Leviticus 19:27-29

The Message

²⁷ “Don’t cut the hair on the sides of your head or trim your beard.

²⁸ “Don’t gash your bodies on behalf of the dead.

“Don’t tattoo yourselves. I am God.

²⁹ “Don’t violate your daughter by making her a whore—the whole country would soon become a brothel, filled with sordid sex.