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Prohibited Practices

26 “You are not to eat anything containing blood, engage in occult practices,[a] or practice fortune telling.[b]

27 “You are not to cut your hair in ritualistic patterns[c] on your head or deface the edges of your beard.

28 “You are not to make incisions in your flesh on account of the dead nor submit to cuts or tattoos. I am the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 19:26 I.e. divination
  2. Leviticus 19:26 Or practice witchcraft
  3. Leviticus 19:27 Lit. cut the sides of your hair; i.e. as a sign of affiliation