Leviticus 21:5

New King James Version

‘They shall not make any bald place on their heads, nor shall they shave the edges of their beards nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 14:1

“You are the children of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave the front of your head for the dead.

Ezekiel 44:20

“They shall neither shave their heads nor let their hair grow long, but they shall keep their hair well trimmed.

Micah 1:16

Make yourself bald and cut off your hair, Because of your precious children; Enlarge your baldness like an eagle, For they shall go from you into captivity.

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist, And baldness on every head; I will make it like mourning for an only son, And its end like a bitter day.

Jeremiah 48:37

“For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped; On all the hands shall be cuts, and on the loins sackcloth—

Jeremiah 16:6

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

Isaiah 22:12

And in that day the Lord God of hosts Called for weeping and for mourning, For baldness and for girding with sackcloth.

Isaiah 15:2

He has gone up to the temple and Dibon, To the high places to weep. Moab will wail over Nebo and over Medeba; On all their heads will be baldness, And every beard cut off.

Leviticus 10:6

And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons, “Do not uncover your heads nor tear your clothes, lest you die, and wrath come upon all the people. But let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord has kindled.

Leviticus 21:4

Otherwise he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.

Ezekiel 5:1

“And you, son of man, take a sharp sword, take it as a barber’s razor, and pass it over your head and your beard; then take scales to weigh and divide the hair.