Leviticus 19:27-28
19:27 You must not round off the corners of the hair on your head or ruin the corners of your beard.
19:28 You must not slash your body for a dead person
or incise a tattoo on yourself.
I am the
Lord.
Deuteronomy 14:1-2
The Holy and the Profane
14:1 You are children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead bald for the sake of the dead.
14:2 For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 10:4
10:4 The
Lord then wrote on the tablets the same words,
the ten commandments,
which he
had spoken to you at the mountain from the middle of the fire at the time of that assembly, and he
gave them to me.
Isaiah 15:2
15:2 They went up to the temple,
the people of Dibon went up to the high places to lament.
Because of what happened to Nebo and Medeba, Moab wails.
Every head is shaved bare,
every beard is trimmed off.