Leviticus 21:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 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.
  • Ezek 44:20 : 20 They shall neither shave their heads nor let their hair grow long; they shall only trim their hair.
  • Lev 19:27-28 : 27 You shall not shave around the corners of your heads, nor shall you disfigure the edges of your beard. 28 You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the LORD.
  • Isa 22:12 : 12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth.
  • Jer 16:6 : 6 Both 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.
  • Jer 48:37 : 37 For every head shall be bald and every beard clipped; upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
  • Amos 8:10 : 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth upon all waists, and baldness upon every head; I will make it like mourning for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.
  • Mic 1:16 : 16 Make 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.
  • Lev 10:6 : 6 And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons, 'Do not uncover your heads nor tear your clothes, lest you die and wrath come upon all the people. But let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, mourn the burning which the Lord has kindled.
  • Isa 15:2 : 2 He has gone up to Bajith and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall wail over Nebo and over Medeba; on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 19:26-28
    3 verses
    86%

    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 44:18-22
    5 verses
    85%

    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.

    20They shall neither shave their heads nor let their hair grow long; they shall only trim their hair.

    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.

  • Lev 21:6-7
    2 verses
    82%

    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.

    7They 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.

  • Deut 14:1
    80%

    1You are the children of the LORD your God; you 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 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.

    6All the days that he separates himself to the LORD he shall not go near a dead body.

    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.

  • Lev 21:4
    77%

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

  • Lev 21:10-12
    3 verses
    76%

    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 22:15
    75%

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

  • Lev 22:22
    73%

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

  • Num 8:7
    72%

    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 21:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20Or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or who has a blemish in his eye, or is scabby, or scabbed, or has broken testicles.

    21No 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.

  • Ezek 5:1
    72%

    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.

  • Ezek 44:13
    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.

  • Lev 22:24-25
    2 verses
    71%

    24You shall not offer unto the LORD what is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall you make any offering of them in your land.

    25Neither from a stranger's hand shall you offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes are in them: they shall not be accepted for you.

  • 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.

  • Lev 14:9
    71%

    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.

  • Lev 21:23
    71%

    23Only 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.

  • Lev 22:20
    71%

    20But whatever has a blemish, you shall not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.

  • Lev 22:9
    71%

    9They shall therefore keep my ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die thereby, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.

  • 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.

  • Lev 21:18
    71%

    18For 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,

  • Jer 41:5
    71%

    5That there came certain men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, with their beards shaved, and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.

  • Lev 13:29
    71%

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

  • Jer 48:37
    70%

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

  • Lev 21:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15Neither shall he profane his descendants among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.

    16And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Matt 5:36
    70%

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

  • Num 4:20
    70%

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

  • Deut 22:5
    70%

    5A woman shall not wear what pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman's garment; for all who do so are an abomination to the LORD your God.

  • Deut 23:1
    70%

    1He that is wounded in the testicles, or has his private member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

  • Ezek 44:31
    70%

    31The priests shall not eat anything that has died naturally, or was torn, whether it is bird or beast.

  • Jer 16:6
    70%

    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.

  • Lev 18:29
    70%

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