en_tn/deu/14/01.md

Moses continues speaking to the people of Israel.

Do not cut yourselves, nor shave any part of your face for the dead

These were ways the people groups living in Canaan grieved over people who had died. Moses is telling the people of Israel not to act like them. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit)

nor shave any part of your face

AT: "nor shave the front of your head"

a people for his own possession

AT: "a people for his treasured possession" or "his people"

more than all peoples that are on the surface of the earth

AT: "out of all the people groups in the world"