Leviticus 21:5

Modern English Version

They shall not make bald areas on their heads, nor shall they shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts in their flesh.

Cross References

Isaiah 15:2

he has gone up to the temple and to Dibon, the high places, to weep. Moab shall wail over Nebo and over Medeba; on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

Isaiah 22:12

In that day the Lord God of Hosts called you to weeping and mourning, and to tear your hair and wear sackcloth.

Jeremiah 16:6

Both the great and the small will die in this land. They will not be buried; neither will men lament for them, cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.

Jeremiah 48:37

For every head will be bald and every beard clipped; upon all the hands will be gashes, and upon the loins sackcloth.

Ezekiel 44:20

They shall not shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long. They shall only trim the hair of their heads.

Ezekiel 5:1

“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword. Take and cause it to pass upon your head and upon your beard as a barber’s razor. Then take balances to weigh and divide the hair.

Leviticus 10:6

Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar his sons, “Do not let your hair be loosely disheveled, nor rend your clothes, lest you die, and lest wrath come upon all the people. Instead, let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, mourn the burning which the Lord has caused.

Leviticus 21:4

And he shall not make himself unclean as a husband among his people because of the dead and so defile himself.

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into dirges; I will put sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only child, and its end like a bitter day.

Micah 1:16

Make yourself bald and shave your head for the children of your delight; make yourself as bald as the eagle, for they will go from you into exile.

Deuteronomy 14:1

You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.