Graphic Bible · Scene 12 of 16

Mourners turn away from abandoned omen objects and a bowl of blood, keeping natural hair and intact skin as they grieve. The verse preserves the prohibitions on blood eating, divination, hair and beard alteration, cuts, and tattoos.
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Leviticus 19:26-28

Rejected omens and mourning marks

Love Your Neighbor as Yourself · Leviticus 19

Story guide: Mourners turn away from abandoned omen objects and a bowl of blood, keeping natural hair and intact skin as they grieve. The verse preserves the prohibitions on blood eating, divination, hair and beard alteration, cuts, and tattoos.

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26You shall not eat over the blood. You shall not practice divination or interpret omens.

27You shall not round off the hair at the sides of your head, and you shall not mar the edges of your beard.

28You shall not make any cuts in your flesh for the dead, and you shall not put a tattoo mark on yourselves. I am Yahweh.

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