Leviticus 19:27
Modern Translations
New International Version
"'Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.

New Living Translation
“Do not trim off the hair on your temples or trim your beards.

English Standard Version
You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard.

Berean Study Bible
You must not cut off the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.

New American Standard Bible
You shall not round off the hairline of your heads, nor trim the edges of your beard.

NASB 1995
'You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the edges of your beard.

NASB 1977
‘You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads, nor harm the edges of your beard.

Amplified Bible
You shall not trim and round off the side-growth of [the hair on] your heads, nor mar the edges of your beard.

Christian Standard Bible
You are not to cut off the hair at the sides of your head or mar the edge of your beard.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You are not to cut off the hair at the sides of your head or mar the edge of your beard.

Good News Translation
Do not cut the hair on the sides of your head or trim your beard

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Never shave the hair on your foreheads, and never cut the edges of your beard.

International Standard Version
"You are not to cut your hair in ritualistic patterns on your head or deface the edges of your beard.

NET Bible
You must not round off the corners of the hair on your head or ruin the corners of your beard.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

New King James Version
You shall not shave around the sides of your head, nor shall you disfigure the edges of your beard.

King James 2000 Bible
You shall not shave around the sides of your heads, neither shall you disfigure the corners of your beard.

New Heart English Bible
"'You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your heads, neither shall you clip off the edge of your beard.

World English Bible
"'You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your heads, neither shall you clip off the edge of your beard.

American King James Version
You shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shall you mar the corners of your beard.

American Standard Version
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

A Faithful Version
You shall not round the hair of your temples, nor the edge of your beard.

Darby Bible Translation
ye shall not shave the corners of your head round, neither shalt thou mutilate the corners of thy beard.

English Revised Version
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

Webster's Bible Translation
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Ye shall not cut rounde the corners of your heades, neither shalt thou marre the tuftes of thy beard.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Ye shall not rounde the corners of your heades, neither shalt thou marre the tuftes of thy bearde.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Ye shal shaue no crownes vpo youre heade, nether shalt thou clyppe thy beerde cleane off.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
ye shall not rounde the lockes of youre heedes, nether shalt thou marre the tuftes of thy beerde.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
You do not round the corner of your head, nor destroy the corner of your beard.

Young's Literal Translation
'Ye do not round the corner of your head, nor destroy the corner of thy beard.

Smith's Literal Translation
Ye shall not cut the extremities of your head, and thou shalt not destroy the extremities of thy beard.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Nor shall you cut your hair roundwise: nor shave your beard.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And you shall not cut the hair of your head circularly, nor shave your beard.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Do not grow the hairs of your heads and you shall not twist the mustache of your beards.

Lamsa Bible
You shall not let the hair of your heads grow, neither shall you trim the corners of your beard.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Ye shall not make a round cutting of the hair of your head, nor disfigure your beard.
















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