6:6 “‘All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he must not contact 1 a dead body. 2
1 tn The Hebrew verb is simply “enter, go,” no doubt with the sense of go near.
2 tn The Hebrew has נֶפֶשׁ מֵת (nefesh met), literally a “dead person.” But since the word נֶפֶשׁ can also be used for animals, the restriction would be for any kind of corpse. Death was very much a part of the fallen world, and so for one so committed to the