레위기 18장 해서는 안 될 인간의 도리에 관하여

레위기 18장은 지극히 정상적이면서 당연한 일을 엄격히 금지하는 것으로 보아 인간 본성이 얼마나 사악한지 새삼 실감하게 됩니다. 교육하지 않으면 어디로 튈지 모르는 음란마귀를 금지하는 내용인데요. 현대 사회도 말세인지 대놓고 커밍아웃하는 사람도 너무 많아 무서울 정도입니다. 

 

 

나의 율법을 지켜라

 

 

1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

2. "Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, I am the Lord your God.

3. You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes.

4. You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God.

5. You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord.

 

 

 

하나님이 모세를 통해 백성들에게 전달하라고 합니다. 내가 바로 너희의 주인 너희의 신이다. 그러니 이집트에서 했던 방식을 버리고 나의 율법 나의 율례를 따르라고 합니다. 일종의 기강 잡기겠죠.

 

 

벌거벗지 마라

 

 

6. "None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the Lord.

7. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother, she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness.

8. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness.

9. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether brought up in the family or in another home.

10. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter or of your daughter's daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness.

 

 

 

11. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, brought up in your father's family, since she is your sister.

12. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister; she is your father's relative.

13. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is your mother's relative.

14. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, that is , you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.

15. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness.

16. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; it is your brother's nakedness.

17. You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son's dauthter or her daugther's daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are relatives; it is depravity.

18. And you shall not take a woman as a rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive.

 

부모를 비롯한 형제자매 사돈의 팔촌까지 함부로 옷을 벗지 말라고 합니다. 벌거벗지 말라고 하는데요. 격세지감이 느껴지네요. 창세기 때만 해도 아담이 벌거벗은 것을 부끄러워한 것을 노여워하셨는데 말입니다. 어느새 옷을 입고 절도 있는 생활을 강조하시네요. 또한, 단순히 벗은 몸을 보이지 못하게 한 것에 국한한 것이 아닌 음란한 행동을 하지 말라는 것은 말 안 해도 알겠죠? 

 

 

 성적 도리와 금기를 강조

 

 

 

19. "You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.

20. And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbour's wife and so make yourself unclean with her.

21. You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.

22. You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

23. And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion.

 

 

 

24. "Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,

25. and the land became unclean, so that I punished its inhabitants.

26. But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you

27(for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean), 

28. lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

29. For everyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people.

30. So keep my charge never to practise any of these abominable customs that were practised before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God."

 

창조주는 인간들에게 법에서 벗어나는 불법적인 행위, 특히 관계에 있어서 이웃의 아내를 탐하거나 하는 것은 물론, 동성과 동물 그 어떤 것과도 비정상적인 행동을 금하고 있습니다. 이것이 당연한 상식 같으면서도 당대 그런 일이 없지 않았다는 것인데요. 가만 보면 현대 사회도 갈수록 점입가경 동성애자 및 변태들이 늘고 있는 것을 보면 인간 본성은 어찌할 수 없나 봅니다. 시스템 오류라고 해야 하는 것인지 대체 왜 인간에게 인간 이하의 행동을 하게 하는지 모르겠습니다.