However, under the Law of Moses, baldness was not considered as uncleanness. (Le 13:40) The Law given through Moses does not list baldness as a defect that would prevent one from being allowed to serve as priest. In the prophet Ezekiel’s vision the command was given that the priests should wear their hair neither loose nor shaved, but clipped.​—Eze 44:20.

Priests were given a specific command that they should not make themselves bald or shave the extremities of their beards for the dead. (Le 21:5)