Deuteronomy 14:1-2
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Chapter 14
Improper Mourning Rites. 1 You are children of the Lord, your God. You shall not gash yourselves nor shave the hair above your foreheads for the dead.(A) 2 For you are a people holy to the Lord, your God; the Lord, your God, has chosen you from all the peoples on the face of the earth to be a people specially his own.(B)
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