Leviticus 21
1 Yahweh also said to Moses/me, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them,
RAB Musa'ya şöyle dedi: “Harun soyundan gelen kâhinlere de ki, ‘Kâhinlerden hiçbiri yakın akrabası olan annesi, babası, oğlu, kızı ve kardeşi dışında, halkından birinin ölüsüyle kendini kirletmesin.
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.
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].
Yanında kalan evlenmemiş kızkardeşi için kendini kirletebilir.
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.
Halkı arasında bir büyük olarak kendini kirletmemeli, adına leke getirmemeli.
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].
“‘Kâhinler yas tutarken başlarını tıraş etmeyecek, sakallarının uçlarını kesmeyecek, bedenlerini yaralamayacaklar.
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.
Tanrıları için kutsal olacaklar, Tanrıları'nın adını lekelemeyecekler. Çünkü onlar Tanrıları RAB'be yakılan sunu ve yiyecek sunusu sunuyorlar. Kutsal olmaları gerekir.
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).
Kâhinler fahişelerle, kirletilmiş kadınlarla, boşanmış kadınlarla evlenmeyecek. Çünkü kâhin Tanrı için kutsal olmalıdır.
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.
Onu kutsal sayın. Çünkü yiyecek sunusunu Tanrınız'a o sunuyor. Sizin için kutsaldır. Çünkü ben kutsalım, sizi kutsal kılan RAB benim.
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.
Bir kâhinin kızı fahişelik yaparak kendini kirletirse, hem kendini hem de babasını rezil etmiş olur. Yakılmalıdır.
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].
“‘Öbür kâhinler arasından başına mesh yağı dökülen ve özel giysiler giymek üzere atanan başkâhin, saçlarını dağıtmayacak, giysilerini yırtmayacak.
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.
Hiçbir ölüye yaklaşmayacak. Ölen annesi, babası bile olsa kendini kirletmeyecek.
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].
Tapınak hizmetinden ayrılmayacak, Tanrısı'nın Tapınağı'nı kirletmeyecek. Çünkü Tanrı'nın buyurduğu mesh yağıyla Tanrısı'na adanmıştır. RAB benim.
13 Women whom you priests marry must be virgins.
Başkâhinin evleneceği kadın bakire olmalıdır.
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.’”
Dul, boşanmış, kirletilmiş ya da fahişe bir kadınla evlenmeyecek. Yalnız kendi halkından bakire bir kızla evlenebilir.
Böylece halkının arasında çocuklarına leke sürmemiş olur. Onu kutsal kılan RAB benim.’”
16 Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
RAB Musa'ya şöyle dedi:
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:
“Harun'a de ki, ‘Soyundan gelecek kuşaklar boyunca kusurlu olan hiç kimse yiyecek sunusu sunmak üzere Tanrısı'na yaklaşmasın.
18 No one who is blind or lame or deformed, or whose [face is] disfigured,
Kusurlu olan, sunağa yaklaşamaz: Kör, topal, yüzü arızalı, organlarından biri aşırı büyümüş,
19 no man with a crippled foot or a crippled hand,
kolu veya ayağı kırık,
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.
kambur, cüce, gözü özürlü, uyuz, yarası kabuk bağlamış ya da hadım.
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.
Kâhin Harun'un soyundan bu kusurlara sahip hiç kimse RAB için yakılan sunuyu sunmak üzere sunağa yaklaşmayacak. Çünkü kusurludur. Tanrısı'na yiyecek sunusu sunmak üzere sunağa yaklaşamaz.
22 Priests who have defects are permitted to eat the various kinds of holy food offered to me.
Böyle bir adam Tanrısı'na sunulan kutsal ve en kutsal yiyecekleri yiyebilir.
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.'”
Ancak perdeye ve sunağa yaklaşmayacaktır. Çünkü kusurludur. Tapınağımı kirletmesin. Onları kutsal kılan RAB benim.’”
24 So Moses/I told this to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israeli people.
Musa Harun'la oğullarına ve bütün İsrail halkına bunları anlattı.
