23-25. “When you enter the land and plant any kind of fruit tree, don’t eat the fruit for three years; consider it inedible. By the fourth year its fruit is holy, an offering of praise to God. Beginning in the fifth year you can eat its fruit; you’ll have richer harvests this way. I am God, your God.
26. “Don’t eat meat with blood in it.“Don’t practice divination or sorcery.
27. “Don’t cut the hair on the sides of your head or trim your beard.
28. “Don’t gash your bodies on behalf of the dead.“Don’t tattoo yourselves. I am God.
29. “Don’t violate your daughter by making her a whore—the whole country would soon become a brothel, filled with sordid sex.