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Verse 28. _ANY CUTTINGS IN YOUR FLESH FOR THE DEAD_] That the ancients
were very violent in their grief, tearing the hair and face, beating
the breast, c., is well known. Virgil represents the sister...
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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 properl...
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2. DIFFERENT DUTIES
CHAPTER 19
_ 1. Honoring parents and fearing God (Leviticus 19:1)_
2. The care of the poor (Leviticus 19:9)
3. Against stealing and lying (Leviticus 19:11)
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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 (originally...
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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.
thing as "a...
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Miscellaneous precepts in reference to the various circumstances of
every-day life....
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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 express the...
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VARIOUS ORDINANCES 19:19-29
TEXT 19:19-29
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Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a
diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with two kinds of seed:
neither shall t...
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_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 arms an...
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19:28 person (a-6) Lit. 'for a soul.'...
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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
precepts...
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Cutting the flesh and tattooing the skin are closely connected with
cutting the hair as an idolatrous rite: cp. Jeremiah 16:6; Jeremiah
48:37; 1 Kings 18:28;...
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LEVITICUS
*WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS
LEVITICUS
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
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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 this...
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וְ שֶׂ֣רֶט לָ נֶ֗פֶשׁ לֹ֤א תִתְּנוּ֙
בִּ
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THE LAW OF HOLINESS (CONCLUDED)
Leviticus 19:1
WE have in this chapter a series of precepts and prohibitions which
from internal evidence appear to have been selected by an inspired
redactor of the c...
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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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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....
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Dead. Adonis or Osiris; as if you were mourning for them, in which
sense the former verse may be explained. At funerals it was customary
to cut off the hair. Achilles and his soldiers did so at the de...
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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 th...
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We have seen the various forms of the work of Christ, of His offering
of Himself to God, whether in all the perfectness of His life, or in
His death as the means of our acceptance. We have seen furthe...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 AND 20.
Chapter s 19, 20, carry us somewhat farther. They were to be holy, for
Jehovah was holy. Chapter 19 takes up rather the side of good, though
keepin...
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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 of...
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_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 w...
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_Cuttings in your flesh_ Which the Gentiles commonly did, both in the
worship of their idols and in their solemn mournings, Jeremiah 16:6....
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1 A repetition of sundry Lawes.
1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, saying,
2 Speake vnto all the Congregation of the children of Israel, and say
vnto them, [NOTE: Leviticus 11:44; Leviticus 20:7; 1 Pet...
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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. Bu...
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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. Improperl...
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Leviticus 19:28 make H5414 (H8799) any H3793 cuttings H8296 flesh
H1320 dead H5315 tattoo H5414 (H8799) marks
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BANS IN RELIGIOUS MATTERS: WARNINGS AGAINST PAGAN PRACTISES (LEVITICUS
19:26).
There now follow in the name of Yahweh a number of provisions banning
various aspects connected with ‘other-worldly' pra...
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CONTENTS: Further laws concerning proper relationships.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses.
CONCLUSION: God's people being distinguished from all other people by
a peculiar relationship with Him through Christ,...
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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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_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 Philis...
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LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 19:1__ The Lord strongly commands the
people (including the priests) to become holy in their practice, as he
is holy (v. Leviticus 19:2). They do this by observi
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LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 19:26 These are all practices of the
Canaanites. Holiness requires Israel not to act like the ungodly in
any area of life.
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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 does this...
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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 of imm...
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Now God continues in this same vein, as He moves into chapter
nineteen.
Speak unto all of the congregation of the children of Israel, and say
unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am ho...
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1 Kings 18:28; Deuteronomy 14:1; Jeremiah 16:6; Jeremiah 48:37;...