Leviticus 19:27
Ye shall not cut round the corners [of the hair] of your head, neither shalt thou destroy the corners of thy beard.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
In Context
26Ye shall not eat upon the blood; nor shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 14:1Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Isaiah 15:2It goeth up to the [idol-]house, and Dibon [goeth] up to the high-places to weep, on Nebo and on Medeba shall Moab wail: on all its heads there is baldness, and every beard is hewn off.
Jeremiah 16:6And both the great and the small shall die in this land,— they shall not be buried, and men shall not lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them;
Ezekiel 7:18And people gird themselves with sackcloth, and shuddering covereth them: and upon all faces there is shame, and upon all their heads there is baldness.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 19:20-30
19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee. 20 And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free. 21 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord , unto the door of the tabernacle of… Read the whole commentary →