Leviticus 19:28 KJV — MannaFest

Leviticus 19:28

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.

KJV

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ASV

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am Jehovah.

WEB

You must not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.

YLT

`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.

DBT

And cuttings for a dead person shall ye not make in your flesh, nor put any tattoo writing upon you: I am Jehovah.

About this book

Old Testament

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Leviticus — A holy people before a holy God. Five offerings, a priesthood, a purity code — and at the centre, a single day that carries the sins of a year to a cleansed Most Holy Place.

Author: Moses — receives these laws at Sinai; the repeated formula is ‘the LORD spake unto Moses, saying’
Date: Composed during Israel's year at Sinai (15th–13th century BC)

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Deuteronomy 14:1
Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
1 Kings 18:28
And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
Leviticus 21:5
They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
Leviticus 21:1
And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:
Jeremiah 16:6
Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:

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Most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are expositions of most of the ten commandments. Here is the preface to the ten commandments, "I am the Lord," repeated fifteen times.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Christ by his sufferings has altered the property of death, and made it a true friend to every true Israelite; and now, as there needs nothing to make death propitious to us (for, if God be so, death is so of course), so we sorrow not as those that have no hope.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Eating upon the blood, as the Gentiles did, who gathered the blood of their sacrifices into a vessel for their demons (as they fancied) to drink, and then sat about it, eating the flesh themselves, signifying their communion with devils by their feasting with them.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

41:5). nor print any marks upon you--by tattooing, imprinting figures of flowers, leaves, stars, and other fanciful devices on various parts of their person. The impression was made sometimes by means of a hot iron, sometimes by ink or paint, as is done by the Arab females of the present day and the different castes of the Hindus.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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LEV 19:28LEV 21:5 DEU 14:1
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LEV 19:28DEU 14:1 JER 41:5
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LEV 19:28LEV 21:5 EZE 44:20
LEV 19:28LEV 21:1 EZE 44:25
LEV 19:28DEU 14:1 GAL 3:26
LEV 19:28DEU 14:1 ROM 9:8
LEV 19:28DEU 14:1 LEV 21:5
LEV 19:28JER 16:6 ISA 22:12
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