Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
"You are not to cut your hair in ritualistic patterns on your head or deface the edges 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.
Holman Bible
You are not to cut off the hair at the sides of your head or mar the edge 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 containing blood, engage in occult practices, or practice fortune telling. 27 "You are not to cut your hair in ritualistic patterns on your head or deface the edges of your beard. 28 "You are not to make incisions in your flesh on account of the dead nor submit to cuts or tattoos. I am the LORD.
Cross References
Leviticus 21:5
"They are not to cut their hair in ritualistic patterns on their heads, deface the edges of their beards, or make incisions in their flesh.
Isaiah 15:2
He has gone up to the temple, and to Dibon, to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. His head is completely bald, and every beard is shaved off.
Jeremiah 48:37
Indeed every head will be bald and every beard cut short. There will be gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins.
Deuteronomy 14:1
"You are children of the LORD your God. You must not lacerate yourselves or shave your foreheads on account of the dead,
Jeremiah 16:6
Both the most and the least important people will die in this land, and they won't be buried. People won't mourn for them. They won't cut themselves, nor will they shave their heads for them.
Ezekiel 7:18
"They'll clothe themselves with sackcloth, terror will overcome them, shame will cover their faces, and baldness will spread over their entire heads.
Ezekiel 44:20
Also, they are not to shave their heads nor let their hair grow long. Instead, they are certainly to trim the hair on their heads.