Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

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

New American Standard Bible

“You are the sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

“You are sons of the Lord your God; do not cut yourselves or make a bald spot on your head on behalf of the dead,

International Standard Version

"You are children of the LORD your God. You must not lacerate yourselves or shave your foreheads on account of the dead,

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

“You are the sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead,

Bible in Basic English

You are the children of the Lord your God: you are not to make cuts on your bodies or take off the hair on your brows in honour of the dead;

Julia Smith Translation

Ye the sons of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, and ye shall not put baldness between your eyes for the dead.

King James 2000

You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any bald place on your foreheads for the dead.

Lexham Expanded Bible

"You [are] children of Yahweh your God; [therefore] you must not gash yourself, and {you must not make your forehead bald} for [the] dead.

Modern King James verseion

You are the sons of Jehovah your God. You shall not cut yourselves nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Ye are the children of the LORD your God; cut not yourselves nor make you any baldness between the eyes for any man's death.

NET Bible

You are children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead bald for the sake of the dead.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Sons, are ye unto Yahweh your God, - ye shall not cut yourselves, neither shall ye put baldness between your eyes for the dead.

Webster

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

World English Bible

You are the children of Yahweh your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

Youngs Literal Translation

Sons ye are to Jehovah your God; ye do not cut yourselves, nor make baldness between your eyes for the dead;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
of the Lord

Usage: 0

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

ye shall not cut
גּדד 
Gadad 
Usage: 9

שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

קרחא קרחה 
Qorchah 
Usage: 11

Context Readings

Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity

1 Ye are sons of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for a dead person. 2 For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God, and thee hath Jehovah chosen for a people of possession unto himself, out of all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

Cross References

Romans 9:8

That is, they that are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned as seed.

Galatians 3:26

for ye are all God's sons by faith in Christ Jesus.

Leviticus 21:5

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

Jeremiah 16:6

Both great and small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried; and none shall lament for them, or cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.

Jeremiah 41:5

that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, eighty men, having their beards shaven and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves; with oblations and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Jehovah.

Romans 9:26

And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there shall they be called Sons of the living God.

Leviticus 19:27-28

ye shall not shave the corners of your head round, neither shalt thou mutilate the corners of thy beard.

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea which cannot be measured or numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, it shall be said unto them, Sons of the living God.

John 1:12

but as many as received him, to them gave he the right to be children of God, to those that believe on his name;

Romans 8:16

The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are children of God.

Genesis 6:2

that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and took themselves wives of all that they chose.

Genesis 6:4

In those days were the giants on the earth, and also afterwards, when the sons of God had come in to the daughters of men, and they had borne children to them; these were the heroes, who of old were men of renown.

Exodus 4:22-23

And thou shalt say to Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah: Israel is my son, my firstborn.

Psalm 82:6-7

I have said, Ye are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High;

Jeremiah 3:19

And as for me, I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee the pleasant land, the goodly inheritance of the hosts of the nations? And I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from following me.

Jeremiah 47:5

Baldness is come upon Gazah; Ashkelon is cut off, the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?

John 11:52

and not for the nation only, but that he should also gather together into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

2 Corinthians 6:18

and I will be to you for a Father, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

1 Thessalonians 4:13

But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are fallen asleep, to the end that ye be not grieved even as also the rest who have no hope.

Hebrews 2:10

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

1 John 3:1-2

See what love the Father has given to us, that we should be called the children of God. For this reason the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

1 John 3:10

In this are manifest the children of God and the children of the devil. Whoever does not practise righteousness is not of God, and he who does not love his brother.

1 John 5:2

Hereby know we that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

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