Ezekiel 44:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

They are not to have all the hair cut off their heads, and they are not to let their hair get long, but they are to have the ends of their hair cut.

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  • Num 6:5 : 5 All the time he is under his oath let no blade come near his head; till the days while he is separate are ended he is holy and his hair may not be cut.
  • Deut 14:1 : 1 You are the children of the Lord your God: you are not to make cuts on your bodies or take off the hair on your brows in honour of the dead;
  • 1 Cor 11:14 : 14 Does it not seem natural to you that if a man has long hair, it is a cause of shame to him?
  • Lev 21:5-9 : 5 They 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. 6 Let them be holy to their God and not make the name of their God common; for the fire offerings of the Lord and the bread of their God are offered by them, and they are to be holy. 7 They may not take as wife a loose or common woman, or one who has been put away by her husband: for the priest is holy to his God. 8 And he is to be holy in your eyes, for by him the bread of your God is offered; he is to be holy in your eyes, for I the Lord, who make you holy, am holy. 9 And if the daughter of a priest makes herself common and by her loose behaviour puts shame on her father, let her be burned with fire. 10 And he who is the chief priest among his brothers, on whose head the holy oil has been put, who is marked out to put on the holy robes, may not let his hair go loose or have his clothing out of order as a sign of sorrow. 11 He may not go near any dead body or make himself unclean for his father or his mother; 12 He may not go out of the holy place or make the holy place of his God common; for the crown of the holy oil of his God is on him: I am the Lord. 13 And let him take as his wife one who has not had relations with a man. 14 A widow, or one whose husband has put her away, or a common woman of loose behaviour, may not be the wife of a priest; but let him take a virgin from among his people. 15 And he may not make his seed unclean among his people, for I the Lord have made him holy. 16 And the Lord said to Moses, 17 Say to Aaron, If a man of your family, in any generation, is damaged in body, let him not come near to make the offering of the bread of his God. 18 For any man whose body is damaged may not come near: one who is blind, or has not the use of his legs, or one who has a broken nose or any unnatural growth, 19 Or a man with broken feet or hands, 20 Or one whose back is bent, or one who is unnaturally small, or one who has a damaged eye, or whose skin is diseased, or whose sex parts are damaged; 21 No man of the offspring of Aaron whose body is damaged in any way may come near to give the fire offerings of the Lord: he is damaged, he may not come near to make the offerings. 22 He may take of the bread of God, the holy and the most holy; 23 But he may not go inside the veil or come near the altar, because he is damaged; and he may not make my holy places common; for I the Lord have made them holy. 24 These are the words which Moses said to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel.

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  • Lev 21:4-6
    3 verses
    85%

    4 But let him, being a chief among his people, not make himself unclean in such a way as to put shame on himself.

    5 They 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.

    6 Let them be holy to their God and not make the name of their God common; for the fire offerings of the Lord and the bread of their God are offered by them, and they are to be holy.

  • Num 6:5
    79%

    5 All the time he is under his oath let no blade come near his head; till the days while he is separate are ended he is holy and his hair may not be cut.

  • Lev 19:26-28
    3 verses
    79%

    26 Nothing may be used for food with its blood in it; you may not make use of strange arts, or go in search of signs and wonders.

    27 The ends of the hair round your face and on your chin may not be cut off.

    28 You may not make cuts in your flesh in respect for the dead, or have marks printed on your bodies: I am the Lord.

  • Ezek 44:16-19
    4 verses
    78%

    16 They are to come into my holy place and they are to come near to my table, to do my work and have the care of my house.

    17 And when they come in by the doorways of the inner square, they are to be clothed in linen robes; there is to be no wool on them while they are doing my work in the doorway of the inner square and inside the house.

    18 They are to have linen head-dresses on their heads and linen trousers on their legs, and they are to have nothing round them to make their skin wet with heat.

    19 And when they go out into the outer square to the people, they are to take off the robes in which they do the work of priests, and put them away in the holy rooms, and put on other clothing, so that the people may not be made holy by their robes.

  • Ezek 44:21-23
    3 verses
    76%

    21 The priests are not to take wine when they go into the inner square.

    22 And they are not to take as wives any widow or woman whose husband has put her away: but they may take virgins of the seed of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

    23 And they are to make clear to my people the division between what is holy and what is common, and to give them the knowledge of what is clean and what is unclean.

  • Lev 21:10-12
    3 verses
    73%

    10 And he who is the chief priest among his brothers, on whose head the holy oil has been put, who is marked out to put on the holy robes, may not let his hair go loose or have his clothing out of order as a sign of sorrow.

    11 He may not go near any dead body or make himself unclean for his father or his mother;

    12 He may not go out of the holy place or make the holy place of his God common; for the crown of the holy oil of his God is on him: I am the Lord.

  • Lev 13:33
    73%

    33 Then his hair is to be cut off, but not on the diseased place, and he is to be shut up for seven days more:

  • Ezek 44:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13 And they will not come near me to do the work of priests to me, or come near any of my holy things, or the things which are most holy: but their shame will be on them, and the punishment for the disgusting things which they have done.

    14 But I will make them responsible for the care of the house and all its work and everything which is done in it.

  • Ezek 7:18
    71%

    18 And they will put haircloth round them, and deep fear will be covering them; and shame will be on all faces, and the hair gone from all their heads.

  • Deut 14:1
    71%

    1 You are the children of the Lord your God: you are not to make cuts on your bodies or take off the hair on your brows in honour of the dead;

  • Lev 13:40-41
    2 verses
    71%

    40 And if a man's hair has come out and he has no hair, still he is clean.

    41 And if the hair has gone from the front part of his head, so that he has no hair there, still he is clean.

  • Ezek 42:14
    70%

    14 When the priests go in, they may not go out of the holy place into the outer square, and there they are to put the robes in which they do the work of the Lord's house, for they are holy: and they have to put on other clothing before they come near that which has to do with the people.

  • Isa 7:20
    70%

    20 In that day will the Lord take away the hair of the head and of the feet, as well as the hair of the face, with a blade got for a price from the other side of the River; even with the king of Assyria.

  • Num 8:7
    70%

    7 And this is how you are to make them clean: let the holy water which takes away sin be put on them, and let the hair all over their bodies be cut off with a sharp blade, and let their clothing be washed and their bodies made clean.

  • Lev 14:9
    70%

    9 And on the seventh day he is to have all the hair cut off his head and his chin and over his eyes--all his hair is to be cut off--and he will have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and he will be clean.

  • Num 6:7-9
    3 verses
    69%

    7 He may not make himself unclean for his father or his mother, his sister or his brother, if death comes to them; because he is under an oath to keep himself separate for God.

    8 All the time he is separate he is holy to the Lord.

    9 If death comes suddenly to a man at his side, so that he becomes unclean, let his hair be cut off on the day when he is made clean, on the seventh day.

  • Jer 48:37
    69%

    37 For everywhere the hair of the head and the hair of the face is cut off: on every hand there are wounds, and haircloth on every body.

  • Num 4:20
    69%

    20 But they themselves are not to go in to see the holy place, even for a minute, for fear of death.

  • Ezek 5:1
    69%

    1 And you, son of man, take a sharp sword, using it like a haircutter's blade, and making it go over your head and the hair of your chin: and take scales for separating the hair by weight.

  • Acts 21:24
    68%

    24 Go with these, and make yourself clean with them, and make the necessary payments for them, so that they may be free from their oath: and everyone will see that the statements made about you are not true, but that you put yourself under rule, and keep the law.

  • Lev 22:15
    68%

    15 And they may not make common the holy things which the children of Israel give to the Lord,

  • Ezek 44:11
    68%

    11 But they may be caretakers in my holy place, and overseers at the doors of the house, doing the work of the house: they will put to death the burned offering and the beasts offered for the people, and they will take their place before them as their servants.

  • Jer 16:6
    68%

    6 Death will overtake great as well as small in the land: their bodies will not be put in a resting-place, and no one will be weeping for them or wounding themselves or cutting off their hair for them:

  • Num 6:18
    68%

    18 Then let his long hair, the sign of his oath, be cut off at the door of the Tent of meeting, and let him put it on the fire on which the peace-offerings are burning.

  • Exod 28:40
    68%

    40 And for Aaron's sons you are to make coats, and bands, and head-dresses, so that they may be clothed with glory and honour.

  • Matt 5:36
    67%

    36 You may not take an oath by your head, because you are not able to make one hair white or black.

  • Lev 13:44
    67%

    44 He is a leper and unclean; the priest is to say that he is most certainly unclean: the disease is in his head.

  • Mic 1:16
    67%

    16 Let your head be uncovered and your hair cut off in sorrow for the children of your delight: let the hair be pulled from your head like an eagle's; for they have been taken away from you as prisoners.

  • Ezek 44:25
    67%

    25 They are not to come near any dead person so as to become unclean: but for a father or mother or son or daughter or brother or for a sister who has no husband, they may make themselves unclean.

  • Ezek 23:15
    67%

    15 With bands round their bodies and with head-dresses hanging round their heads, all of them looking like rulers, like the Babylonians, the land of whose birth is Chaldaea.

  • Luke 21:18
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    18 But not a hair of your head will come to destruction.

  • Lev 13:29
    67%

    29 And when a man or a woman has a disease on the head, or in the hair of the chin,

  • Deut 22:12
    66%

    12 On the four edges of your robe, with which your body is covered, put ornaments of twisted threads.

  • Exod 29:9
    66%

    9 And put the linen bands round Aaron and his sons, and the head-dresses on them, to make them priests by my order for ever: so you are to make Aaron and his sons holy to me.

  • Exod 30:20
    66%

    20 Whenever they go into the Tent of meeting they are to be washed with water, to keep them from death; and whenever they come near to do the work of the altar, or to make an offering by fire to the Lord,