Ezekiel 44:20 · KJV
“Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.”
— Ezekiel 44:20
And when they go forth into the utter court, {even} into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.
Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
Ezekiel 44 — Context
They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird {themselves} with any thing that causeth sweat. {with...: or, in sweating places: Heb. in, or, with sweat}
19And when they go forth into the utter court, {even} into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.
20Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
21Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
22Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before. {put...: Heb. thrust forth} {that had...: Heb. from a priest}
Cross References
1 Corinthians 11:14
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
Leviticus 21:5-24
They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
Numbers 6:5
All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth {himself} unto the LORD, he shall be holy, {and} shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.
Deuteronomy 14:1
Ye {are} the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
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