What does the Bible say about facial hair?

17 verses about facial hair, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.

10 booksMost in 2 Samuel

Bible verses about facial hair

Leviticus 19:27 — Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. 16 votes
2 Samuel 10:4 — 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. 10 votes
Leviticus 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. 9 votes
Ezra 9:3 — And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied. 7 votes
Psalms 133:2 — It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; 7 votes
Jeremiah 41:5 — 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. 5 votes
Ezekiel 5:1 — 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. 5 votes
2 Samuel 19:24 — 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. 4 votes
1 Chronicles 19:4 — Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away. 4 votes
Isaiah 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. 4 votes
Isaiah 50:6 — I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. 4 votes
1 Corinthians 11:14 — Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? 4 votes
Jeremiah 48:37 — For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. 3 votes
Ezekiel 44:20 — Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads. 3 votes
1 Samuel 21:13 — 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. 2 votes
2 Samuel 10:5 — When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return. 2 votes
Isaiah 7:20 — 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. 2 votes

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2 Samuel (3), Isaiah (3), Leviticus (2), Jeremiah (2), Ezekiel (2), 1 Samuel (1), 1 Chronicles (1), Ezra (1), Psalms (1), 1 Corinthians (1)

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