Deuteronomy 14:1 KJV — MannaFest

Deuteronomy 14:1

Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

KJV

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ASV

Ye are the children of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

WEB

You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,

YLT

`Sons ye are to Jehovah your God; ye do not cut yourselves, nor make baldness between your eyes for the dead;

DBT

Ye are sons of Jehovah yourGod: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for a dead person.

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Deuteronomy — Moses' farewell sermons on the plains of Moab. The covenant renewed for the generation about to cross — with the Shema at its heart and Moses' song on its lips.

Author: Moses — the sermons on the plains of Moab; ch. 34 (his death) traditionally attributed to Joshua
Date: The final weeks of Moses' life on the plains of Moab, c. 15th–13th century BC

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Leviticus 19:28
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
Leviticus 21:5
They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
Leviticus 19:27
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
Galatians 3:26
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Romans 9:8
That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

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): " You are the children of the Lord your God, formed by him into a people, owned by him as his people, nay, his family, a people near unto him, nearer than any other." Israel is my son, my first-born; not because he needed children, but because they were orphans, and needed a father.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

This forbids (as some think), not only their cutting themselves at their funerals, either to express their grief or with their own blood to appease the infernal deities, but their wounding and mangling themselves in the worship of their gods, as Baal's prophets did ( 1 Kings xviii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

ye shall not cut yourselves . . . for the dead--It was a common practice of idolaters, both on ceremonious occasions of their worship (1Ki 18:28), and at funerals (compare Jer 16:6;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Ye shall not cut yourselves - Which were the practices of idolaters, both in the worship of their idols, in their funerals, and upon occasion of public calamities. Is not this like a parent's charge to his little children, playing with knives, "Do not cut yourselves!" This is, the intention of those commands, which obliges us to deny ourselves.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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DEU 14:1HOS 1:10 2CO 6:18
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DEU 14:1HOS 1:10 GAL 4:6-7
DEU 14:1HOS 1:10 JHN 1:12
DEU 14:1HOS 1:10 ROM 9:25-28
DEU 14:1HOS 1:10 1PE 2:9-10
DEU 14:1GAL 3:26 EPH 1:5
DEU 14:1GAL 3:26 JHN 1:12-13
DEU 14:1GAL 3:26 GAL 4:5-6

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