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And in their temples the priests sit on seats, having their clothes torn and their heads and beards shaven, and nothing on their heads.
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Verse 31. Dead, even of Adonis, ( Bible.) whose worship is here ridiculed. Calmet.—At Biblos people bewailed his death, and the next day proclaimed that he was alive. All cut off their hair, as the Egyptians do for Apis, except such as submitted to prostitute themselves to strangers. The hire they consecrated to Venus. Lucian, Dea Syra.—At funerals a feast was usually made, as is still the custom in Syria, (Roger. ii. 14.) and near Bagdad. Chardin. ii. 7.
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