Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Ye shall not round the locks of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the tufts 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.
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.
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 eat nothing with the blood, ye shall use no witchcraft, nor observe dismal days. 27 Ye shall not round the locks of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the tufts of thy beard. 28 Ye shall not rent your flesh for any soul's sake, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Cross References
Leviticus 21:5
They shall make them no baldness upon their heads or shave off the locks of their beards, nor make any marks in their flesh.
Isaiah 15:2
They went up to the idols' house, even to Dibon to the high places, to weep for Nebo; and Moab did mourn for Medeba. All their heads were bald, and all their beards shaven.
Jeremiah 48:37
All heads shall be shaven, and all beards clipped off: all hands bound, and all loins girded about with sack cloth.
Deuteronomy 14:1
Ye are the children of the LORD your God; cut not yourselves nor make you any baldness between the eyes for any man's death.
Jeremiah 16:6
And in this land shall they die, old and young, and shall not be buried: no man shall beweep them, no man shall clip or shave himself for them.
Ezekiel 7:18
they shall gird themselves with sack cloth, fear shall fall upon them. Their faces shall be confounded, and their heads bald;
Ezekiel 44:20
They shall not shave their heads, nor nourish the bush of their hair, but round their heads only.