Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
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Gill's Exposition
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 makes…
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…
Adam Clarke
Ye shall not round the corners your heads - This and the following verse evidently refer to customs which must have existed among the Egyptians when the Israelites sojourned in Egypt; and what they…
Here is, I. A law against mixtures, Lev 19:19. God in the beginning made the cattle after their kind (Gen 1:25), and we must acquiesce in the order of nature God hath established, believing that is…
Cambridge Bible
round the corners of your heads i.e. cut off the hair from the temples. Cp. Jer 9:26; Jer 25:23; Jer 49:32. According to Herod. (iii. 8) it had a religious significance with certain Arab tribes. The…
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