“You are the children of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Deuteronomy 14 contains 29 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.