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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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
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…
Moses here tells the people of Israel,
I. How God had dignified them, as a peculiar people, with three distinguishing privileges, which were their honour, and figures of those spiritual blessings in…
Cambridge Bible
1 f. Against certain Rites for the Dead
No parallel in JE; but one in H, Lev 19:28 a.
1. Sons are ye to Jehovah your God The order of the EVV. misses the emphasis. Note not merely the change to the…
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