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The Sharia of Moses in the TORA
Part 2 - The 365 Prohibitions of the Tora
41 - IMPRINTING ANY MARKS UPON OUR BODIES
Leviticus 19:28 -- “You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the LORD.”
Tattooing was “a custom of the heathen, who used so to mark himself for idolatry, as much as to say that the tattooed person was a slave sold to the idol and marked for its service.”*
* Mishneh Torah, Mada, Hilchoth Abodath Kochabim XII, 11