Leviticus 21:5

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Isaiah 15:2

The daughter of Dibon has gone up to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. On every head is baldness, every beard is shorn;

Isaiah 22:12

In that day the Lord God of hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and girding with sackcloth;

Jeremiah 16:6

Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them or cut himself or make himself bald for them.

Jeremiah 48:37

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

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 5:1

“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.

Leviticus 10:6

And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons, “Do not let the hair of your heads hang loose, and do not rend your clothes, lest you die, and lest wrath come upon all the congregation; but your brethren, the whole house of Israel, may bewail the burning which the Lord has kindled.

Leviticus 21:4

He shall not defile himself as a husband among his people and so profane himself.

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

Micah 1:16

Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair, for the children of your delight; make yourselves as bald as the eagle, for they shall go from you into exile.

Deuteronomy 14:1

“You are the sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.