You are not to make gashes on your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves; I am the Lord.
Leviticus 21:11 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised He must not go near any dead person or make himself unclean even for his father or mother. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Neither shall he go in where any dead body lies nor defile himself [by doing so, even] for his father or for his mother; American Standard Version (1901) neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; Common English Bible He must not go near any dead bodies and cannot make himself unclean even for his father or mother. Catholic Public Domain Version And he shall not enter to any dead body whatsoever; likewise, not even by his father or mother shall he be contaminated. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Nor shall he go in at all to any dead person: not even for his father, or his mother, shall he be defiled. |
You are not to make gashes on your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves; I am the Lord.
‘The person who touches any human corpse will be unclean for seven days.
‘This is the law when a person dies in a tent: everyone who enters the tent and everyone who is already in the tent will be unclean for seven days,
He is not to defile himself for his father or mother, or his brother or sister, when they die, while the mark of consecration to his God is on his head.
‘If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters #– #yes, and even his own life #– #he cannot be my disciple.
From now on, then, we do not know anyone from a worldly perspective. Even if we have known Christ from a worldly perspective, yet now we no longer know him in this way.
He said about his father and mother, ‘I do not regard them.’ He disregarded his brothers and didn’t acknowledge his sons, for they kept your word and maintained your covenant.