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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 19:27

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 refer to the Arabian custom of presenting the first locks as an offering to the deity: see Jeremiah 9:26; Jeremiah 25:28; Jeremiah 49:32, with the marginal readings in each case: cp. the practice of the Nazirite (Numbers 6:5; Numbers 6:18). Oaths by the hair of the head were common (cp. Matthew 5:36), and a usual Mohammedan oath is still 'by the beard of the prophet.'

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Leviticus 19:27. _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 i...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • 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 (originally...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    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; Jeremiah 25:23; Jeremiah 49:32. CORNERS OF THY BEARD. whiskers...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Miscellaneous precepts in reference to the various circumstances of every-day life....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _round the corners of your heads_ i.e. cut off the hair from the temples. Cp. Jeremiah 9:26; Jeremiah 25:23; Jeremiah 49:32. According to Herod. (iii. 8) it had a religious significance with certain A...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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 forepart of the head, nor from the _extremities_ of your beards,...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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 this fashion had been learned by the Israelites in Egypt...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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 except a dish-like tuft upon the crown, thus imparti...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לֹ֣א תַקִּ֔פוּ פְּאַ֖ת רֹאשְׁכֶ֑ם וְ לֹ֣א תַש

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • 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,...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Cut your hair, &c. This, and other such like things, of themselves indifferent, were forbidden by God, that they might not imitate the Egyptians or other infidels, who practised these things out of su...

  • 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 th...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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 their neighbours did so, and they should not be con...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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, either for the worship of their idols, to whom young men...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Leviticus 19:27 around H5362 (H8686) sides H6285 head H7218 disfigure H7843 (H8686) edges H6285 beard H2206

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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,...

  • 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,...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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 the head bald except a dish-like tuft upon the crown,...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 44:20; Ezekiel 7:18; Isaiah 15:2; Jeremiah 16:6; Jeremiah 48

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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, either for the worship of their idols, to whom young men...

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