Leviticus 11:43

11:43 Do not make yourselves detestable by any of the swarming things. ¹  You must not defile yourselves by them and become unclean by them,

Leviticus 16:31

16:31 It is to be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must humble yourselves. ²  It is a perpetual statute. ³ 

Leviticus 18:29

18:29 For if anyone does any of these abominations, the persons who do them will be cut off from the midst of their people. ⁴ 

Leviticus 19:8

19:8 and the one who eats it will bear his punishment for iniquity ⁵  because he has profaned ⁶  what is holy to the Lord. ⁷  That person will be cut off from his people. ⁸ 

Leviticus 19:28

19:28 You must not slash your body for a dead person ⁹  or incise a tattoo on yourself. ¹⁰  I am the Lord.

Leviticus 21:11

21:11 He must not go where there is any dead person; ¹¹  he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother.

Leviticus 23:29

23:29 Indeed, ¹²  any person who does not behave with humility on this particular day will be cut off from his people. ¹³ 

¹ tn Heb “by any of the swarming things that swarm.”

² tn See the note on v. 29 above.

³ tn Compare v. 29a above.

³ sn Regarding the “cut off” penalty see the note on Lev 7:20.

⁴ tn See the note on Lev 17:16 above.

⁵ sn Regarding “profaned,” see the note on Lev 10:10 above.

⁶ tn Heb “the holiness of the Lord.”

⁷ sn On the “cut off” penalty see the note on Lev 7:20.

⁵ 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.

⁶ tn Heb “and a writing of incision you shall not give in you.”

⁶ tc Although the MT has “persons” (plural), the LXX and Syriac have the singular “person” corresponding to the singular adjectival participle “dead” (cf. also Num 6:6).

⁷ tn The particular כִּי (ki) is taken in an asseverative sense here (“Indeed,” see the NJPS translation).

⁸ tn Heb “it [i.e., that person; literally “soul,” feminine] shall be cut off from its peoples [plural]”; NLT “from the community.”