Leviticus 21:5

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 14:1 : 1 Ye are the children of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
  • Ezek 44:20 : 20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.
  • Lev 19:27-28 : 27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. 28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am Jehovah.
  • Isa 22:12 : 12 And in that day did the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
  • Jer 16:6 : 6 Both great and 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;
  • Jer 48:37 : 37 For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
  • Amos 8:10 : 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.
  • Mic 1:16 : 16 Make thee bald, and cut off thy hair for the children of thy delight: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
  • Lev 10:6 : 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.
  • Isa 15:2 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 19:26-28
    3 verses
    86%

    26Ye shall not eat anything with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantments, nor practise augury.

    27Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

    28Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am Jehovah.

  • Ezek 44:18-22
    5 verses
    85%

    18They shall have linen tires upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with [anything that causeth] sweat.

    19And when they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they minister, and lay them in the holy chambers; and they shall put on other garments, that they sanctify not the people with their garments.

    20Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.

    21Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

    22Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that is the widow of a priest.

  • Lev 21:6-7
    2 verses
    82%

    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.

    7They shall not take a woman that is a harlot, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.

  • Deut 14:1
    80%

    1Ye are the children of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

  • Num 6:5-9
    5 verses
    78%

    5All the days of his vow of separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in which he separateth himself unto Jehovah, he shall be holy; he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.

    6All the days that he separateth himself unto Jehovah he shall not come near to a dead body.

    7He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die; because his separation unto God is upon his head.

    8All the days of his separation he is holy unto Jehovah.

    9And if any man die very suddenly beside him, and he defile the head of his separation; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.

  • Lev 21:4
    77%

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

  • Lev 21:10-12
    3 verses
    76%

    10And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head go loose, nor rend his clothes;

    11neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

    12neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am Jehovah.

  • Lev 22:15
    75%

    15And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto Jehovah,

  • Lev 13:33
    73%

    33then he shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up [him that hath] the scall seven days more:

  • Lev 22:22
    73%

    22Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto Jehovah, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto Jehovah.

  • Num 8:7
    72%

    7And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of expiation upon them, and let them cause a razor to pass over all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.

  • Lev 21:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or is scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;

    21no man of the seed of Aaron the priest, that hath a blemish, shall come nigh to offer the offerings of Jehovah made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.

  • Ezek 5:1
    72%

    1And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp sword; [as] a barber's razor shalt thou take it unto thee, and shalt cause it to pass upon thy head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

  • Ezek 44:13
    72%

    13And they shall not come near unto me, to execute the office of priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, unto the things that are most holy; but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.

  • Lev 22:24-25
    2 verses
    71%

    24That which hath its stones bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut, ye shall not offer unto Jehovah; neither shall ye do [thus] in your land.

    25Neither from the hand of a foreigner shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, there is a blemish in them: they shall not be accepted for you.

  • Ezek 7:18
    71%

    18They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

  • Lev 14:9
    71%

    9And it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.

  • Lev 21:23
    71%

    23only he shall not go in unto the veil, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I am Jehovah who sanctifieth them.

  • Lev 22:20
    71%

    20But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.

  • Lev 22:9
    71%

    9They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it: I am Jehovah who sanctifieth them.

  • Lev 13:40-41
    2 verses
    71%

    40And if a man's hair be fallen off his head, he is bald; [yet] is he clean.

    41And if his hair be fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald; [yet] is he clean.

  • Lev 21:18
    71%

    18For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or anything superfluous,

  • Jer 41:5
    71%

    5that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with meal-offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Jehovah.

  • Lev 13:29
    71%

    29And when a man or woman hath a plague upon the head or upon the beard,

  • Jer 48:37
    70%

    37For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

  • Lev 21:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15And he shall not profane his seed among his people: for I am Jehovah who sanctifieth him.

    16And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

  • Matt 5:36
    70%

    36Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, for thou canst not make one hair white or black.

  • Num 4:20
    70%

    20but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.

  • Deut 22:5
    70%

    5A woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment; for whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.

  • Deut 23:1
    70%

    1He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah.

  • Ezek 44:31
    70%

    31The priests shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or beast.

  • Jer 16:6
    70%

    6Both great and 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;

  • Lev 18:29
    70%

    29For whosoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.