Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
Not make baldness
General references
Bible References
Not make baldness
Deuteronomy 14:1
You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any bald place on your foreheads for the dead.
Isaiah 15:2
He has gone up to the temple, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall wail over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
Isaiah 22:12
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call for weeping, and for mourning, and for baldness, and for girding with sackcloth:
Jeremiah 16:6
Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
Jeremiah 48:37
For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be gashes, and upon the loins sackcloth.
Ezekiel 44:20
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long; they shall only trim the hair of their heads.
Amos 8:10
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon every waist, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it like the mourning of an only son, and its end as a bitter day.
Micah 1:16
Make yourselves bald, and cut your hair because of your precious children; enlarge your baldness like an eagle; for they shall go into captivity from you.
General references
Leviticus 19:27
You shall not shave around the sides of your heads, neither shall you disfigure the corners of your beard.
Ezekiel 44:25
And they shall come near no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that has had no husband, they may defile themselves.