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Leviticus 19:28
New English Translation
Leviticus 19:28
New English Translation
28 You must not slash your body for a dead person[a] or incise a tattoo on yourself.[b] I am the Lord.
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- Leviticus 19:28 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.
- Leviticus 19:28 tn Heb “and a writing of incision you shall not give in you.”
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