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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.

KJV

Filii estote Domini Dei vestri : non vos incidetis, nec facietis calvitium super mortuo :

Vulgate

Υἱοί ἐστε Κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ ὑμῶν, οὐκ ἐπιθήσετε φαλάκρωμα ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν ὑμῶν ἐπὶ νεκρῷ·

LXX

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

ASV

בָּנִ֣ים אַתֶּ֔ם לַֽ/יהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵי/כֶ֑ם לֹ֣א תִתְגֹּֽדְד֗וּ וְ/לֹֽא תָשִׂ֧ימוּ קָרְחָ֛ה בֵּ֥ין עֵינֵי/כֶ֖ם לָ/מֵֽת

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אַתָּ֣ה
'th
pronoun · 1088×
בֵּ֥ין
byn
noun · 405×
בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
הוּ
hv
verb · 834×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יִּתְגֹּֽדְדוּ֙
ytgddv
verb · 7×
יָּ֥שֶׂם
yshm
verb · 581×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
ךָ
k
noun · 894×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
קָרְחָ֔ה
qrchh
noun · 11×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§441In the Old Testament, "son of God" is a title given to the angels, the Chosen People, the children of Israel, and their kings.44 It signifies an adoptive sonship that establishes a relationship of particular intimacy between God and his creature. When the promised Messiah-King is called "son of God", it does not necessarily imply that he was more than human, according to the li…

Cross-references

  • 1John 3:1 — Behold, 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.
  • 1John 3:10 — In 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.
  • 1Kgs 18:28 — And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
  • 2Cor 6:18 — And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
  • Acts 10:14 — But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
  • Exod 4:22 — And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
  • Ezek 44:20 — Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
  • Gal 3:26 — For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
  • Gen 6:2 — That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
  • Gen 6:2 — That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
  • Gen 6:4 — There 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,
  • Heb 2:10 — For 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.
  • Hos 1:10 — Yet 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
  • Jer 3:19 — But 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 m
  • Jer 16:6 — Both 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:
  • Jer 16:6 — Both 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:
  • Jer 41:5 — That 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 th
  • Jer 41:5 — That 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 th
  • John 1:12 — But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
  • John 11:52 — And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
  • Lev 19:27 — Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
  • Lev 19:27 — Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
  • Lev 19:28 — Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
  • Lev 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.
  • Lev 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.
  • Ps 82:6 — I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
  • Rom 8:16 — The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
  • Rom 9:4 — Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
  • Rom 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.
  • Rom 9:26 — And 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.