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Leviticus 19:26-31

Avoiding Pagan Practices

Leviticus 19:26-31

Avoiding Pagan Practices

26
`Ye do not eat with the blood; ye do not enchant, nor observe clouds.
27
`Ye do not round the corner of your head, nor destroy the corner of thy beard.
28
`And a cutting for the soul ye do not put in your flesh; and a writing, a cross-mark, ye do not put on you; I am Jehovah.
29
`Thou dost not pollute thy daughter to cause her to go a-whoring, that the land go not a-whoring, and the land hath been full of wickedness.
30
`My sabbaths ye do keep, and My sanctuary ye do reverence; I am Jehovah.
31
`Ye do not turn unto those having familiar spirits; and unto wizards ye do not seek, for uncleanness by them; I am Jehovah your God.

See also

Where else Scripture says this.

  • Deuteronomy 14:1

    `Sons ye are to Jehovah your God; ye do not cut yourselves, nor make baldness between your eyes for the dead;
    from verse 27
  • Leviticus 21:5

    they do not make baldness on their head, and the corner of their beard they do not shave, and in their flesh they do not make a cutting;
    from verse 27
  • 1 Kings 18:28

    And they call with a loud voice, and cut themselves, according to their ordinance, with swords and with spears, till a flowing of blood is on them;
    from verse 28
  • Jeremiah 16:6

    And died have great and small in this land, They are not buried, and none lament for them, Nor doth any cut himself, nor become bald for them.
    from verse 27
  • Leviticus 21:1

    And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Speak unto the priests, sons of Aaron, and thou hast said unto them, For any person a priest is not defiled among his people,
    from verse 28
  • Isaiah 8:19

    And when they say unto you, `Seek unto those having familiar spirits, And unto wizards, who chatter and mutter, Doth not a people seek unto its God? --For the living unto the dead!
    from verse 31
  • Leviticus 20:27

    `And a man or woman--when there is in them a familiar spirit, or who are wizards--are certainly put to death; with stones they stone them; their blood is on them.'
    from verse 31
  • Jeremiah 48:37

    For every head is bald, and every beard diminished, On all hands cuttings, and on the loins--sackcloth.
    from verse 27
  • Mark 5:5

    and always, night and day, in the mountains, and in the tombs he was, crying and cutting himself with stones.
    from verse 28
  • Leviticus 20:6

    `And the person who turneth unto those having familiar spirits, and unto the wizards, to go a-whoring after them, I have even set My face against that person, and cut him off from the midst of his people.
    from verse 31
  • Leviticus 20:7

    `And ye have sanctified yourselves, and ye have been holy, for I am Jehovah your God;
    from verse 31
  • 2 Chronicles 33:6

    And he hath caused his sons to pass over through fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and observed clouds and used enchantments and witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and a wizard; he hath multiplied to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.
    from verse 26
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