Deuteronomy 14:1
Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, no, make any baldness for the dead;
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Genesis 6:4Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men and they brought forth children, these are the mighty men of old, men of renown.
Leviticus 19:27Nor shall you cut your hair roundwise: nor shave your beard.
Leviticus 21:5Neither shall they shave their head, nor their beard, nor make incisions in their flesh.
Psalms 82:6I have said: You are gods and all of you the sons of the most High.
Jeremiah 3:19But I said: How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a lovely land, the goodly inheritance of the armies of the Gentiles? And I said: Thou shalt call me father and shalt cease to walk after me.
Jeremiah 31:9They shall come with weeping: and I will bring them back in mercy: and I will bring them through the torrents of waters in a right way, and they shall not stumble in it: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 14:1
Moses in this chapter teaches them, I. To distinguish themselves from their neighbours by a singularity, 1. In their mourning, ver. 1, 2 . 2. In their meat, ver. 3-21 . II. To devote themselves unto God, and, in token of that, to give him his dues out of their estates, the yearly tithe, and that every third year, for the maintenance of their religious feasts, the Levites, and the poor, ver. 22 , &c. Read the whole commentary →