Deuteronomy 14:1
Children are you before the Lord your God. You shall not lacerate yourselves, nor make baldness between your eyes for the dead;
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Genesis 6:4Giants were in the earth in those days; and also when, after that the sons of the mighty had gone in unto the daughters of men, there were born from them giants who from of old were men of name.
Leviticus 19:27You shall not shave the hair on your head in a circle, nor destroy the hair of thy beard,
Leviticus 21:5They shall not make baldness on their heads, nor cut away the hair of their beards, nor scarify their flesh with marks.
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 →