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not make baldness: This custom is also called rounding the corners of the head (Lev 19:27), and seems to have been performed in honour of some idol. Lev 10:6, Lev 19:27-28; Deu 14:1; Isa 15:2, Isa 22:12; Jer 16:6, Jer 48:37; Eze 44:20; Amo 8:10; Mic 1:16
the corner: The Hebrew peath zakon, may denote the whiskers; as the Syriac phatho signifies. These are by the Arabs, according to Niebuhr, still cut entirely off, or worn quite short; and hence they are called by Jeremiah, קצוצי פאה, those with cropped whiskers. Perhaps some superstition, of which we are ignorant, was connected with this; but whether or not, it was the object of Moses to keep the Israelites distinct from other nations.