“You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,”
Deuteronomy 14:1 (BSB)
Context Reading
1You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead, 2for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth. 3You must not eat any detestable thing.