Leviticus 21:5

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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

Leviticus 19:27

Ezekiel 44:25

Bible References

Not make baldness

You are the sons of Jehovah your God. You shall not cut yourselves nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

One has gone up to the house, even to Dibon, the high places, to weep. Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba; baldness shall be on all their heads, every beard cut off.

And in that day Jehovah of Hosts called to weeping and mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth.

Both the great and the small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, nor shall men mourn for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.

For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped. On all the hands shall be cuttings, and on the loins sackcloth.

Nor shall they shave their heads nor allow their hair to grow long; they shall only trim their heads.

And I will turn your feast into mourning, and all your songs into weeping; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head. And I will make it like the mourning of an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

Make yourself bald, and cut off your hair for the sons of your delight; make your baldness large like the eagle; for they go into exile from you.

General references

You shall not round the side of your head, nor mar the edge of your beard.

And he shall not come near any dead person to defile himself; but they may defile themselves for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband.