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RAZOR - R>@ - Besides other usages, the practice of shaving the head after the completion of a vow must have created among the Jews a necessity for the special trade of a barber. kjv@Leviticus:14:8; kjv@Numbers:6:9 kjv@Numbers:6:18 kjv@Numbers:8:7; kjv@Judges:13:5; kjv@Isaiah:7:20; kjv@Ezekiel:5:1; kjv@Acts:18:18) The instruments of his work were probably, as in modern times, the razor, the basin, the mirror, and perhaps also the scissors.
See (2 Samuel 14:26) Like the Levites, the Egyptian priests were accustomed to shave their whole bodies.