Leviticus 21:5

New American Bible - revised edition

The priests shall not make bald the crown of their head, nor shave the edges of their beard, nor lacerate their body.

Cross References

Isaiah 15:2

Daughter Dibon has gone up to the high places to weep; Over Nebo and over Medeba Moab is wailing. Every head is shaved, every beard sheared off.

Isaiah 22:12

On that day the Lord, the God of hosts, called For weeping and mourning, for shaving the head and wearing sackcloth.

Jeremiah 16:6

They shall die, the great and the lowly, in this land, unburied and unlamented. No one will gash themselves or shave their heads for them.

Jeremiah 48:37

Every head has been shaved bald, every beard cut off; every hand gashed, and all their loins are draped in sackcloth.

Ezekiel 44:20

They shall not shave their heads nor let their hair hang loose, but they shall keep their hair carefully trimmed.

Ezekiel 5:1

Now you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it like a barber’s razor, to shave your head and your beard. Then take a balance scale for weighing and divide the hair.

Leviticus 10:6

Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not dishevel your hair or tear your garments, lest you die and bring God’s wrath also on the whole community. While your kindred, the rest of the house of Israel, may mourn for those whom the Lord’s fire has burned up,

Leviticus 21:4

But as a husband among his kindred he shall not make himself unclean and thus profane himself.

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into dirges. I will cover the loins of all with sackcloth and make every head bald. I will make it like the time of mourning for an only child, and its outcome like a day of bitter weeping.

Micah 1:16

Make yourself bald, cut off your hair, for the children whom you cherish; Make yourself bald as a vulture, for they are taken from you into exile.

Deuteronomy 14:1

You are children of the Lord, your God. You shall not gash yourselves nor shave the hair above your foreheads for the dead.