²⁸ So they shouted louder, and following their normal custom, they cut themselves with knives and swords until the blood gushed out.

²⁸ “Do not cut your bodies for the dead, and do not mark your skin with tattoos. I am the Lord.

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14 “Since you are the people of the Lord your God, never cut yourselves or shave the hair above your foreheads in mourning for the dead.

⁵ Day and night he wandered among the burial caves and in the hills, howling and cutting himself with sharp stones.

²² The spirit often throws him into the fire or into water, trying to kill him. Have mercy on us and help us, if you can.”