Imamat 11:8
Konteks11:8 You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; 1 they are unclean to you.
Imamat 21:5
Konteks21:5 Priests 2 must not have a bald spot shaved on their head, they must not shave the corner of their beard, and they must not cut slashes in their body. 3
[11:8] 1 sn The regulations against touching the carcasses of dead unclean animals (contrast the restriction against eating their flesh) is treated in more detail in Lev 11:24-28 (cf. also vv. 29-40). For the time being, this chapter continues to develop the issue of what can and cannot be eaten.
[21:5] 2 tn Heb “they”; the referent (priests, see the beginning of v. 1) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[21:5] 3 tn Heb “and in their body they shall not [cut] slash[es]” (cf. Lev 19:28). The context connects these sorts of mutilations with mourning rites (cf. Lev 19:27-28 above).