Leviticus 19:28
ContextNET © | You must not slash your body for a dead person 1 or incise a tattoo on yourself. 2 I am the Lord. |
NIV © | "‘Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD. |
NASB © | ‘You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD. |
NLT © | "Never cut your bodies in mourning for the dead or mark your skin with tattoos, for I am the LORD. |
MSG © | "Don't gash your bodies on behalf of the dead. "Don't tattoo yourselves. I am GOD. |
BBE © | You may not make cuts in your flesh in respect for the dead, or have marks printed on your bodies: I am the Lord. |
NRSV © | You shall not make any gashes in your flesh for the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the LORD. |
NKJV © | ‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the LORD. |
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NET © | You must not slash your body for a dead person 1 or incise a tattoo on yourself. 2 I am the Lord. |
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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.” |