Hello
@Dan Perez, I suppose it depends upon someone's understanding and belief concerning that particular command. IOW, was it universal, or was it for Israel alone?
There seems (at least to me) to be a mix of both kinds of commands in that passage, though I would classify most as universal commands, wouldn't you?
As a for instance, here is some of what the Lord commanded in Chapter 19,
Leviticus 19
26 You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor practice divination or soothsaying.
27 You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the edges of your beard.
28 You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD.
29 Do not profane your daughter by making her a harlot, so that the land will not fall to harlotry and the land become full of lewdness.
30 You shall keep My sabbaths and revere My sanctuary; I am the LORD.
31 Do not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.
32 You shall rise up before the grayheaded and honor the aged, and you shall revere your God; I am the LORD.
33 When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.
34 The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.
35 You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or capacity.
36 You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin; I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
37 You shall thus observe all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them; I am the LORD.
The question is, how do we know if God's clear prohibition against tattoos was meant for Israel alone, or if it is meant for all of His people for all time instead
God bless you!!
--David
p.s. - it often helps to know what was going on in history at the time a command was given (with the people that it was given to, obviously, which was typically Israel), just FYI.
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