Ezekiel 5:1

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

“And you, O son of man, take a sharp sword; use it as a barber's razor and pass it over your head and your beard; then take balances for weighing, and divide the hair.

Cross References

Ezekiel 44:20

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

Isaiah 7:20

In that day the Lord will shave with a razor which is hired beyond the River—with the king of Assyria—the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.

Leviticus 21:5

They shall not make tonsures upon their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

Daniel 5:27

TEKEL, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting;

Jeremiah 19:1

Thus said the Lord, “Go, buy a potter's earthen flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests,

Ezekiel 4:1

“And you, O son of man, take a brick and lay it before you, and portray upon it a city, even Jerusalem;