Ezekiel 5:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“And you, O mortal, take a sharp sword; use it as a barber’s razor and run it over your head and your beard; then take balances for weighing, and divide the hair.

Cross References

Isaiah 7:20

On that day the Lord will shave with a razor hired beyond the River—with the king of Assyria—the head and the hair of the feet, and it will take off the beard as well.

Jeremiah 19:1

Thus said the Lord: Go and buy a potter’s earthenware jug. Take with you some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests,

Ezekiel 4:1

“And you, O mortal, take a brick and set it before you. On it portray a city, Jerusalem,

Ezekiel 44:20

They shall not shave their heads or let their locks grow long; they shall only trim the hair of their heads.

Daniel 5:27

tekel: you have been weighed on the scales and found wanting;

Leviticus 21:5

They shall not make bald spots upon their heads or shave off the edges of their beards or make any gashes in their flesh.