cuttings.. practice in Canaanitish heathen worship. Compare Leviticus 21:5. Deu 14:1. 1 Kings 18:28; Jeremiah 48:37.
the dead. a dead soul. Hebrew. nephesh (App-13). Thus there is such. thing as "a dead soul" as well as. "living soul" (Genesis 2:7); go also in Leviticus 21:1; Leviticus 22:4.Numbers 5:2; Numbers 6:11. Nephesh is incorrectly rendered "body" in Leviticus 21:11.Numbers 6:6; Numbers 19:11; Numbers 19:13. and "dead body" in Numbers 9:6; Numbers 9:7; Numbers 9:10; Haggai 2:13. In all these passages the Hebrew nephesh (soul) is thus rendered, and yet it is rendered "life" in Leviticus 17:14 and elsewhere.
I am the LORD. Some codices, with Targum of Onkelos, Septuagint, and Syriac, add "your God".