KJV King James Version
Ye [are] the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
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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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,
WEB World English Bible
You are the children of Yahweh your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
ASV American Standard Version
Ye are the children of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Sons ye are to Jehovah your God; ye do not cut yourselves, nor make baldness between your eyes for the dead;
Surrounding context — 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.
2 For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that [are] upon the earth.
3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
4 These [are] the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
בָּנִ֣יםH1121 · benson: childאַתֶּ֔םH859 · at.tahyou(m.s.)לַֽיהוָ֖הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDאֱלֹהֵיכֶ֑םH430 · e.lo.himGodלֹ֣אH3808 · lonotתִתְגֹּֽדְד֗וּH1413 · ga.dadto cutוְלֹֽא־H3808 · lonotתָשִׂ֧ימוּH7760 · sumto set: makeקָרְחָ֛הH7144 · qor.chahbald spotבֵּ֥יןH996 · ba.yinbetweenעֵינֵיכֶ֖םH5869 · a.yineyeלָמֵֽת׃H4191 · mutto die
Cross-references
Galatians 3:26For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.Romans 9:8That 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.Leviticus 21:5They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.Romans 9:26And it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye [are] not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.Jeremiah 41:5That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, [even] fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring [them] to the house of the LORD.Romans 8:16The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:Hosea 1:10Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye [are] not my people, [there] it shall be said unto them, [Ye are] the sons of the living God.Jeremiah 16:6Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall [men] lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:John 1:12But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name:Hebrews 2:10For it became him, for whom [are] all things, and by whom [are] all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.Jeremiah 3:19But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.2 Corinthians 6:18And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.Leviticus 19:27-28Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.John 11:52And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.1 John 3:1-2Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.Psalm 82:6-7I have said, Ye [are] gods; and all of you [are] children of the most High.1 John 3:10In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.Genesis 6:4There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare [children] to them, the same [became] mighty men which [were] of old, men of renown.
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