Leviticus 19:27

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 19:4

So Hanun seized David’s servants, shaved them, cut off their garments in the middle at their waists, and sent them away,

Isaiah 15:2

Daughter Dibon has gone up to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. Every head is shaved; every beard is shorn;

Jeremiah 16:6

Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them; there shall be no gashing, no shaving of the head for them.

Jeremiah 41:5

eighty men arrived from Shechem and Shiloh and Samaria with their beards shaved and their clothes torn and their bodies gashed, bringing grain offerings and incense to present at the temple of the Lord.

Jeremiah 48:37

For every head is shaved and every beard cut off; on all the hands there are gashes and on the loins sackcloth.

Jeremiah 9:25

The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will attend to all those who are circumcised only in the foreskin:

Ezekiel 44:20

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

Ezekiel 7:18

They shall put on sackcloth; horror shall cover them. Shame shall be on all faces, baldness on all their heads.

Leviticus 19:28

You shall not make any gashes in your flesh for the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the Lord.

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.

Deuteronomy 14:1

“You are children of the Lord your God. You must not lacerate yourselves or shave your forelocks for the dead.