5They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
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Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. …
Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)It was before appointed that the priests should teach the people the statutes God had given concerning the difference between clean and unclean , Lev. 10:10 , 11 . Now here it is provided that they should themselves observe what they were to teach the people. Note, Those whose office it is to instruct must do it by example as well as precept, 1 Tim. 4:12. The priests were to draw nearer to God tha…
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