몰렉 우상 숭배 금지 내용이 나오는 레위기 20장

레위기 20장은 아이를 갖다 바치게 하는 몰렉에 대한 우상 숭배를 금지하며 인간이 천륜을 저버리는 행위를 비롯하여 각종 미신에 빠지거나 무당이 되거나 등 옳지 못한 행동들에 대한 경고를 넘어 죽음으로 응징하겠다는 강력한 율법이 나옵니다. 

 

 

 

 

몰렉 우상 숭배 금지

1. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

2. "Say to the people of Israel, Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.

 

 

 

3. I myself will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, to make my sanctuary unclean and to profane my holy name.

4. And if the people of the land do at all close their eyes to that man when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death, 

5. then I will set my face against that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in whoring after Molech.

 

창조주의 정체가 뭔지는 잘 모르겠으나 새로운 신이 등장하기 전에는 가나안 및 인근 지역에 몰렉신이 지배를 했던 모양입니다. 고대 근동 지역 등에서는 어린아이를 제물로 바치는 관습이 있었는데요. 이는 초기 창세기에도 하나님이 따라한 적이 있습니다. 아브라함에게 아들 이삭을 바치라고 한 적이 있잖아요?

 

 

 

그런데 아마도 이 창조주는 기존의 신들에 비해서 훨씬 문명적이고 과학적이며 선한 영향력을 미친 신이었던 것 같습니다. 당시 백성들이 무분별하게 바치던 악습을 타파하기 위해 애쓴 흔적이 보이기 때문입니다. 특히 몰렉이라는 불과 번영의 영역을 관장한 신에게 지속적으로 아이를 바쳤다고 하니 고대 사람들은 정말 끔찍합니다. 

 

인신공양을 일삼던 몰렉신에 관해선 아래 포스팅을 참조하시고요.

 

 

몰렉신에 관하여

인신공양을 일삼던 몰렉신에 관하여

 

 충효사상은 성경에도

 

6. "If a person turns to mediums and necromancers, whoring after them, I will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.

7. Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.

8. Keep my statutes and do them; I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

9. For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.

 

성경 속 하나님은 오로지 자신만 숭배하고 믿으라고 한 줄 알았는데 레위기를 읽으면 사서삼경이 따로 없습니다. 부모를 증오하거나 죽이면 반드시 사형에 처하게 하는 등 위계와 도덕과 윤리가 확실히 잡혀 있기 때문입니다. 

 

 

 

10. "If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbour, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

11. If a man lies with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

12. If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have committed perversion; their blood is upon them.

13. If a man lies with a make as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

14. If a man takes a woman and her mother also, it is depravity; he and they shall be burned with fire, that there may be no depravity among you.

15. If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal.

16. If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

 

그밖에 이웃 여자, 남편, 아들 손자 며느리 모두 외도를 하였거나 옳지 못한 행동은 그냥 즉사 약속이십니다. 과거 사람들이 얼마나 악행을 저지르고 다녔으면 저렇게 엄중 경고를 하셨나 모르겠습니다. 

 

 

 

 부도덕한 짓 금지

 

 

17. "If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister's nakedness, and he shall bear his iniquity.

18. If a man lies with a woman during her menstrual period and uncovers her nakedness, he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

 

 

 

19. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister or of your father's sister, for that is to make naked one's relative; they shall bear their iniquity.

20. If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness; they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

21. If a man takes his brother's wife, it is impurity. He has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

 

벌거벗고 음란마귀 짓을  모르는 남녀간이 아닌 어떤 친인척도 허용하지 않으며 대도 끊기고 벌 받고 혼나고 하여튼 지속적인 나쁜 짓 금지 명령을 내리십니다. 

 

 미신 숭배 금지 등등

 

22. "You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.

23. And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them.

24. But I have said to you, 'You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.' I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from the peoples.

25. You shall therefore separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the unclean bird from the clean. You shall not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground crawls, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean.

26. You shall be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.

27. " A man or a woman who is a medium or  a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be stones; their blood shall be upon them."

 

미풍양속을 해치는 일련의 모든 행위들부터 미신 금지, 우상 숭배 금지, 그리고 살아있는 생명을 깨끗한 것과 불결한 것 구분을 짓고 경건하고 거룩한 몸가짐을 강조하십니다.