Leviticus 19:26-28 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 19:19-29

Here is, I. A law against mixtures, Lev. 19:19. God in the beginning made the cattle after their kind (Gen. 1:25), and we must acquiesce in the order of nature God hath established, believing that is best and sufficient, and not covet monsters. Add thou not unto his works, lest he reprove thee; for it is the excellency of the work of God that nothing can, without making it worse, be either put to it or taken from it, Eccl. 3:14. As what God has joined we must not separate, so what he has... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:26

Ye shall not eat anything with the blood ,.... Or upon, over, or by the blood F19 על הדם "super sanguine", Montanus, Munster; "super sanguinem", Fagius. , for this law seems different from that in Genesis 9:4 , and from those in Leviticus 3:17 ; and is variously interpreted by the Jewish writers; some of not eating flesh, the blood not being rightly let out of it, as not being thoroughly cleared of it F20 Joseph. Antiqu. l. 6. c. 6. sect. 4. T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 63. 1.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:27

Ye shall not round the corners of your heads ,.... The extremities of the hairs of the head, round about, on the forehead, temples, and behind the ears; this is done, as Jarchi says, when any one makes his temples, behind his ears, and his forehead alike, so that the circumference of his head is found to be round all about, as if they had been cut as with a bowl; and so the Arabians cut their hair, as Herodotus F2 Thalia, sive, l. 3. c. 8. reports; see Gill on Jeremiah 9:26 , ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:28

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 the Amorites, when anyone died, to cut their flesh, as it was of the Scythians, as Herodotus F4 Melpomene, sive, l. 4. c. 71. relates, even those of the royal family; for a king they cut off a part of the ear, shaved the hair round about, cut the arms about, wounded the forehead... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 19:26

Neither shall ye use enchantment - תנחשו לא lo thenachashu . Conjecture itself can do little towards a proper explanation of the terms used in this verse. נחש nachash ; See note at Genesis 3:1 ; (note), we translate serpent, and with very little propriety; but though the word may not signify a serpent in that place, it has that signification in others. Possibly, therefore, the superstition here prohibited may be what the Greeks called Ophiomanteia, or divination by serpents. Nor... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 19:27

Ye shall not round the corners your heads - This and the following verse evidently refer to customs which must have existed among the Egyptians when the Israelites sojourned in Egypt; and what they were it is now difficult, even with any probability, to conjecture. Herodotus observes that the Arabs shave or cut their hair round, in honor of Bacchus, who, they say, had his hair cut in this way, lib. iii., cap. 8. He says also that the Macians, a people of Libya, cut their hair round, so as to... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 19:28

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, etc., is well known. Virgil represents the sister of Dido "tearing her face with her nails, and beating her breast with her fists." " Unguibus ora soror foedans, et pectora pugnis ." Aen., l. iv., ver. 672. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 19:27

Verse 27 27.Ye shall not round the corners. It clearly appears that God had no other object than by the interposition of this obstacle to sever His people from heathen nations. For there is nothing to which men are more prone than to conform themselves to the customs of others; and hence it arises, that they mutually communicate each other’s vices. Wherefore care was especially to be taken lest the people of Israel should adopt foreign habits, and by this pliableness should fall away from the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 19:1-37

These four laws are, in their positive aspects, In Leviticus 20:11 , Leviticus 20:14 , Leviticus 20:16 , 35, 36, obedience is inculcated to the eighth and the ninth commandments, which are the laws of honesty and of truthfulness; in Leviticus 20:12 to the third commandment, which is the law of reverence; in Leviticus 20:17 , Leviticus 20:18 , 33, 34, to the sixth commandment, which is the law of love; in Leviticus 20:20 , 29, to the seventh commandment, which is the law of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 19:1-37

Religion and superstition. It is not always easy or even possible to distinguish between religion and superstition. We may fall into the latter when we are seeking to practice the former; or we may, from undue fear of the latter, neglect the former. In this chapter the Jews were taught (and we are thereby encouraged) to avoid the one, and to perfect the other in the fear of God. I. THE SUPERSTITION WHICH WAS TO BE SHUNNED . 1 . Clearly and decisively everything that... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 19:19-29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:28

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 19:26

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 19:27

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 19:28

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 19:27

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 19:1-37

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 19:1-37

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