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Originally Posted by sammyg2
Leviticus 19:28, Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
If someone wants to get a tattoo that's their business, but I won't and neither will my children.
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Sammy, which of these in Leviticus do you follow/not follow?
9:1 God spoke to Moses, telling him to
19:2 speak to the entire Israelite community and say to them: You must be holy, since I am God your Lord [and] I am holy.
19:3 Every person must respect his mother and father, and keep My Sabbaths. I am God your Lord.
19:4 Do not turn aside to false gods, and do not make yourselves gods out of cast metal. I am God your Lord.
19:5 When you offer a peace sacrifice to God, you shall do so of your own free will.
19:6 You can eat it on the day you sacrifice it and on the next day, but anything left over until the third day must be burned in fire.
19:7 If one [even plans to] eat it on the third day, it is considered putrid and it is not acceptable.
19:8 If one [then] eats it, he has desecrated that which is holy to God, and he shall bear his guilt. Such a person shall be cut off [spiritually] from his people.
19:9 When you reap your land's harvest, do not completely harvest the ends of your fields. [Also] do not pick up individual stalks [that have fallen].
19:10 [Furthermore,] do not pick the incompletely formed grape clusters in your vineyards. [Also] do not pick up individual [fallen grapes] in your vineyards. [All the above] must be left for the poor and the stranger. I am God your Lord.
19:11 Do not steal.
Do not deny [a rightful claim].
Do not lie to one another.
19:12 Do not swear falsely by My name; [if you do so], you will be desecrating your God's name. I am God.
19:13 Do not [unjustly] withhold that which is due your neighbor.
Do not let a worker's wages remain with you overnight until morning.
19:14 Do not curse [even] the deaf.
Do not place a stumbling block before the [morally] blind. You must fear your God. I am God.
19:15 Do not pervert justice. Do not give special consideration to the poor nor show respect to the great. Judge your people fairly.
19:16 Do not go around as a gossiper among your people.
Do not stand still when your neighbor's life is in danger. I am God.
19:17 Do not hate your brother in your heart.
You must admonish your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
19:18 Do not take revenge nor bear a grudge against the children of your people.
You must love your neighbor as [you love] yourself. I am God.
19:19 Keep My decrees:
Do not crossbreed your livestock with other species.
Do not plant your field with different species of seeds.
Do not wear a garment that contains a forbidden mixture of fabrics.
19:20 If a man lies carnally with a slave woman who is half married to [another] man, and she has not been redeemed or given her freedom, she must be physically punished. However, since she has not been freed, [the two] shall not be put to death.
19:21 [The man] must bring his guilt offering to God, to the Communion Tent entrance. It shall be a ram for a guilt offering.
19:22 The priest shall make atonement for him before God with the guilt offering ram, for the sin that he committed. He will thus gain forgiveness for his sin.
Forbidden Practices
19:23 When you come to the [promised] land and plant any tree bearing edible [fruit], you must avoid its fruit as a forbidden growth. For three years [the fruit] shall be a forbidden growth, and it may not be eaten.
19:24 Then, in the fourth year, all [the tree's] fruit shall be holy, and it shall be something for which God is praised.
19:25 In the fifth year, you may eat its fruit and thus increase your crops. I am God your Lord.
19:26 Do not eat on blood.
Do not act on the basis of omens.
Do not act on the basis of auspicious times.
19:27 Do not cut off the hair on the sides of your head.
Do not shave off the edges of your beard.
19:28 Do not make gashes in your skin for the dead.
Do not make any tattoo marks on your skin. I am God.
19:29 Do not defile your daughter with premarital sex. You will then not make the land sexually immoral, and the land [will not] be filled with perversion.
19:30 Keep My Sabbaths and revere My sanctuary. I am God.
19:31 Do not turn to mediums, nor seek out oracles, so as to defile yourselves through them. I am God your Lord.
19:32 Stand up before a white head, and give respect to the old. You shall thus fear your God. I am God.
19:33 When a proselyte comes to live in your land, do not hurt his feelings.
19:34 The foreigner who becomes a proselyte must be exactly like one who is native born among you. You shall love him as [you love] yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am God your Lord.
19:35 Do not falsify measurements, whether in length, weight or volume.
19:36 You must have an honest balance, honest weights, an honest dry measure, and an honest liquid measure.
I am God your Lord who took you out of Egypt.
19:37 Safeguard My decrees and all My laws, and keep them. I am God.