대머리를 허용하지 않고 수염을 깎지 못하게 하는 레위기 21장

제사장은 경건한 몸가짐에 반려자는 물론 성직자 역시 거룩하고 순결하고 결함이 없는 사람일 것을 강조하는 레위기 21장입니다. 너무 과도할 정도로 결벽증 혹은 완벽주의가 아닌가 싶을 정도입니다.

 

성직자의 거룩함 요구

 

1. And the Lord said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: No one shall make himself unclean for the dead among his people, 

2. except for his closet relatives, his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,

3. or his virgin sister(who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may make himself unclean). 

4. He shll not make himself unclean as a husband among his people and so profane himself.

5. They shall not make bald patches on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts on their body.

 

 

6. They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. For they offer the Lord's food offerings, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.

7. They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled, neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.

8. You shall sanctify hem, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for I the Lord, who sanctify you, am holy.

9. And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by whoring, profanes her father, she shall be burned with fine.

 

로드가 모세를 통해 성직자 혹은 제사장들이 갖춰야 할 요구 사항들이 나오는데요. 불결하고 부정한 일련의 행위는 하지 말라는 지침이 나옵니다. 그리고 수염이나 복장 등에 관한 얘기가 인상적인데요. 정통 유대인 복장이 왜 그러나 싶었는데 이제야 알겠습니다.

 

 

 

일단 대머리를 보이지 말라고 한 것 같은데요. 그래서 빵떡 모자를 쓴 게 아닌가 싶어서요. 그리고 수염의 가장자리를 자르지 말라고 해서 여태 저러고 다녔나 봅니다. 그런데 정통 유대인들도 그렇긴 하지만 머리 대머리를 보이지 않고 수염을 자르지 않는 풍습은 한국 사람이 오리지널이 아닌가 싶기도 합니다. 혹시 한국인이 아브라함의 직계 후손이 아닌가?

 

 

 

 

이런 흑립을 쓰고 수염도 길게 자라게 하고 등등을 보면 이런 걸 누구한테 배워서 계승했나 싶기도 합니다. 

 

 

 

 하여튼 결벽증 순결한 여자와 결혼

 

 

10. "The priest who is chief among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil is poured and who has been consecrated to wear the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose nor tear his clothes.

11. He shall not go in to any dead bodies nor make himself unclean, even for his father or for his mother.

12. He shall not go out of the sanctuary, lest he profane the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him: I am the Lord.

13. And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

14. A widow, or a divorced woman, or. woman who has been defiled, or prostitute, these shall not marry. But he shall take as his wife a virgin of his own people, 

15. that he may not profane his offspring among his people, for I am the Lord who sanctifies him."

 

 

 

여자도 매춘부라던가, 불결한 여자 말고 순결한 여자를 만나라고 하고 아무튼 모든 것을 정갈하고 깨끗하고 순수 그 자체를 고수하라고 하는 듯합니다. 제사장은 흠없는 순수한 여자와 결혼하라고 하는데요. 이런 지침을 왜 정하는지 참 이해가 안 가네요. 아무래도 경건함과 거룩함을 강조하기 위함이겠지만요.

 

 

 완벽한 인간이어야 함

 

 

16. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

17. "Speak to Aaron, saying, None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a blemish may approach to offer the bread of his God.

18. For no one who has a blemish shall draw near, a man blind or lame, or one who has a mutilated face or a limb too long,

19. or a man who has an injured foot or an injured hand,

20.or a hunchback or a dwarf or a man with a defectin his sight or an itching disease or scabs or crushed testicles.

21. No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a blemish shall come near to offer the Lord's food offering; since he has a blemish he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.

22. He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy things,

23. but he shall not go through the veil or approach the altar, because he has a blemish, that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am the Lord who sanctifies them."

24. So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the people of Israel.

 

물건을 팔 때 상태 좋은 최상품만 내 놓듯이, 인간도 장애가 있는 사람은 극구 사양하는 내용입니다. 상처는 물론, 장애가 있거나 시력에 결함, 다리를 절거나 왜소하거나 등 온전치 못한 사람은 성전 안에서 직무 수행을 하는데 자격을 갖추지 못한다고 합니다. 대체 왜 그러는지 모르겠네요.