Leviticus 19:26

Certain pagan customs, several of them connected with magic, are here grouped together. The prohibition to eat a…

Cuttings in your flesh for the dead. —It was not only the custom for mourners to let their hair grow long and wear it in a disorde…

You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead ,
&c.] Either with their nails, tearing their cheeks and …

There are some ceremonial precepts in this chapter, but most of these precepts are binding on us, for they are explanations of the Ten Commandments…