Ezekiel 44:20

The priests must not shave their heads or allow their hair to become long; but they must regularly trim the edges of their hair.

Translation for Translators

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

19Before they go out into the outer courtyard where other people are, they must take off the clothes that they have been wearing and leave them in the sacred rooms, and they must put on other clothes, in order that the other people are not punished because of their touching the sacred clothes.

21Priests must not drink wine before they enter the inner courtyard.

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Cross References

Leviticus 21:5You priests must not shave your heads or shave the edges of your beards or cut your bodies to show that you are mourning for someone who has died.

Deuteronomy 14:1“We are people who belong to Yahweh our God. So, when people die, do not show that you are grieving by gashing/cutting yourselves or by shaving the hair on your foreheads like the other people-groups do.

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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