Leviticus 21:5

AKJV⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ They shall not make baldness on their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

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not make baldness.This custom is also called rounding the corners of the head, (ch. 19:27,) and seems to have been performed in honour of some idol.
Leviticus 10:6; Leviticus 19:27; Leviticus 19:28; Deuteronomy 14:1; Isaiah 15:2; Isaiah 22:12; Jeremiah 16:6; Jeremiah 48:37; Ezekiel 44:20
Amos 8:10; Micah 1:16
the corner.The Hebrew {peath zakon}, may denote the whiskers; as the Syriac {phatho} signifies. These are by the Arabs, according to Niebuhr, still cut entirely off, or worn quite short; and hence they are called by Jeremiah, [qtswtsy p'h,] those with cropped whiskers. Perhaps some superstition, of which we are ignorant, was connected with this; but whether or not, it was the object of Moses to keep the Israelites distinct from other nations.