They shall not make bald patches on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts on their body.
“You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.
They shall not shave their heads or let their locks grow long; they shall surely trim the hair of their heads.
You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard. You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.
Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair, for the children of your delight; make yourselves as bald as the eagle, for they shall go from you into exile.
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.
“For every head is shaved and every beard cut off. On all the hands are gashes, and around the waist is sackcloth.
Both great and small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them or cut himself or make himself bald for them.
In that day the Lord God of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and wearing sackcloth;
He has gone up to the temple, and to Dibon, to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. On every head is baldness; every beard is shorn;
And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar his sons, “Do not let the hair of your heads hang loose, and do not tear your clothes, lest you die, and wrath come upon all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning that the Lord has kindled.
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