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Source: Leviticus 19:28

Speaker: the LORD

Listener: Moses

Situation: The LORD was giving Moses many laws to be passed to the LORD's chosen people.

Context: Pagan people cut and tattooed themselves, to remember their dead, and to try to influence their gods to react favourably to themselves.

Summary: The LORD was telling His people to _not_ behave like the pagans.

Are today's women who pierce themselves to hold jewelry behaving like those pagans? No.

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