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Leviticus 19:28

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Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I [am] the LORD.

Ye shall not make {H5414} any {H3793} cuttings {H8296} in your flesh {H1320} for the dead {H5315}, nor print {H5414} any marks {H7085} upon you: I am the LORD {H3068}.

Don't cut gashes in your flesh when someone dies or tattoo yourselves; I am ADONAI.

You must not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am Jehovah.

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Cross-References

  • Deuteronomy 14:1 (25 votes)

    ¶ Ye [are] the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

  • Leviticus 21:5 (16 votes)

    They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

  • 1 Kings 18:28 (16 votes)

    And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.

  • Jeremiah 16:6 (12 votes)

    Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall [men] lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:

  • Leviticus 21:1 (12 votes)

    ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:

  • Mark 5:5 (9 votes)

    And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.

  • Jeremiah 48:37 (9 votes)

    For every head [shall be] bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands [shall be] cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.