Hi Jay. yes, that was Old Testament stuff. We now live under the New where it says its a shame for a man to have long hair. Doesnt say its sin though. I suppose if a bloke wants to look like Mary Jane Long-hair thats their business.Jay wrote:You guys may have forgotten that when a Jew took a vow as a Nazarite, he was not to cut his hair or shave his face. Numbers 6.
Numbers 6:5
All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the Lord, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.
Numbers 6.5
Among the Jews it was considered a mark of physical strength and perfection to have an abundance of hair, and baldness was a mark of physical imperfection (Lev. 21:20; 2 Kings 2;23; isa. 3:24). The free growth of hair on the heads of Nazarites represented the dedication of a person with his whole strength and powers to the service of God, (v 5). And if a nazarite touched a dead body, even accidently, he was defiled and had to shave his head and offer sacrifice (v 9-12). Even unpruned grapevines during the sabbatical year were considered nazartie. The Hebrew for undressed in Lev. 25:5, 11 is from nazir, trans. Nazarite.
The unshorn locks of the nazerite are called his consecration. This simply means they were a sign or physical mark of such consecration (v 5-8).