Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
They are not to have their hair cut off for the dead, or the hair on their chins cut short, or make cuts in their flesh.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
Holman Bible
“Priests may not make bald spots on their heads, shave the edge of their beards, or make gashes on their bodies.
International Standard Version
"They are not to cut their hair in ritualistic patterns on their heads, deface the edges of their beards, or make incisions in their flesh.
A Conservative Version
They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
American Standard Version
They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
Amplified
The priests
Darby Translation
They shall not make any baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
Julia Smith Translation
With baldness, they shall not make baldness upon their head, and they shall not shave the extremity of their beard: and in their flesh they shall not cut incisions.
King James 2000
They shall not make any bald place upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
Lexham Expanded Bible
" 'And they shall not shave bald patches on their head, and they shall not shave off the corner of their beard, and they shall not make a cut in their body.
Modern King James verseion
They shall not make baldness on their head, nor shall they shave the corner of their beard, nor make any cutting in their flesh.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They shall make them no baldness upon their heads or shave off the locks of their beards, nor make any marks in their flesh.
NET Bible
Priests must not have a bald spot shaved on their head, they must not shave the corner of their beard, and they must not cut slashes in their body.
New Heart English Bible
"'They shall not shave their heads, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
The Emphasized Bible
They shall not make a baldness behind in their head, And the border of their beard, shall they not cut off, - And, in their flesh, shall they not make incisions.
Webster
They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
World English Bible
"'They shall not shave their heads, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
Youngs Literal Translation
they do not make baldness on their head, and the corner of their beard they do not shave, and in their flesh they do not make a cutting;
Themes
Baldness » Artificial, as an idolatrous practice, forbidden
Beard » Idolatrous practice of marring, forbidden
Beards » Corners of, not to be marred for the dead
Body » Resurrection of » Sacred
Cutting » The flesh for the dead » Forbidden
Defilement » priests » Specially required to avoid
Head » Priests forbidden to shave, &c
The high priest » Forbidden to mourn for any
Mourning » For the dead » Cutting the flesh
Mourning » Priests prohibited, except for the nearest of kin
priests » The duties of a priest
priests » Special laws respecting » Not to defile themselves for the dead except the nearest of kin
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 21:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Regulations Concerning Priests
4 But let him, being a chief among his people, not make himself unclean in such a way as to put shame on himself. 5 They are not to have their hair cut off for the dead, or the hair on their chins cut short, or make cuts in their flesh. 6 Let them be holy to their God and not make the name of their God common; for the fire offerings of the Lord and the bread of their God are offered by them, and they are to be holy.
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 14:1
You are the children of the Lord your God: you are not to make cuts on your bodies or take off the hair on your brows in honour of the dead;
Ezekiel 44:20
They are not to have all the hair cut off their heads, and they are not to let their hair get long, but they are to have the ends of their hair cut.
Leviticus 19:27-28
The ends of the hair round your face and on your chin may not be cut off.
Leviticus 10:6
And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons, Do not let your hair be loose, and give no signs of grief; so that death may not overtake you, and his wrath come on all the people; but let there be weeping among your brothers and all the house of Israel for this burning of the Lord's fire.
Isaiah 15:2
The daughter of Dibon has gone up to the high places, weeping: Moab is sounding her cry of sorrow over Nebo, and over Medeba: everywhere the hair of the head and of the face is cut off.
Isaiah 22:12
And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:
Jeremiah 16:6
Death will overtake great as well as small in the land: their bodies will not be put in a resting-place, and no one will be weeping for them or wounding themselves or cutting off their hair for them:
Jeremiah 48:37
For everywhere the hair of the head and the hair of the face is cut off: on every hand there are wounds, and haircloth on every body.
Amos 8:10
Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.
Micah 1:16
Let your head be uncovered and your hair cut off in sorrow for the children of your delight: let the hair be pulled from your head like an eagle's; for they have been taken away from you as prisoners.