Leviticus 21
1 Yahweh also said to Moses/me, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them,
| خداوند به موسی فرمود: «این دستورها را به کاهنان که از نسل هارون هستند بده. یک کاهن نباید با دست زدن به شخص مرده خودش را نجس کند، |
2 ‘You priests must not cause yourselves to become unfit to do my work by [touching] corpses. Priests are permitted to touch only the corpses of close relatives, such as the priest’s mother or father or his son or daughter or his brother.
| مگر اینکه مرده از بستگان نزدیک او باشد، مثل: مادر، پدر، پسر، دختر، برادر |
3 Priests are also permitted to touch the corpse of a sister if she is not married, because she has no husband [to bury her body].
| یا خواهر باکره‌اش که تحت سرپرستی او بوده است. |
4 Priests must not cause themselves to become unfit to do my work [DOU] by [touching corpses of] people who were married to one of their close relatives.
| اما کاهن نباید به خاطر افرادی که از بستگانش نیستند، خود را نجس سازد. |
5 You priests must not shave your heads or shave the edges of your beards or cut your bodies [to show that you are mourning for someone who has died].
| «کاهنان نباید موی سر یا گوشه‌های ریش خود را بتراشند و یا بدن خود را زخمی کنند. |
6 You must act in ways that I, your God, consider to be holy, and not disgrace my name/reputation. You are the ones who present to me the offerings that are burned. [It is as though] those offerings are food for me, your God; so you must act in ways that are holy.
| ایشان باید برای خدای خود مقدّس باشند و به نام خدای خویش بی‌احترامی نکنند. آنها برای خداوند هدایای خوراکی بر آتش تقدیم می‌کنند، پس باید مقدّس باشند. |
7 You priests must not marry women who have been prostitutes or who have been divorced from their husbands, because you priests are (set apart for me/holy).
| کاهن نباید با یک فاحشه که خود را بی‌عصمت کرده و یا با زنی که طلاق گرفته، ازدواج کند؛ چون او برای خدای خویش مقدّس است. |
8 You must consider that you are holy, because you offer food to me, your God. Consider yourselves to be holy because I, Yahweh, [the one who caused you to be priests and] the one who enables you to be holy, am holy.
| کاهنان را مقدّس بشمارید زیرا ایشان هدایای خوراکی به من تقدیم می‌کنند، و من که خداوند هستم و شما را تقدیس می‌کنم، مقدّس می‌باشم. |
9 If a priest’s daughter disgraces herself by becoming a prostitute, she disgraces her father; and she must be killed by being burned in a fire.
| اگر دختر کاهنی فاحشه شود به تقدس پدرش لطمه می‌زند و باید زنده‌زنده سوزانده شود. |
10 The Supreme Priest is the one among his relatives who has been [appointed for that work] by having his head anointed with olive oil. He is also the one who has been appointed to wear the special garments that priests wear. He must not allow the hair on his [head] to remain uncombed, and he must not tear his clothes [when he is mourning for someone].
| «کاهن اعظم که با روغن مخصوص، مسح و تقدیس شده و لباسهای مخصوص کاهنی را می‌پوشد، نباید هنگام عزاداری موی سر خود را باز کند یا گریبان لباس خود را چاک بزند. |
11 He must not enter some place where there is a corpse. He must not do that and cause himself to become unfit for his work, even if it is his father or his mother who has died.
| او نباید با نزدیک شدن به هیچ جنازه‌ای خود را نجس سازد، حتی اگر شخص مرده پدر یا مادرش باشد. |
12 He must not leave the Sacred Tent [to join those who are mourning], because he would cause himself to become unfit for his work and would also defile/desecrate the Sacred Tent. He must not leave the Sacred Tent [at that time], because by being anointed with olive oil he has been (appointed/set apart) to serve his God [in the Sacred Tent]. I, Yahweh, [am the one who am commanding this].
| او نباید با خارج شدن از قدس خدا به جهت وارد شدن به خانه‌ای که جنازه‌ای در آن هست، قدس را بی‌حرمت سازد، زیرا تبرک روغن مسح من که یهوه هستم بر سر اوست. |
13 Women whom you priests marry must be virgins.
| او باید فقط با یک باکره ازدواج کند. |
14 You priests must not marry widows or prostitutes or divorced women, because if you did that, [if you later have] sons, they would not be acceptable to be priests among your people. You must marry only virgins from among your own people. I am Yahweh, who sets priests apart to be holy.’”
| او نباید با زن بیوه یا طلاق داده شده یا زنی که با فاحشه شدن خود را بی‌عصمت کرده است ازدواج کند، بلکه باید دختر باکره‌ای از قوم خود را به زنی بگیرد، |
| تا باعث بدنامی نسل خود در میان قومش نشود، زیرا من که یهوه هستم او را برای کاهنی تقدیس کرده‌ام.» |
16 Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
| خداوند به موسی فرمود: |
17 “Say this to Aaron: 'For all future time, none of your descendants who has any defects [on his body] will be allowed to come near [the altar] to offer [sacrifices to me which will be like] [MET] my food:
| «این دستورها را به هارون بده. در نسلهای آینده هر کدام از فرزندانت که عضوی از بدنش ناقص باشد نباید هدایای خوراکی را به حضور من تقدیم کند. |
18 No one who is blind or lame or deformed, or whose [face is] disfigured,
| کسی که نقصی در صورت داشته باشد و یا کور، شل، ناقص الخلقه، |
19 no man with a crippled foot or a crippled hand,
| دست یا پا شکسته، |
20 no man who is a hunchback or a dwarf, no man whose eyes are defective, no man who has a skin disease [DOU] or whose testicles have been damaged is allowed to brings sacrifices.
| گوژپشت یا کوتوله باشد، چشم معیوب یا مرض پوستی داشته یا بیضه‌هایش آسیب دیده باشد، |
21 No descendant of Aaron, the [first Supreme] Priest, who has any defect is allowed to come to the altar to offer to me, his God, sacrifices that will be burned.
| به سبب نقص جسمی‌اش اجازه ندارد هدایای خوراکی را که بر آتش به خداوند تقدیم می‌شود، تقدیم کند. |
22 Priests who have defects are permitted to eat the various kinds of holy food offered to me.
| با وجود این باید از خوراک کاهنان که از هدایای تقدیمی به خداوند است به او غذا داده شود هم از هدایای مقدّس و هم از مقدّسترین هدایا. |
23 But because of their defects, they must not go near the curtain [in the Sacred Tent] or near the altar, because if they did that, they would desecrate my Sacred Tent. I am Yahweh, the one who sets those places apart as being holy.'”
| ولی او نباید به پردهٔ مقدّس خیمۀ ملاقات یا به مذبح نزدیک شود چون نقص بدنی دارد و این عمل او خیمۀ ملاقات مرا بی‌حرمت می‌کند، زیرا من که خداوند هستم آن را تقدیس کرده‌ام.» |
24 So Moses/I told this to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israeli people.
| موسی این دستورها را به هارون و پسرانش و تمامی قوم اسرائیل داد. |
