26 “You are not to eat anything with blood in it.[a](A) You are not to practice divination(B) or sorcery.(C) 27 You are not to cut off the hair at the sides of your head or mar the edge of your beard.(D) 28 You are not to make gashes on your bodies for the dead(E) or put tattoo marks on yourselves; I am Yahweh.

29 “Do not debase[b](F) your daughter by making her a prostitute,(G) or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

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  1. Leviticus 19:26 Or [anything] over its blood
  2. Leviticus 19:29 Lit profane

26 “‘You[a] must not eat anything with the blood; you[b] shall not practice divination, nor shall you[c] interpret signs. 27 You[d] shall not round off the corner hair of your[e] head, and you[f] shall not trim the corner of your[g] beard. 28 And you[h] shall not make a slash in your[i] body for a dead person, nor shall you[j] make on yourselves a tattoo’s mark; I am Yahweh.

29 “‘You[k] shall not profane your[l] daughter by making her a prostitute, lest the land be prostituted and the land fill up with depravity.[m]

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  1. Leviticus 19:26 Plural
  2. Leviticus 19:26 Plural
  3. Leviticus 19:26 Plural
  4. Leviticus 19:27 Plural
  5. Leviticus 19:27 Plural
  6. Leviticus 19:27 Singular
  7. Leviticus 19:27 Singular
  8. Leviticus 19:28 Plural
  9. Leviticus 19:28 Plural
  10. Leviticus 19:28 Plural
  11. Leviticus 19:29 Singular
  12. Leviticus 19:29 Singular
  13. Leviticus 19:29 Literally “and the land does not prostitute and the land fills up depravity” or “so that the land does not prostitute and the land fills up depravity”