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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

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

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