Parallel Verses

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.

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 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.

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 children of the LORD 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 the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Cross References

Romans 9:8

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

Galatians 3:26

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

Leviticus 21:5

"'They shall not shave their heads, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

Jeremiah 16:6

Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them;

Jeremiah 41:5

that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.

Romans 9:26

"It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"

Leviticus 19:27-28

"'You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your heads, neither shall you clip off the edge of your beard.

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can't be measured nor numbered; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'

John 1:12

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name,

Romans 8:16

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

Genesis 6:2

that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.

Genesis 6:4

The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came in to men's daughters. They bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

Exodus 4:22-23

You shall tell Pharaoh, 'Thus says the LORD, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

Psalm 82:6-7

I said, "You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.

Jeremiah 3:19

"But I said, 'How I would put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations.' and I said, 'You shall call me "My Father," and shall not turn away from following me.'

Jeremiah 47:5

Baldness has come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself?

John 11:52

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

2 Corinthians 6:18

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,' says the Lord Almighty."

1 Thessalonians 4:13

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

Hebrews 2:10

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

1 John 3:1-2

Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause 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. Whoever does not do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who does not love his brother.

1 John 5:2

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments.

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