Leviticus 21:5
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| Overview - Leviticus 21 | |
| 1 | Of the priests' mourning. |
| 6 | Of their holiness. |
| 7 | Of their marriages. |
| 8 | Of their estimation. |
| 9 | Of the priest's daughter convicted of whoredom. |
| 10 | Of the high priest's holiness. |
| 13 | Of his marriage. |
| 16 | The priests that have blemishes must not minister in the sanctuary. |
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Leviticus 21:5 (King James Version)
They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
- not make baldness
- This custom is also called rounding the corners of the head, (ch. 19:27, ) and seems to have been performed in honour of
- some idol. 10:6 Leviticus 19:27 Leviticus 19:28 Deuteronomy 14:1 ; Isaiah 15:2 ; 22:12 Jeremiah 16:6 ; 48:37 Ezekiel 44:20
- Amos 8:10 ; Micah 1:16
- the corner
- The Hebrew {peath zakon}, may denote the whiskers; as the Syriac {phatho} signifies. These are by the Arabs, according to Niebuhr, still cut entirely off, or worn quite short; and hence they are called by Jeremiah, [qtswtsy p'h,] those with cropped whiskers. Perhaps some superstition, of which we are ignorant, was connected with this; but whether or not, it was the object of Moses to keep the Israelites distinct from other nations.