Ezekiel 5:1
Good News Translation
The LORD said, "Mortal man, take a sharp sword and use it to shave off your beard and all your hair. Then weigh the hair on scales and divide it into three parts.

New Revised Standard Version
And you, O mortal, take a sharp sword; use it as a barber’s razor and run it over your head and your beard; then take balances for weighing, and divide the hair.

Contemporary English Version
Ezekiel, son of man, get a sharp sword and use it to cut off your hair and beard. Weigh the hair and divide it into three equal piles.

New American Bible
Now you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it like a barber’s razor, to shave your head and your beard. Then take a balance scale for weighing and divide the hair.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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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.

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Ezekiel 44:20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor wear long hair: but they shall only poll their heads.

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

Isaiah 7:20 In that day the Lord shall shave with a razor that is hired by them that are beyond the river, by the king of the Assyrians, the head and the hairs of the feet, and the whole beard.

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Daniel 5:27 THECEL: thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting.

Context
Judgment Against Jerusalem
1And 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.2A third part thou shalt burn with fire in the midst of the city, according to the fulfilling of the days of the siege: and thou shalt take a third part, and cut it in pieces with the knife all round about: and the other third part thou shalt scatter in the wind, and I will draw out the sword after them.…
Cross References
Leviticus 21:5
Neither shall they shave their head, nor their beard, nor make incisions in their flesh.

Isaiah 7:20
In that day the Lord shall shave with a razor that is hired by them that are beyond the river, by the king of the Assyrians, the head and the hairs of the feet, and the whole beard.

Ezekiel 44:20
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor wear long hair: but they shall only poll their heads.

Daniel 5:27
THECEL: thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting.

Ezekiel 4:17
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