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 21:5

21:5 Priests ³  must not have a bald spot shaved on their head, they must not shave the corner of their beard, and they must not cut slashes in their body. ⁴ 

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 “they”; the referent (priests, see the beginning of v. 1) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “and in their body they shall not [cut] slash[es]” (cf. Lev 19:28). The context connects these sorts of mutilations with mourning rites (cf. Lev 19:27-28 above).