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1 Kings 18:28

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They cried out loud and cut themselves with knives and spears according to their custom until the blood gushed out on them.

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By noon, Elijah mocked them, saying, “Cry out loud, for he is a god. Either he is talking or is gone away or is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and needs to be awakened.”

And the rest he makes into a god, even his carved image. He falls down to it, and worships it, and prays to it, and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god.”

Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon has been cut off. O remnant of their valley, how long shall you gash yourself?

You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the Lord.

Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”

If someone asks, “What are these wounds on your arms?” he will say, “I was struck in the house of my close friends.”

Always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and cutting himself with stones.

Often it has thrown him into the fire and into the water to kill him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.




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