I don't get this. Can you help?

[phil112]

Hi, Mr. Phil.

You use a modern version, am I right? I am of the opinion that 'cutting' is accurate.

And atwhatcost, where did you get that word 'Patterns' (in their hairs) unless a modern version.

Y'all go astray in your corrupt text, but go ahead.

KJV is a "modern" version? I had no clue. Pray tell, please let me know what is corrupt because I surely don't want to accept something as the word of God that isn't.

 

[atwhatcost]

Whoa! Thanks. Something sadly missing from my Dead Guy's commentaries -- what ever became of the debates raging in their day? I suspect they were missing a few things, since one of them suggested The Ten Commandments might well have been the first written words. (The era wasn't right. We've found earlier stuff since then.)

So, cool. Thanks. This is what I've been trying to figure out. (And, ew! Gross. They did sacrifice kids. I was rooting for they didn't.)

 

[Zmouth]

While the fact or specifics might change over time, the principle remains the same.

 

[passing_through]

I've got corrupt text? Eeeek!!!! Is that contagious?

Ummm, it can't be corrupt text if text doesn't out and out say it. I'm getting the pattern thingy from stuff I read to go along with The Law. For instance, Egyptians were into baldies, except for one patch in the back(ish) where they let that hair grow forever. (Think of the braids on Obi-Wan and Anakin when they were still students, but cut off the rest of the hair as an image. And, I don't think the Egyptians braided, but I didn't study that much of their culture to rule it out.) They also had rectangle beards, of sorts. The Greek (or maybe the Romans, I tend to forget which culture but around that area and possibly a little later) priest shaved off all their hair -- head and body -- every three days to prove their pureness. Those kinds of weirdo patterns.

Read what you want to, believe what you want to, but please don't mock.