New King James Version
Leviticus 19:27
27You shall not shave around the sides of your head, nor shall you disfigure the edges of your beard.
Leviticus 19:27 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
- New International Version (NIV)“ ‘Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard.
- New Living Translation (NLT)“Do not trim off the hair on your temples or trim your beards.
Context of Leviticus 19:27
25And in the fifth year you may eat its fruit, that it may yield to you its increase: I am the Lord your God. 26‘You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor shall you practice divination or soothsaying. You shall not shave around the sides of your head, nor shall you disfigure the edges of your beard. 28You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the Lord. 29‘Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry, and the land become full of wickedness.
Read all of Leviticus 19Leviticus 19:27 word by word
לֹ֣א תַקִּ֔פוּ פְּאַ֖ת רֹאשְׁכֶ֑ם וְלֹ֣א תַשְׁחִ֔ית אֵ֖ת פְּאַ֥ת זְקָנֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Leviticus 19:27
- Leviticus 21:5‘They shall not make any bald place on their heads, nor shall they shave the edges of their beards nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
- Isaiah 15:2He has gone up to the temple and Dibon, To the high places to weep. Moab will wail over Nebo and over Medeba; On all their heads will be baldness, And every beard cut off.
- Jeremiah 16:6Both the great and the small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried; neither shall men lament for them, cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.
- Jeremiah 48:37“For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped; On all the hands shall be cuts, and on the loins sackcloth—
- Ezekiel 7:18They will also be girded with sackcloth; Horror will cover them; Shame will be on every face, Baldness on all their heads.
- Ezekiel 44:20“They shall neither shave their heads nor let their hair grow long, but they shall keep their hair well trimmed.
Commentaries on Leviticus 19:27
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 27Ye shall not round the corners your heads - This and the following verse evidently refer to customs which must have existed among the Egyptians when the Israelites sojourned in Egypt; and what they were it is now difficult, even with any probability, to conjecture. Herodotus observes that the Arabs shave or cut their hair round, in honor of Bacchus, who, they say, had his hair cut in this way, lib. iii., cap. 8. He says also that the Macians, a people of…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 26-28Verses 26-28 Certain pagan customs, several of them connected with magic, are here grouped together. The prohibition to eat anything with the blood may indeed refer to the eating of meat which had not been properly bled in slaughtering (Leviticus 7:26; Leviticus 17:10, etc.): but it is not improbable that there may be a special reference to some sort of magical or idolatrous rites. Compare Ezekiel 33:25. Leviticus 19:26 Observe times - It is not clear…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 27do not clip off: Egyptian wall paintings show that Canaanites trimmed their hair and beards carefully. The Israelites were told not to copy this practice so that they would not be influenced by Canaanite religion and ethics.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2727. Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, &c.--It seems probable that this fashion had been learned by the Israelites in Egypt, for the ancient Egyptians had their dark locks cropped short or shaved with great nicety, so that what remained on the crown appeared in the form of a circle surrounding the head, while the beard was dressed into a square form. This kind of coiffure had a highly idolatrous meaning; and it was adopted, with some slight…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Leviticus 19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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