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 * 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.