Deuteronomy:14:1-2
rsv@Deuteronomy:14:1 @ "You are the sons of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.
rsv@Deuteronomy:14:2 @ 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.