Cutting

How Nave’s arranged it

• (The flesh for the dead)
• ForbiddenLeviticus 19:28Leviticus 21:5Deuteronomy 14:1Jeremiah 16:6

The passages, in Bible order (4)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 4 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Leviticus 19:28

   You must not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 19:282 voices

   “Any cuttings in your flesh for the dead - That the ancients were very violent in their grief, tearing the hair and face, beating the breast, etc., is well known. Virgil represents the sister of Dido “tearing her face with her nails, and beating her breast with her fists.” “Unguibus ora soror foedans, et pectora pugnis.” Aen., l. iv., ver. 6

   “Eating upon the blood, as the Gentiles did, who gathered the blood of their sacrifices into a vessel for their demons (as they fancied) to drink, and then sat about it, eating the flesh themselves, signifying their communion with devils by their feasting with them.

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2. Leviticus 21:5

   Priests must not make bald spots on their heads, shave off the edges of their beards, or make cuts in their bodies.

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 21:51 voice

   “These prohibitions given to the people at large (compare the margin reference.) had a special fitness for the Hebrew priests. They were the instruments of the divine will for averting death, all their sacrifices were a type of the death of Christ, which swallowed up death in victory 1Co 15:54-57, and it would therefore have been unsuitable that they should have the same freedom as other people to become mourners.

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3. Deuteronomy 14:1

   You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 14:11 voice

   “Make any baldness between your eyes - i. e. by shaving the forepart of the head and the eyebrows. The practices named in this verse were common among the pagan, and seem to be forbidden, not only because such wild excesses of grief (compare 1Ki 18:28) would be inconsistent in those who as children of a heavenly Father had prospects beyond this world, but also because these usages themselves arose out of idolatrous notions.

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4. Jeremiah 16:6

   “Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned, nor will anyone cut himself or shave his head for them.

   ›Commentary on Jeremiah 16:62 voices

   “Nor cut themselves - A custom of the heathen forbidden to the Jews, Lev 19:28; Deu 14:1, and which appears now to have prevailed among them; because, having become idolaters, they conformed to all the customs of the heathen. They tore their hair, rent their garments, cut their hands, arms, and faces. These were not only signs of sorrow but were even supposed to give ease to the dead, and appease the angry deities.

   “He had little reason to lament those who died now just before the judgments entered which he saw at the door, but rather to think those happy who were seasonable taken away from the evil to come. This was to be a type of what was coming, when there should be such universal confusion that all neighbourly friendly offices should be neglected.

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