28 - 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...
Leviticus 19:28 - 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...
Leviticus 19:28 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Any cuttings in your flesh, which the Gentiles commonly did both in the worship of their idols, and in their solemn mournings, Jeremiah 16:6 . For the dead; Heb. for a soul , i.e. either, 1...
Leviticus 19:28 - 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...
Leviticus 19:28 - 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...
Leviticus 19:28 - 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,...
Leviticus 19:28 - The Biblical Illustrator

Cuttings in your flesh for the dead. The wild and frantic demonstrations of grief so common among eastern dud southern nations, included cuts and incisions in the body, among the Hebrews, the Phil...
Leviticus 19:28 - 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...
Leviticus 19:28 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 18:28 ; Deuteronomy 14:1 ; Jeremiah 16:6 ; Jeremiah 48:37 ; Leviticus 21:5 ; Mark 5:5 ; Revelation 13:16 ; Revelation 13:17 ; Revelation 14:11 ; Revelation 14:9 ; Revelation 15:2 ;...
Leviticus 19:28 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Cuttings in your flesh — Which the Gentiles commonly did both in the worship of their idols, and in their solemn mournings, Jeremiah 16:6 .

Leviticus 19:28 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Leviticus 19:28 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Leviticus 19:28 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 19:28 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Leviticus 19:28 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Leviticus 19:28 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Leviticus 19:28 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Leviticus 19:28 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 19:28 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Leviticus 19:28 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Leviticus 19:28 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Leviticus 19:28 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Leviticus 19:28 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Leviticus 19:28 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Leviticus 19:28 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Leviticus 19:28 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 19:28 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Leviticus 19:28 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Leviticus 19:28 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 19:28 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Leviticus 19:28 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Leviticus 19:28 - The Biblical Illustrator

Leviticus 19:28 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Leviticus 19:28 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Leviticus 19:28 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes