26 ‘You shall not eat any meat (A)with the blood. You shall not practice (B)divination nor soothsaying. 27 (C)You shall not round off the [a]hairline of your heads, nor trim the edges of your beard. 28 You shall not make any cuts in your [b]body for the [c]dead, nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the Lord.

29 (D)Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land does not fall into prostitution, and the land does not become full of outrageous sin.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 19:27 Lit side
  2. Leviticus 19:28 Lit flesh
  3. Leviticus 19:28 Lit soul

26 “Do not eat meat that has not been drained of its blood.

“Do not practice fortune-telling or witchcraft.

27 “Do not trim off the hair on your temples or trim your beards.

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

29 “Do not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be filled with prostitution and wickedness.

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