Leviticus 21:5

New International Version

“ ‘Priests must not shave their heads or shave off the edges of their beards or cut their bodies.

Cross References

Isaiah 15:2

Dibon goes up to its temple, to its high places to weep; Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba. Every head is shaved and every beard cut off.

Isaiah 22:12

The Lord, the Lord Almighty, called you on that day to weep and to wail, to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth.

Jeremiah 16:6

“Both high and low will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned, and no one will cut themselves or shave their head for the dead.

Jeremiah 48:37

Every head is shaved and every beard cut off; every hand is slashed and every waist is covered with sackcloth.

Ezekiel 44:20

“ ‘They must not shave their heads or let their hair grow long, but they are to keep the hair of their heads trimmed.

Ezekiel 5:1

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

Leviticus 10:6

Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not let your hair become unkempt and do not tear your clothes, or you will die and the Lord will be angry with the whole community. But your relatives, all the Israelites, may mourn for those the Lord has destroyed by fire.

Leviticus 21:4

He must not make himself unclean for people related to him by marriage, and so defile himself.

Amos 8:10

I will turn your religious festivals into mourning and all your singing into weeping. I will make all of you wear sackcloth and shave your heads. I will make that time like mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.

Micah 1:16

Shave your head in mourning for the children in whom you delight; make yourself as bald as the vulture, for they will go from you into exile.

Deuteronomy 14:1

You are the children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead,