Thematic Bible: The flesh for the dead
Thematic Bible
Cutting » The flesh for the dead » Forbidden
Rich and poor alike will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned. People will not cut their bodies or shave off their hair to show their grief for them.
Priests must not have a bald spot shaved on their head, they must not shave the corner of their beard, and they must not cut slashes in their body.
You are children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead bald for the sake of the dead.
You must not slash your body for a dead person or incise a tattoo on yourself. I am the Lord.
Related Topics
- Accompaniments Of Mourning
- Adoption, nature of
- Altering The Body
- Baldness
- Baldness, Unnatural
- Beards
- Body
- Cleanliness
- Cool
- Cutting Hair
- Disfigurement
- Family, Showing God's Relationship
- Gashing Bodies
- God, Fatherhood Of
- Great And Small