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27 Do not clip your hair at the temples, nor spoil the edges of your beard. 28 Do not lacerate your bodies for the dead, and do not tattoo yourselves.[a](A) I am the Lord.

29 You shall not degrade your daughter by making a prostitute of her;(B) otherwise the land will prostitute itself and become full of lewdness.

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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.