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26 “‘You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it. You shall not use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.

27 “‘You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your head or clip off the edge of your beard.

28 “‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.

29 “‘Don’t profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.

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26 “You are not to eat anything with blood in it.[a](A) You are not to practice divination(B) or witchcraft.(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 the Lord.

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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Footnotes

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