लैव्यव्यवस्था 21
1 १ फिर यहोवा ने मूसा से कहा, “हारून के पुत्र जो याजक हैं उनसे कह कि तुम्हारे लोगों में से कोई भी मरे, तो उसके कारण तुम में से कोई अपने को अशुद्ध न करे;
Yahweh also said to Moses/me, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them,
‘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 ३ या अपनी कुँवारी बहन जिसका विवाह न हुआ हो, जिनका निकट का सम्बंध है; उनके लिये वह अपने को अशुद्ध कर सकता है।
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 ४ पर याजक होने के नाते से वह अपने लोगों में प्रधान है, इसलिए वह अपने को ऐसा अशुद्ध न करे कि अपवित्र हो जाए।
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.
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 ६ वे अपने परमेश्वर के लिये पवित्र बने रहें, और अपने परमेश्वर का नाम अपवित्र न करें; क्योंकि वे यहोवा के हव्य को जो उनके परमेश्वर का भोजन है चढ़ाया करते हैं; इस कारण वे पवित्र बने रहें।
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 ७ वे वेश्या या भ्रष्टा को ब्याह न लें; और न त्यागी हुई को ब्याह लें; क्योंकि याजक अपने परमेश्वर के लिये पवित्र होता है।
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 ८ इसलिए तू याजक को पवित्र जानना, क्योंकि वह तुम्हारे परमेश्वर का भोजन चढ़ाया करता है; इसलिए वह तेरी दृष्टि में पवित्र ठहरे; क्योंकि मैं यहोवा, जो तुम को पवित्र करता हूँ, पवित्र हूँ।
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 ९ और यदि याजक की बेटी वेश्या बनकर अपने आपको अपवित्र करे, तो वह अपने पिता को अपवित्र ठहराती है; वह आग में जलाई जाए।
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 १० “जो अपने भाइयों में महायाजक हो, जिसके सिर पर अभिषेक का तेल डाला गया हो, और जिसका पवित्र वस्त्रों को पहनने के लिये संस्कार हुआ हो, वह अपने सिर के बाल बिखरने न दे, और न अपने वस्त्र फाड़े;
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].
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 १२ और वह पवित्रस्थान से बाहर भी न निकले, और न अपने परमेश्वर के पवित्रस्थान को अपवित्र ठहराए; क्योंकि वह अपने परमेश्वर के अभिषेक का तेलरूपी मुकुट धारण किए हुए है; मैं यहोवा हूँ।
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].
Women whom you priests marry must be virgins.
14 १४ जो विधवा, या त्यागी हुई, या भ्रष्ट, या वेश्या हो, ऐसी किसी से वह विवाह न करे, वह अपने ही लोगों के बीच में की किसी कुँवारी कन्या से विवाह करे।
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 १५ और वह अपनी सन्तान को अपने लोगों में अपवित्र न करे; क्योंकि मैं उसका पवित्र करनेवाला यहोवा हूँ।”
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
17 १७ “हारून से कह कि तेरे वंश की पीढ़ी-पीढ़ी में जिस किसी के कोई भी शारीरिक दोष हो वह अपने परमेश्वर का भोजन चढ़ाने के लिये समीप न आए।
“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 १८ कोई क्यों न हो, जिसमें दोष हो, वह समीप न आए, चाहे वह अंधा हो, चाहे लँगड़ा, चाहे नकचपटा हो, चाहे उसके कुछ अधिक अंग हों,
No one who is blind or lame or deformed, or whose [face is] disfigured,
no man with a crippled foot or a crippled hand,
20 २० या वह कुबड़ा, या बौना हो, या उसकी आँख में दोष हो, या उस मनुष्य के चाईं या खुजली हो, या उसके अण्ड पिचके हों;
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 २१ हारून याजक के वंश में से जिस किसी में कोई भी शारीरिक दोष हो, वह यहोवा के हव्य चढ़ाने के लिये समीप न आए; वह जो दोषयुक्त है कभी भी अपने परमेश्वर का भोजन चढ़ाने के लिये समीप न आए।
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.
Priests who have defects are permitted to eat the various kinds of holy food offered to me.
23 २३ परन्तु उसके दोष के कारण वह न तो बीचवाले पर्दे के भीतर आए और न वेदी के समीप, जिससे ऐसा न हो कि वह मेरे पवित्रस्थानों को अपवित्र करे; क्योंकि मैं उनका पवित्र करनेवाला यहोवा हूँ।”
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.'”
So Moses/I told this to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israeli people.
