26You must not eat anything with blood still in it.
You must not practice divination or sorcery.
27You must not cut off the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
28You must not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.
29You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.
30You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
31You must not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out, or you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.
Must nots!
Some of these verses are pretty straight forward and easy to understand but the one about hair is baffling to me.
Could it be that it leads to pride?
“To do this was to imitate pagan customs of that day; today, Jewish orthodox men are conspicuous by their untrimmed beards and long, curly locks on the sides of their heads.” (Guzik)
Mediums or spirits....
“Not only are all real dealers with familiar spirits, or necromantic or magical superstitions, are here forbidden, but also all pretenders to the knowledge of futurity, fortune-tellers, astrologers, and so forth.” (Clarke)
You must keep My Sabbaths.
Does God require Sabbath-keeping of Christians?
https://www.gotquestions.org/Sabbath-keeping.html
These must nots were required because the Lord wanted His chosen people to be set apart from the rest of the world. He wanted them to be recognized by the world that these chosen people were His.
Can the world tell you are a Christian?
Blessings, David
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