So Hanun seized David’s servants, shaved them, cut off their garments in the middle at their waists, and sent them away,
Leviticus 19:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You shall not round the corners of the hair of your heads nor trim the corners of your beard [as some idolaters do]. American Standard Version (1901) Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. Common English Bible You must not cut off the hair on your forehead or clip the ends of your beard. Catholic Public Domain Version And you shall not cut the hair of your head circularly, nor shave your beard. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Nor shall you cut your hair roundwise: nor shave your beard. |
So Hanun seized David’s servants, shaved them, cut off their garments in the middle at their waists, and sent them away,
Daughter Dibon has gone up to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. Every head is shaved; every beard is shorn;
Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them; there shall be no gashing, no shaving of the head for them.
eighty men arrived from Shechem and Shiloh and Samaria with their beards shaved and their clothes torn and their bodies gashed, bringing grain offerings and incense to present at the temple of the Lord.
For every head is shaved and every beard cut off; on all the hands there are gashes and on the loins sackcloth.
The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will attend to all those who are circumcised only in the foreskin:
They shall not shave their heads or let their locks grow long; they shall only trim the hair of their heads.
They shall put on sackcloth; horror shall cover them. Shame shall be on all faces, baldness on all their heads.
You shall not make any gashes in your flesh for the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
They shall not make bald spots upon their heads or shave off the edges of their beards or make any gashes in their flesh.
“You are children of the Lord your God. You must not lacerate yourselves or shave your forelocks for the dead.