Leviticus 21:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘Priests may not make bald spots on their heads, shave the edge of their beards, or make gashes on their bodies.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 14:1

‘You are sons of the Lord your God;  do not cut yourselves or make a bald spot on your head  on behalf of the dead,

Ezekiel 44:20

‘They may not shave their heads  or let their hair grow long,  but are to carefully trim their hair.

Micah 1:16

Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in sorrow for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they have been taken from you into exile.

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cause everyone  to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make that grief like mourning for an only son and its outcome like a bitter day.

Jeremiah 48:37

Indeed, every head is bald and every beard is chopped short.  On every hand is a gash  and sackcloth  round the waist.

Jeremiah 16:6

‘Both great and small will die in this land without burial. No lament will be made for them, nor will anyone cut himself or  shave his head for them.

Isaiah 22:12

On that day the Lord God of Armies called for weeping,  for wailing, for shaven heads, and for the wearing of sackcloth.

Isaiah 15:2

Dibon went up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails on Nebo and at   Medeba. Every head is shaved; every beard is chopped short.

Leviticus 10:6

Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar,  ‘Do not let your hair hang loose  and do not tear your clothes,  or else you will die, and the Lord will become angry  with the whole community. However, your brothers, the whole house of Israel, may weep  over the fire that the Lord caused.

Leviticus 21:4

He is not to make himself unclean for those related to him by marriage  and so defile himself.

Ezekiel 5:1

‘Now you, son of man, take a sharp sword,  use it as you would a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair.