5" 'Priests must not shave their heads or shave off the edges of their beards or cut their bodies.


In Context

2 except for a close relative, such as his mother or father, his son or daughter, his brother,

3 or an unmarried sister who is dependent on him since she has no husband-for her he may make himself unclean.

4 He must not make himself unclean for people related to him by marriage, and so defile himself.

5 " 'Priests must not shave their heads or shave off the edges of their beards or cut their bodies.

6 They must be holy to their God and must not profane the name of their God. Because they present the offerings made to the Lord by fire, the food of their God, they are to be holy.

7 " 'They must not marry women defiled by prostitution or divorced from their husbands, because priests are holy to their God.

Leviticus 21:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:5They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:5Neither shall they shave their head, nor their beard, nor make incisions in their flesh.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:5They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:5They shall not make any baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:5They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:5They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:5|'They shall not shave their heads, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:5they do not make baldness on their head, and the corner of their beard they do not shave, and in their flesh they do not make a cutting;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:5They shall not make baldness on their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.