So after reading through both of these articles I came to some interesting conclusions about this particular verse. My initial thoughts on this was that it was madness to walk around without shaving or cutting your hair it was only until I looked closely on the issue and finding its true meaning.  The protagonist constantly says be holy because I am holy in the book of Leviticus and many others. I believe he wants his people to be set apart from what is the norm for ancient times, and contemporary societies. Being modern times it does make me wonder why would one cut his hair when he is in mourning, and why cut the skin? It is an answer that I am unable to answer because no one is hear to answer the question. Lastly, I think all the rules in Leviticus were about maintaining order, and helping the people break  the mindsets of them that had been established by the Egyptians. Still the idea is strange, but let us also think about the time period before the modern knife was invented all the people had were jagged rocks and would u like to shave o cut your hair with this?



I hope most people say no lol, but you never know with some people. My point is this something like that could cause tremendous pain, and infection. they were in  a desert so many diseases, infections, and bacteria can happen in a place like this. I venture to say Yahweh wanted his people to be clean, and doing something like cutting your edges, rounding your head would have caused serious problems in a desert surrounding before the modern knife was invented.