3. Mojžišova 21:1

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Řekl také Hospodin Mojžíšovi: Mluv kněžím synům Aronovým a rci jim: Při mrtvém nepoškvrní se žádný z vás v lidu svém.

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Český ekumenický překlad
Hospodin řekl Mojžíšovi: "Mluv ke kněžím, Áronovcům, a řekni jim: Žádný kněz se neposkvrní při někom mrtvém ze svého lidu

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Speak: Hosea 5:1, Malachi 2:1, Malachi 2:4

There: Leviticus 21:11, Leviticus 10:6, Leviticus 10:7, Numbers 19:14, Numbers 19:16, Ezekiel 44:25

Reciprocal: Leviticus 22:4 - unclean Numbers 5:2 - and whosoever Numbers 6:7 - unclean Numbers 19:11 - toucheth the dead Deuteronomy 26:14 - eaten 1 Chronicles 6:49 - Aaron Nehemiah 13:29 - because they have defiled

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord said unto Moses,.... According to some Jewish writers this was said on the day the tabernacle was set up; no doubt it was delivered at the same time the above laws were given; and as care was taken for the purity and holiness of the Israelites in general, it was necessary that the priests that were concerned in a more especial manner in the service and worship of God should be holy also, and have some instructions given them to take care and keep themselves from all defilements; and particularly the Jewish writers observe, that this paragraph or section concerning the priests follows upon, and is in connection with the law concerning such as have familiar spirits, and wizards, to teach men, that in matters of doubt and difficulty they should not have recourse to such persons, but to the priests of the Lord:

speak unto the priests, the sons of Aaron; the priests, whether elder or younger, whether fit for service, and whether having blemishes, or not; for there are some things which concern them, and these are sons, male children of Aaron, as the Targum of Jonathan, and not daughters, as Jarchi and others observe; for they were not obliged to regard the laws and rules here given:

and say unto them, there shall none be defiled for the dead among his people; by entering into a tent or house where a dead body lay, by touching it, or by hearing it, or attending it to the grave, or by any expressions of mourning for it, see Numbers 19:11; that is, for any person in common that were of his people, that were not nearly related to him, as in the cases after excepted; so it was a custom with the Romans, as we are told n, that such as were polluted by funerals might not sacrifice, which shows that priests were not allowed to attend funerals, which perhaps might be taken from hence; and so Porphyry says o, that sacred persons and inspectors of holy things should abstain from funerals or graves, and from every filthy and mournful sight.

n Servius in Virgil. Aeneid. l. xi. ver. 3. o De Abstinentia, l. 2. c. 50.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXI

The priests shall not mourn for the dead, except for near

relatives, such as mother, father, son, daughter, and sister

if a virgin, 1-4.

They shall not shave their heads nor beards, nor make any

cuttings in the flesh, because they are holy unto God, 5, 6.

A priest shall not marry a woman who is a whore, profane, or

divorced from her husband, 7, 8.

Of the priest's daughter who profanes herself, 9.

The high priest shall not uncover his head, or rend his clothes,

10;

nor go in unto a dead body, 11;

nor go out of the sanctuary, 12.

Of his marriage and off-spring, 13-15.

No person shall be made a priest that has any blemish nor

shall any person with any of the blemishes mentioned here be

permitted to officiate in the worship of God, 16-24.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXI

Verse Leviticus 21:1. There shall none be defiled for the dead — No priest shall assist in laying out a dead body, or preparing it for interment. Any contact with the dead was supposed to be of a defiling nature, probably because putrefaction had then taken place; and animal putrefaction was ever held in detestation by all men.