So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
Leviticus 19:27 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy 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 took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
He is gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab howleth over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.
Both great and small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
that there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with oblations and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.
For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised in their uncircumcision;
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
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.
Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.