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;
Leviticus 21:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 They shall not make bald spots upon their heads or shave off the edges of their beards or make any gashes in their flesh. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The priests [like the other Israelite men] shall not shave the crown of their heads or clip off the corners of their beard or make any cuttings in their flesh. American Standard Version (1901) They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh. Common English Bible Priests must not shave bald patches on their heads or cut off the ends of their beards or make gashes in their bodies. Catholic Public Domain Version Neither shall they shave their head or their beard, and they shall not make incisions in their flesh. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Neither shall they shave their head, nor their beard, nor make incisions in their flesh. |
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;
On that day the Lord God of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and putting on sackcloth,
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.
For every head is shaved and every beard cut off; on all the hands there are gashes and on the loins sackcloth.
They shall not shave their heads or let their locks grow long; they shall only trim the hair of their heads.
“And you, O mortal, take a sharp sword; use it as a barber’s razor and run it over your head and your beard; then take balances for weighing, and divide the hair.
And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not dishevel your hair and do not tear your vestments, or you will die, and wrath will strike all the congregation; but your kindred, the whole house of Israel, may mourn the burning that the Lord has sent.
But he shall not defile himself for those related to him by marriage and so profane himself.
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on all loins and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.
Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair for your pampered children; make yourselves as bald as the eagle, for they have gone from you into exile.
“You are children of the Lord your God. You must not lacerate yourselves or shave your forelocks for the dead.