“You!
O son of man!
Take a sharp sword!
Use it
As a barber’s razor!
Run it over your head!
Run it over your beard!
Then take the balances
For weighing!
Divide the hair!”
Yahweh gave Ezekiel, the son of man, a series of commands to do another symbolic action. Ezekiel was to take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor on his head and beard. It must have been common for men to have a full beard with a full head of hair. Then Ezekiel was to weigh all his hair and divide it up.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 