Leviticus 19:28 KJV

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 19:11-36

Integrity. The Jews have always been considered a cunning and crafty race; they have been credited with a willingness to overreach in business dealings. Men would rather have transactions with others than with them, lest they should find themselves worsted in the bargain. This suspicion may be well founded; but if it be so, it ought to be remembered that it is the consequence of the long and cruel disadvantages under which they have suffered, and is not clue to anything in their own blood... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 19:18-34

We have the testimony of our Lord ( Matthew 22:9 ) and of the Apostle St. Paul ( Romans 13:9 ; Galatians 5:14 ) that to obey the injunction, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself," is to fulfill all the commandments of the second table of the Law; and for that reason St. James calls it a royal law ( James 2:8 ). Here, therefore, the Levitical Law culminates in its highest point, so far as our duties towards men are concerned. Lest the Jew should confine the idea of thy neighbour... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 19:19-28

Fidelity to God. In the verses before us we note the injunction— I. THAT THE STATUTES OF THE LORD MUST BE KEPT . These require: 1 . That there be no unnatural mixtures. (a) Cattle which God ordered "after their kind" ( Genesis 1:25 ), are not to be let to gender with diverse kinds. Hybrids are degenerated creatures; they are monsters; and they are withal unfruitful. (b) Mingled seed must not be sown in the field. The plants of both kinds in such a case... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 19:26-28

After a repetition of the fundamental ceremonial law against eating things which have the blood in them (the LXX . rendering, ἐπὶ τῶν ὀρέων , "upon the mountains," arises from a mistaken reading), follow prohibitions read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 19:26-28

Certain pagan customs, several of them connected with magic, are here grouped together. The prohibition to eat anything with the blood may indeed refer to the eating of meat which had not been properly bled in slaughtering (Leviticus 7:26; Leviticus 17:10, etc.): but it is not improbable that there may be a special reference to some sort of magical or idolatrous rites. Compare Ezekiel 33:25.Leviticus 19:26Observe times - It is not clear whether the original word refers to the fancied... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 19:28

Leviticus 19:28. Cuttings in your flesh Which the Gentiles commonly did, both in the worship of their idols and in their solemn mournings, Jeremiah 16:6. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:1-37

Miscellaneous matters (19:1-37)Probably the miscellaneous laws collected here were decisions or warnings given by Moses in cases where there was some doubt about what was right or wrong. Often all that was needed was a reminder of existing laws; for example, those concerning respect for parents, Sabbath-keeping, worship of idols and eating of sacrificial food (19:1-8).When harvesting, farmers were always to leave something for the poor (9-10). Employers had to pay wages promptly, and judges had... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Leviticus 19:28

cuttings. A practice in Canaanitish heathen worship. Compare Leviticus 21:5 . Deu 14:1 . 1 Kings 18:28 . Jeremiah 48:37 . the dead = a dead soul. Hebrew. nephesh ( App-13 ). Thus there is such a thing as "a dead soul" as well as a "living soul" (Genesis 2:7 ); go also in Leviticus 21:1 ; Leviticus 22:4 .Numbers 5:2 ; Numbers 6:11 . Nephesh is incorrectly rendered "body" in Leviticus 21:11 .Numbers 6:6 ; Numbers 19:11 , Numbers 19:13 ; and "dead body" in Numbers 9:6 , Numbers 9:7 , Numbers... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 19:28

Leviticus 19:28. Ye shall not make any cuttings, &c.— The Egyptians, and many other idolaters, did this when they mourned for their friends; defiling their bodies with slashes and cuttings, as some say, to express the extremity of grief; as others, to pacify the infernal spirits, and propitiate them for the dead. See Jeremiah 16:7. As for the marks, spoken of in the latter part of the verse, it was usual for the Zabii and others to burn marks in their bodies, that they might thus signify to... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 19:28

28. Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead—The practice of making deep gashes on the face and arms and legs, in time of bereavement, was universal among the heathen, and it was deemed a becoming mark of respect for the dead, as well as a sort of propitiatory offering to the deities who presided over death and the grave. The Jews learned this custom in Egypt, and though weaned from it, relapsed in a later and degenerate age into this old superstition (Isaiah 15:2; Jeremiah... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 19:11-36

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 19:18-34

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 19:19-28

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 19:26-28

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 19:26-28

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 19:28

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:1-37

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Leviticus 19:28

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 19:28

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 19:28

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