レビ記 21
1 主はまたモーセに言われた、「アロンの子なる祭司たちに告げて言いなさい、『民のうちの死人のために、身を汚す者があってはならない。
Yahweh also said to Moses/me, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them,
2 ただし、近親の者、すなわち、父、母、むすこ、娘、兄弟のため、
‘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 また彼の近親で、まだ夫のない処女なる姉妹のためには、その身を汚してもよい。
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 しかし、夫にとついだ姉妹のためには、身を汚してはならない。
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 彼らは頭の頂をそってはならない。ひげの両端をそり落してはならない。また身に傷をつけてはならない。
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 彼らは神に対して聖でなければならない。また神の名を汚してはならない。彼らは主の火祭、すなわち、神の食物をささげる者であるから、聖でなければならない。
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 彼らは遊女や汚れた女をめとってはならない。また夫に出された女をめとってはならない。祭司は神に対して聖なる者だからである。
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 あなたは彼を聖としなければならない。彼はあなたの神の食物をささげる者だからである。彼はあなたにとって聖なる者でなければならない。あなたがたを聖とする主、すなわち、わたしは聖なる者だからである。
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 祭司の娘である者が、淫行をなして、その身を汚すならば、その父を汚すのであるから、彼女を火で焼かなければならない。
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 その兄弟のうち、頭に注ぎ油を注がれ、職に任ぜられて、その衣服をつけ、大祭司となった者は、その髪の毛を乱してはならない。またその衣服を裂いてはならない。
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 死人のところに、はいってはならない。また父のためにも母のためにも身を汚してはならない。
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 また聖所から出てはならない。神の聖所を汚してはならない。その神の注ぎ油による聖別が、彼の上にあるからである。わたしは主である。
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 彼は処女を妻にめとらなければならない。
Women whom you priests marry must be virgins.
14 寡婦、出された女、汚れた女、遊女などをめとってはならない。ただ、自分の民のうちの処女を、妻にめとらなければならない。
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 そうすれば、彼は民のうちに、自分の子孫を汚すことはない。わたしは彼を聖別する主だからである』」。
16 主はまたモーセに言われた、
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
17 「アロンに告げて言いなさい、『あなたの代々の子孫で、だれでも身にきずのある者は近寄って、神の食物をささげてはならない。
“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 すべて、その身にきずのある者は近寄ってはならない。すなわち、目しい、足なえ、鼻のかけた者、手足の不つりあいの者、
No one who is blind or lame or deformed, or whose [face is] disfigured,
19 足の折れた者、手の折れた者、
no man with a crippled foot or a crippled hand,
20 せむし、こびと、目にきずのある者、かいせんの者、かさぶたのある者、こうがんのつぶれた者などである。
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 すべて祭司アロンの子孫のうち、身にきずのある者は近寄って、主の火祭をささげてはならない。彼は身にきずがあるから、神の食物をささげるために、近寄ってはならない。
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 彼は神の食物の聖なる物も、最も聖なる物も食べることができる。
Priests who have defects are permitted to eat the various kinds of holy food offered to me.
23 ただし、垂幕に近づいてはならない。また祭壇に近寄ってはならない。身にきずがあるからである。彼はわたしの聖所を汚してはならない。わたしはそれを聖別する主である』」。
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 モーセはこれをアロンとその子ら及びイスラエルのすべての人々に告げた。
So Moses/I told this to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israeli people.
