Word: leviticus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orthodox concern for sidecurls starts with Leviticus, 19:27: "Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard." The Talmud carefully enumerates the corners: two on each cheek, one on the chin. Yemenite Jews often shave their heads, but leave the sidecurls (peoth) untouched...
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...subject comes from the popular but mistaken idea that the soul is immortal, and is detached from the body at death, and survives as a separate living entity. Moses corrected this false idea centuries ago when he wrote: The life of the flesh is in the blood (Leviticus 17:11). The blood is in the body and the life is in the blood; not in a bloodless entity detached from the body, in life and in death...
Obviously such a program must stop somewhere. At the present rate of increase, the twelfth year of sowing would require more than the earth's surface. But for the Tecumseh Quakers, mindful of Leviticus 25:3, 4, next year's sowing will be the sixth and last...
...Every Anglican prayerbook contains the Table of Kindred and Affinity*−"Wherein whosoever are related are forbidden in Scripture and our laws to marry together." These mari, tal prohibitions (drawn up in 1560 by Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker) were based mainly on the famed sexual rules & regulations of Leviticus XVIII. Specifically, the Table banned marriage with brothers-and sisters-in-law, nephews and nieces...