Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
WEB
You must not cut off the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
YLT
`Ye do not round the corner of your head, nor destroy the corner of thy beard.
DBT
— Ye shall not shave the corners of your head round, neither shalt thou mutilate the corners of thy beard.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentLeviticus — A holy people before a holy God. Five offerings, a priesthood, a purity code — and at the centre, a single day that carries the sins of a year to a cleansed Most Holy Place.
- Author
- Moses — receives these laws at Sinai; the repeated formula is ‘the LORD spake unto Moses, saying’
- Date
- Composed during Israel's year at Sinai (15th–13th century BC)