Bible Verses About Shaving
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for shaving, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 32,658 votes, led by Leviticus 21:5. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Shaving
Leviticus 21:51,297 votes
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.
Leviticus 19:271,251 votes
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
Isaiah 7:201,075 votes
In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
Ezekiel 44:20936 votes
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
Deuteronomy 14:1739 votes
Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Genesis 41:14704 votes
Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
Numbers 6:5633 votes
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.
Numbers 8:7604 votes
And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean.
Numbers 6:18598 votes
And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.
Jeremiah 41:5589 votes
That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the Lord.
Jeremiah 48:37552 votes
For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
Acts 21:24465 votes
Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.
Job 1:20452 votes
Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
Deuteronomy 21:12438 votes
Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
Leviticus 14:9435 votes
But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
Judges 16:17408 votes
That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother’s womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.
2 Samuel 19:24400 votes
And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.
Judges 13:5399 votes
For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.
Isaiah 15:2399 votes
He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
Numbers 6:9374 votes
And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.
Ezekiel 5:1370 votes
And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber’s razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
2 Samuel 10:4368 votes
Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
Deuteronomy 22:5367 votes
The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
Leviticus 19:28360 votes
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
1 Samuel 21:13348 votes
And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
What does the Bible say about shaving?
Readers most often cite Leviticus 21:5 on the subject of shaving. Across 32,658 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Leviticus 19:27, Isaiah 7:20, Ezekiel 44:20. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.