Reference: Cutting
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the flesh in various ways was an idolatrous practice, a part of idol-worship (De 14:1; 1Ki 18:28). The Israelites were commanded not to imitate this practice (Le 19:28; 21:5; De 14:1). The tearing of the flesh from grief and anguish of spirit in mourning for the dead was regarded as a mark of affection (Jer 16:6; 41:5; 48:37).
Allusions are made in Revelation (Re 13:16; 17:5; 19:20) to the practice of printing marks on the body, to indicate allegiance to a deity. We find also references to it, through in a different direction, by Paul (Ga 6; 6:18) and by Ezekiel (Eze 9:4). (See Hair.)
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Ye shall not rent your flesh for any soul's sake, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
They shall make them no baldness upon their heads or shave off the locks of their beards, nor make any marks in their flesh.
Ye are the children of the LORD your God; cut not yourselves nor make you any baldness between the eyes for any man's death.
Ye are the children of the LORD your God; cut not yourselves nor make you any baldness between the eyes for any man's death.
And in this land shall they die, old and young, and shall not be buried: no man shall beweep them, no man shall clip or shave himself for them.
there came certain men from Shechem, from Shiloh and Samaria, to the number of eighty, which had shaven their beards, rent their clothes, and were all heavy, bringing meat offerings, and incense in their hands, to offer it in the house of the LORD.
All heads shall be shaven, and all beards clipped off: all hands bound, and all loins girded about with sack cloth.
and the LORD said unto him, "Go thy way through the city of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of them that mourn and are sorry for all the abominations that be done therein."
And he made all men, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hands, or in their foreheads.
And in her forehead was a name written, a mystery: "Great Babylon, the mother of whoredom and abominations of the earth."
And the beast was taken, and with him that false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that received the beast's mark, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast into a pond of fire burning with brimstone: