Leviticus 19:27
You do not round the corner of your head, nor destroy the corner of your beard.
Literal Standard Version
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
26You do not eat with the blood. You do not enchant, nor observe clouds.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 14:1“You [are] sons of your God YHWH; you do not cut yourselves, nor make baldness between your eyes for the dead;
Isaiah 15:2He has gone up to Bajith and Dibon, || The high places—to weep, || Moab howls on Nebo and on Medeba, || Baldness [is] on all its heads, every beard cut off.
Jeremiah 16:6And great and small have died in this land, || They are not buried, and none lament for them, || Nor does any cut himself, nor become bald for them.
Ezekiel 7:18And they have girded on sackcloth, || And trembling has covered them, || And shame [is] on all faces, || And baldness on all their heads.
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 →