Leviticus 19:28
28You must not slash your body for a dead person ▼▼ 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.
or incise a tattoo on yourself. ▼▼ Heb “and a writing of incision you shall not give in you.”
I am the Lord.