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28 Do not lacerate your bodies for the dead, and do not tattoo yourselves.[a](A) I am the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 19:28 Do not tattoo yourselves: see note on Gn 4:15. This prohibition probably refers only to the common ancient Near Eastern practice of branding a slave with its owner’s name as well as branding the devotees of a god with its name.

Chapter 14

Improper Mourning Rites. You are children of the Lord, your God. You shall not gash yourselves nor shave the hair above your foreheads for the dead.(A)

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