민수기 15장 발전된 문명에서 오신 티가 나는 하나님

민수기 15장은 하나님께서 이스라엘 백성에게 제사를 비롯한 여러 가지 규례와 법칙 등을 가르치며 일종의 준법정신을 알려주는 내용입니다. 주로 제물, 죄에 대한 규례 안식일에 대한 규정까지 엄격하기가 이루 말할 수가 없습니다.

 

 

하나님이 모세를 통해 내린 음식들

 

1. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2. "Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving you, 3. and you offer to the Lord from the herd or from the flock a food offering or a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfil a vow or as a freewill offering or at your appointed feasts, to make a pleasing aroma to the Lord, 4. then he who brings his offering shall offer to the Lord a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil; 5. and you shall offer with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, a quarter of a hin of wine for the drink offering for each lamb. 6. Or for a ram, you shall offer for a grain offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil. 7. And for the drink offering you shall offer a third of a hin of wine, a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 8. And when offer a bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice, to fulfil a vow or for peace offerings to the Lord, 9. then one shall offer with the bull a grain offering of with the bull a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with half a hin of oil. 10. And you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

 

 

하나님이 모세를 통해 음식을 내리는데요. 주로 가루, 기름, 포도주에 해당합니다. 물론 제물로도 바치고 인간들도 먹으라고 하는 것 같은데요. 여기서 고운 가루는 현대식으로 표현하면 밀가루로 보입니다. 그리고 올리브 오일과 오퍼링, 성경에서는 와인으로 표현합니다. 와인을 단순히 취하기 위해 먹기보다는 기독교에서는 의식에 쓰이기도 하고요. 음식을 할 때도 맛을 더하는 소스나 마리에이드에도 사용되는데요. 고기를 먹어서 그런 것인지 포도주가 많이 나오는 지역이라고 그런지 쓰임새가 많아 보입니다. 가축 제물에 관해서도 나오는데요. 주로 소고기, 양고기, 염소 고기를 좋아하시나 봅니다.

 

민수기 14장 내용 보기

이스라엘 백성이 가나안 땅을 바로 정복하지 못한 이유 민수기 14장

 

 

 

 처음 열매를 바치다

 

11. Thus it shall be done for each bull or ram, or for each lamb or young goat. 12. As many as you offer, so shall you do with each one, as many as there are. 13. Every native Israelite shall do these things in this way, in offering a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord. 14. And if a stranger is sojourning with you, or anyone is living permanently among you, and he wishes to offer a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord, he shall do as you do. 15. For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you, a statute for ever throughout your generations. You and the soujourner shall be alike before the Lord. 16. One law and one rule shall be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you."

 

민수기 15장 11절에서 21절 내용은 제사와 예배에서 바쳐야 할 헌물과 규례 등을 알려주고 있습니다. 결론적으로 가르쳐 준 방식대로 수확한 첫 열매는 하나님께 경건한 마음으로 바쳐라 인 것 같습니다.

 

 17. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 18. "Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land to which I bring you 19. and when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall present a contribution to the Lord. 20. Of the first of your dough you shall present a loaf as a contribution; like a contribution from the threshing floor, so shall you present it. 21. Some of the first of your dough you shall give to the Lord as a contribution throughout your generations.

 

 

 

경건한 마음으로 하나님께 첫 열매를 바치는 일에 이스라엘 백성은 물론 이방인도 포함입니다. 이것을 엄중한 규례로 만들어 헌신, 순종 정결함을 강조한 구절입니다.

 

 무의식적인 실수와 고의적인 죄에 관하여

22. "But if you sin uninterntionally," and do not observe all these commandments that the Lord has spoken to Moses, 23. all that the Lord has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the LOrd gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations, 24. then if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, all the congregation shall ofer one bull from the herd for a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LOrd, with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the rule, and one male goat for a sin offering. 25. And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the people of Israel, and they shall be forgiven, because it was a mistake, and they have brought their offering, a food offering to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord for their mistake. 26. And all the congregation of the people of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger who sojourns among them, because the whole population was involved in the mistake.

 

 

 

그리고 신이 규정하길 미처 의식하지 못한 실수에 관해서는 비교적 관대한 조치를 하시고 고의적인 죄에 관해서는 엄벌을 내리시는 것 같습니다. 여기서 무의식적인 실수와 고의로 죄를 지은 것을 구분해 둔 것도 의미심장하고 예사롭지 않게 느껴집니다.

 

 

 용서와 반역

 

27. "If one person sins ununterntionally, he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering. 28. And the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for the person who makes a mistake, when he sins unintentionally, to make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven. 29. You shall have one law for him who does anything unintentionally, for him who is native among the people of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them. 30. But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, reviles the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from among his people. 31. Because he has despised the word of the Lord and has broken his commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be on him."

 

그렇다고 실수로 지은 죄가 선뜻 용서받는 것은 아닙니다. 염소 한마리 등 일련의 속죄를 하면 용서가 된다는 것이죠. 그러나 고의적인 범죄는 반역으로 간주합니다. 공동체에서 단절을 의미하기에 이는 추방이나 죽음과 같은 물리적 처벌까지도 포함됩니다. 그렇다고 영원히 죄에서 벗어날 수 없는 것 같지는 않고 회개의 기회는 주는 것으로 보입니다. 하지만 이 구절은 꽤 위중하게 느껴집니다.

 

 

 불순종의 대가

 

32. While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. 33. And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation. 34. They put him in custody, because it had not been made clear what should be done to him. 35. They put him in custody, because it had not been made clear what should be done to him. 35. And the Lord said to Moses, "The man shall stone him with stones outside the camp." 36. And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, as the Lord commanded Moses.

 

37. The Lord said to Moses, 38. "Speak to the people of Israel, and tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel of each corner. 39. And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore after. 40. So you shall remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God: I am the Lord your God."

 

안식일을 지키라는 하나님의 말을 거역하고 나무를 모으는 사람을 발견하게 됩니다. 여기서 스틱이란 불을 피우기 위한 장작을 모은 것이 아닌가 하는데요. 하나님은 이를 보시고 엄청 격노 대노하면서 모세에게 엄명하시고, 마침내 돌을 맞아 죽게 됩니다. 아무리 그래도 그렇지 돌로 사람을 처죽이는 게 말이 되는지요. 너무 잔인하십니다. 그리고 37절부터는 하나님께서 모세에게 말하며 옷 끝에 파란 끈을 달게 하는데 이는 마치 무당 의상처럼 느껴질 수 있으나, 하나님은 항시 계명을 기억하고 죄를 짓지 않도록 상기하기 위함이라고 합니다. 인간 길들이기에 매우 열심이신 하나님인 것 같습니다.