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You are the children of Yahweh your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
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Identity Drives Behavior
Commentators emphasize that the verse begins by establishing Israel's identity: "You are the children of the Lord your God." This special relationship, described as a form of national adoption, is the foundation for the commands that follow. As God's chosen people, their behavior, even in grief, was meant to reflect their holy status and separate them from the practices of surrounding nations.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Make any baldness between your eyes - that is, by shaving the front part of the head and the eyebrows. The practices named in this …
19th Century
Anglican
You are the children of Jehovah. —This fact is made the foundation of all the laws of ceremonial and moral holiness in th…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
You are the children of the Lord your God Some of them were so by the special grace of adoption, and all of them by …
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