Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
You are not to cut off the hair at the sides of your head or mar the edge of your beard.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
International Standard Version
"You are not to cut your hair in ritualistic patterns on your head or deface the edges of your beard.
A Conservative Version
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, nor shall thou mar the corners of thy beard.
American Standard Version
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
Amplified
You shall not trim and round off the side-growth of [the hair on] your heads, nor mar the edges of your beard.
Bible in Basic English
The ends of the hair round your face and on your chin may not be cut off.
Darby Translation
ye shall not shave the corners of your head round, neither shalt thou mutilate the corners of thy beard.
Julia Smith Translation
Ye shall not cut the extremities of your head, and thou shalt not destroy the extremities of thy beard.
King James 2000
You shall not shave around the sides of your heads, neither shall you disfigure the corners of your beard.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You shall not round off the corner [hair] of your head, and you shall not trim the corner of your beard.
Modern King James verseion
You shall not round the side of your head, nor mar the edge of your beard.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Ye shall not round the locks of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the tufts of thy beard.
NET Bible
You must not round off the corners of the hair on your head or ruin the corners of your beard.
New Heart English Bible
"'You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your heads, neither shall you clip off the edge of your beard.
The Emphasized Bible
Ye shall not shave in a circle around your head, - nor shalt thou disfigure the fringe of thy beard.
Webster
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
World English Bible
"'You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your heads, neither shall you clip off the edge of your beard.
Youngs Literal Translation
'Ye do not round the corner of your head, nor destroy the corner of thy beard.
Themes
Beard » Idolatrous practice of marring, forbidden
Topics
Interlinear
Naqaph
Ro'sh
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 19:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
Blood, Hair, And Body
26
“You are not to eat anything with blood in it.
Cross References
Leviticus 21:5
“Priests may not make bald spots on their heads, shave the edge of their beards, or make gashes on their bodies.
Isaiah 15:2
to weep at its high places.
Moab wails on Nebo and at
Every head is shaved;
every beard is cut off.
Jeremiah 48:37
Indeed, every head is bald and every beard clipped;
Deuteronomy 14:1
“You are sons of the Lord your God;
Jeremiah 16:6
Both great and small will die in this land without burial. No lament will be made for them, nor will anyone cut himself or
Ezekiel 7:18
and horror will overwhelm them.
Shame will cover all their faces,
and all their heads will be bald.
Ezekiel 44:20
“They may not shave their heads