Leviticus 21:5
Priests must not shave their heads or shave off the corners of their beards, nor cut their bodies.
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4But he must not make himself unclean for other relatives and so defile himself.
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Leviticus 10:6Then Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, “Do not let your hair on your heads hang loosely, and do not tear your clothes, so that you may not die, and so that Yahweh may not be angry with all the assembly. But allow your relatives, the entire house of Israel, to mourn for those whom the fire of Yahweh has set ablaze.
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 22:12The Lord Yahweh of hosts called on that day 1 for weeping, for mourning, for shaved heads, and the wearing of sackcloth. 1
Jeremiah 48:37For every head is bald and every beard shaved. Incisions are on every hand, and sackcloth is around their waists.
Amos 8:10I will turn your festivals into mourning 1 and all your songs into lamentation. 1 I will make all of you wear sackcloth 1 and have baldness on every head. 1 I will make it like mourning for an only son, 1 and a bitter day to its end. 1
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 21:2-10
Laws Concerning the Priests. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people: 2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, 3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled. 4 But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his… Read the whole commentary →