OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 16:6

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Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried. Men won’t lament for them, cut themselves, or make themselves bald for them.

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Verse 6. Cut. Moses prohibited this being done in honour of Adonis. Leviticus 19:27. Deuteronomy 14:1. Ezekiel 27:31. “The custom of cutting the arms and hair still subsists in Judea,” says S. Jerom; and in other countries. Plut. Herodot. iv. 71.

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