Ezekiel 44:20

Now they shall not shave their heads, and they shall not grow long hair. Instead, they shall trim the hair of their heads.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

19And when they go forth to the outer court to the people, they shall strip off their vestments, in which they ministered, and they shall place them in the storeroom of the sanctuary, and they shall clothe themselves with other garments. And they shall not sanctify the people in their vestments.

21And no priest shall drink wine, when he will be entering into the inner court.

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Cross References

Leviticus 21:5Neither shall they shave their head or their beard, and they shall not make incisions in their flesh.

Deuteronomy 14:1“Be sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make yourselves bald, because of the dead.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 44:18-31

Directions Concerning the Priests. ( b. c. 574.) 17 And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within. 18 They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat. 19 And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court… Read the whole commentary →

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