Leviticus 19:27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads

[saizai]

Someone explain what that means?

Presumably this refers to some sort of personal grooming / adornment practice at the time, but I have no idea what it is.

[BenK]

The only corners we have on our heads are our jaws. When you get fat they get round. Ye shall not get fat.

[Elizabeth I]

Someone explain what that means?

Presumably this refers to some sort of personal grooming / adornment practice at the time, but I have no idea what it is.

I don't know what it means, but I have been told it is the reason for those corkscrew curls Hasidic men wear.

Personally, I think people with square heads already have more problems than they can handle.

[jesus_freak]

Sounds like a good question to ask on way of the master.:D

[Björn Toulouse]

Sounds like a good question to ask on way of the master.:D


Just Google it. You'll get all the answers you'll ever need.

[Solus]

Remember the King James version of the bible was translated from Greek, I think (correct me if I'm wrong). I'd like to know what verse means translated by a skilled SECULAR translator with no agenda on what bible should mean.

Lets get the whole verse in context though. From Leviticus 1:1 in summary it's god giving moses stuff to tell the "flock". Here is the whole verse might more since if you add the whole thing.

This is the entire verse of Leviticus 19:27 from the KJB. Why didn't you just quote the whole thing to begin with?


Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard

Safe to say it has to do with hair, It can't mean you shouldn't cut your hair? :con2: Something to do with hair style that's all I can say for sure.

[ChristineR]

I'm not sure anyone knows exactly what it means, but what it amounts to is: "You will not wear your hair like certain persons who don't worship Yahweh."

[David Swidler]

The Hebrew verb in the verse is from the root n-k-p, meaning to go around. It forbids the (pagan?) practice of removing the sideburns to create a straight edge of the hair from the temple to behind the ear.

Elizabeth I correctly noted that Hasidic sidelocks are a celebration of this commandment (whereas other orthodox Jews merely refrain from shaving above a certain point).

[c4ts]

It means you shouldn't wear Jew-hats so big they cover your whole skull.

[saizai]

The Hebrew verb in the verse is from the root n-k-p, meaning to go around. It forbids the (pagan?) practice of removing the sideburns to create a straight edge of the hair from the temple to behind the ear.

Elizabeth I correctly noted that Hasidic sidelocks are a celebration of this commandment (whereas other orthodox Jews merely refrain from shaving above a certain point).

I'm confused. It sounds like you are saying that it forbids make it *un*round, i.e the straight edge cut. (Isn't this how most modern straightlace christians wear it?) But the verse says you're not supposed to *round* the corners.

Please clarify?

[David Swidler]

I'm confused. It sounds like you are saying that it forbids make it *un*round, i.e the straight edge cut. (Isn't this how most modern straightlace christians wear it?) But the verse says you're not supposed to *round* the corners.

Please clarify?

One who removes the sideburns creates a line "around" the side of the head, as opposed to leaving the hair in front of the ear (the "corner" of the head).

[ChristineR]

Like a tonsure or a bowl cut?

[Meadmaker]

It's interesting how often hair styles are considered so very, very, important.

If the Bible had been written in the 1960's by conservatives, I am sure it would have included a commandment, "Thou shalt not suffer a man's hair to hang below his collar."

1000 years later, some moron would have started a sect that forbade men to stand or their heads, lest they break the commandment.

[Fitter]

The only corners we have on our heads are our jaws. When you get fat they get round. Ye shall not get fat.

Great now I'm going to hell for being fat also. I might as well just burn down an orphanage seeing I'm already doomed.

[fuelair]

Someone explain what that means?

Presumably this refers to some sort of personal grooming / adornment practice at the time, but I have no idea what it is.


It means you are wasting your time trying to square the circle. Check with Dutch and DJ - they'll "explain" it to you reel gud!!:D :D :D :D