Leviticus 19:27
You will not round off the corners of the hair on the sides of your head or shave off the edge of your beard.
Unlocked Literal Bible
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
28Do not cut your body for the dead or put tattoo marks on your body. I am Yahweh.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 14:1You are the people of Yahweh your God. Do not cut yourselves, nor shave any part of your face for the dead.
Isaiah 15:2They have gone up to the temple, the people of Dibon went up to the heights to weep; 1 Moab laments over Nebo and over Medeba. 1 All their heads are shaved bare and all their beards are cut off. 1
Jeremiah 16:6Both the great and the small will die in this land. They will not be buried, and no one will mourn for them or cut themselves or shave their heads for them.
Ezekiel 7:18and they will wear sackcloth, and terror will cover them; 1 and shame will be on every face, and baldness on all of their heads. 1
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 →