Imamat 21:5

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Janganlah mereka menggundul sebagian kepalanya, dan janganlah mereka mencukur tepi janggutnya, dan janganlah mereka menggoresi kulit tubuhnya.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Janganlah mereka menggundul sebagian kepalanya, dan janganlah mereka mencukur tepi janggutnya, dan janganlah mereka menggoresi kulit tubuhnya.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Jangan mereka itu bergundulkan kepalanya atau mencukur ujung janggutnya atau menoreh tubuhnya.

Contextual Overview

¹ And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses, Speake vnto the priestes the sonnes of Aaron, & say vnto them: Let none be defiled by a corse among his people: ² But by his kynsman that is nye vnto him, [that is] by his mother and his father, by his sonne, and his daughter, and his brother, ³ And by his sister a mayde that is nye vnto hym, whom no man hath knowe: for her shall he be defiled. ⁴ But he shall not be defiled vpon hym that hath aucthoritie among his people, to pollute him selfe. ⁵ Let them not make baldnesse vpon their head, nor shaue of ye lockes of their bearde, nor make any cuttinges in their fleshe. ⁶ They shalbe holy vnto their God, and not pollute the name of their God, for the sacrifices of the Lorde made by fire, [and] the bread of their God they do offer, therfore they shall be holy. ⁷ Let them not take a wyfe that is an whore, or polluted, nor put from her husband: for such a one is holy vnto his god. ⁸ Thou shalt sanctifie hym therfore, for he offereth vp the bread of thy God: he shall therefore be holy vnto thee, for I the Lorde which sanctifie you, am holy. ⁹ If a priestes daughter fall to play the whore, she polluteth her father, therefore must she be burnt with fire.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

not make baldness: This custom is also called rounding the corners of the head - Leviticus 19:27, and seems to have been performed in honour of some idol. Leviticus 10:6, Leviticus 19:27, Leviticus 19:28, Deuteronomy 14:1, Isaiah 15:2, Isaiah 22:12, Jeremiah 16:6, Jeremiah 48:37, Ezekiel 44:20, Amos 8:10, Micah 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, קצוצי פאה, 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.

Reciprocal: Ezra 9:3 - off Jeremiah 9:26 - in the utmost corners Jeremiah 47:5 - how Ezekiel 5:1 - take Ezekiel 27:31 - they shall make

Cross-References

Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninetie yere olde and nine, the Lorde appeared to hym, and sayde vnto hym: I am the almightie God, walke before me, and be thou perfect.

Genesis 17:17
But Abraham fell vppon his face, and laughed, and sayde in his heart: shall a chylde be borne vnto hym that is an hundreth yere olde? And shall Sara that is ninetie yere olde beare?

Romans 4:19
And he faynted not in the fayth, nor considered his owne body nowe dead, when he was almost an hundred yeres old, neither yet the deadnesse o Saraes wombe.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They shall not make baldness upon their head,.... For the dead, as Jarchi, Aben Ezra, and Ben Gersom; not shave their heads, or round the corners of them, or make baldness between their eyes on that account; as those things were forbid the Israelites, so the priests also; this and what follow being superstitious customs used among the Heathens in their mournings for the dead, particularly by the Chaldeans, as Aben Ezra observes; and so by the Grecians; when Hephestion, one of Alexander's captains, died, he shaved his soldiers and himself, imitating Achilles in Homer t; so the Egyptians, mourning for the loss of Osiris, annually shaved their heads u; and the priests of Isis, mourning for her lost son, are called by Minutius Felix w her bald priests; see Leviticus 19:27;

neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard: the five corners of it; Leviticus 19:27- :. This the Israelites in common might not do, and particularly their priests; though the Egyptian priests shaved both their heads and beards, as Herodotus x relates: and so they are represented in the Table of Isis y:

nor make any cuttings in their flesh; either with their nails, tearing their cheeks and breasts, or with an instrument cutting their flesh in any part of their bodies, as was the custom of Heathen nations; such were made by the Egyptians in their mournings z;

Leviticus 19:27- :.

t Aelian. Var. Hist. l. 7. c. 8. u Julius Firmicus de Error. Proph. p. 2. w In Octavio, p. 22. Vid. Lactant. de fals. Relig. l. 1. c. 21. x Euterpe, sive, l. 2. c. 36. y Vid. Pignorii Mens. Isiac. liter. S. z Julius Firmicus, ut supra. (u)

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 1 Corinthians 15:54-57, and it would therefore have been unsuitable that they should have the same freedom as other people to become mourners.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 21:5. They shall not make baldness — See the note on "Leviticus 19:27". It is supposed that these things were particularly prohibited, because used superstitiously by the Egyptian priests, who, according to Herodotus, shaved the whole body every third day, that there might be no uncleanness about them when they ministered in their temples. This appears to have been a general custom among the heathen. In the book of Baruch, 6:31, the priests of Babylon are represented sitting in their temples, with their clothes rent, and their heads and beards shaven, and having nothing upon their heads. Every person knows the tonsure of the Catholic priests. Should not this be avoided as an approach to a heathenish custom?