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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.

28 “‘Do not cut(A) your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the Lord.

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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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Clean and Unclean Food(A)

14 You are the children(B) of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead,

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