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Ezekiel Chapter 44 verse 20 Holy Bible

ASV Ezekiel 44:20

Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.
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BBE Ezekiel 44:20

They are not to have all the hair cut off their heads, and they are not to let their hair get long, but they are to have the ends of their hair cut.
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DARBY Ezekiel 44:20

Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long: they shall duly poll their heads.
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KJV Ezekiel 44:20

Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
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WBT Ezekiel 44:20

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WEB Ezekiel 44:20

Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.
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YLT Ezekiel 44:20

And their head they do not shave, and the lock they do not send forth; they certainly poll their heads.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - The next rubric concerned the mode in which the priests should wear their hair. It should neither be shaved nor worn long, thus avoiding excess on either side (compare for the first, Leviticus 21:5; and for the second, Leviticus 10:6; Leviticus 21:10, Revised Version), but should merely be polled. The obligation to let the hair grow freely was imposed upon the Nazarite only during the period of his vow (Numbers 6:5). The verb "to poll," or "cut" (כָּסַם), occurs nowhere else. Smend thinks what is here denied to the priests collectively is in the priest-code denied solely to the high priest (Leviticus 21:10, Revised Version; compare, however, Leviticus 10:6, Revised Version), and discovers in this a sign of the later origin of Leviticus. Ezekiel's raising the priesthood as a body to the rank of the high priest, of whom in connection with this temple is no trace, rather proves Ezekiel to have been later than Leviticus.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) Their locks to grow long.--The law forbade the shaving of the head (Leviticus 21:5), but only condemned letting the hair grow long by implication, providing for it in the exceptional case of the vow of the Nazarite. The prohibition of Ezekiel 44:21 is given in Leviticus 10:9.