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

26 You must not eat anything with its blood. You must not participate in divination or fortune-telling. 27 You must not cut off the hair on your forehead or clip the ends of your beard. 28 Do not cut your bodies for the dead[a] or put marks on[b] yourselves; I am the Lord. 29 Do not defile your daughter by making her sexually promiscuous or else the land will become promiscuous[c] and full of shame.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 19:28 Or for the living
  2. Leviticus 19:28 Or tattoo; Heb uncertain
  3. Leviticus 19:29 Or making her a prostitute so that the land won’t become a prostitute