Leviticus 19:28

19:28 You must not slash your body for a dead person ¹  or incise a tattoo on yourself. ²  I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:1

Religious and Social Regulations

19:1 The Lord spoke to Moses:

Leviticus 18:28

18:28 So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it ³  just as it has vomited out the nations ⁴  that were before you.

Mark 5:5

5:5 Each night and every day among the tombs and in the mountains, he would cry out and cut himself with stones.

¹ tn Heb “And slash for the soul you shall not give.” The Hebrew term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh, “soul, person, life”) can sometimes refer to a “dead person” (cf. Lev 21:1, 5; 22:5). See J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 306, 320-21.

² tn Heb “and a writing of incision you shall not give in you.”

³ tn Heb “And the land will not vomit you out in your defiling it.”

⁴ tc The MT reads the singular “nation” and is followed by ASV, NASB, NRSV; the LXX, Syriac, and Targum have the plural “nations” (cf. v. 24).