Imamat 10:6

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama

Maka kata Musa kepada Harun dan kepada Eliazar dan Itamar, anak-anak Harun: Janganlah kamu menguraikan rambutmu atau mengoyak-ngoyakkan pakaianmu, supaya jangan kamupun mati dibunuh dan mendatangkan murka besar atas segenap sidang ini; melainkan segala saudaramu, yaitu segenap isi rumah Israel, boleh menangisi api ini, yang telah dinyalakan Tuhan.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Kemudian berkatalah Musa kepada Harun dan kepada Eleazar dan Itamar, anak-anak Harun: "Janganlah kamu berkabung dan janganlah kamu berdukacita, supaya jangan kamu mati dan jangan TUHAN memurkai segenap umat ini, tetapi saudara-saudaramu, yaitu seluruh bangsa Israel, merekalah yang harus menangis karena api yang dinyalakan TUHAN itu.

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Kemudian berkatalah Musa kepada Harun dan kepada Eleazar dan Itamar, anak-anak Harun: "Janganlah kamu berkabung dan janganlah kamu berdukacita, supaya jangan kamu mati dan jangan TUHAN memurkai segenap umat ini, tetapi saudara-saudaramu, yaitu seluruh bangsa Israel, merekalah yang harus menangis karena api yang dinyalakan TUHAN itu.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Uncover: Leviticus 13:45, Leviticus 21:1-15, Exodus 33:5, Numbers 5:18, Numbers 6:6, Numbers 6:7, Numbers 14:6, Deuteronomy 33:9, Jeremiah 7:29, Ezekiel 24:16, Ezekiel 24:17, Micah 1:16

lest wrath: Numbers 16:22, Numbers 16:41-47, Joshua 7:1, Joshua 7:11, Joshua 22:18, Joshua 22:20, 2 Samuel 24:1, 2 Samuel 24:15-17

Reciprocal: Exodus 33:4 - and no Leviticus 21:5 - not make baldness Leviticus 21:10 - uncover Numbers 1:53 - there be Numbers 16:46 - there is wrath Ezra 7:5 - Eleazar

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar, and unto Ithamar, his sons,.... His two younger sons, which yet remained; and so the Septuagint version adds, as in Leviticus 10:12

uncover not your heads; that is, do not take off your mitre, as the Septuagint version; or the bonnets which they wore in the time of their ministry; for the Jewish priests always had their mitres and bonnets on when they sacrificed; in imitation of which, the Heathens had their heads covered when they offered their sacrifices k: now it was the way, or custom of a mourner, as Ben Melech observes, to remove his mitre, bonnet, or tiara, from his head; but in this case, that no sign of mourning might be shown, Aaron and his sons are forbid to uncover the head: the Targum of Onkelos is,

"do not increase the hair,''

or nourish it, or suffer it to grow, as Jarchi and Ben Gersom interpret it: now in times of distress and mourning they used to let the hair grow, whether on the head or beard, see 2 Samuel 19:24 and in this the Jews were imitated by the Egyptians, contrary to other nations; the priests of the gods in other places, says Herodotus l, took care of their hair (or wore their hair), in Egypt they are shaved; with others the custom is, for the head immediately to be shaved at funerals; but the Egyptians, at death, suffer their hair to grow in the parts before shaved; but this custom with the Jews, though at other times used, is here forbid Aaron and his sons:

neither rend your clothes, which was sometimes done at the report of the death of near relations, as children, in token of mourning,

Genesis 37:34 but here it is forbid, that there might be no sign of it: it is a particular word that is here used: Ben Melech says, there is a difference between rending and tearing; tearing is in the body of a garment where there is no seam, but rending (which is what is here meant) where there is a seam: the priests rending their garments was after this manner, according to the Jewish canons m,

"an high priest rends below and a common priest above;''

that is, as one of their commentators n interprets it, the former rends the extreme part of his garment next the feet, and the latter at the breast near the shoulder; but in this case no rent at all was to be made:

lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people; so very provoking to God would be any signs of mourning in Aaron and his sons, on this account:

but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord hath kindled: though Aaron and his sons might not mourn on this occasion, the whole body of the people might, though not bewail so much the death of the persons, as the cause of it; and be concerned for the awful judgment of God, and for the wrath that was sone forth, lest it should proceed and destroy others also, all being sinners.

k "Purpureo velare comas", &c. Virgil. Aeneid. l. 3. Vid. Kipping. Rom. Antiqu. l. 1. c. 12. sect. 17. p. 495. l Euterpe sive, l. 2. c. 36. m Misn. Horayot, c. 3. sect. 5. n Bartenora in ib.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Aaron and his two surviving sons are forbidden to show the accustomed signs of mourning, or to leave the court of the tabernacle in order to attend the funeral, because, from their office, they were especially concerned as consecrated priests in outwardly maintaining the honor of Yahweh. They were to bear visible testimony to the righteousness of the punishment of Nadab and Abihu. The people, on the other hand, as not formally standing so near to Yahweh, were permitted to “bewail” as an acknowledgment that the nation had a share in the sin of its priests. (Compare 1 Corinthians 12:26.)

Leviticus 10:6

Uncover not your heads - Or, “set free ... let go loose.” It was a custom to let the hair grow long and fall loosely over the head and face Leviticus 13:45; 2Sa 15:30; 2 Samuel 19:4; and the substance of the command would thus be that they should not let the hair go disheveled. Ripping the clothes in front so as to lay open the breast was one of the most common manifestations of grief (see Genesis 37:29; Gen 44:13; 2 Samuel 1:11; Job 1:20; Joel 2:13, etc.). The garments as well as the persons of the priests were consecrated; this appears to be the reason of the prohibition of these ordinary signs of mourning. Compare Leviticus 20:10.

Lest ye die - See Exodus 28:35 note.

Leviticus 10:7

The anointing oil ... is upon you - See Leviticus 8:12, Leviticus 8:30. The holy oil, as the symbol of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Life and immortality and joy, was the sign of the priests being brought near to Yahweh. It was therefore by its meaning connected both with the general law which forbade the high priest ever to put on signs of mourning on account of death Leviticus 21:10-12, and with the special reason for the prohibition on this occasion.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 10:6. Uncover not your heads, c. — They were to use no sign of grief or mourning,

1. Because those who were employed in the service of the sanctuary should avoid every thing that might incapacitate them for that service and,

2. Because the crime of their brethren was so highly provoking to God, and so fully merited the punishment which he had inflicted, that their mourning might be considered as accusing the Divine justice of undue severity.