Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 4:33 
Context4:33 Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it?
Deuteronomy 14:1
ContextThe Holy and the Profane
14:1 You are children 1 of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead bald 2 for the sake of the dead.
Deuteronomy 19:2
Context19:2 you must set apart for yourselves three cities 3 in the middle of your land that the Lord your God is giving you as a possession.
1 tn Heb “sons” (so NASB); TEV, NLT “people.”
2 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.
3 sn These three cities, later designated by Joshua, were Kedesh of Galilee, Shechem, and Hebron (Josh 20:7-9).
