Levililer 21

¹Ve Rab Musa'ya şöyle diyerek buyurdu: "Harun'un oğulları olan kâhinlere söyle ve onlara de ki: 'Kendi uluslarının içinde ölmüş canlar yüzünden kendilerini kirletmesinler.

²Ancak kendilerine en yakın olan hane halkı; yani babası, annesi, oğulları, kızları ve erkek kardeşi için,

³ve henüz bir kocaya verilmemiş, kendisine yakın olan bakire kız kardeşi için kendisini kirletebilir.

⁴Halkı arasında ansızın gerçekleşen bir ölümle kendisini kirletip kutsallıktan çıkarmasın.

⁵Ölüler için başlarında tıraşla kellik meydana getirmesinler, sakallarının kenarlarını kesmesinler ve bedenlerinde yarıklar açmasınlar.

⁶Tanrıları için kutsal olacaklar ve Tanrılarının adını bayağılaştırmayacaklar; çünkü onlar Rab'bin kurbanlarını, Tanrılarının armağanlarını sunarlar; bu yüzden kutsal olmalıdırlar.

⁷Fahişe ya da kirletilmiş bir kadınla evlenmesinler; kocasından kovulmuş bir kadını da almasınler. Çünkü kâhin, Tanrısı Rab için kutsaldır.

⁸Onu kutsal kılacaksın, çünkü o Tanrınızın armağanlarını sunmaktadır. O senin için kutsal olacak; çünkü onları kutsal kılan Ben, Rab, kutsalım.

⁹Kâhin bir adamın kızı fahişelik yaparak kendisini kirletirse, babasının adını lekelemiş olur; ateşte yakılmalıdır.

¹⁰Kardeşleri arasında baş kâhin olan, başına kutsal mesh yağı dökülen ve kutsal giysileri giymek üzere yetkilendirilen kişi, başındaki sarığı çıkarmasın ve giysilerini yırtmasın.

¹¹Ölmüş hiçbir canın yanına girmesin; babası ya da annesi için bile kendisini kirletmesin.

¹²Kutsal yerlerden dışarı çıkmasın ve Tanrısının kutsal yerini bayağılaştırmasın; çünkü Tanrısının kutsal mesh yağı onun üzerindedir. Ben Rab'bim.

¹³O, kendi soyundan bakire bir kadınla evlenmelidir.

¹⁴Dul, kovulmuş, kirletilmiş ya da fahişe bir kadınla evlenmesin; ancak kendi halkından bakire bir kızı eş olarak alsın.

¹⁵Böylece kendi halkı arasında soyunu bayağılaştırmaz; çünkü onu kutsal kılan Rab Ben'im."

¹⁶Ve Rab Musa'ya konuşup şöyle dedi:

¹⁷"Harun'a de ki: 'Kuşaklar boyunca soyundan gelenlerden kimde bir kusur varsa, Tanrısının armağanlarını sunmak için yaklaşmasın.

¹⁸Çünkü kusuru olan hiç kimse yaklaşamaz: Kör, topal, burnu kesik veya kulağı kesik olan,

¹⁹eli veya ayağı kırık olan,

²⁰kambur, çilli, gözleri kirpiksiz olan, ya da vücudunda azgın uyuz, egzama veya tek hayası olan hiçbir adam yaklaşamaz.

²¹Kâhin Harun'un soyundan gelip de kusuru olan hiç kimse, Tanrına sunulan kurbanları sunmak için yaklaşmasın; çünkü onda kusur vardır, Tanrısının armağanlarını sunmak için yaklaşamaz.

²²Tanrısının armağanlarından, hem en kutsal hem de kutsal olan sunulardan yiyebilir.

²³Ancak bölme perdesinin yakınına gitmesin ve sunağa yaklaşmasın; çünkü onda kusur vardır. Tanrısının kutsal yerini bayağılaştırmasın; çünkü onları kutsal kılan Rab Ben'im."

²⁴Ve Musa bunları Harun'a, oğullarına ve bütün İsrailoğulları'na söyledi.

¹ΚΑΙ εἶπε Κύριος πρὸς Μωυσῆν λέγων· εἶπον τοῖς ἱερεῦσι τοῖς υἱοῖς ᾿Ααρὼν καὶ ἐρεῖς πρὸς αὐτούς· ἐν ταῖς ψυχαῖς οὐ μιανθήσονται ἐν τῷ ἔθνει αὐτῶν,

²ἀλλ᾿ ἢ ἐν τῷ οἰκείῳ τῷ ἔγγιστα αὐτῶν, ἐπὶ πατρὶ καὶ μητρὶ καὶ υἱοῖς καὶ θυγατράσιν, ἐπ᾿ ἀδελφῷ

³καὶ ἐπ᾿ ἀδελφῇ παρθένῳ τῇ ἐγγιζούσῃ αὐτῷ, τῇ μὴ ἐκδεδομένῃ ἀνδρί, ἐπὶ τούτοις μιανθήσεται.

⁴οὐ μιανθήσεται ἐξάπινα ἐν τῷ λαῷ αὐτοῦ εἰς βεβήλωσιν αὐτοῦ.

⁵καὶ φαλάκρωμα οὐ ξυρηθήσεσθε τὴν κεφαλὴν ἐπὶ νεκρῷ καὶ τὴν ὄψιν τοῦ πώγωνος οὐ ξυρήσονται καὶ ἐπὶ τὰς σάρκας αὐτῶν οὐ κατατεμοῦσιν ἐντομίδας.

⁶ἅγιοι ἔσονται τῷ Θεῷ αὐτῶν καὶ οὐ βεβηλώσουσι τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ Θεοῦ αὐτῶν· τὰς γὰρ θυσίας Κυρίου δῶρα τοῦ Θεοῦ αὐτῶν αὐτοὶ προσφέρουσι καὶ ἔσονται ἅγιοι.

⁷γυναῖκα πόρνην καὶ βεβηλωμένην οὐ λήψονται καὶ γυναῖκα ἐκβεβλημένην ἀπὸ ἀνδρὸς αὐτῆς, ὅτι ἅγιός ἐστι Κυρίῳ τῷ Θεῷ αὐτοῦ.

⁸καὶ ἁγιάσεις αὐτόν. τὰ δῶρα Κυρίου τοῦ Θεοῦ ὑμῶν οὗτος προσφέρει· ἅγιος ἔσται, ὅτι ἅγιος ἐγὼ Κύριος ὁ ἁγιάζων αὐτούς.

⁹καὶ θυγάτηρ ἀνθρώπου ἱερέως ἐὰν βεβηλωθῇ τοῦ ἐκπορνεῦσαι, τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτῆς αὐτὴ βεβηλοῖ, ἐπὶ πυρὸς κατακαυθήσεται.

¹⁰Καὶ ὁ ἱερεὺς ὁ μέγας ἀπὸ τῶν ἀδελφῶν αὐτοῦ, τοῦ ἐπικεχυμένου ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν τοῦ ἐλαίου τοῦ χριστοῦ καὶ τετελειωμένου ἐνδύσασθαι τὰ ἱμάτια, τὴν κεφαλὴν οὐκ ἀποκιδαρώσει καὶ τὰ ἱμάτια οὐ διαρρήξει,

¹¹καὶ ἐπὶ πάσῃ ψυχῇ τετελευτηκυίᾳ οὐκ εἰσελεύσεται, ἐπὶ πατρὶ αὐτοῦ οὐδὲ ἐπὶ μητρὶ αὐτοῦ οὐ μιανθήσεται.

¹²καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἁγίων οὐκ ἐξελεύσεται καὶ οὐ βεβηλώσει τὸ ἡγιασμένον τοῦ Θεοῦ αὐτοῦ, ὅτι τὸ ἅγιον ἔλαιον τὸ χριστὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐπ᾿ αὐτῷ· ἐγὼ Κύριος.

¹³οὗτος γυναῖκα παρθένον ἐκ τοῦ γένους αὐτοῦ λήψεται·

¹⁴χήραν δὲ καὶ ἐκβεβλημένην καὶ βεβηλωμένην καὶ πόρνην, ταύτας οὐ λήψεται, ἀλλ᾿ ἢ παρθένον ἐκ τοῦ λαοῦ αὐτοῦ λήψεται γυναῖκα.

¹⁵καὶ οὐ βεβηλώσει τὸ σπέρμα αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ λαῷ αὐτοῦ· ἐγὼ Κύριος ὁ ἁγιάζων αὐτόν.

¹⁶Καὶ ἐλάλησε Κύριος πρὸς Μωυσῆν λέγων·

¹⁷εἶπον ᾿Ααρών· ἄνθρωπος ἐκ τοῦ γένους σου εἰς τὰς γενεὰς ὑμῶν, τινὶ ἐὰν ᾖ ἐν αὐτῷ μῶμος, οὐ προσελεύσεται προσφέρειν τὰ δῶρα τοῦ Θεοῦ αὐτοῦ.

¹⁸πᾶς ἄνθρωπος, ᾧ ἐστιν ἐν αὐτῷ μῶμος, οὐ προσελεύσεται, ἄνθρωπος τυφλὸς ἢ χωλὸς ἢ κολοβόριν ἢ ὠτότμητος

¹⁹ἢ ἄνθρωπος, ᾧ ἂν ᾖ ἐν αὐτῷ σύντριμμα χειρός, ἢ σύντριμμα ποδὸς

²⁰ἢ κυρτὸς ἢ ἔφηλος ἢ πτίλλος τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ἢ ἄνθρωπος, ᾧ ἂν ᾖ ἐν αὐτῷ ψώρα ἀγρία, ἢ λειχὴν ἢ μονόρχις,

²¹πᾶς ᾧ ἐστιν ἐν αὐτῷ μῶμος ἐκ τοῦ σπέρματος ᾿Ααρὼν τοῦ ἱερέως, οὐκ ἐγγιεῖ τοῦ προσενεγκεῖν τὰς θυσίας τῷ Θεῷ σου, ὅτι μῶμος ἐν αὐτῷ· τὰ δῶρα τοῦ Θεοῦ οὐ προσελεύσεται προσενεγκεῖν.

²²τὰ δῶρα τοῦ Θεοῦ τὰ ἅγια τῶν ἁγίων, καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἁγίων φάγεται·

²³πλὴν πρὸς τὸ καταπέτασμα οὐ προσελεύσεται καὶ πρὸς τὸ θυσιαστήριον οὐκ ἐγγιεῖ, ὅτι μῶμον ἔχει· καὶ οὐ βεβηλώσει τὸ ἅγιον τοῦ Θεοῦ αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ἐγώ εἰμι Κύριος ὁ ἁγιάζων αὐτούς.

²⁴καὶ ἐλάλησε Μωυσῆς πρὸς ᾿Ααρὼν καὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ καὶ πρὸς πάντας υἱοὺς ᾿Ισραήλ.

¹And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, and thou shalt tell them [that] they shall not defile themselves in their nation for the dead,

²but [they may mourn] for a relative who is very near to them, for a father and mother, and sons and daughters, for a brother,

³and for a virgin sister that is near to one, that is not espoused to a man; for these one shall defile himself.

⁴He shall not defile himself suddenly among his people to profane himself.

⁵And ye shall not shave your head for the dead with a baldness on the top; and they shall not shave their beard, neither shall they make gashes on their flesh.

⁶They shall be holy to their God, and they shall not profane the name of their God; for they offer the sacrifices of the Lord as the gifts of their God, and they shall be holy.

⁷They shall not take a woman who is a harlot and profaned, or a woman put away from her husband; for he is holy to the Lord his God.

⁸And thou shalt hallow him; he offers the gifts of the Lord your God: he shall be holy, for I the Lord that sanctify them [am] holy.

⁹And if the daughter of a priest should be profaned to go a whoring, she profanes the name of her father: she shall be burnt with fire.

¹⁰And the priest that is chief among his brethren, the oil having been poured upon the head of the anointed one, and he having been consecrated to put on the garments, shall not take the mitre off his head, and shall not rend his garments:

¹¹neither shall he go in to any dead body, neither shall he defile himself for his father or his mother.

¹²And he shall not go forth out of the sanctuary, and he shall not profane the sanctuary of his God, because the holy anointing oil of God [is] upon him: I [am] the Lord.

¹³He shall take for a wife a virgin of his own tribe.

¹⁴But a widow, or one that is put away, or profaned, or a harlot, these he shall not take; but he shall take for a wife a virgin of his own people.

¹⁵And he shall not profane his seed among his people: I [am] the Lord that sanctifies him.

¹⁶And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

¹⁷Say to Aaron, A man of thy tribe throughout your generations, who shall have a blemish on him, shall not draw nigh to offer the gifts of his God.

¹⁸No man who has a blemish on him shall draw nigh; a man blind, lame, with his nose disfigured, or his ears cut,

¹⁹a man who has a broken hand or a broken foot,

²⁰or hump-backed, or blear-eyed, or that has lost his eye-lashes, or a man who has a malignant ulcer, or tetter, or one that has lost a testicle.

²¹Whoever of the seed of Aaron the priest has a blemish on him, shall not draw nigh to offer sacrifices to thy God, because he has a blemish on him; he shall not draw nigh to offer the gifts of God.

²²The gifts of God [are] most holy, and he shall eat of the holy things.

²³Only he shall not approach the veil, and he shall not draw nigh to the altar, because he has a blemish; and he shall not profane the sanctuary of his God, for I am the Lord that sanctifies them.

²⁴And Moses spoke to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children of Israel.