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Leviticus 19:28
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You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks on you: I am the LORD.
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord .
And you shall not make a slash in your body for a dead person, nor shall you make on yourselves a tattoo's mark; I am Yahweh.
You must not cut your body to show sadness for someone who died or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the Lord .
You must not slash your body for a dead person or incise a tattoo on yourself. I am the Lord .
'You shall not make any cuts on your body [in mourning] for the dead, nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves; I am the LORD.
'You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead, nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD.
Ye shal not cut your flesh for the dead, nor make any print of a marke vpon you: I am the Lorde,
And you shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am Yahweh.
Don't cut gashes in your flesh when someone dies or tattoo yourselves; I am Adonai .
And cuttings for a dead person shall ye not make in your flesh, nor put any tattoo writing upon you: I am Jehovah.
You must not cut your body as a way to remember the dead. You must not make any tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the Lord .
You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord .
You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor inscribe any marks upon you; I am the LORD.
or tattoo yourselves or cut gashes in your body to mourn for the dead. I am the Lord .
You are not to make gashes on your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves; I am the Lord.
And you shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead; and you shall not put on yourself any etched mark; I am Jehovah.
Ye shal rente out no markes in youre body (for eny that is deed) ner make lettres vpo you: for I am the LORDE.
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am Jehovah.
You may not make cuts in your flesh in respect for the dead, or have marks printed on your bodies: I am the Lord.
Ye shall not rent your fleshe for any soules sake, nor print any markes vpon you: I am the Lorde.
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor imprint any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any markes vpon you: I am the Lord.
And ye shall not make cuttings in your body for a dead body, and ye shall not inscribe on yourselves any marks. I am the Lord your God.
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
You must not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.
and on deed men ye schulen not kitte youre fleischis, nether ye schulen make to you ony fyguris, ether markis in youre fleisch; Y am the Lord.
`And a cutting for the soul ye do not put in your flesh; and a writing, a cross-mark, ye do not put on you; I [am] Jehovah.
You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks on you: I am Yahweh.
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I [am] the LORD.
You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks on you: I am Yahweh.
You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the LORD.
"Do not cut your bodies for the dead, and do not mark your skin with tattoos. I am the Lord .
Do not make any cuts on your body for the dead. Do not burn any pictures that will stay on your body. I am the Lord.
You shall not make any gashes in your flesh for the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the Lord .
Cuttings for a dead person, shall ye not make in your flesh. And punctures in your persons, shall ye not print, - I, am Yahweh.
You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh, for the dead: neither shall you make in yourselves any figures or marks. I am the Lord.
You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh on account of the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
'You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
cuttings: Leviticus 21:5, Deuteronomy 14:1, 1 Kings 18:28, Jeremiah 16:6, Jeremiah 48:37, Mark 5:5
print: Revelation 13:16, Revelation 13:17, Revelation 14:9, Revelation 14:11, Revelation 15:2, Revelation 16:2, Revelation 19:20, Revelation 20:4
Reciprocal: Numbers 6:6 - he shall come Psalms 16:10 - my Isaiah 15:2 - all Jeremiah 41:5 - their beards Jeremiah 47:5 - how 1 Thessalonians 4:13 - ye sorrow
Cross-References
But the two men reached out and pulled Lot inside the house, locking the door. Then they struck blind the men who were trying to break down the door, both leaders and followers, leaving them groping in the dark.
"The kings of the earth will see the smoke of her burning, and they'll cry and carry on, the kings who went night after night to her brothel. They'll keep their distance for fear they'll get burned, and they'll cry their lament: Doom, doom, the great city doomed! City of Babylon, strong city! In one hour it's over, your judgment come!
Doom to the City of Darkness Following this I saw another Angel descend from Heaven. His authority was immense, his glory flooded earth with brightness, his voice thunderous: Ruined, ruined, Great Babylon, ruined! A ghost town for demons is all that's left! A garrison of carrion spirits, garrison of loathsome, carrion birds. All nations drank the wild wine of her whoring; kings of the earth went whoring with her; entrepreneurs made millions exploiting her. Just then I heard another shout out of Heaven: Get out, my people, as fast as you can, so you don't get mixed up in her sins, so you don't get caught in her doom. Her sins stink to high Heaven; God has remembered every evil she's done. Give her back what she's given, double what she's doubled in her works, double the recipe in the cup she mixed; Bring her flaunting and wild ways to torment and tears. Because she gloated, "I'm queen over all, and no widow, never a tear on my face," In one day, disasters will crush her— death, heartbreak, and famine— Then she'll be burned by fire, because God, the Strong God who judges her, has had enough. "The kings of the earth will see the smoke of her burning, and they'll cry and carry on, the kings who went night after night to her brothel. They'll keep their distance for fear they'll get burned, and they'll cry their lament: Doom, doom, the great city doomed! City of Babylon, strong city! In one hour it's over, your judgment come! "The traders will cry and carry on because the bottom dropped out of business, no more market for their goods: gold, silver, precious gems, pearls; fabrics of fine linen, purple, silk, scarlet; perfumed wood and vessels of ivory, precious woods, bronze, iron, and marble; cinnamon and spice, incense, myrrh, and frankincense; wine and oil, flour and wheat; cattle, sheep, horses, and chariots. And slaves—their terrible traffic in human lives. Everything you've lived for, gone! All delicate and delectable luxury, lost! Not a scrap, not a thread to be found! "The traders who made millions off her kept their distance for fear of getting burned, and cried and carried on all the more: Doom, doom, the great city doomed! Dressed in the latest fashions, adorned with the finest jewels, in one hour such wealth wiped out! "All the ship captains and travelers by sea, sailors and toilers of the sea, stood off at a distance and cried their lament when they saw the smoke from her burning: ‘Oh, what a city! There was never a city like her!' They threw dust on their heads and cried as if the world had come to an end: Doom, doom, the great city doomed! All who owned ships or did business by sea Got rich on her getting and spending. And now it's over—wiped out in one hour! "O Heaven, celebrate! And join in, saints, apostles, and prophets! God has judged her; every wrong you suffered from her has been judged." A strong Angel reached for a boulder—huge, like a millstone—and heaved it into the sea, saying, Heaved and sunk, the great city Babylon, sunk in the sea, not a sign of her ever again. Silent the music of harpists and singers— you'll never hear flutes and trumpets again. Artisans of every kind—gone; you'll never see their likes again. The voice of a millstone grinding falls dumb; you'll never hear that sound again. The light from lamps, never again; never again laughter of bride and groom. Her traders robbed the whole earth blind, and by black-magic arts deceived the nations. The only thing left of Babylon is blood— the blood of saints and prophets, the murdered and the martyred.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead,.... Either with their nails, tearing their cheeks and other parts, or with any instrument, knife, razor, c. Jarchi says, it was the custom of the Amorites, when anyone died, to cut their flesh, as it was of the Scythians, as Herodotus d relates, even those of the royal family for a king they cut off a part of the ear, shaved the hair round about, cut the arms about, wounded the forehead and nose, and transfixed the left hand with arrows; and so the Carthaginians, who might receive it from the Phoenicians, being a colony of theirs, used to tear their hair and mouths in mourning, and beat their breasts e; and with the Romans the women used to tear their cheeks in such a manner that it was forbid by the law of the twelve tables, which some have thought was taken from hence: and all this was done to appease the infernal deities, and to give them satisfaction for the deceased, and to make them propitious to them, as Varro f affirms; and here it is said to be made "for the soul", for the soul of the departed, to the honour of it, and for its good, though the word is often used for a dead body: now, according to the Jewish canons g, whosoever made but one cutting for a dead person was guilty, and to be scourged; and he that made one for five dead men, or five cuttings for one dead man, was obliged to scourging for everyone of them:
nor print any marks upon you; Aben Ezra observes, there are some that say this is in connection with the preceding clause, for there were who marked their bodies with a known figure, by burning, for the dead; and he adds, and there are to this day such, who are marked in their youth in their faces, that they may be known; these prints or marks were made with ink or black lead, or, however, the incisions in the flesh were filled up therewith; but this was usually done as an idolatrous practice; so says Ben Gersom, this was the custom of the Gentiles in ancient times, to imprint upon themselves the mark of an idol, to show that they were his servants; and the law cautions from doing this, as he adds, to the exalted name (the name of God): in the Misnah it is said h, a man is not guilty unless he writes the name, as it is said,
Leviticus 19:28; which the Talmudists i and the commentators k interpret of the name of an idol, and not of God:
I [am] the Lord; who only is to be acknowledged as such, obeyed and served, and not any strange god, whose mark should be imprinted on them.
d Melpomene, sive, l. 4. c. 71. e Alex. ab Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 3. c. 7. f Apud Servium in Virgil. Aeneid. 3. g Misn. Maccot, c. 3. sect. 5. h Ibid. sect. 6. i T. Bab. Maccot, fol. 21. 1. k Jarchi, Maimon. Bartenora, & Ez Chayim in Misn. ut supra. (g)
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Certain pagan customs, several of them connected with magic, are here grouped together. The prohibition to eat anything with the blood may indeed refer to the eating of meat which had not been properly bled in slaughtering (Leviticus 7:26; Leviticus 17:10, etc.): but it is not improbable that there may be a special reference to some sort of magical or idolatrous rites. Compare Ezekiel 33:25.
Leviticus 19:26
Observe times - It is not clear whether the original word refers to the fancied distinction between lucky and unlucky days, to some mode of drawing omens from the clouds, or to the exercise of “the evil eye.”
Leviticus 19:27
Round the corners of your heads - This may allude to such a custom as that of the Arabs described by Herodotus. They used to show honor to their deity Orotal by cutting the hair away from the temples in a circular form. Compare the margin reference.
Mar the corners of thy beard - It has been conjectured that this also relates to a custom which existed among the Arabs, but we are not informed that it had any idolatrous or magical association. As the same, or very similar customs, are mentioned in Leviticus 21:5, and in Deuteronomy 14:1, as well as here, it would appear that they may have been signs of mourning.
Leviticus 19:28
Cuttings in your flesh for the dead - Compare the margin reference. Among the excitable races of the East this custom appears to have been very common.
Print any marks - Tattooing was probably practiced in ancient Egypt, as it is now by the lower classes of the modern Egyptians, and was connected with superstitious notions. Any voluntary disfigurement of the person was in itself an outrage upon God’s workmanship, and might well form the subject of a law.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 28. Any cuttings in your flesh for the dead — That the ancients were very violent in their grief, tearing the hair and face, beating the breast, c., is well known. Virgil represents the sister of Dido "tearing her face with her nails, and beating her breast with her fists."
"Unguibus ora soror foedans, et pectora pugnis."
AEn., l. iv., ver. 672.
Nor print any marks upon you — It was a very ancient and a very general custom to carry marks on the body in honour of the object of their worship. All the castes of the Hindoos bear on their foreheads or elsewhere what are called the sectarian marks, which distinguish them, not only in a civil but also in a religious point of view, from each other.
Most of the barbarous nations lately discovered have their faces, arms, breasts, c., curiously carved or tattooed, probably for superstitious purposes. Ancient writers abound with accounts of marks made on the face, arms, &c., in honour of different idols and to this the inspired penman alludes, Revelation 13:16-17; Revelation 14:9, Revelation 14:11; Revelation 15:2; Revelation 16:2; Revelation 19:20; Revelation 20:4, where false worshippers are represented as receiving in their hands and in their forehead the marks of the beast. These were called στιγματα stigmata among the Greeks, and to these St. Paul refers when he says, I bear about in my body the MARKS (stigmata) of the Lord Jesus; Galatians 6:17. I have seen several cases where persons have got the figure of the cross, the Virgin Mary, &c., made on their arms, breasts, &c., the skin being first punctured, and then a blue colouring matter rubbed in, which is never afterward effaced. All these were done for superstitious purposes, and to such things probably the prohibition in this verse refers. Calmet, on this verse, gives several examples. See also Mariner's Tonga Islands, vol. i. p. 311-313.
