Leviticus 21:5
What does Leviticus 21:5 mean?
A plain-English look at Leviticus 21:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
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WEB
World English Bible · 2000They 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 · 1611They 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 · 1901They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949They are not to have their hair cut off for the dead, or the hair on their chins cut short, or make cuts in their flesh.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862they do not make baldness on their head, and the corner of their beard they do not shave, and in their flesh they do not make a cutting;
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Neither shall they shave their head, nor their beard, nor make incisions in their flesh.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890They shall not make any baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
Context
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.
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