27 Bible Verses about Shaving

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Genesis 41:14

And Pharaoh will send and call Joseph, and they will cause him to run from the pit; and he will be shaved and will change his garments; and he will come to Pharaoh.

2 Samuel 14:26

And in his shaving his head (and it was from the end of days to days that he will shave, for it was heavy upon him;) and he shaved and weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels by the stone of the king.

Job 1:20

And Job will rise and rend his covering, and shave his head, and fall to the earth and worship.

Deuteronomy 21:10-14

When thou shalt go forth to war against thine enemy, and Jehovah thy God gave him into thine hand, and thou didst take him captive, And thou sawest in the captivity a woman of beautiful form, and thou didst delight in her, and thou didst take her to thee for a wife; And thou broughtest her to thy house, and she shaved her head and did her nails:read more.
And she put away the garment of her captivity from off her, and she dwelt in thy house, and she wept for her father and her mother a month of days: and after that thou shalt go in to her, and thou wert her lord, and she was for wife to thee. And it was, if thou didst not delight in her, and thou sentest her away according to her soul; and selling, thou shalt not sell her for silver; and thou shalt not lay hands upon her because thou didst humble her.

Jeremiah 48:36-37

For this, my heart shall sound for Moab as pipes, and my heart shall sound for the men of Kirheres as pipes: for the riches he made perished. For every head bald, and every beard shaved: upon all hands cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

Jeremiah 41:5

And men will come from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Shomeron, eighty men, shaving the beard, and their garments rent, and cutting themselves, and a gift and frankincense in their hand, to bring to the house of Jehovah.

2 Samuel 10:4

And Hanun will take David's servants, and shave half their beard, and cut off their garments in the half, even to their buttocks, and he will send them away.

1 Chronicles 19:4

And Hanun will take David's servants and shave them, and cut off their garments in the half, even to the step, and he will send them away.

Isaiah 7:20

In that day shall Jehovah shave with a hired razor by those beyond the river, by the king of Assur, the head and the hair of the feet: and it also shall scrape off the beard.

Jeremiah 2:16

Also the sons of Noph and Tahapanes, they will feed thee upon the crown of the head.

Ezekiel 7:18

And they girded on sackcloth and trembling covered them; and shame to all faces, and upon all heads, baldness.

1 Corinthians 11:5-6

And every woman praying or prophesying with head uncovered shames her head: for it is one and the same to her having been shaved. For if the woman is not covered, let her also be shorn: and if shameful to the woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

Leviticus 14:8-9

And he being cleansed, washed his garments and shaved all his hair, and washed in water and was clean: and afterwards he shall come into the camp and dwelt without his tent seven days. And it was in the seventh day, he shall shave all his hair off his head, and his beard, and the front of his eyes; and all his hair shall he shave off; and he washed his garments, and washed his flesh in water, and was clean.

Numbers 8:7

And thus thou shalt do to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle upon them the water of sin, and they caused a razor to pass over upon all their flesh, and they washed their garments, and they were cleansed.

Acts 21:24

Having taken these, be purified with them, and expend upon them, that they might shave the head: and all might know that what they are taught about thee is nothing; but thou proceedest in regular order, also thyself watching the law.

Ezekiel 5:1-4

And thou son of man, take to thee a sharp sword, the barber's razor, thou shalt take them to thee and cause to pass over thy head and over thy beard: and take to the balances of weighing and divide them. Thou shalt burn the third in fire in the midst of the city, according to the filling up of the days of the siege: and taking the third thou shalt strike it with the sword round about it; and the third thou shalt scatter to the wind; and I will draw out the sword after them. And take from thence a few in number and bind them in thy wings.read more.
And thou shalt yet take from them and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in fire: from it shall come forth fire to all the house of Israel.

Numbers 6:18

And he being consecrated, shaved the head of his consecration at the door of the tent of appointment, and took the hair of the head of his consecration, and gave upon the fire which under the sacrifice of peace.

Leviticus 19:27

Ye shall not cut the extremities of your head, and thou shalt not destroy the extremities of thy beard.

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.

Ezekiel 44:20

And they shall not shave their heads, and shearing, they shall shear their beads.

Numbers 6:5

All the days of the vow of his consecration a razor shall not pass over upon his head: till the filling up of the days which he shall consecrate to Jehovah, he shall be holy, increasing the locks of the hair of his head.

Judges 16:17

And he will announce to her all his heart, and he will say to her, A razor came not up upon my head, for I am devoted to God from my mother's womb: if I were shaved, and my strength removed from me, and I was weak, and was as all men.

Leviticus 14:8

And he being cleansed, washed his garments and shaved all his hair, and washed in water and was clean: and afterwards he shall come into the camp and dwelt without his tent seven days.

Deuteronomy 21:12

And thou broughtest her to thy house, and she shaved her head and did her nails:

Job 1:18-20

This yet speaking, and this came, and he will say, Thy sons and thy daughters Were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the first-born: And behold, a great wind came from beyond the desert., and it will touch upon the four corners of the house, and fall upon the young men, and they will die; and I shall escape, I only, to announce to thee. And Job will rise and rend his covering, and shave his head, and fall to the earth and worship.

Judges 16:19

And she will cause him to sleep upon her knees; and she will call to a man, and she will shave the seven braids of his head; and she will begin to humble him, and his strength will remove from him.

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Hairs » Judgments expressed by » Shaving

Isaiah 7:20

In that day shall Jehovah shave with a hired razor by those beyond the river, by the king of Assur, the head and the hair of the feet: and it also shall scrape off the beard.

Shaving » Forbidden to nazarites

Judges 13:5

For behold thee pregnant, and thou bearest a son; and a razor shall not come up upon his head, for the boy shall be consecrated to God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of Philisteim.

Numbers 6:5

All the days of the vow of his consecration a razor shall not pass over upon his head: till the filling up of the days which he shall consecrate to Jehovah, he shall be holy, increasing the locks of the hair of his head.

Shaving » Forbidden to priests

Ezekiel 44:20

And they shall not shave their heads, and shearing, they shall shear their beads.

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