the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Deuteronomy 14:1
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“You are sons of the Lord your God; do not cut yourselves or make a bald spot on your head on behalf of the dead,
You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
"You are children of Yahweh your God; therefore you must not gash yourself, and you must not make your forehead bald for the dead.
"You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.
You are the children of the Lord your God. When someone dies, do not cut yourselves or shave your heads to show your sadness.
You are children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead bald for the sake of the dead.
"You are the sons of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead,
"You are sons of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave a bald spot above your forehead for the dead.
Ye are the children of the Lord your God. Ye shall not cut yourselues, nor make you any baldnesse betweene your eyes for the dead.
"You are the sons of Yahweh your God; you shall not gash yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead.
Moses said: People of Israel, you are the Lord 's children, so when you mourn for the dead, you must not cut yourselves or shave your forehead.
(iv) "You are the people of Adonai your God. You are not to gash yourselves or shave the hair above your foreheads in mourning for the dead,
Ye are sons of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for a dead person.
"You are the children of the Lord your God. When someone dies, you must not cut yourselves or shave your heads to show your sadness.
YOU are the children of the LORD your God; you shall not make tattooed patterns in the skin, nor any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
"You are the people of the Lord your God. So when you mourn for the dead, don't gash yourselves or shave the front of your head, as other people do.
You are sons to Jehovah your God; you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Ye are the children of the LORDE youre God, Cut not youre selues therfore, & make you no baldnesse betwene youre eyes ouer eny deed.
Ye are the children of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
You are the children of the Lord your God: you are not to make cuts on your bodies or take off the hair on your brows in honour of the dead;
Ye are the childre of the Lord your God: Ye shall not cut your selues, nor make you any baldnes betwene your eyes for ye dead man.
Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Yee are the children of the Lord your God: yee shall not cutte your selues, nor make any baldnesse betweene your eyes for the dead.
Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not make any baldness between you eyes for the dead.
You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead on behalf of the dead,
Be ye the sones of youre Lord God; ye schulen not kitte you, nether ye schulen make ballidnesse,
`Sons ye [are] to Jehovah your God; ye do not cut yourselves, nor make baldness between your eyes for the dead;
You are the sons of Yahweh your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Ye [are] the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
You are the children of Yahweh your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
"You are the children of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave the front of your head for the dead.
"Since you are the people of the Lord your God, never cut yourselves or shave the hair above your foreheads in mourning for the dead.
"You are the sons of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or cut the hair from your foreheads because of the dead.
You are children of the Lord your God. You must not lacerate yourselves or shave your forelocks for the dead.
Sons, are ye unto Yahweh your God, - ye shall not cut yourselves, neither shall ye put baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness for the dead;
"You are the sons of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.
You are children of God , your God, so don't mutilate your bodies or shave your heads in funeral rites for the dead. You only are a people holy to God , your God; God chose you out of all the people on Earth as his cherished personal treasure.
"You are the sons of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the children: Genesis 6:2, Genesis 6:4, Exodus 4:22, Exodus 4:23, Psalms 82:6, Psalms 82:7, Jeremiah 3:19, Hosea 1:10, John 1:12, John 11:52, Romans 8:16, Romans 9:8, Romans 9:26, 2 Corinthians 6:18, Galatians 3:26, Hebrews 2:10, 1 John 3:1, 1 John 3:2, 1 John 3:10, 1 John 5:2
ye shall not: The heathen nations not only did these things in honour of their gods, but in grief for the death of a relative. Leviticus 19:27, Leviticus 19:28, Leviticus 21:5, Jeremiah 16:6, Jeremiah 41:5, Jeremiah 47:5, 1 Thessalonians 4:13
Reciprocal: Genesis 7:2 - every clean Leviticus 11:4 - unclean unto you Judges 20:7 - ye are all 1 Kings 18:28 - cut themselves Isaiah 15:2 - all Ezekiel 27:31 - they shall make Ezekiel 44:20 - shave John 8:41 - we have Acts 10:14 - for Romans 9:4 - the adoption
Cross-References
The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram.
And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall remain, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam; besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
And Elam bare the quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.
Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?
and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;
There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God; and he carried them into the land of Shinar to the house of his god: and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.
And he said unto me, To build her an house in the land of Shinar: and when it is prepared, she shall be set there in her own place.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Ye are the children of the Lord your God,.... Some of them were so by the special grace of adoption, and all of them by national adoption; which was the peculiar privilege of the people of Israel, and laid them under great obligation to honour and obey the Lord their God, who stood in the relation of a father to them, and they of children to him, Malachi 1:6. The Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it "beloved children"; so the apostle calls the saints; the "dear children of God", who therefore ought to be followers of him, Ephesians 5:1 and for a like reason this relation is observed here, namely, to quicken a regard to the exhortations of the Lord, his cautions, commands, laws, and ordinances, particularly to what follows:
ye shall not cut yourselves; for the dead, as appears from the next clause, as the Heathens did, who not only tore their garments, but their flesh in several parts of their bodies, in their mouths, cheeks, breasts, c. r and used other extravagant signs of mourning, which the apostle cautions against, 1 Thessalonians 4:13 and were condemned by the Heathens themselves s. Though some think this refers to incisions the Heathens made in their flesh to the honour of their gods, cutting the names of them therein to whom they devoted themselves; or lashing their bodies at the worship of them, as the worshippers of Baal did when they called upon him, 1 Kings 18:28 and so the Jerusalem Targum,
"make not marks, marks,''
that is, here and there, in many places, or bruises black and blue by striping and beating themselves, for strange worship, or at it, in honour of their gods; but the former sense seems best to agree with what follows; see Leviticus 19:28,
nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead; by shaving the forepart of their head or their eyebrows, or both, which used to be done in lamentations for the dead; see Jeremiah 16:6 if this could be thought to have any respect to rites and ceremonies used in the worship of dead and lifeless idols, the customs of the Egyptians might be referred to, who are said to shave their heads and their eyebrows in their sacred rites to Isis t.
r Vid. Virgil. Aeneid. 12. ver. 870, 871. and Servium in Aeneid. 1. ver. 78. and in l. 12. s Vid. Cicero de Leg. l. 2. c. 23. and Tusculan. Quaest. l. 3. c. 27. t Ambros. Epist. l. 4. c. 30. p. 259.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Make any baldness between your eyes - i. e. by shaving the forepart of the head and the eyebrows. The practices named in this verse were common among the pagan, and seem to be forbidden, not only because such wild excesses of grief (compare 1 Kings 18:28) would be inconsistent in those who as children of a heavenly Father had prospects beyond this world, but also because these usages themselves arose out of idolatrous notions.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XIV
The Israelites are not to adopt superstitious customs in
mourning, 1, 2.
The different kinds of clean and unclean animals, 3-20.
Nothing to be eaten that dieth of itself, 21.
Concerning offerings which, from distance cannot be carried to
the altar of God, and which may be turned into money, 22-26.
The Levite is not to be forsaken, 27.
The third year's tithe for the Levite, stranger, widow, c.,
28, 29.
NOTES ON CHAP. XIV
Verse Deuteronomy 14:1. Ye are the children of the Lord — The very highest character that can be conferred on any created beings ye shall not cut yourselves, i. e., their hair, for it was a custom among idolatrous nations to consecrate their hair to their deities, though they sometimes also made incisions in their flesh.
