9:17

kulemparkan(TB)/kucampakkan ... dalam(TL) <07993 05921> [cast them.]

Moses might have done this through distress and anguish of spirit, on beholding their abominable idolatry and dissolute conduct; or probably he did it emblematically, and perhaps by the direction of God; intimating thereby, that as by this act of his the tables were broken in pieces, on which the Law of God was written, so they, by their present conduct, had made a breach in the covenant, and broken the laws of their Maker and Sovereign.

21:12

haruslah ........... mencukur(TB)/dicukurnya(TL) <01548> [and she shall.]

This was in token of renouncing her religion, and becoming a proselyte to that of the Jews. This is still a custom in the East: when a Christian turns Mohammedan, his head is shaved, and he is carried through the city, crying, {la eelah eela allah wemochammed resoolu 'llahee,} "There is no God but the God, and Mohammed is the prophet of God."

memotong kukunya .... kukunya(TB)/diceriakannya kukunya(TL) <06856 06213> [pare her nails. or, suffer to grow. Heb. make, or dress.]

{W‰ƒsethah eth tzipparneyha,} "and she shall make her nails;" i.e., probably neither paring nor letting them grow, but dressing or beautifying them as the Eastern women still do by tinging them with the leaves of an odoriferous plant called {alhenna,} which Hasselquist (p. 246) informs us, "grows in India and in upper and lower Egypt, flowering from May to August. The leaves are pulverized and made into a paste with water: they bind this paste on the nails of their hands and feet, and keep it on all night. This gives them a deep yellow, which is greatly admired by Eastern nations. The colour lasts for three or four weeks before there is occasion to renew it. The custom is so ancient in Egypt, that I have seen the nails of mummies dyed in this manner."

21:12

mencukur rambutnya,

Im 14:9; [Lihat FULL. Im 14:9]; Bil 8:7; [Lihat FULL. Bil 8:7]; 1Kor 11:5 [Semua]