Leviticus 19:28
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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.

Cuttings

Leviticus 21:5 Neither shall they shave their head, nor their beard, nor make incisions in their flesh.

Deuteronomy 14:1 Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness for the dead;

1 Kings 18:28 So they cried with a loud voice, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till they were all covered with blood.

Jeremiah 16:6 Both the great and the little shall die in this land: they shall not be buried nor lamented, and men shall not cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.

Jeremiah 48:37 For every head shall be bald, and every beard shall be shaven: all hands shall be tied together, and upon every back there shall be haircloth.

Mark 5:5 And he was always day and night in the monuments and in the mountains, crying and cutting himself with stones.

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Revelation 13:16,17 And he shall make all, both little and great, rich and poor, freemen and bondmen, to have a character in their right hand or on their foreheads: . . .

Revelation 14:9,11 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice: If any man shall adore the beast and his image and receive his character in his forehead or in his hand, . . .

Revelation 15:2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had overcome the beast and his image and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having the harps of God:

Revelation 16:2 And the first went and poured out his vial upon the earth. And there fell a sore and grievous wound upon men who had the character of the beast: and upon them that adored the image thereof.

Revelation 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who wrought signs before him, wherewith he seduced them who received the character of the beast and who adored his image. These two were cast alive into the pool of fire burning with brimstone.

Revelation 20:4 And I saw seats. And they sat upon them: and judgment was given unto them. And the souls of them that were beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God and who had not adored the beast nor his image nor received his character on their foreheads or in their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Context
Keep My Decrees
27Nor shall you cut your hair roundwise: nor shave your beard. 28You 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.29Make not thy daughter a common strumpet, lest the land be defiled, and filled with wickedness.…
Cross References
John 20:25
The other disciples therefore said to him: We have seen the Lord. But he said to them: Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails and put my finger into the place of the nails and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.

Leviticus 19:27
Nor shall you cut your hair roundwise: nor shave your beard.

Leviticus 19:29
Make not thy daughter a common strumpet, lest the land be defiled, and filled with wickedness.

Leviticus 21:1
The Lord said also to Moses: Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, and thou shalt say for them: Let not a priest incur an uncleanness at the death of his citizens.

Leviticus 21:11
Nor shall he go in at all to any dead person: not even for his father, or his mother, shall he be defiled.

Deuteronomy 14:1
Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness for the dead;

1 Kings 18:28
So they cried with a loud voice, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till they were all covered with blood.

Lexicon
You must not
לֹ֤א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

make any cuts
וְשֶׂ֣רֶט (wə·śe·reṭ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8296: An incision

in your bodies
בִּבְשַׂרְכֶ֔ם (biḇ·śar·ḵem)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man

for the dead
לָנֶ֗פֶשׁ (lā·ne·p̄eš)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

or put
תִתְּנ֖וּ (ṯit·tə·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5414: To give, put, set

tattoo
קַֽעֲקַ֔ע (qa·‘ă·qa‘)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7085: An incision, imprint, tattoo

marks on yourselves.
וּכְתֹ֣בֶת (ū·ḵə·ṯō·ḇeṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3793: A letter, branded

I
אֲנִ֖י (’ă·nî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 589: I

am the LORD.
יְהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel


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

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.

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

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon 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.

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

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.
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