“Priests may not make bald spots on their heads, shave the edge of their beards, or make gashes on their bodies.(A)

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Forbidden Practices

14 “You are sons of the Lord your God;(A) do not cut yourselves or make a bald spot on your head[a] on behalf of the dead,(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 14:1 Or forehead

So Hanun took David’s emissaries, shaved off half their beards, cut their clothes in half at the hips, and sent them away.(A)

When this was reported to David, he sent someone to meet them, since they were deeply humiliated. The king said, “Stay in Jericho until your beards grow back; then return.”

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80 men came from Shechem, Shiloh,(A) and Samaria(B) who had shaved their beards,(C) torn their garments, and gashed themselves, and who were carrying grain and incense offerings to bring to the temple of the Lord.(D)

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37 Indeed, every head is bald and every beard clipped;(A) on every hand is a gash and sackcloth around the waist.

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Ezekiel Dramatizes Jerusalem’s Fall

“Now you, son of man, take a sharp sword,(A) use it as you would a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair. You are to burn up a third of it in the city when the days of the siege have ended;(B) you are to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind, for I will draw a sword to chase after them. But you are to take a few strands from the hair and secure them in the folds of your robe.(C) Take some more of them, throw them into the fire, and burn them in it.(D) A fire will spread from it to the whole house of Israel.

“This is what the Lord God says: I have set this Jerusalem in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.

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20 “They may not shave their heads(A) or let their hair grow long,(B) but must carefully trim their hair.

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