וטעם להזכיר אל תחלל את בתך. בעבור שרט לנפש שלא תתגלה לעיני הכל כי קול שבאשה ערוה ואף כי שרט: [PROFANE NOT THY DAUGHTER.] Scripture now mentions profane not thy daughter because it earlier stated Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh (v. 28). The import of our verse is, your daughter shall not be displayed before the public.159Your daughter shall not make markings upon her flesh for the dead because she may expose the place of the mark to show that she cut her flesh as a sign of mourning. Now the voice of a woman is like her nakedness.160Berachot 24a. A cutting is certainly so.161If it is prohibited to hear a women’s voice, it is certainly prohibited to look upon any part of her body that is exposed.
ולא תזנה הארץ. הטעם זנות אנשי הארץ כמו ארץ כי תחטא לי: LEST THE LAND FALL INTO HARLOTRY. The reference is to the harlotry of the people of the land.162In other words, lest the land is short for lest the people of the land. Compare, when a land sinneth against Me (Ezek. 14:13).163The meaning of which is, when the people of the land.