Charles Ellicott Commentary Deuteronomy 14:1

"Ye are the children of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead." — Deuteronomy 14:1 (ASV)

You are the children of Jehovah. —This fact is made the foundation of all the laws of ceremonial and moral holiness in the Pentateuch, especially in the Book of Leviticus, where these laws are chiefly to be found.

You shall not cut yourselves. —The precept is repeated with little variation from Leviticus 19:28.

Any baldness between your eyes — i.e., apparently, “on your foreheads.” The word for baldness in this place is generally used for baldness on the back of the head.