Ezekiel 44:20

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Ezekiel 44:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible

18 They are to wear linen turbans on their heads and linen undergarments around their waists. They must not wear anything that makes them perspire.

19 When they go out to the outer court, to the people, they are to take off the garments in which they have ministered, leave them in the holy chambers, and dress in other clothes so that they do not transmit holiness to the people with their garments.

20 They must not shave their heads or let their hair grow long, but must carefully trim their hair.

21 No priest may drink wine before he enters the inner court.

22 And they shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman, but must marry a virgin of the descendants of the house of Israel, or a widow of a priest.

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Leviticus 21:5

Priests must not make bald spots on their heads, shave off the edges of their beards, or make cuts in their bodies.

Leviticus 21:6

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

Leviticus 21:7

A priest must not marry a woman defiled by prostitution or divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.

Leviticus 21:8

You are to regard him as holy, since he presents the food of your God. He shall be holy to you, because I the LORD am holy—I who set you apart.

Leviticus 21:9

If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by prostituting herself, she profanes her father; she must be burned in the fire.

Leviticus 21:10

The priest who is highest among his brothers, who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and has been ordained to wear the priestly garments, must not let his hair hang loose or tear his garments.

Leviticus 21:11

He must not go near any dead body; he must not defile himself, even for his father or mother.

Leviticus 21:12

He must not leave or desecrate the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him. I am the LORD.

Leviticus 21:13

The woman he marries must be a virgin.

Leviticus 21:14

He is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,

Leviticus 21:15

so that he does not defile his offspring among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.”

Leviticus 21:16

Then the LORD said to Moses,

Leviticus 21:17

“Say to Aaron, ‘For the generations to come, none of your descendants who has a physical defect may approach to offer the food of his God.

Leviticus 21:18

No man who has any defect may approach—no man who is blind, lame, disfigured, or deformed;

Leviticus 21:19

no man who has a broken foot or hand,

Leviticus 21:20

or who is a hunchback or dwarf, or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle.

Leviticus 21:21

No descendant of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall approach to present the offerings made by fire to the LORD. Since he has a defect, he is not to come near to offer the food of his God.

Leviticus 21:22

He may eat the most holy food of his God as well as the holy food,

Leviticus 21:23

but because he has a defect, he must not go near the veil or approach the altar, so as not to desecrate My sanctuaries. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”

Leviticus 21:24

Moses told this to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.

Deuteronomy 14:1

You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,

Numbers 6:5

For the entire period of his vow of separation, no razor shall pass over his head. He must be holy until the time of his separation to the LORD is complete; he must let the hair of his head grow long.

1 Corinthians 11:14

Doesn’t nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,