Leviticus 21:5

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They must not shave bald spots on their heads, trim the edges of their beards, or make cuts on their bodies.

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  • Deut 14:1 : 1 You are children of the LORD your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave a bald spot on your foreheads for the dead.
  • Ezek 44:20 : 20 They must neither shave their heads nor let their hair grow long, but they are to keep the hair of their heads trimmed.
  • Lev 19:27-28 : 27 Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard. 28 Do not make cuts on your body for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.
  • Isa 22:12 : 12 In that day the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, called you to weeping, wailing, shaving your heads, and wearing sackcloth.
  • Jer 16:6 : 6 Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned; no one will cut themselves or shave their heads for them in mourning.
  • Jer 48:37 : 37 Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off, gashes are on all their hands, and sackcloth is wrapped around their waists.
  • Amos 8:10 : 10 'I will turn your festivals into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cover everyone's waists with sackcloth and shave every head bald. I will make it like mourning for an only son and its end like a bitter day.'
  • Mic 1:16 : 16 Shave your head bald and cut off your hair because of your precious children. Make yourself as bald as the eagle, for they have been taken away from you into exile.
  • Lev 10:6 : 6 Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, 'Do not uncover your heads or tear your clothes in mourning, or you will die, and the LORD’s wrath will come upon the entire community. However, your relatives—all the house of Israel—may mourn for those the LORD burned.
  • Isa 15:2 : 2 They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba. Every head is shaved, and every beard is cut off.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 19:26-28
    3 verses
    86%

    26Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it. Do not practice divination or seek omens.

    27Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.

    28Do not make cuts on your body for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.

  • Ezek 44:18-22
    5 verses
    85%

    18They are to wear linen turbans on their heads and linen undergarments around their waists. They must not clothe themselves with anything that causes sweat.

    19When they go out to the outer court to the people, they must remove the garments they wore while ministering and leave them in the holy chambers. They are to put on other garments so they do not transmit holiness to the people by their clothing.

    20They must neither shave their heads nor let their hair grow long, but they are to keep the hair of their heads trimmed.

    21No priest is to drink wine when he enters the inner court.

    22They must not marry widows or divorced women, but only virgins of Israelite descent or widows who were married to priests.

  • Lev 21:6-7
    2 verses
    82%

    6They must be holy to their God and must not profane the name of their God. They offer the food offerings of the LORD, the bread of their God, and so they must be holy.

    7They must not marry a woman who is a prostitute or has been profaned, nor may they marry a divorced woman, because priests are holy to their God.

  • Deut 14:1
    80%

    1You are children of the LORD your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave a bald spot on your foreheads for the dead.

  • Num 6:5-9
    5 verses
    78%

    5Throughout the length of their vow, no razor may touch their head. Until the time of their dedication to the LORD is complete, they are to be holy and allow the hair of their head to grow long.

    6During the entire time of their vow to the LORD, they must not go near a dead body.

    7Even if their father, mother, brother, or sister dies, they must not make themselves ceremonially unclean for them, because the consecration to God is upon their head.

    8For the entire period of their separation, they are holy to the LORD.

    9If someone dies suddenly beside them, making their head of dedication unclean, they must shave their head on the day of their purification—the seventh day.

  • Lev 21:4
    77%

    4He must not defile himself as a chief man among his people, thereby profaning himself.

  • Lev 21:10-12
    3 verses
    76%

    10The high priest, who has the oil of anointing poured on his head and who has been consecrated to wear the sacred garments, must not let his hair become unkempt or tear his clothes.

    11He must not go near any dead body or make himself unclean, even for his father or his mother.

    12He must not leave the sanctuary or defile the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him. I am the LORD.

  • Lev 22:15
    75%

    15The priests must not allow the sacred offerings of the people of Israel, which they present to the LORD, to be defiled.

  • Lev 13:33
    73%

    33The person must shave, but they must not shave the infected area. The priest will isolate them for another seven days.

  • Lev 22:22
    73%

    22You must not offer to the LORD anything that is blind, broken, injured, or with warts, scabs, or skin disease; you must not bring them as a fire offering on the altar to the LORD.

  • Num 8:7
    72%

    7This is how you will purify them: Sprinkle them with the water of purification, have them shave their entire bodies with a razor, and have them wash their clothes and purify themselves.

  • Lev 21:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20or who is hunchbacked, a dwarf, has an eye defect, severe skin diseases, or damaged testicles.

    21No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a defect may approach to bring the offerings made by fire to the LORD. He has a defect; he must not approach to offer the food of his God.

  • Ezek 5:1
    72%

    1And you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it like a razor for barbers, and pass it over your head and your beard. Then take scales to weigh and divide the hair.

  • Ezek 44:13
    72%

    13They shall not come near Me to serve as priests or to come near any of My holy things or the most holy things; they will bear their shame for the abominations they have committed.

  • Lev 22:24-25
    2 verses
    71%

    24You must not offer to the LORD any animals that are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut, nor are you to do this in your land.

    25You must not accept such animals from the hand of a foreigner to offer as the food of your God. They are deformed and have defects; they will not be accepted on your behalf.

  • Ezek 7:18
    71%

    18They will put on sackcloth, and horror will cover them. Shame will be on every face, and every head will be shaved.

  • Lev 14:9
    71%

    9On the seventh day, they must shave off all their hair—their head, their beard, their eyebrows, and all their hair. They must wash their clothes and bathe their body in water, and then they will be clean.

  • Lev 21:23
    71%

    23but he must not enter behind the curtain or come near the altar because he has a defect. He must not profane My sanctuary, for I am the LORD who makes them holy.

  • Lev 22:20
    71%

    20Do not offer anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.

  • Lev 22:9
    71%

    9They must keep My commands and not bear guilt by treating the holy things improperly, for if they do, they will die because of it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

  • Lev 13:40-41
    2 verses
    71%

    40If a man loses hair from his head, he is bald, but he is clean.

    41If he loses hair from the front of his head, he has partial baldness, but he is clean.

  • Lev 21:18
    71%

    18For no man who has a defect may approach: no man who is blind, lame, disfigured, or deformed.

  • Jer 41:5
    71%

    5eighty men came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria, with their beards shaved, their clothes torn, and their bodies cut, bringing grain offerings and incense in their hands to present at the house of the LORD.

  • Lev 13:29
    71%

    29If a man or woman has an infection on the head or the beard,

  • Jer 48:37
    70%

    37Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off, gashes are on all their hands, and sackcloth is wrapped around their waists.

  • Lev 21:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15He must not defile his descendants among his people, because I am the LORD who sanctifies him.

    16The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

  • Matt 5:36
    70%

    36And do not swear by your head, because you cannot make even one hair white or black.

  • Num 4:20
    70%

    20But the Kohathites must not go in to look at the holy things, even for a moment, or they will die.

  • Deut 22:5
    70%

    5A woman shall not wear men’s clothing, nor shall a man put on women’s clothing, for anyone who does such things is detestable to the LORD your God.

  • Deut 23:1
    70%

    1A man shall not marry his father’s wife or dishonor his father’s bed.

  • Ezek 44:31
    70%

    31The priests must not eat any bird or animal that has died naturally or been torn by wild beasts.

  • Jer 16:6
    70%

    6Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned; no one will cut themselves or shave their heads for them in mourning.

  • Lev 18:29
    70%

    29For anyone who commits any of these detestable practices will be cut off from among their people.