<p class="poetry">It is like fine oil poured on the headp> <p class="poetry">which flows down the beard<n id="1" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">Aaron&#8217;s beard,p> <p class="poetry">and then flows down his garments.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;When a man or a woman has an infection on the head or in the beard,<n id="1" />

You must not round off the corners of the hair on your head or ruin the corners of your beard.<n id="1" />

Priests<n id="1" /> must not have a bald spot shaved on their head, they must not shave the corner of their beard, and they must not cut slashes in their body.<n id="2" />p>

I would go out after it, strike it down, and rescue the sheep from its mouth. If it rose up against me, I would grab it by its jaw, strike it, and kill it.

He altered his behavior in their presence.<n id="1" /> Since he was in their power,<n id="2" /> he pretended to be insane, making marks on the doors of the gate and letting his saliva run down his beard.p>

<p class="bodytext">So Hanun seized David&#8217;s servants and shaved off half of each one&#8217;s beard. He cut the lower part of their robes off so that their buttocks were exposed,<n id="1" /> and then sent them away.

Messengers<n id="1" /> told David what had happened,<n id="2" /> so he summoned them, for the men were thoroughly humiliated. The king said, &#8220;Stay in Jericho<n id="3" /> until your beards have grown again; then you may come back.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Joab said to Amasa, &#8220;How are you, my brother?&#8221; With his right hand Joab took hold of Amasa&#8217;s beard as if to greet him with a kiss.

<p class="bodytext">When I heard this report, I tore my tunic and my robe and ripped out some of the hair from my head and beard. Then I sat down, quite devastated.

At that time<n id="1" /> the sovereign master will use a razor hired from the banks of the Euphrates River,<n id="2" /> the king of Assyria, to shave the head and the pubic hair;<n id="3" /> it will also shave off the beard.

<p class="poetry">They went up to the temple,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the people of Dibon went up to the high places to lament.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Because of what happened to Nebo and Medeba,<n id="3" /> Moab wails.p> <p class="poetry">Every head is shaved bare,p> <p class="poetry">every beard is trimmed off.<n id="4" />p>

eighty men arrived from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria.<n id="1" /> They had shaved off their beards, torn their clothes, and cut themselves to show they were mourning.<n id="2" /> They were carrying grain offerings and incense to present at the temple of the <sc>Lordsc> in Jerusalem.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">For all of them will shave their heads in mourning.p> <p class="poetry">They will all cut off their beards to show their sorrow.p> <p class="poetry">They will all make gashes in their hands.p> <p class="poetry">They will all put on sackcloth.<n id="1" />p>

the priest is to examine the infection,<n id="1" /> and if<n id="2" /> it appears to be deeper than the skin<n id="3" /> and the hair in it is reddish yellow and thin, then the priest is to pronounce the person unclean.<n id="4" /> It is scall,<n id="5" /> a disease of the head or the beard.<n id="6" />

When the seventh day comes<n id="1" /> he must shave all his hair &#8211; his head, his beard, his eyebrows, all his hair &#8211; and he must wash his clothes, bathe his body in water, and so be clean.<n id="2" />p>

Messengers<n id="1" /> came and told David what had happened to the men, so he summoned them, for the men were thoroughly humiliated. The king said, &#8220;Stay in Jericho<n id="2" /> until your beards grow again; then you may come back.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber&#8217;s razor.<n id="1" /> Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard.<n id="2" /> Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off.