Ezekiel 44:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

They shall neither shave their heads nor let their hair grow long; they shall only trim their hair.

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  • Num 6:5 : 5 All the days of the vow of his separation no razor shall come upon his head: until the days are fulfilled, in which he separates himself to the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.
  • Deut 14:1 : 1 You are the children of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
  • 1 Cor 11:14 : 14 Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
  • Lev 21:5-9 : 5 They shall not make baldness upon their heads, nor shave off the corner of their beards, nor make any cuts in their flesh. 6 They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God: for they offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God: therefore they shall be holy. 7 They shall not take a wife who is a whore, or profane; nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God. 8 You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of your God: he shall be holy to you: for I the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy. 9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the whore, she profanes her father: she shall be burned with fire. 10 And he who is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and who is consecrated to wear the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor tear his clothes; 11 Neither shall he go near any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; 12 Neither 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 the LORD. 13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity. 14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or a harlot, these he shall not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people as a wife. 15 Neither shall he profane his descendants among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him. 16 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 17 Speak to Aaron, saying, Whoever of your descendants in their generations who has any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. 18 For whatever man who has a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or lame, or he who has a flat nose, or anything superfluous, 19 Or a man who is broken-footed, or broken-handed, 20 Or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or who has a blemish in his eye, or is scabby, or scabbed, or has broken testicles. 21 No man who has a blemish of the descendants of Aaron the priest shall come near to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he has a blemish; he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God. 22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. 23 Only he shall not go beyond the veil, nor come near the altar, because he has a blemish; that he does not profane my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them. 24 And Moses told it to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel.

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  • Lev 21:4-6
    3 verses
    85%

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

    5They shall not make baldness upon their heads, nor shave off the corner of their beards, nor make any cuts in their flesh.

    6They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God: for they offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God: therefore they shall be holy.

  • Num 6:5
    79%

    5All the days of the vow of his separation no razor shall come upon his head: until the days are fulfilled, in which he separates himself to the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.

  • Lev 19:26-28
    3 verses
    79%

    26You shall not eat anything with the blood: nor shall you use enchantment, nor observe times.

    27You shall not shave around the corners of your heads, nor shall you disfigure the edges of your beard.

    28You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the LORD.

  • Ezek 44:16-19
    4 verses
    78%

    16They shall enter my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.

    17And it shall come to pass, that when they enter the gates of the inner court, they shall wear linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.

    18They shall have linen turbans upon their heads, and shall have linen trousers upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with anything that causes sweat.

    19And when they go out into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall take off their garments in which they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.

  • Ezek 44:21-23
    3 verses
    76%

    21No priest shall drink wine when they enter the inner court.

    22Neither shall they marry widows, nor her who is divorced; but they shall take virgins of the descendants of the house of Israel, or a widow who had a priest before.

    23And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

  • Lev 21:10-12
    3 verses
    73%

    10And he who is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and who is consecrated to wear the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor tear his clothes;

    11Neither shall he go near 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 the LORD.

  • Lev 13:33
    73%

    33he shall be shaved, but the scaly disease shall not be shaved, and the priest shall shut up the one who has the scaly disease seven more days.

  • Ezek 44:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13And they shall not come near to me, to perform the office of a priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place; but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.

    14But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all its service, and for all that shall be done therein.

  • Ezek 7:18
    71%

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

  • Deut 14:1
    71%

    1You are the children of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

  • Lev 13:40-41
    2 verses
    71%

    40And the man whose hair has fallen from his head, he is bald, yet he is clean.

    41And if his hair has fallen from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald, yet he is clean.

  • Ezek 42:14
    70%

    14When the priests enter there, they shall not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments in which they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and approach to those things which are for the people.

  • Isa 7:20
    70%

    20In that same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by those beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.

  • Num 8:7
    70%

    7And thus shall you do to them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purification upon them, let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and make themselves clean.

  • Lev 14:9
    70%

    9But 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, he shall also wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.

  • Num 6:7-9
    3 verses
    69%

    7He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or his mother, for his brother, or his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.

    8All the days of his separation he is holy to the LORD.

    9And if anyone dies very suddenly near him, and he defiles the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.

  • Jer 48:37
    69%

    37For every head shall be bald and every beard clipped; upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

  • Num 4:20
    69%

    20But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.

  • Ezek 5:1
    69%

    1And you, son of man, take a sharp knife, take a barber's razor, and cause it to pass over your head and your beard: then take scales to weigh and divide the hair.

  • Acts 21:24
    68%

    24Take them and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things of which they were informed concerning you are nothing; but that you yourself also walk orderly and keep the law.

  • Lev 22:15
    68%

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

  • Ezek 44:11
    68%

    11Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.

  • Jer 16:6
    68%

    6Both the great and the small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, nor shall anyone mourn for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.

  • Num 6:18
    68%

    18And the Nazarite shall shave his consecrated head at the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and shall take the hair of his consecrated head, and put it in the fire under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.

  • Exod 28:40
    68%

    40For Aaron’s sons you shall make tunics, and you shall make sashes and hats for them, for glory and for beauty.

  • Matt 5:36
    67%

    36Nor shall you swear by your head, because you cannot make one hair white or black.

  • Lev 13:44
    67%

    44he is a leprous man; he is unclean. The priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is on his head.

  • Mic 1:16
    67%

    16Make yourself bald, and cut off your hair for your delicate children; enlarge your baldness like the eagle; for they have gone into captivity from you.

  • Ezek 44:25
    67%

    25And they shall not go near a dead person to defile themselves; but for a father, or for a mother, or for a son, or for a daughter, for a brother, or for a sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves.

  • Ezek 23:15
    67%

    15Girded with sashes upon their loins, excellently attired upon their heads, all of them looking like princes, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:

  • Luke 21:18
    67%

    18But not a hair of your head shall perish.

  • Lev 13:29
    67%

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

  • Deut 22:12
    66%

    12You shall make tassels on the four corners of your garment with which you cover yourself.

  • Exod 29:9
    66%

    9And you shall gird them with sashes, Aaron and his sons, and put hats on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs by a perpetual statute: thus you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.

  • Exod 30:20
    66%

    20When they go into the tabernacle of meeting, they shall wash with water, that they do not die; or when they come near the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to the LORD: