하나님의 축복과 저주가 담긴 레위기 26장

레위기 26장은 하나님께서 엄중하게 경고하는 내용입니다. 나 이외에 다른 신을 섬기지 말 것과 우상숭배 등을 금지하며 안식일 등을 지키고 그밖에 위배되는 행동을 했을 때 일곱 배로, 그보다 더한 응징을 할 것이되 회개하면 선처해 준다는 것 등을 강조하는 내용입니다.

 

 

우상 숭배 금지 너희를 똑바로 세우겠다

 

1. "You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God.

2. You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

3. "If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, 

4. then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

 

 

5. Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely.

6. I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And I will remove harmful beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through your land.

7. You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fal lbefore you by the sword.

8. Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

9. I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you.

10. You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new.

11. I will make my dwelling among you, and my soul shall not abhor you.

12. And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people.

13. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.

 

레위기 26장은 반복되는 율법에 관한 이야기입니다. 앞서, 레위기 전반은 일종의 규약 법률에 관한 강령을 제시하고 있는 가운데 이러한 법과 규칙들을 준수되길 반복 강조하는 이유는 그만큼 교육의 중요성을 일깨워주기 위함 갖습니다. 태초부터 에덴에서 쫓겨나 원죄를 입고 몇 차례 리셋을 당한 인간을 하나님은 점차 불신하게 되며 점점 강경한 모습으로 변모하는 게 느껴집니다.

 

인간은 그렇게 어려울 때 구해주고 몇 번이나 기회를 주었건만 번번이 같은 실수를 합니다. 이집트에서 탈출한 후 백성들도 나름의 트라우마가 있던 거겠지만 400년 넘게 노예 생활을 해왔던 터라 자립심도 부족하고 겁도 많고 미개하기 짝이 없는 것입니다. 그래서 제사장을 비롯한 지도층이 백성들을 지속해서 교화하고 가르치고 공동체 생활의 중요성을 주입시키는 것 같습니다. 

 

그리하여 창조주는 나 이외에 다른 신을 섬기지 말고 내 말을 잘 들으면 너희를 잘 먹고 잘 살게 해 줄 뿐만 아니라 똑바로 일으켜 세우시겠다고 하는 겁니다. 

 

 말 안 들으면 가만 안 둘겨

 

14. "But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments, 

15. if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,

16. then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

17. I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down before your enemies. Those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.

18. And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again sevenfold for your sins,

19. and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.

20. And your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

 

그렇게 말 잘 들으면 잘해줄 거지만 그렇지 않으면 쭉정이에, 못 먹고 못 살게 반드시 응징하리라는 무시무시한 경고입니다.

 

 7배의 복수

 

21. " Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins.

22. And I will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that your roads shall be deserted.

23. "And if by this discipline you are not turned to me but walk contrary to me,

24. then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins.

25. And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

26. When I break your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.

 

 

 

성경에서 7이란 숫자는 유독 자주 나오죠. 생명을 6일 동안 만들고 7일째는 쉬시고, 뭐만 하면 7이 나오는데요. 이 구절도 말 안 들으면 7배의 복수를 하겠다고 합니다. 성경에서 7이란 온전함, 완성의 숫자를 의미한다고 합니다. 삼위일체 3과 자연의 수 4가 합쳐서 7이라고 하는데요. 자연의 합이란 봄, 여름, 가을, 겨울을 의미하는 걸까요?

 

 불복종의 결과

 

27. "But if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me, 

28. then I will walk contrary to you in fury, and I myself will discipline you sevenfold for your sins.

29. You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

30. And I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my  soul will abhor you.

31. And I will lay your cities waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing aromas.

32. And I myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be appalled at it.

33. And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

 

 

 

창조주의 말을 듣지 않는 불복종의 결과는 끔찍합니다. 창조주는 몰살과 황폐화로 보복할 것이며 기근으로 인해 너희 자식과 아들과 딸의 살을 뜯어먹는 날이 올 거라는 등 무시무시한 말씀을 하십니다. 

 

 시나이 산의 약속

 

34. "Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies' land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths.

35. As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, the rest that it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling in it.

36. And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.

 

 

 

37. They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

38. And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

39. And those of you who are left shall rot away in your enemies' lands because of their iniquity, and also because of their fathers they shall rot away like them.

 

 40. "But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me, 

41. so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of theri enemies if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity, 

42. then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

43. But the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes.

44. Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God.

45. But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LOrd."

 

46. These are the statutes and rules and laws that the Lord made between himself and the people of Israel through Moses on Mount Sinai

 

말 안 들으면 철저히 응징하지만 회개의 기회도 주고 나름 보상도 약속합니다. 그러면서 마지막 구절, 모세와 시내산에서 만난 율법의 약속을 다시금 상기시킵니다.