Bible verse
You must not cut off the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
Leviticus 19:27 · BSB
The verses around it, from Leviticus 19.
23 When you enter the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you shall regard the fruit as forbidden. For three years it will be forbidden to you and must not be eaten.
24 In the fourth year all its fruit must be consecrated as a praise offering to the LORD.
25 But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit; thus your harvest will be increased. I am the LORD your God.
26 You must not eat anything with blood still in it. You must not practice divination or sorcery.
27 You must not cut off the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
28 You must not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.
29 You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.
30 You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
31 You must not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out, or you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.
KJV
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
ASV
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
ERV
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
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