Deuteronomy 14:1

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Summary

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

The children

Ye shall not

Bible References

The children

Then the sons of God saw the daughters of humankind, that they [were] beautiful. And they took for themselves wives from all that they chose.

And you must say to Pharaoh, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Israel [is] my son, my firstborn."

I have said, "You [are] gods, and sons of the Most High, all of you.

Then I thought, 'How I would set you among the children, and I would give you a land of desire, an inheritance of [the] glory of [the] hosts of nations.' And I thought, 'You would call me, "My father," and you would not turn back from {behind} me.'

The number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea that cannot be measured or counted; and in the place where it is said to them, "You are not my people," it will be said to them, "Children of [the] living God."

But as many as received him--to those who believe in his name--he gave to them authority to become children of God,

and not for the nation only, but also that the children of God who are scattered would be gathered into one.)

The Spirit himself confirms to our spirit that we are children of God,

That is, [it is] not the children {by human descent} [who are] children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as descendants.

and I will be a father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me," says the all-powerful Lord.

For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus,

For it was fitting for him for whom [are] all [things] and through whom [are] all [things] in bringing many sons to glory to perfect the originator of their salvation through sufferings.

See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called children of God, and we are! Because of this the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and keep his commandments.

Ye shall not

You shall not round off the corner [hair] of your head, and you shall not trim the corner of your beard.

" 'And they shall not shave bald patches on their head, and they shall not shave off the corner of their beard, and they shall not make a cut in their body.

Both the great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried, and they will not mourn for them, and no one will cut himself with a blade, and no one will shave himself for them.

then men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, eighty men [with] shaven beards and torn garments, [who had] cut themselves with blades, {having} grain offerings and frankincense in their hands to bring [to] the {temple} of Yahweh.

Baldness has come upon Gaza, Ashkelon is destroyed. O remnant of their valley, {how long} will you cut yourself with a blade?

Now we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you will not grieve as also the rest, who have no hope.