Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Leviticus 19:28
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.
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.
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...
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...
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) 4
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...
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...
Miscellaneous precepts in reference to the various circumstances of every-day life....
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...
VARIOUS ORDINANCES 19:19-29 TEXT 19:19-29 19 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...
_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...
19:28 person (a-6) Lit. 'for a soul.'...
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...
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;...
LEVITICUS *WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS LEVITICUS _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. Words in boxes are from the Bible, except for the words i...
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...
וְ שֶׂ֣רֶט לָ נֶ֗פֶשׁ לֹ֤א תִתְּנוּ֙ בִּ
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_Cuttings in your flesh_ Which the Gentiles commonly did, both in the worship of their idols and in their solemn mournings, Jeremiah 16:6....
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...
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...
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...
Leviticus 19:28 make H5414 (H8799) any H3793 cuttings H8296 flesh H1320 dead H5315 tattoo H5414 (H8799) marks
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...
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,...
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,...
_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...
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
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. ⇐...
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...
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...
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...
1 Kings 18:28; Deuteronomy 14:1; Jeremiah 16:6; Jeremiah 48:37;...
Cuttings in your flesh — Which the Gentiles commonly did both in the worship of their idols, and in their solemn mournings, Jeremiah 16:6....