Cutting
2 lines · 4 passages
Cutting in the Bible Dictionary
- (The flesh for the dead)
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Forbidden
Lev 19:28; 21:5; Deut 14:1; Jer 16:6
28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:285 They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
Leviticus 21:51 Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Deuteronomy 14:16 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:
Jeremiah 16:6
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.