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

   “Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead,.... Either with their nails, tearing their cheeks and other parts, or with any instrument, knife, razor, &c.

   “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

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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 21:52 voices

   “But the priests were to be laid under a special injunction, not only that they might exhibit examples of piety in the moderation of their grief, but also by the restraint of their passions, be the better qualified to administer the consolations of religion to others, and show, by their faith in a blessed resurrection, the reasons for sorrowing not as those who have no hope.

   “They shall not make baldness - In funerals, as the Heathens did. Though I allow them to defile themselves for some of the dead, yet in no case shall they use these superstitious rites, which also the people were forbidden to do; but the priests in a more peculiar manner, because they are by word and example to teach the people their duty.

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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 14:12 voices

   “Ye shall not cut yourselves - Which were the practices of idolaters, both in the worship of their idols, in their funerals, and upon occasion of public calamities. Is not this like a parent's charge to his little children, playing with knives, "Do not cut yourselves!" This is, the intention of those commands, which obliges us to deny ourselves.

   “Ye are the children of the Lord your God,.... Some of them were so by the special grace of adoption, and all of them by national adoption; which was the peculiar privilege of the people of Israel, and laid them under great obligation to honour and obey the Lord their God, who stood in the relation of a father to them, and they of children to him, Mal 1:

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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

   “Both the great and the small shall die in this land,.... The nobles as well as the common people, high and low, rich and poor; none shall be exempted from the grievous deaths by the sword, famine, and pestilence.

   “(Verse 5 onwards) For thus says the Lord: Do not enter the house of the feast, nor go to mourn, nor console them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the Lord, mercy and compassion. And the great and the small shall die in this land, they shall not be buried, nor mourned, nor shall they make a cut in themselves, nor shall there be baldness for them.

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