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Want to know what the Bible says about Baldness? Here are 53 Bible verses about Baldness from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Isaiah 3:24 NIV
Instead of fragrance there will be a stench;
    instead of a sash, a rope;
instead of well-dressed hair, baldness;
    instead of fine clothing, sackcloth;
    instead of beauty, branding.
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2 Kings 2:23-24 NIV
23 From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. “Get out of here, baldy!” they said. “Get out of here, baldy!” 24 He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.
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Micah 1:16 NIV
Shave your head in mourning
    for the children in whom you delight;
make yourself as bald as the vulture,
    for they will go from you into exile.
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Leviticus 13:41 NIV
If he has lost his hair from the front of his scalp and has a bald forehead, he is clean.
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Leviticus 21:5 NIV
“‘Priests must not shave their heads or shave off the edges of their beards or cut their bodies.
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2 Kings 2:23 NIV
From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. “Get out of here, baldy!” they said. “Get out of here, baldy!”
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Ezekiel 7:18 NIV
They will put on sackcloth
    and be clothed with terror.
Every face will be covered with shame,
    and every head will be shaved.
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Jeremiah 48:37 NIV
Every head is shaved
    and every beard cut off;
every hand is slashed
    and every waist is covered with sackcloth.
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Acts 18:18 NIV
Paul stayed on in Corinth for some time. Then he left the brothers and sisters and sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. Before he sailed, he had his hair cut off at Cenchreae because of a vow he had taken.
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Amos 8:10 NIV
I will turn your religious festivals into mourning
    and all your singing into weeping.
I will make all of you wear sackcloth
    and shave your heads.
I will make that time like mourning for an only son
    and the end of it like a bitter day.
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Jeremiah 47:5 NIV
Gaza will shave her head in mourning;
    Ashkelon will be silenced.
You remnant on the plain,
    how long will you cut yourselves?
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Isaiah 22:12 NIV
The Lord, the Lord Almighty,
    called you on that day
to weep and to wail,
    to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth.
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Deuteronomy 14:1 NIV
You are the children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead,
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Jeremiah 16:6 NIV
“Both high and low will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned, and no one will cut themselves or shave their head for the dead.
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Ezekiel 27:31 NIV
They will shave their heads because of you
    and will put on sackcloth.
They will weep over you with anguish of soul
    and with bitter mourning.
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Isaiah 15:2 NIV
Dibon goes up to its temple,
    to its high places to weep;
    Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba.
Every head is shaved
    and every beard cut off.
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Leviticus 13:40 NIV
“A man who has lost his hair and is bald is clean.
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Ezekiel 29:18 NIV
“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon drove his army in a hard campaign against Tyre; every head was rubbed bare and every shoulder made raw. Yet he and his army got no reward from the campaign he led against Tyre.
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Acts 21:24 NIV
Take these men, join in their purification rites and pay their expenses, so that they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know there is no truth in these reports about you, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law.
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Isaiah 3:17 NIV
Therefore the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the women of Zion;
    the Lord will make their scalps bald.
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