And you shall not make cuttings in your body for a [dead] body, and you shall not inscribe on yourselves any marks. I am the Lord your God.

You are the children of the Lord your God: you shall not make any baldness between you eyes for the dead.

Will the Lord accept thousands of rams, or ten thousands of fat goats? Should I give my first born for ungodliness, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and bruising himself with stones.

And often it threw him both into the fire and into the waters so that it may destroy him. But if You are able [to do] anything, help us and have compassion on us."