Deuteronomy 14:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 14 Heathenish rites of mourning prohibited, Deuteronomy 14:1,2; and the eating of any abominable thing, Deuteronomy 14:3. All unclean beasts, Deuteronomy 14:4-8, fish, Deuteronomy 14:9,10, and birds, prohibited, Deuteronomy 14:11-20. True tithing commanded, Deuteronomy 14:22; and where it was to be eaten, Deuteronomy 14:23-27. A command about the third year's tithing, Deuteronomy 14:28; and who should eat it, Deuteronomy 14:29. Of the Lord your God; whom therefore you must not disparage by unworthy or unbecoming practices, such as here follow, and whom you must not disobey. Ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes, which were the practices of idolaters, both in the worship of their idols, as 1 Kings 18:28; or in their funerals, as here, and Jeremiah 16:6; or upon occasion of public calamities, as Jeremiah 41:5, Jeremiah 47:5. See Poole on "Leviticus 19:27", See Poole on "Leviticus 19:28". See Poole on "Leviticus 21:5". For the dead; through excessive sorrow for your dead friends, as if you had no hope of their happiness after death, 1 Thessalonians 4:13.