²⁶ And when he had his hair cut, (which he did at the end of every year, because of the weight of his hair;) the weight of the hair was two hundred shekels by the king's weight.

⁹ And Absalom came across some of David's men. And Absalom was seated on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great tree, and his head became fixed in the tree and he was lifted up between earth and heaven, and the beast under him went on.

²⁰ They are not to have all the hair cut off their heads, and they are not to let their hair get long, but they are to have the ends of their hair cut.

¹⁶ And Abraham took note of the price fixed by Ephron in the hearing of the children of Heth, and gave him four hundred shekels in current money.

³⁶ Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;

²⁴ And in the place of sweet spices will be an evil smell, and for a fair band a thick cord; for a well-dressed head there will be the cutting-off of the hair, and for a beautiful robe there will be the clothing of sorrow; the mark of the prisoner in place of the ornaments of the free.

⁹ This is what the Lord has said: Let this be enough for you, O rulers of Israel: let there be an end of violent behaviour and wasting; do what is right, judging uprightly; let there be no more driving out of my people, says the Lord.

¹⁰ Have true scales and a true ephah and a true bath.

¹¹ The ephah and the bath are to be of the same measure, so that the bath is equal to a tenth of a homer, and the ephah to a tenth of a homer: the unit of measure is to be a homer.

¹² And the shekel is to be twenty gerahs: five shekels are five, and ten shekels are ten, and your maneh is to be fifty shekels

¹³ This is the offering you are to give: a sixth of an ephah out of a homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah out of a homer of barley;

¹⁴ And the fixed measure of oil is to be a tenth of a bath from the cor, for ten baths make up the cor;

¹⁴ Does it not seem natural to you that if a man has long hair, it is a cause of shame to him?