Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead,
nor print any marks
upon you: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:28
"In Lev. 19:28 we find two prohibitions of an unnatural disfigurement of the
body: 'Ye shall not make any cutting in your flesh for the dead, nor any print
any marks upon you.' The latter (Heb. qa aqa, incision)
refers to tattooing, and has no reference to idolatrous usages, but was
intended to inculcate upon the Israelietes a proper reverence for God's
creation."(Merrill F. Unger, Unger's Bible Dictionary, 1974 ed., p.
696)
