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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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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