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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Ye shall not round the locks of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the tufts of thy beard. Ye shall not rent your flesh for any soul's sake, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Ye shall not rent your flesh for any soul's sake, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Ye shall not rent your flesh for any soul's sake, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
They shall make them no baldness upon their heads or shave off the locks of their beards, nor make any marks in their flesh.
Ye are the children of the LORD your God; cut not yourselves nor make you any baldness between the eyes for any man's death.
Ye are the children of the LORD your God; cut not yourselves nor make you any baldness between the eyes for any man's death.
And they cried loud and cut themselves, as their manner was, with knives and lances, till the blood flowed on them.
They went up to the idols' house, even to Dibon to the high places, to weep for Nebo; and Moab did mourn for Medeba. All their heads were bald, and all their beards shaven.
And at the same time shall the LORD of Hosts call men to weeping, mourning, to baldness and a putting on of sackcloth.
One will say, "I am the LORD's." Another will call under the name of Jacob. The third shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and give himself under the name of Israel.
The Egyptians, the Jews, the Edomites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, and the shaven Midianites that dwell in the wilderness. For all the Gentiles are uncircumcised in the flesh, but all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart."
And in this land shall they die, old and young, and shall not be buried: no man shall beweep them, no man shall clip or shave himself for them.
there came certain men from Shechem, from Shiloh and Samaria, to the number of eighty, which had shaven their beards, rent their clothes, and were all heavy, bringing meat offerings, and incense in their hands, to offer it in the house of the LORD.
Baldness is come upon Gaza. Ashkelon with her other valleys shall keep her peace. How long wilt thou slay,
All heads shall be shaven, and all beards clipped off: all hands bound, and all loins girded about with sack cloth.
All heads shall be shaven, and all beards clipped off: all hands bound, and all loins girded about with sack cloth.
they shall gird themselves with sack cloth, fear shall fall upon them. Their faces shall be confounded, and their heads bald;
They shall not shave their heads, nor nourish the bush of their hair, but round their heads only.
They call not upon me with their hearts, but lie howling upon their beds. Whereas they come together, it is but for meat and drink, and me will they not obey.
Your high feasts will I turn to sorrow, and your songs to mourning: I will bring sackcloth upon all backs, and baldness on every head. Yea, such a mourning will I send them, as is made upon an only begotten son, and they shall have a miserable end.
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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Ye shall not rent your flesh for any soul's sake, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
They shall make them no baldness upon their heads or shave off the locks of their beards, nor make any marks in their flesh.