1. Leviticus 19:26-28 New International Version (NIV) 26 “‘Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it. 26. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/hcc/leviticus-19.html. 63. Without considering context and language, we can immediately conclude that getting a tattoo is indeed a sin. 27 “‘Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard. BibliographyClarke, Adam. Leviticus 19:26. Nor observe times.—This, according to the same authorities, consists in “taking notice of the seasons and days, and in saying this is a good day to begin a journey, to-morrow will be lucky to make a purchase.”. Sanhedrin, fol. Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When a man consecrates by a vow certain persons to the LORD, according to your valuation, Leviticus 19:2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall … "E.W. 24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD withal. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jtc/leviticus-19.html. 1832. (w) Aben Ezra in loc. BibliographyTrapp, John. neither … use enchantment, nor observe times — The former refers to divination by serpents - one of the earliest forms of enchantment, and the other means the observation, literally, of clouds, as a study of the appearance and motion of clouds was a common way of foretelling good or bad fortune. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use our convenient, John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, neither … use enchantment, nor observe times, Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible, Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments, George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Commentary Critical and Explanatory - Unabridged, Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures. 1909-1922. And yet worse in Christians, to whom the Son of God is manifested, to destroy the works of the devil. BibliographyWhedon, Daniel. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bul/leviticus-19.html. Or if he says to the man who raises the taxes, “Do not begin with me; it is still early in the day; it is the first of the month; it is the beginning of the week; I shall be unlucky the whole day, week, or month to be the first to be burdened;” this is enchantment. 1871-8. 20 - Leviticus 19:24. Neither shall ye use enchantment.] (Haydock) --- Divine. I am holy— Both in my essence, and in all my laws, which are holy and just and good. The flesh of any animal. It prohibits (1) eating the flesh of a legally slaughtered animal as long as its life is not quite gone, or whilst the flesh is still trembling; (2) eating the flesh of sacrificial animals whilst the blood is still in the sprinkling bowl, and before it has been sprinkled on the altar; (3) eating the meat of mourners by the relatives when a member of the family has been publicly executed, and his blood has been shed; (4) eating anything by the judicial court on the day when their sentence of death is being executed on the criminal; and (5) it warns the rebellious and gluttonous son not to eat immoderately by the penalty of blood.” The ancient Chaldee Version, therefore, which translates it “Ye shall not eat the flesh of any sacrifice whilst the blood is in the basin unsprinkled,” exhibits the second of these prohibitions involved in this interpretation; and all the five premise the rendering of this phrase, “Ye shall not eat by the blood,” which has the merit of being literal; whilst the Authorised Version follows the first of these five prohibitions. 1874-1909. 3. c. 46. informs us, who took blood to be the food of devils, and who used to take the blood of a slain beast and put it in a vessel, or in a hole dug in the earth, and eat the flesh sitting round about the blood; fancying by this means they had communion with devils, and contracted friendship and familiarity with them, whereby they might get knowledge of future things; See Gill on Ezekiel 33:25. neither shall ye use enchantment; soothsaying or divination by various creatures, as by the weasel, birds, or fishes, as the TalmudistsF26T. Used by Permission. Possibly, therefore, the superstition here prohibited may be what the Greeks called Ophiomanteia, or divination by serpents. Leviticus 19:31, ESV: "“Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the LORD your God." https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tcc/leviticus-19.html. Jarchi in loc. T. Bab. 1685. not commencing a journey on a Friday. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/rbc/leviticus-19.html. Nor observe times.—This, according to the same authorities, consists in “taking notice of the seasons and days, and in saying this is a good day to begin a journey, to-morrow will be lucky to make a purchase.”, Observe times - It is not clear whether the original word refers to the fancied distinction between lucky and unlucky days, to some mode of drawing omens from the clouds, or to the exercise of "the evil eye.". These laws are given because the Lawgiver is God (see verses 4, 10, 12, etc. Leviticus 19 deals with social relationships within the community, and these commandments are seen as major regulators of community relationships. The members of the Sanhedrim eat nothing on the day that a criminal is executed, supposing that this is the meaning of the precept. Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood , [ `al (Hebrew #5921) hadaam (Hebrew #1818)] - upon the blood. (t) Joseph. According to the authorities during the second Temple, this consisted in any one saying, “A morsel has dropped out of my mouth; the staff has fallen out of my hand; my child has called out behind me; a crow has cawed to me; a deer has crossed my path; a serpent crept on my right hand; a fox has gone by on my left;” and regarding these as bad omens for the day which has now began or for the work which he has just commenced. rad. Any thing with the blood — Any flesh out of which the blood is not first poured. Some of these things are eternally wrong while others are wrong only symbolically. Isaiah 47:13.” — Oehler. Nor observe times — Superstitiously, esteeming some days lucky, others unlucky. Leviticus 19:28 Context. But its fuller meaning … https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jfb/leviticus-19.html. Ye shall not eat anything with the blood,.... Or upon, over, or by the bloodF19על הדם "super sanguine", Montanus, Munster; "super sanguinem", Fagius. ). "Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers". The magical practices against which the Hebrews are here warned were borrowed from the nations around, for they had no magic of their own. Neither shall ye use enchantment.- Better, ye shall use no enchantment. Deuteronomy 12:23; 1 Samuel 14:32-33; Ezekiel 33:25). 66. 1599-1645. shall not eat any thing with the blood — (See on Leviticus 17:10). "The Adam Clarke Commentary". Copyright StatementThese files are a derivative of an electronic edition prepared from text scanned by Woodside Bible Fellowship.This expanded edition of the Jameison-Faussett-Brown Commentary is in the public domain and may be freely used and distributed. in loc. The exorcism of the dead, and other forms of mantic, are a horror, and astrology is a folly. Leviticus 19:19 `You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD. "Commentary on Leviticus 19:26". 1905. See note on Leviticus 19:31 below. "Commentary on Leviticus 19:26". ; Fausset, A. R.; Brown, David. Also employed in v. 30 is the plural Shabb’totai (ytät; oB.v;), the plural “My Sabbaths.” A fair deduction would be that this plural “Sabbaths” would signify both the weekly Sabbath and various High Sabbaths.7 More customarily, though, the mentioning of the Sabbath Nor observe times — Practise soothsaying by regarding the aspect of the clouds. The Septuagint read erim, "on the mountains;" and another version has, "on the roof," as if the worship of idols on high places were forbidden. BibliographyCoke, Thomas. “Israel is directed to the word of revelation (Deuteronomy 18:9-22) in contrast to all heathen mantic, which has searched through heaven and earth to find signs of the divine counsel, but finding no help, falls into dissolution. 26 Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times. Verse 1 informs us that God spoke directly to Moses and that he was to share all of this with the children of Israel. KING JAMES VERSION (KJV) TRANSLATION, MEANING, CONTEXT. They were also the God-appointed teachers of … Neither shall ye use enchantments — It was unpardonable in them, to whom were committed the oracles of God, to ask counsel of the devil. Leviticus 19:26, ESV: "“You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it.You shall not interpret omens or tell fortunes." "Commentary on Leviticus 19:26". watch clouds, or days, for good or ill luck, e.g. And yet worse in Christians, to whom the Son of God is manifested, to destroy the works of the devil. 26. "Commentary on Leviticus 19:26". ; or rather by serpents, as the word used is thought to have the signification of; or by any odd accidents, as a man's food falling out of his mouth, or his staff out of his hand, or his son calling after him behind, or a crow cawing to him, or a hart passing by him, or a serpent on his right hand and a fox on his left, or one says, do not begin (any work) tomorrow, it is the new moon, or the going out of the sabbathF1Kimchi, Sepher Shorash. 1801-1803. Bab. These methods were known to the ancients. BibliographyPoole, Matthew, "Commentary on Leviticus 19:26". 4. Nor observe times, to wit, superstitiously, by the observation of the clouds, or stars, or otherwise, by esteeming some days lucky, others unlucky. Copyright StatementThese files are public domain and are a derivative of an electronic edition that is available on the Christian Classics Ethereal Library Website. there shall be a scourging (1-2) When a man consecrates certain persons to the LORD with a vow. ‘You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/ebc/leviticus-19.html. Neither shall ye use enchantments — It was unpardonable in them, to whom were committed the oracles of God, to ask counsel of the devil. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tsk/leviticus-19.html. See Deuteronomy 18:10,11 Es 3:7. ''Do not practice divination or seek omens." Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood. "Commentary on Leviticus 19:26". נחש. 4. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/acc/leviticus-19.html. BibliographyEllicott, Charles John. "The 1599 Geneva Study Bible". For Christians to have their nativities cast, or their fortunes told, or to use charms for the cure of diseases, is an intolerable affront to the Lord Jesus, a support of idolatry, and a reproach both to themselves and to that worthy name by which they are called. "Commentary on Leviticus 19:26". : Heb. With the blood, i. e. any flesh out of which the blood is not first poured. "Commentary on Leviticus 19:26". 1. Such absurd but deep-rooted superstitions often put a stop to the prosecution of serious and important transactions, but they were forbidden especially as implying a want of faith in the being, or of reliance on the providence of God. See Galatians iv. BibliographyBenson, Joseph. : nor observe times; saying, such a day is a lucky day to begin any business, or such an hour an unlucky hour to go out in, as Jarchi, taking the word to have the signification of times, days, and hours, as our version and others; but Aben Ezra derives it from a word which signifies a cloud, and it is well known, he says, that soothsayers view and consult the clouds, their likeness and motion; but some of the ancient writers, as Gersom observes, derive it from a word which signifies an eye, and suppose that such persons are intended who hold the eyes of people, cast a mist before them, or use some juggling tricks whereby they deceive their sight. The answer is pretty obvious. To get what Leviticus 19:26 means based on its source text, scroll down or follow these links for the original scriptural meaning , biblical context and relative popularity. WORDS OF GOD IN RED. The Jews write, that the Egyptians and other nations, when they offered sacrifices to the devils, did eat part of the sacrifices, beside the blood which was kept in basons for that end, which also they believed to be as it were the special food of the devils. Any thing with the blood — Any flesh out of which the blood is poured. "Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I … (z) T. Bab. "Commentary on Leviticus 19:26". הִלּוּלִים occurs only here and in Judges 9:27.In the latter place it seems to mean merry-making feasts to idols, and Josephus (Ant. 23 And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of. Huwag kayong kakain ng anomang may dugo: ni huwag kayong mag-eenkanto ni magpapamahiin. T. Bab. The Jamieson, Fausset and Brown Commentary offers the following explanation for Leviticus 19:19 Leviticus 19:19 You shall keep my statutes. Leviticus 19:31 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] Leviticus 19:31, NIV: "'Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them.I am the LORD your God." BibliographyTorrey, R. A. "Commentary on Leviticus 19:26". See 1 Samuel 14:32. Perhaps by means of "serpents," or "plates of brass," as the Hebrew ness, may insinuate. "George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary". Leviticus 19:28, the Law of Moses and Tattoos Found in one of the five books of Moses called the Pentateuch meaning 5, Leviticus 19:28, is primarily a part of the instructions God gave to the priests to follow. Lo thenachashu, hence, divine, or days, for good or ill luck, e.g to be by... - превод English 中文 čeština Nederlands français ქართული ენა Deutsch italiano 日本語 한국어 português Pyccĸий Español Tagalog... 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