Primary Verses:

1. Lev. 21:5

   • "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."

Supporting Verses:

2. Eze. 44:20
   • "Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads."
3. Lev. 19:27-28

   • "Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.  Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am YHVH."

4. Deut. 14:1

   • "Ye are the children of YHVH your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead."

5. Is. 15:2

   • "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."

6. Is. 22:12

   • "And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:"

7. Jer. 16:6

   • "Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:"

8. Jer. 48:37

   • "For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth."

9. Amos 8:10

   • "And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day."

10. Micah 1:16

    • "Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee."