Leviticus 19:27
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New American Standard Bible

You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the edges of your beard.

King James Version

Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

Holman Bible

You are not to cut off the hair at the sides of your head or mar the edge of your beard.

International Standard Version

"You are not to cut your hair in ritualistic patterns on your head or deface the edges of your beard.

A Conservative Version

Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, nor shall thou mar the corners of thy beard.

American Standard Version

Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

Amplified

You shall not trim and round off the side-growth of [the hair on] your heads, nor mar the edges of your beard.

Bible in Basic English

The ends of the hair round your face and on your chin may not be cut off.

Darby Translation

ye shall not shave the corners of your head round, neither shalt thou mutilate the corners of thy beard.

Julia Smith Translation

Ye shall not cut the extremities of your head, and thou shalt not destroy the extremities of thy beard.

King James 2000

You shall not shave around the sides of your heads, neither shall you disfigure the corners of your beard.

Lexham Expanded Bible

You shall not round off the corner [hair] of your head, and you shall not trim the corner of your beard.

Modern King James verseion

You shall not round the side of your head, nor mar the edge of your beard.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Ye shall not round the locks of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the tufts of thy beard.

NET Bible

You must not round off the corners of the hair on your head or ruin the corners of your beard.

New Heart English Bible

"'You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your heads, neither shall you clip off the edge of your beard.

The Emphasized Bible

Ye shall not shave in a circle around your head, - nor shalt thou disfigure the fringe of thy beard.

Webster

Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

World English Bible

"'You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your heads, neither shall you clip off the edge of your beard.

Youngs Literal Translation

'Ye do not round the corner of your head, nor destroy the corner of thy beard.

Themes

Beard » Idolatrous practice of marring, forbidden

Beards » Corners of, not to be marred for the dead

Sorcery » Forbidden

Topics

Abominations

Beards

Hairs

Knives

Shaving

Corners

Trimming Facial Hair

Cutting Hair

Accompaniments Of Mourning

Hair

Tattoos Being Ok

cutting

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Ye shall not round
H5362
נקף 
Naqaph 
compass, go round about, go about, compass about, destroy, down, inclosed, kill, round
Usage: 19

the corners
H6285
H6285
פּאה 
Pe'ah 
פּאה 
Pe'ah 
side, corner, quarter, end, part
side, corner, quarter, end, part
Usage: 86
Usage: 86

of your heads
H7218
ראשׁ 
Ro'sh 
head, chief, top, beginning, company, captain, sum, first, principal, chapiters, rulers,
Usage: 598

neither shalt thou mar
H7843
שׁחת 
Shachath 
destroy, corrupt, mar, destroyer, corrupters, waster, spoilers, battered, corruptly, s
Usage: 146

References

Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 19:27

Verse Info

Context Readings

Blood, Hair, And Body

26 ‘You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor practice divination or soothsaying. 27 You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the edges of your beard. 28 You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the Lord.


Other Readings

Cross References

Leviticus 21:5

They shall not make any baldness on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts in their flesh.

Isaiah 15:2

They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, even to the high places to weep.
Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba;
Everyone’s head is bald and every beard is cut off.

Jeremiah 48:37

For every head is bald and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins.

Deuteronomy 14:1

“You are the sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead.

Jeremiah 16:6

Both great men and small will die in this land; they will not be buried, they will not be lamented, nor will anyone gash himself or shave his head for them.

Ezekiel 7:18

They will gird themselves with sackcloth and shuddering will overwhelm them; and shame will be on all faces and baldness on all their heads.

Ezekiel 44:20

Also they shall not shave their heads, yet they shall not let their locks grow long; they shall only trim the hair of their heads.

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