Leviticus 10:6 - Exposition

Uncover not your heads. They are to abstain from all the conventional signs of mourning, in order to show that they acknowledged the justice of the punishment. The whole house of Israel , that is, the people in general, might mourn the death of their priests, but the high priest and his remaining sons must prove their submission to the Divine chastisement by crushing their individual feelings of sorrow. A murmur on their part would have brought God's wrath on themselves and on the whole congregation, which they represented ( Leviticus 4:3 ). Uncover not your heads may be otherwise translated, Let not your hair fall disheveled (see Le Leviticus 21:10 ).