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1 Kings 18:28

Tree of Life Version

So they shouted even louder and cut themselves with swords and spears, as was their custom, until the blood gushed over them.

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Now when it was about noon, Elijah mocked them and said, “Shout louder! After all, he is a god! Maybe he’s deep in thought, or he’s relieving himself, or he’s off on a journey, or perhaps he’s asleep and must wake up!”

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

Baldness has come upon Gaza, Ashkelon is ruined. O remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourself?

You are not to make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead or make any tattoo marks upon yourself. I am Adonai.

Will Adonai be pleased with thousands of rams, with hordes of rivers of oil? Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my belly for the sin of my soul?

Then someone will ask him, “What are these wounds between your hands?”—and he will answer, “Those that I received in the house of my friends.”

And through it all, night and day, at the graveyard and in the mountains, he kept screaming and gashing himself with stones.

“It has often thrown him into fire or water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, have compassion and help us!”

“You are the children of Adonai your God. You are not to cut yourselves or shave your forehead for the dead.




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