* not make baldness.
This custom is also called rounding the corners of the head,
(ch. 19:27,) and seems to have been performed in honour of
some idol.
# 10:6; 19:27,28; De 14:1; Isa 15:2; 22:12; Jer 16:6; 48:37; Eze 44:20|
# Am 8:10; Mic 1:16|
* 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, [qtswtsy p'h,] 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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