Parallel Verses

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.

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;

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.

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 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 You are the sons of Jehovah your God. You shall not cut yourselves nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God, and Jehovah has chosen you to be a peculiar people to Himself, above all the nations that are on the earth.



Cross References

Romans 9:8

That is, not the children of the flesh are children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for a seed.

Galatians 3:26

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

Leviticus 21:5

They shall not make baldness on their head, nor shall they shave the corner of their beard, nor make any cutting in their flesh.

Jeremiah 16:6

Both the great and the small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, nor shall men mourn for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.

Jeremiah 41:5

some men from Shechem came from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, with their beards shaved, and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with offerings 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. "You are not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God."

Leviticus 19:27-28

You shall not round the side of your head, nor mar the edge of your beard.

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the sons of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered. And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, there it shall be said to them, You are the sons of the living God.

John 1:12

But as many as received Him, He gave to them authority to become the children of God, to those who believe on His name,

Romans 8:16

The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God.

Genesis 6:2

the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were good. And they took wives for themselves from all whom they chose.

Genesis 6:4

There were giants in the earth in those days. And also after that, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore to them, they were mighty men who existed of old, men of renown.

Exodus 4:22-23

And you shall say to Pharaoh, Thus says the Lord: Israel is My son, My first-born.

Psalm 82:6-7

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

Jeremiah 3:19

But I said, How shall I put you among the sons, and give you a pleasant land, a beautiful inheritance among the hosts of nations? And I said, You shall call Me, My Father, and shall not turn away from Me.

Jeremiah 47:5

Baldness has come on Gaza. Ashkelon is cut off with the rest of their valley. How long will you cut yourself?

John 11:52

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

2 Corinthians 6:18

and I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

1 Thessalonians 4:13

But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, concerning those who are asleep, that you be not grieved, even as others 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 into glory, to perfect the Captain of their salvation through sufferings.

1 John 3:1-2

Behold what manner of love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God. Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

1 John 3:10

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the Devil: everyone not practicing righteousness is not of God, also he who does not love his brother.

1 John 5:2

By this we know that we love the children of God, whenever we love God and keep His commandments.

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