You are not to make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead or make any tattoo marks upon yourself. I am Adonai.
Leviticus 21:11 - Tree of Life Version nor shall he go near any dead person, defiling himself, even for his father or his 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 any cuttings in your flesh for the dead or make any tattoo marks upon yourself. I am Adonai.
“This is the Torah for whenever a person dies in a tent. Anyone entering the tent or anyone inside the tent will be unclean seven days.
Even if his father, mother, brother or sister should die, he is not to make himself unclean, because his consecration to God is on his head.
“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters—and yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
So from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Messiah according to the flesh, yet now we no longer know Him this way.
He said of his father and mother, “I have not seen them,” nor did he acknowledge his brothers or recognize his children. For they observed Your word and kept Your covenant.