28 You are not to make gashes on your bodies for the dead(A) or put tattoo marks on yourselves; I am the Lord.

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“Priests may not make bald spots on their heads, shave the edge of their beards, or make gashes on their bodies.(A)

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Why should I forgive you?
Your children have abandoned me
and sworn by those who are not gods.(A)
I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery;(B)
they gashed themselves(C) at the[a] prostitute’s house.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:7 Or adultery and trooped to the, or adultery and lodged at the; Hb obscure

eighty men came from Shechem, Shiloh,(A) and Samaria(B) who had shaved their beards,(C) torn their clothes, and gashed themselves, and(D) who were carrying grain and incense offerings to bring to the temple of the Lord.(E)

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Baldness(A) is coming to Gaza;
Ashkelon will become silent.(B)
Remnant of their valley,
how long will you gash yourself?

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