Leviticus 19:28
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor imprint any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
27Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
Cross References
Leviticus 21:1And the LORD said unto Moses: Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them: There shall none defile himself for the dead among his people;
Deuteronomy 14:1Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Jeremiah 16:6Both 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;
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 19:20-30
19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee. 20 And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free. 21 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord , unto the door of the tabernacle of… Read the whole commentary →