- June 7th, 2009, 2:46 pm
#262013
26 “You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not interpret omens or tell fortunes. 27 You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard. 28 You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.
Tattooing was a mark of devotion to a pagan god, and were generally recognized as such in the ancient world. Each of the things in this section refer to a specific pagan worship practice (that's why I grabbed the whole context). Most of the (free) commentaries I've checked on this passage refer to those practices as being the motivation for the prohibitions, though Albert Barnes adds that "Any voluntary disfigurement of the person was in itself an outrage upon God’s workmanship, and might well form the subject of a law."
4everfsu wrote:There is a verse in Lev. about not marking yourself. I am too lazy to look it up right now.Leviticus 19:28
26 “You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not interpret omens or tell fortunes. 27 You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard. 28 You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.
Tattooing was a mark of devotion to a pagan god, and were generally recognized as such in the ancient world. Each of the things in this section refer to a specific pagan worship practice (that's why I grabbed the whole context). Most of the (free) commentaries I've checked on this passage refer to those practices as being the motivation for the prohibitions, though Albert Barnes adds that "Any voluntary disfigurement of the person was in itself an outrage upon God’s workmanship, and might well form the subject of a law."
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