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     * and she shall.
       This was in token of renouncing her religion, and becoming a
       proselyte to that of the Jews.  This is still a custom in the
       East:  when a Christian turns Mohammedan, his head is shaved,
       and he is carried through the city, crying, {la eelah eela
       allah wemochammed resoolu 'llahee,} "There is no God but the
       God, and Mohammed is the prophet of God."

     # 1Co 11:6; Eph 4:22|
     * pare her nails.  or, suffer to grow.  Heb. make, or dress.
       {W(8983)sethah eth tzipparneyha,} "and she shall make her nails;"
       i.e., probably neither paring nor letting them grow, but
       dressing or beautifying them as the Eastern women still do by
       tinging them with the leaves of an odoriferous plant called
       {alhenna,} which Hasselquist (p. 246) informs us, "grows in
       India and in upper and lower Egypt, flowering from May to
       August.  The leaves are pulverized and made into a paste with
       water:  they bind this paste on the nails of their hands and
       feet, and keep it on all night.  This gives them a deep
       yellow, which is greatly admired by Eastern nations.  The
       colour lasts for three or four weeks before there is occasion
       to renew it.  The custom is so ancient in Egypt, that I have
       seen the nails of mummies dyed in this manner."