You must not cut your body as a way to remember dead people. You must not make any tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the Lord!
Leviticus 21:11 - Easy To Read Version He must not make himself unclean [378] {by touching a dead body}. He must not go near a dead body, even if it is his own 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 must not cut your body as a way to remember dead people. You must not make any tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the Lord!
If someone touches a dead person’s body, then he will be unclean [256] for seven days.
“This is the rule about people who die in their tents. If a person dies in his tent, then everyone in the tent will be unclean. [258] They will be unclean for seven days.
Even if his own father or mother or brother or sister dies, he must not touch them. This would make him unclean. He must show that he is separated and has given himself fully to God.
“If a person comes to me, but will not leave his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, or sisters, then that person cannot be my follower. A person must love me more than he loves anything—even his own life!
That is why we never become weak. Our physical body is becoming older and weaker, but our spirit inside us is made new every day.
{They cared more for you, Lord, than for their own families.} They ignored their fathers and mothers. They did not recognize their brothers. They did not pay attention to their children. But they obeyed your commands. They kept your Agreement.