27 You are not to cut off the hair at the sides of your head or mar the edge of your beard.(A)

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23 Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all those who clip the hair on their temples;[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 25:23 Or who live in distant places

32 Their camels will become plunder,
and their massive herds of cattle will become spoil.(A)
I will scatter them to the wind in every direction,
those who clip the hair on their temples;
I will bring calamity on them across all their borders.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

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When you brought in foreigners,(A) uncircumcised in both heart and flesh,(B) to occupy my sanctuary, you defiled my temple while you offered my food—the fat and the blood. You[a] broke my covenant by all your detestable practices.

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Footnotes

  1. 44:7 LXX, Syr, Vg; MT reads They

“This is what the Lord God says: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, may enter my sanctuary, not even a foreigner who is among the Israelites.

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