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Leviticus 19:27-28
New English Translation
Leviticus 19:27-28
New English Translation
27 You must not round off the corners of the hair on your head or ruin the corners of your beard.[a] 28 You must not slash your body for a dead person[b] or incise a tattoo on yourself.[c] I am the Lord.
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- Leviticus 19:27 tc Heb “and you [singular] shall not ruin the corner of your [singular] beard.” Smr, LXX, Syriac, and Tg. Ps.-J. have the plural pronouns (i.e., “you” and “your” plural) rather than the singular of the MT.
- 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.”
Leviticus 19:27-28
New International Version
Leviticus 19:27-28
New International Version
27 “‘Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.(A)
28 “‘Do not cut(B) your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the Lord.
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