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Leviticus 19:27-29
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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. 29 Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute,[d] so that the land does not practice prostitution and become full of lewdness.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Leviticus 19:28 tn Heb “and a writing of incision you shall not give in you.”
  4. Leviticus 19:29 tn Heb “to make her practice harlotry.” Some recent English versions regard this as religious or temple prostitution (cf. TEV, CEV).
  5. Leviticus 19:29 tn Heb “and the land become full of lewdness.” Regarding the term “lewdness,” see the note on Lev 18:17 above.
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