Deuteronomy 14:1
“You [are] sons of your God YHWH; you do not cut yourselves, nor make baldness between your eyes for the dead;
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Genesis 6:4The giants were in the earth in those days, and even afterward, when sons of God come in to the daughters of men, and they have borne to them those who [were] the mighty from of old, the men of renown.
Leviticus 19:27You do not round the corner of your head, nor destroy the corner of your beard.
Leviticus 21:5they do not make baldness on their head, and they do not shave the corner of their beard, and they do not make a cutting in their flesh;
Psalms 82:6I have said, “You [are] gods, || And sons of the Most High—all of you,
Jeremiah 3:19And I have said, How do I put you among the sons, || And give a desirable land to you, || A beautiful inheritance of the hosts of nations, || And I say, You call Me—My Father, || And you do not turn back from after Me.
Jeremiah 31:9They come in with weeping, || And I bring them with supplications, || I cause them to go to streams of waters, || In a right way—they do not stumble in it, || For I have been a Father to Israel, || And Ephraim—he [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 →