Deuteronomy 14:1

¶ Ye [are] the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

Ye are the children {H1121} of the LORD {H3068} your God {H430}: ye shall not cut {H1413} yourselves, nor make {H7760} any baldness {H7144} between your eyes {H5869} for the dead {H4191}.

"You are the people of ADONAI your God. You are not to gash yourselves or shave the hair above your foreheads in mourning for the dead,

You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,

Ye are the children of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

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Cross-References

  • Romans 9:8 (6 votes)

    That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these [are] not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

  • Galatians 3:26 (6 votes)

    For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

  • Leviticus 21:5 (6 votes)

    They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

  • Romans 9:26 (5 votes)

    And it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye [are] not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.

  • Hebrews 2:10 (4 votes)

    ¶ For it became him, for whom [are] all things, and by whom [are] all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

  • Hosea 1:10 (4 votes)

    Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye [are] not my people, [there] it shall be said unto them, [Ye are] the sons of the living God.

  • Jeremiah 41:5 (4 votes)

    That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, [even] fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring [them] to the house of the LORD.