Ezekiel 44:20; Ezekiel 7:18; Isaiah 15:2; Jeremiah 16:6; Jeremiah 48:37; Leviticus 21:5
Certain pagan customs, several of them connected with magic, are here grouped together. The prohibition to eat anything with the blood may indeed r...
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.
Miscellaneous Precepts, all found elsewhere, except the last. Most of the forbidden actions have some magical significance, e.g. cutting the hair...
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 ; Jeremi...
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...
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 t...
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 forepar...
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...
Various Laws, mainly of a Moral and Humane Character This chapter was very naturally regarded by Jewish authorities as an embodiment of the Decalo...
The practices in this and the following verses were commonly employed among idolatrous nations. The rounding of the corners of the head and beard may...
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...
THE LAW OF HOLINESS (CONCLUDED) Leviticus 19:1-37 WE have in this chapter a series of precepts and prohibitions which from internal evidence ap...
The more positive habits of separation are insisted on by the repetition of laws already given, with one reiterated emphasis, namely, the fact that t...
These precepts are rather obscure. It is probable, that they refer to the heathenish practices of the idolatrous neighbours around Israel. And if so,...
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 e...
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...
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, eithe...
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 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: neith...
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 f...
Bans In Religious Matters: Warnings Against Pagan Practises ( Leviticus 19:26-29 ). There now follow in the name of Yahweh a number of provisions...
Practical Piety: Religion in all Relationships SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 19:2 .—Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, a...
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 unders...
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 t...
EXPOSITION From the prohibition of moral uncleanness exhibiting itself in the form of incest and licentiousness, the legislator proceeds to a se...
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, eith...
27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.