Ezekiel 44:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ They shall not shave their heads or let their locks grow long; they shall only trim the hair of their heads.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Neither shall they shave their heads or allow their locks to grow long; they shall only cut short or trim the hair of their heads.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.

Common English Bible

²⁰ They must neither shave their heads nor let their hair grow long, but they will trim the hair on their heads.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Now they shall not shave their heads, and they shall not grow long hair. Instead, they shall trim the hair of their heads.

Ezekiel 44:20 Cross References

2 Samuel 14:26

When he cut the hair of his head (for at the end of every year he used to cut it; when it was heavy on him, he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels by the king’s weight.

Ezekiel 5:1

“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.

Numbers 6:5

“All the days of their nazirite vow no razor shall come upon the head; until the time is completed for which they separate themselves to the Lord, they shall be holy; they shall let the locks of the head grow long.

1 Corinthians 11:14

Does not nature itself teach you that, if a man wears long hair, it is dishonoring to him,

Deuteronomy 14:1

“You are children of the Lord your God. You must not lacerate yourselves or shave your forelocks for the dead.