Deuteronomy 14:1-2

American Standard Version

14 Ye are the children of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. ² For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God, and Jehovah hath chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, ^[a]above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.