Λευϊτικόν 21
1 Και είπε Κύριος προς τον Μωϋσήν, Λάλησον προς τους ιερείς τους υιούς του Ααρών, και ειπέ προς αυτούς, Ουδείς θέλει μιανθή μεταξύ του λαού αυτού διά νεκρόν·
Yahweh also said to Moses/me, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them,
2 ει μη διά τον συγγενή αυτού τον πλησιέστερον, διά την μητέρα αυτού και διά τον πατέρα αυτού και διά τον υιόν αυτού και διά την θυγατέρα αυτού και διά τον αδελφόν αυτού,
‘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 και διά την αδελφήν αυτού, παρθένον ούσαν, την πλησιεστάτην εις αυτόν, ήτις δεν έλαβεν άνδρα· διά ταύτην δύναται να μιανθή.
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].
4 Δεν θέλει μιανθή αρχηγός ων του λαού αυτού, ώστε να βεβηλώση εαυτόν.
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.
5 Δεν θέλουσι φαλακρώσει την κεφαλήν αυτών ουδέ θέλουσι ξυρίσει τα πλάγια των πωγώνων αυτών ουδέ θέλουσι κάμει εντομίδας επί τας σάρκας αυτών.
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].
6 Άγιοι θέλουσιν είσθαι εις τον Θεόν αυτών και δεν θέλουσι βεβηλώσει το όνομα του Θεού αυτών· διότι τας διά πυρός γινομένας προσφοράς του Κυρίου, τον άρτον του Θεού αυτών, προσφέρουσι διά τούτο θέλουσιν είσθαι άγιοι.
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.
7 Γυναίκα πόρνην και βεβηλωμένην δεν θέλουσι λάβει ουδέ γυναίκα αποβεβλημένην από του ανδρός αυτής θέλουσι λάβει· διότι ο ιερεύς είναι άγιος εις τον Θεόν αυτού.
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).
8 Θέλεις λοιπόν αγιάσει αυτόν· διότι αυτός τον άρτον του Θεού σου προσφέρει· άγιος θέλει είσθαι εις σέ· διότι άγιος είμαι εγώ ο Κύριος, ο αγιάζων υμάς.
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.
9 Και θυγάτηρ ιερέως τινός, εάν βεβηλωθή διά πορνείας, τον πατέρα αυτής αυτή βεβηλόνει· εν πυρί θέλει κατακαυθή.
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.
10 Και ο ιερεύς ο μέγας μεταξύ των αδελφών αυτού, επί την κεφαλήν του οποίου εχύθη το έλαιον του χρίσματος, και όστις καθιερώθη διά να ενδύηται τας ιεράς στολάς, την κεφαλήν αυτού δεν θέλει αποκαλύψει, ουδέ τα ιμάτια αυτού θέλει διασχίσει·
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].
11 και εις ουδέν σώμα νεκρόν θέλει εισέλθει ουδέ διά τον πατέρα αυτού ή διά την μητέρα αυτού θέλει μιανθή.
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.
12 Και εκ του αγιαστηρίου δεν θέλει εξέλθει ουδέ θέλει βεβηλώσει το αγιαστήριον του Θεού αυτού· διότι το άγιον έλαιον του χρίσματος του Θεού αυτού είναι επ' αυτόν. Εγώ είμαι ο Κύριος.
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].
13 Και ούτος θέλει λάβει γυναίκα παρθένον·
Women whom you priests marry must be virgins.
14 χήραν ή αποβεβλημένην ή βέβηλον ή πόρνην, ταύτας δεν θέλει λάβει· αλλά παρθένον εκ του λαού αυτού θέλει λάβει εις γυναίκα.
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.’”
15 Και δεν θέλει βεβηλώσει το σπέρμα αυτού μεταξύ του λαού αυτού· διότι εγώ είμαι ο Κύριος, ο αγιάζων αυτόν.
16 Και ελάλησε Κύριος προς τον Μωϋσήν, λέγων,
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
17 Ειπέ προς τον Ααρών, λέγων, Όστις εκ του σπέρματός σου εις τας γενεάς αυτών έχει μώμον, ας μη πλησιάση διά να προσφέρη τον άρτον του Θεού αυτού·
“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:
18 διότι πας όστις έχει μώμον δεν θέλει πλησιάσει· άνθρωπος τυφλός, ή χωλός, ή κολοβομύττης, ή έχων τι περιττόν,
No one who is blind or lame or deformed, or whose [face is] disfigured,
19 ή άνθρωπος όστις έχει σύντριμμα ποδός, ή σύντριμμα χειρός,
no man with a crippled foot or a crippled hand,
20 ή είναι κυρτός, ή πολύ ισχνός, ή όστις έχει βεβλαμμένους τους οφθαλμούς, ή έχει ψώραν ξηράν, ή λειχήνα, ή είναι εσπασμένος·
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.
21 ουδείς άνθρωπος εκ του σπέρματος του Ααρών του ιερέως, όστις έχει μώμον, θέλει πλησιάσει διά να προσφέρη τας διά πυρός γινομένας προσφοράς εις τον Κύριον· μώμον έχει· δεν θέλει πλησιάσει διά να προσφέρη τον άρτον του Θεού αυτού.
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.
22 Θέλει τρώγει τον άρτον του Θεού αυτού εκ των αγιωτάτων, και εκ των αγίων.
Priests who have defects are permitted to eat the various kinds of holy food offered to me.
23 Πλην εις το καταπέτασμα δεν θέλει εισέρχεσθαι ουδέ εις το θυσιαστήριον θέλει πλησιάσει, διότι έχει μώμον· διά να μη βεβηλώση το αγιαστήριόν μου· διότι εγώ είμαι ο Κύριος, ο αγιάζων αυτούς.
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.'”
24 Και ελάλησεν ο Μωϋσής ταύτα προς τον Ααρών και προς τους υιούς αυτού και προς πάντας τους υιούς Ισραήλ.
So Moses/I told this to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israeli people.
