Ezekiel 44:20
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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.

Lexicon
They must not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

shave
יְגַלֵּ֔חוּ (yə·ḡal·lê·ḥū)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1548: To be bald, to shave, to lay waste

their heads
וְרֹאשָׁם֙ (wə·rō·šām)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7218: The head

or let their hair
וּפֶ֖רַע (ū·p̄e·ra‘)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6545: Long hair, locks

grow long,
יְשַׁלֵּ֑חוּ (yə·šal·lê·ḥū)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7971: To send away, for, out

but must carefully trim
כָּס֥וֹם (kā·sō·wm)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute
Strong's Hebrew 3697: To shear, clip

their hair.
רָאשֵׁיהֶֽם׃ (rā·šê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7218: The head


Additional Translations
They must not shave their heads or let their hair grow long, but must carefully trim their hair.Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.

Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.

And they shall not shave their heads, nor shall they pluck off their hair; they shall carefully cover their heads.

Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long: they shall duly poll their heads.

Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.

Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.

Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.

And their head they do not shave, and the lock they do not send forth; they certainly poll their heads.
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