²⁷ You are not to cut off the hair at the sides of your head or mar the edge of your beard.^{(A) 28} You are not to make gashes on your bodies for the dead^(B) or put tattoo marks on yourselves; I am the Lord.

⁵ ‘Priests may not make bald spots on their heads, shave the edge of their beards, or make gashes on their bodies.^(A)