OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 7:20

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In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.

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Verse 20. Razor. Or cut off with scissors all the hair, as was done with lepers, (Leviticus 14:9) and Levites. Numbers 8:7. The country shall be pillaged, and all shall be in mourning. Calmet.—The men shall be despised as no better than women and cowards. Saint Jerome Theod.—Hired. With large sums. Calmet.

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