One of these practices seems to have included ancestor worship or some sort of religious practice of remembering the dead through tattoos and self-mutilation (perhaps scarification? who knows.) Edit: It was a mourning ritual of self mutilation and rubbing ashes into the wounds, I've just discovered. Why would those two things be listed together? Why would something aesthetic and purely cultural (like tattoos) be listed alongside self-mutilation "for the dead"? That is because the Canaanite peoples (the ones the God of the Old Testament really, really, really didn't want the Israelites to mix with) had certain religious practices that Yahweh did not want the Israelites to take up. Now, those are two things that seem somewhat strange. make cuts on the body for the dead and 2. If you look at the verse (chapter 19, verse 28), you'll find that the verse includes two things that the Israelites were told not to do: 1. Not sure if you're being serious or not, but the verse in Leviticus that prohibits against markings in the skin is generally interpreted as a so-called "social" prohibition, not a moral one.
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