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Leviticus 21:5

Leviticus chapter 21 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.4He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.

v.5This passage

v.6They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God; for the offerings of Jehovah made by fire, the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ezekiel 44:20

    Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.

  • Jeremiah 48:37

    For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

  • Isaiah 15:2

    They are gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab waileth over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.

  • Leviticus 19:27

    Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

  • Leviticus 10:6

    And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Let not the hair of your heads go loose, neither rend your clothes; that ye die not, and that he be not wroth with all the congregation: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Jehovah hath kindled.

  • Amos 8:10

    And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.