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Corners Beard - Mormon Doctrine Studies - Posted: 15th Jul, 2010 - 7:25pm
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Israelite men were not to imitate the extreme customs of the pagan nations around them. Some of these customs may have had a religious significance.
Christian women are also counseled to avoid extremes in hair styling, and jewelry.
QUOTE (1 Timothy 2:9-10) . . .Likewise I desire the women to adorn themselves in well-arranged dress, with modesty and soundness of mind, not with styles of hair braiding and gold or pearls or very expensive garb, 10 but in the way that befits women professing to reverence God, namely, through good works.
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Now that's a first. A Jehovah Witness answering an Old Testament question on a Mormon forum using a New testament scripture from a modern english translation it looks like. We only use KJV. That scripture is:
QUOTE In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
I dn't see how that addresses the Levitical passage about MEN's beards.
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QUOTE (JB @ 19-Jun 10, 9:20 PM) What is the purpose of not cutting the corners of one's beard? See: Lev. 19: 26-28
I found the following:
QUOTE According to biblical scholars, the shaving of hair, particularly of the corners of the beard, was originally a mourning custom[8]; the behaviour appears, from the Book of Jeremiah, to also have been practiced by Arabic tribes[9][10][11], although some ancient manuscripts of the text read live in remote places rather than clip the corners of their hair.
Biblical scholars think that the regulations against shaving hair may be an attack on the practice of offering hair to the dead, which was performed in the belief that it would obtain protection in sheol[12]; Nazirites shaved after contact with a corpse, captive women shaved after mourning the death of their parents, and the general prohibition in the Holiness Code is immediately followed by a rule against people cutting their own bodies for the benefit of the dead[13].
Biblical scholars think that the regulations against shaving hair may be an attack on the practice of offering hair to the dead, which was performed in the belief that it would obtain protection in sheol[12]; Nazirites shaved after contact with a corpse, captive women shaved after mourning the death of their parents, and the general prohibition in the Holiness Code is immediately followed by a rule against people cutting their own bodies for the benefit of the dead[13].
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It's interesting because in other parts of Leviticus talks about shaving hair completely (in some cases).
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Comments: Growing and maintaining a beard was the sign of piety and dedication to God for the ancients.
Cutting the corners of ones beard was to cut corners on our dedication and devotion to God.
This was a custom applied to those who held the Priesthood.
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