 | Richard Alan Krieger - Electronic books - 2007 - 344 pages
...smiles have been." — Mark Twain "Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies." — Frank Burgess "You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any tattoos marks upon you." — Bible, Leviticus 19:28 "Though it be disfigured by many defects, to whom... | |
 | Cora Linn Daniels, C. M. Stevans - Reference - 2003 - 634 pages
...demonstration of their grief for the dead. The Jews were forbidden to do so; we read in Leviticus xix, 28: "Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you." In some countries existed the superstition that tears were efficacious for procuring... | |
 | Howard Douglas King - Religion - 2003 - 217 pages
...shall not shave around the sides of your head, nor shall you disfigure the edges of your beard. 28 You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the Lord. Three things are here rejected as incompatible with the holiness... | |
 | Betty Miller - Religion - 2004 - 224 pages
...children early to receive real tattoos later on. The Bible warns us against tattoos in Leviticus 19:28: Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: 1 am the Lord. Other scriptures, such as 1 Kings 18:28 and Deuteronomy 14:1, also warn... | |
 | Klaus Martens - Canada - 2004 - 152 pages
...first, it undercuts the Jewish taboo of the "cuttings in the flesh" as outlined in Leviticus 19:20 ('Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you'); secondly, his voluntary act of acquiring a tattoo contrasts with the passivity of... | |
 | James Hastings - Reference - 2004 - 596 pages
...Early Narratives, 70 ; also Sayce in Expos. Times, vii. 367. 5. l'fìifl a puncture, tattoo : Lv 19" ' Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you.' Driver and White (in SHUT) tr. 'Yon shall not make any incisions in your skin for... | |
 | Barbara Freitag - Art - 2004 - 244 pages
...lacerating face and body carried out for the same purpose is already denounced in the Bible where it says: 'Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you' (Leviticus 19:28). What springs to mind here is that, what with the idea of sacrifice... | |
 | Ross Shepard Kraemer - History - 2004 - 526 pages
...precepts, whether limited to time or not limited to time, are binding upon both men and women; excepting, Ye shall not round [the corners of your heads], neither shalt thou mar [the corner of thy beard], and, He shall not defile himself to the dead. GEMARA: What is the meaning of... | |
 | Elsie T. Choice - Religion - 2005 - 337 pages
...around the world are yet under the yoke of Satan and continue to do his work. Leviticus 19:27 reads: Ye shall not round the corners of your heads neither...cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you, for I am the Lord. God does not want mankind to wear tattoos. Satan and his legions... | |
 | Walter Curtis Lichfield - Religion - 2005 - 702 pages
...shall not eat (anything) with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times. 19:27 'Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. 19:28 'Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I (am)... | |
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Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord. 
