Deuteronomy 14:1
You are the children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
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Genesis 6:4The 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.
Leviticus 19:27"'You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your heads, neither shall you clip off the edge of your beard.
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.
Psalms 82:6I 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 31:9They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; 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 →