4Q26a
Leviticuse
Language:
Hebrew
Date:
Before 68 A.D.
Location:
Qumran Cave 4
Contents:
Leviticus 3:2-8; 19:34-37; 20:1-3, 27; 21:1-4, 9-12, 21-24; 22:4-6, 11-18
Leviticus
3
2 He
shall lay his hand
on the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the Tent of Meeting:
and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle the blood around on the altar.
3 He
shall offer of the sacrifice of peace
offerings an offering made by fire to Yahweh; the fat that covers the innards,
and all the fat that is on the innards, 4 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is
by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away.
5 Aaron’s sons shall burn it on the altar on the burnt offering, which is
on the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a
pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
6 “‘If
his
offering for a sacrifice of the peace offerings to Yahweh is from the flock; male or female, he shall offer it
without defect. 7 If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he shall
offer it before Yahweh; 8 and he
shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it before the Tent of
Meeting: and Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle
its blood around on the altar.
[..]
Leviticus
19
34 The stranger who
lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and
you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners
in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.
35 “‘You shall do no
unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of
quantity.
36 You shall have just
balances,
just weights,
a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the
land of Egypt.
37 “‘You shall observe
all my statutes, and all my
ordinances, and do them. I am Yahweh.’”
Leviticus
20
1 Yahweh spoke to
Moses, saying,
2 “Moreover, you shall tell the children of
Israel, ‘Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as
foreigners in Israel, who gives any of
his offspring to Molech; he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones. 3 I also will set my face against that person, and will
cut him off from among his people
because he has given of his offspring to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to
profane my holy name.
[..]
27 “‘A man or a woman
that is a
medium, or is a wizard, shall surely be
put to death: they shall stone them with stones. Their blood shall be upon
them.’”
Leviticus 21
1 Yahweh said to
Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, ‘A priest
shall not defile himself for the dead among
his people; 2 except for his relatives
that are near to him: for his mother, for his father, for his son, for his
daughter, for his brother, 3 and for his
virgin sister who is near to him, who
has had no husband; for her he may defile himself. 4 He
shall not defile himself, being a
chief man among his people, to profane himself.
[..]
9 “‘The
daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the
prostitute, she profanes the house of
her father. She shall be burned with fire.
10 “‘He
who is the high priest among his brothers, upon whose
head the anointing oil is poured, and that is consecrated to
put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose,
or tear his
clothes. 11 He must not go in to any dead body, or defile himself for his father, or for his
mother. 12 He shall not go out of
the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the
anointing oil of his God is upon him. I am Yahweh.
[..]
21 No
man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall come near to
offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Since he has
a defect,
he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God. 22 He shall eat the
bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. 23 He shall not come near to
the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a defect; that he may not profane my sanctuaries,
for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.’”
24 So
Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel.
Leviticus
22
4 “‘Whoever of the
offspring of Aaron
is a leper or has an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is
clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose
offspring goes from him; 5 or whoever touches any
unclean
creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he
may take uncleanness, whatever uncleanness he has; 6 the
person that touches any such shall be
unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he
bathes his body in water.
[..]
11 But
if a priest buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall eat of it; and such
as are born in his house, they shall eat of his bread. 12 If a priest’s
daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat
of the heave offering of the holy things.
13 But if a priest’s daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no
child, and has returned to her father’s house,
as in her youth, she may eat of her
father’s bread: but no stranger shall eat any of it.
14 “‘If
a man eats
something holy unwittingly, then he shall
add the fifth part of its value to it, and shall give the holy thing to the
priest. 15 The priests shall not profane the holy
things of the children of Israel, which they offer to Yahweh,
16 and so cause them to bear
the iniquity that brings guilt, when they eat their holy things; for I am
Yahweh who sanctifies them.’”
17 Yahweh
spoke to Moses, saying,
18 “Speak to Aaron, and to his
sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘Whoever is of the
house of Israel, or of the foreigners in Israel, who offers his offering,
whether it is any of their vows, or any of their freewill offerings, which they
offer to Yahweh for a burnt offering;