Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Ye shall not cut the extremities of your head, and thou shalt not destroy the extremities of thy 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.
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.
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 Ye shall not eat with the blood: ye shall not take auguries, and ye shall not practise magic. 27 Ye shall not cut the extremities of your head, and thou shalt not destroy the extremities of thy beard. 28 And ye shall not give an incision for the soul in your flesh, and a mark of stigma ye shall not give upon you: I Jehovah.
Cross References
Leviticus 21:5
With baldness, they shall not make baldness upon their head, and they shall not shave the extremity of their beard: and in their flesh they shall not cut incisions.
Isaiah 15:2
He went up to the house and to Dibon, the heights, to weep: over Nebo and Medeba shall Moab wail: upon all their heads baldness; every beard cut off.
Jeremiah 48:37
For every head bald, and every beard shaved: upon all hands cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
Deuteronomy 14:1
Ye the sons of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, and ye shall not put baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Jeremiah 16:6
And the great and small died in this land: they shall not be buried, and they shall not lament for them, and none shall cut himself or make bald for them:
Ezekiel 7:18
And they girded on sackcloth and trembling covered them; and shame to all faces, and upon all heads, baldness.
Ezekiel 44:20
And they shall not shave their heads, and shearing, they shall shear their beads.