레위기 25장 29절~ 토지와 가옥의 규정에 관한 이야기

레위기 25장 후반부도 역시 각종 규례에 관하여 나오는데요. 사회적 평등과 경제적 정의를 추구하는 가운데 같은 형제를 핍박하거나 노예로 상하 관계를 만드는 일은 철저히 금하고 있으며 서로 도우라는 점이 인상적입니다. 

 

 

 

 

주택은 영원히 주인 것

 

 

레위기 25장 1절부터 28절 내용 읽기

안식년과 희년에 관한 구체적인 얘기 레위기 25장 1절~28절

 

 

29. "If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, he may redeem it within a year of its sale. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption.

30. If it is not redeemed within a full year, then the house in the walled city shall belong in perpetuity to the buyer, throughout his generations; it shall not be released in the jubilee.

31. But the houses of the villages that have no wall round them shall be classified with the fields of the land. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the jubilee.

32. As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem at any time the houses in the cities they they possess.

 

 

 

33. And if one of the Levities exercises his right of redemption, then the house that was sold in a city they possess shall be released in the jubilee. For the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the people of Israel.

34. But the fields of pasture land belonging to their cities may not be sold, for that is their possession for ever.

 

50년마다 돌아오는 희년은 노예도 풀어주고 모든 것을 자유로 만들어 주지만 적어도 주택 보유만큼은 희년이어도 영원히 주인에게 귀속되나 봅니다. 그러나 이것도 성벽 내의 가옥만 해당하고 촌락이라거나 목초지는 소유할 수 없다는 등 전체적으로 레위인들의 부동산법에 관한 규약을 의미하는 것 같습니다.

 

 

 형제와 사이좋게

 

 

35. "If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.

36. Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you.

37. You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

38. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

 

형제가 가난해지면 서로 돕고 잘 살 수 있게 도우라는 의미 같습니다. 다른 것은 몰라도 유대인은 공동체 정신만큼은 인정 인정.

 

 39. "If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:

40. he shall be with you as a hired servant and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee.

41. Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return to the possession of his fathers.

42. For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.

43. You shall not rule over him ruthlessly but shall fear your God.

44. As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you.

 

 

 

45. You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property.

46. You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession for ever your brothers the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another ruthlessly.

 

또한, 형제끼리 가난해졌다고 노예로 사고 팔 수 없다고 하며 노예가 허용되는 것은 주변 나라 사람만 가능하다고 합니다. 우덜끼리 똘똘 뭉치고 도와주는 정신을 강조하는 것 같습니다. 

 

 이스라엘 백성은 나의 종

 

 

 

47. "If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with you or to a member of the srtanger's clan,

48. then after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him,

49. or his uncle or his cousin may redeem him, or a close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he grows rich he may redeem himself.

50. He shall calculate with his buyer from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his sale shall vary with  the number of years The time he was with his owner shall be rated as the time of a hired servant.

51. If there are still many years left, he shall pay proportionately for his redmption some of his sale price.

52. If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he shall calculate and pay for his redemption in proportion to his years of service.

53 He shall treat him as a servant hired year by year. He shall not rule ruthlessly over him in your sight.

54. And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he and his children with him shall be released in the year of jubilee.

55. For it is to me that the people of Israel are servants. They are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

 

로드는 이스라엘 백성에 대한 각종 규약에 대한 설명을 상세히 한가운데 결론은 내가 너희의 주인이라는 점을 강조한 점입니다. 하나님은 먼 나라 이웃나라에서 온 법률가가 아닌가 싶을 정도로 어찌나 계산적이신지 모르겠습니다.