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Leviticus 21:5

Leviticus 21:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

not make baldness: This custom is also called rounding the corners of the head (), and seems to have been performed in honour of some idol. , ; ; , ; , ; ; ;

the corner: The Hebrew peath zakon:, may denote the whiskers; as the Syriac phatho: signifies. These are by the Arabs, according to Niebuhr, still cut entirely off, or worn quite short; and hence they are called by Jeremiah, χφεφι τΰδ:, those with cropped whiskers. Perhaps some superstition, of which we are ignorant, was connected with this; but whether or not, it was the object of Moses to keep the Israelites distinct from other nations.

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