Dibon went up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails on Nebo and at Medeba. Every head is shaved; every beard is chopped short.
Leviticus 21:5 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘Priests may not make bald spots on their heads, shave the edge of their beards, or make gashes on their bodies. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The priests [like the other Israelite men] shall not shave the crown of their heads or clip off the corners of their beard or make any cuttings in their flesh. American Standard Version (1901) They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh. Common English Bible Priests must not shave bald patches on their heads or cut off the ends of their beards or make gashes in their bodies. Catholic Public Domain Version Neither shall they shave their head or their beard, and they shall not make incisions in their flesh. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Neither shall they shave their head, nor their beard, nor make incisions in their flesh. |
Dibon went up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails on Nebo and at Medeba. Every head is shaved; every beard is chopped short.
On that day the Lord God of Armies called for weeping, for wailing, for shaven heads, and for the wearing of sackcloth.
‘Both great and small will die in this land without burial. No lament will be made for them, nor will anyone cut himself or shave his head for them.
Indeed, every head is bald and every beard is chopped short. On every hand is a gash and sackcloth round the waist.
‘They may not shave their heads or let their hair grow long, but are to carefully trim their hair.
‘Now you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as you would a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair.
Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, ‘Do not let your hair hang loose and do not tear your clothes, or else you will die, and the Lord will become angry with the whole community. However, your brothers, the whole house of Israel, may weep over the fire that the Lord caused.
He is not to make himself unclean for those related to him by marriage and so defile himself.
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make that grief like mourning for an only son and its outcome like a bitter day.
Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in sorrow for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they have been taken from you into exile.
‘You are sons of the Lord your God; do not cut yourselves or make a bald spot on your head on behalf of the dead,