◄ Ezekiel 44:20 ►
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Good News Translation
"Priests must neither shave their heads nor let their hair grow long. They are to keep it a proper length.

New Revised Standard Version
They shall not shave their heads or let their locks grow long; they shall only trim the hair of their heads.

Contemporary English Version
Priests must never shave their heads when they are mourning. But they must keep their hair properly trimmed and not let it grow too long.

New American Bible
They shall not shave their heads nor let their hair hang loose, but they shall keep their hair carefully trimmed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor wear long hair: but they shall only poll their heads.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Neither shall they shave their heads, nor wear long hair: but they shall only poll their heads.

shave

Leviticus 21:5 Neither shall they shave their head, nor their beard, nor make incisions in their flesh.

Deuteronomy 14:1 Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness for the dead;

nor suffer

Numbers 6:5 All the time of his separation no razor shall pass over his head, until the day be fulfilled of his consecration to the Lord. He shall be holy, and shall let the hair of his head grow.

1 Corinthians 11:14 Doth not even nature itself teach you that a man indeed, if he nourish his hair, it is a shame unto him?

Context
The Duties of the Priests
…19And when they shall go forth to the outward court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them up in the store chamber of the sanctuary, and they shall clothe themselves with other garments: and they shall not sanctify the people with their vestments. 20Neither shall they shave their heads, nor wear long hair: but they shall only poll their heads.21And no priest shall drink wine when he is to go into the inner court.…
Cross References
Leviticus 21:5
Neither shall they shave their head, nor their beard, nor make incisions in their flesh.

Numbers 6:5
All the time of his separation no razor shall pass over his head, until the day be fulfilled of his consecration to the Lord. He shall be holy, and shall let the hair of his head grow.

2 Samuel 14:26
And when he polled his hair (now he was polled once a year, because his hair was burdensome to him) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred sicles, according to the common weight.

Ezekiel 5:1
And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife that shaveth the hair: and cause it to pass over thy head, and over thy beard: and take thee a balance to weigh in, and divide the hair.

Ezekiel 44:19
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