14:1 You are children 3 of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead bald 4 for the sake of the dead.
1 tn Heb “heart and soul” or “heart and being.” See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.
2 tn On the Hebrew term טוֹטָפֹת (totafot, “reminders”), cf. Deut 6:4-9.
3 tn Heb “sons” (so NASB); TEV, NLT “people.”
4 sn Do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead bald. These were pagan practices associated with mourning the dead; they were not be imitated by God’s people (though they frequently were; cf. 1 Kgs 18:28; Jer 16:6; 41:5; 47:5; Hos 7:14 [LXX]; Mic 5:1). For other warnings against such practices see Lev 21:5; Jer 16:5.