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Leviticus 19:28

Context
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

Context
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 

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[19:28]  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.

[19:28]  2 tn Heb “and a writing of incision you shall not give in you.”

[21:5]  3 tn Heb “they”; the referent (priests, see the beginning of v. 1) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[21:5]  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).



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