2 Samuel 10:4 - New International Version (Anglicised)

So Hanun seized David’s envoys, shaved off half of each man’s beard, cut off their garments at the buttocks, and sent them away.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

So Hanun took David's servants and shaved off half their beards and cut off their garments in the middle at their hips and sent them away.

American Standard Version (1901)

So Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

Common English Bible

So Hanun seized David’s servants and shaved off their beards, cut off half their garments, from their buttocks down, and sent them off.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And so, Hanun took the servants of David, and he shaved off one half part of their beards, and he cut their garments at the middle, as far as the buttocks, and he sent them away.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Wherefore Hanon took the servants of David, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut away half of their garments even to the buttocks, and sent them away.

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2 Samuel 10:5

When David was told about this, he sent messengers to meet the men, for they were greatly humiliated. The king said, ‘Stay at Jericho till your beards have grown, and then come back.’

Isaiah 15:2

Dibon goes up to its temple, to its high places to weep; Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba. Every head is shaved and every beard cut off.

Isaiah 20:4

so the king of Assyria will lead away stripped and barefoot the Egyptian captives and Cushite exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared – to Egypt’s shame.

Jeremiah 41:5

eighty men who had shaved off their beards, torn their clothes and cut themselves came from Shechem, Shiloh and Samaria, bringing grain offerings and incense with them to the house of the Lord.

Leviticus 19:27

‘ “Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.