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26 ‘You shall not eat anything (A)with the blood nor interpret (B)omens or soothsaying. 27 (C)You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the edges of your beard. 28 And you shall not make any cuts in your [a]body for the [b]dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am Yahweh.

29 (D)Do not [c]profane your daughter by making her a harlot, so that the land will not fall to harlotry and the land become full of lewdness.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 19:28 Lit flesh
  2. Leviticus 19:28 Lit soul
  3. Leviticus 19:29 Or degrade

26 You shall not eat meat with the blood in it.

You shall not interpret omens, nor shall you perform divination.

27 You shall not round off the hair on the side of your heads, nor shall you disfigure the edge of your beard. 28 You shall not make a gash in your flesh for the dead, nor shall you put tattoos on yourselves. I am the Lord your God.

29 You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land will not be subjected to prostitution and filled with depravity.

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