Reference: Cuttings in the Flesh
Hastings
This expression occurs only in Le 19:28; 21:5. The former passage runs thus: 'Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead.
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You shall not round the side of your head, nor mar the edge of your beard. You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks on you. I am Jehovah.
You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks on you. I am Jehovah.
You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks on you. I am Jehovah.
They shall not make baldness on their head, nor shall they shave the corner of their beard, nor make any cutting in their flesh.
You are the sons of Jehovah your God. You shall not cut yourselves nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
You are the sons of Jehovah your God. You shall not cut yourselves nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
And they cried with a loud voice and cut themselves with knives and spears until the blood gushed out on them, as is their way.
One has gone up to the house, even to Dibon, the high places, to weep. Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba; baldness shall be on all their heads, every beard cut off.
And in that day Jehovah of Hosts called to weeping and mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth.
One shall say, I am Jehovah's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall write with his hand, For Jehovah, and be named by the name of Israel.
Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the sons of Ammon, and Moab, and all who are in the outermost corners, who dwell in the wilderness. For all these nations are not circumcised, and all the house of Israel, those not circumcised in heart.
Both the great and the small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, nor shall men mourn for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.
Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and those who trim the edges of their beards.
some men from Shechem came from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, with their beards shaved, and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Jehovah.
Baldness has come on Gaza. Ashkelon is cut off with the rest of their valley. How long will you cut yourself?
For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped. On all the hands shall be cuttings, and on the loins sackcloth.
For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped. On all the hands shall be cuttings, and on the loins sackcloth.
They shall also gird on sackcloth, and trembling shall cover them; and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness on all heads.
Nor shall they shave their heads nor allow their hair to grow long; they shall only trim their heads.
And they have not cried to Me with their heart, when they howled on their beds; they gather themselves for grain and wine, and they rebel against Me.
And I will turn your feast into mourning, and all your songs into weeping; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head. And I will make it like the mourning of an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.
Morish
This practice was forbidden in the law, as also was making any mark in the flesh. It was customary among the heathen, who cut themselves for the dead and tattooed their bodies in honour of their gods: the Israelites belonged to Jehovah. Le 19:28; 21:5.
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You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks on you. I am Jehovah.
They shall not make baldness on their head, nor shall they shave the corner of their beard, nor make any cutting in their flesh.