Reference: Cuttings in the Flesh
Hastings
This expression occurs only in Le 19:28; 21:5. The former passage runs thus: 'Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead.
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You shall not shave around the sides of your heads, neither shall you disfigure the corners of your beard. You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
They shall not make any bald place upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any bald place on your foreheads for the dead.
You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any bald place on your foreheads for the dead.
And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lances, till the blood gushed out upon them.
He has gone up to the temple, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall wail over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call for weeping, and for mourning, and for baldness, and for girding with sackcloth:
One shall say, I am the LORD's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall write on his hand, The LORD's, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the farthest corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
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:
Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the farthest corners,
That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.
Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself?
For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be gashes, and upon the loins sackcloth.
For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be gashes, and upon the loins sackcloth.
They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long; they shall only trim the hair of their heads.
And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they wailed upon their beds: they assemble themselves for grain and wine, and they rebel against me.
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon every waist, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it like the mourning of an only son, and its end as a bitter day.
Morish
This practice was forbidden in the law, as also was making any mark in the flesh. It was customary among the heathen, who cut themselves for the dead and tattooed their bodies in honour of their gods: the Israelites belonged to Jehovah. Le 19:28; 21:5.
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You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
They shall not make any bald place upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.