Ezequiel 44:20

20 'No se afeitarán la cabeza, ni se dejarán crecer el cabello; sólo se recortarán el pelo de su cabeza.

Ezequiel 44:20 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 44:20

Neither shall they shave their heads
As the priests and worshippers of Isis and Serapis did, as Jerom on the text observes; and as the Romish priests now do, from whom the Lord's faithful ministers must be distinguished: nor suffer their locks to grow long;
as the Nazarites, that a distinction might be preserved between those who were and were not such; or rather, after the manner of women, their locks hanging down, and flowing about their shoulders, as a token of levity, wantonness, effeminacy, pride, and vanity; see ( 1 Corinthians 11:14 1 Corinthians 11:15 ) : they shall only poll their heads;
observe a medium between both; neither shave their heads close, nor let their hair grow long, but keep it in an even moderate length; for which reason godly men of the last age among us were called "round heads".

Ezequiel 44:20 In-Context

18 'Llevarán turbantes de lino sobre sus cabezas, y calzoncillos de lino sobre sus lomos; no se ceñirán de nada que los haga sudar.

19 'Cuando salgan al atrio exterior, al atrio exterior donde está el pueblo, se quitarán las vestiduras con que han estado sirviendo y las dejarán en las cámaras sagradas, y se pondrán otras vestiduras a fin de no santificar al pueblo con sus vestiduras.

20 'No se afeitarán la cabeza, ni se dejarán crecer el cabello; sólo se recortarán el pelo de su cabeza.

21 'Ningún sacerdote beberá vino cuando entre al atrio interior.

22 'No tomará por mujer ni a viuda ni a divorciada, sino que tomará a una virgen del linaje de la casa de Israel, o a una viuda que sea viuda de sacerdote.