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Conduct of the Priests. Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not dishevel your hair(A) or tear your garments,(B) lest you die and bring God’s wrath also on the whole community. While your kindred, the rest of the house of Israel, may mourn for those whom the Lord’s fire has burned up,

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Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar,(A) “Do not let your hair become unkempt[a](B) and do not tear your clothes,(C) or you will die and the Lord will be angry with the whole community.(D) But your relatives, all the Israelites, may mourn(E) for those the Lord has destroyed by fire.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 10:6 Or Do not uncover your heads

The priests shall not make bald the crown of their head, nor shave the edges of their beard, nor lacerate their body.(A)

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“‘Priests must not shave(A) their heads or shave off the edges of their beards(B) or cut their bodies.(C)

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10 The most exalted of the priests, upon whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been ordained to wear the special vestments, shall not dishevel his hair or rend his garments,

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10 “‘The high priest, the one among his brothers who has had the anointing oil poured on his head(A) and who has been ordained to wear the priestly garments,(B) must not let his hair become unkempt[a] or tear his clothes.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 21:10 Or not uncover his head