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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"'You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am the LORD.
"'They shall not shave their heads, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Both great and 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;
that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.
For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: on all the hands are cuttings, and on the waist sackcloth.
The LORD said to him, "Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in its midst."
He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given a mark on their right hands, or on their forehead;
And on her forehead a name was written, "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."
The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.