Deuteronomy 14:1-2

Revised Standard Version

Pagan Practices Forbidden

14 “You are the sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead. ² For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth.