Leviticus 10:6
And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons: Uncover not your heads, and rend not your garments, lest perhaps you die, and indignation come upon all the congregation. Let your brethren, and all the house of Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord has kindled:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Locutusque est Moyses ad Aaron, et ad Eleazar, et Ithamar, filios ejus : Capita vestra nolite nudare, et vestimenta nolite scindere, ne forte moriamini, et super omnem cœtum oriatur indignatio. Fratres vestri, et omnis domus Israël, plangant incendium quod Dominus suscitavit :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν Μωσῆς πρὸς Ἀαρὼν καὶ Ἐλεαζὰρ καὶ Ἰθαμὰρ τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ τοὺς καταλελιμμένους Τὴν κεφαλὴν ὑμῶν οὐκ ἀποκιδαρώσετε καὶ τὰ ἱμάτια ὑμῶν οὐ διαρρήξετε, ἵνα μὴ ἀποθάνητε καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσαν τὴν συναγωγὴν ἔσται θυμός· οἱ ἀδελφοὶ ὑμῶν πᾶς ὁ οἶκος Ἰσραὴλ κλαύσονται τὸν ἐνπυρισμὸν ὃν ἐνεπυρίσθησαν ὑπὸ Κυρίου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶר מֹשֶׁ֣ה אֶֽל אַהֲרֹ֡ן וּלְאֶלְעָזָר֩ וּלְאִֽיתָמָ֨ר בָּנָ֜יו רָֽאשֵׁיכֶ֥ם אַל תִּפְרָ֣עוּ וּבִגְדֵיכֶ֤ם לֹֽא תִפְרֹ֨מוּ֙ וְלֹ֣א תָמֻ֔תוּ וְעַ֥ל כָּל הָעֵדָ֖ה יִקְצֹ֑ף וַאֲחֵיכֶם֙ כָּל בֵּ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל יִבְכּוּ֙ אֶת הַשְּׂרֵפָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֖ר שָׂרַ֥ף יְהוָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Uncover not. Take not off your mitres; (Septuagint) let not your hair grow long, (Chaldean) as the Egyptians do in mourning, nor yet shave your heads, like the priests of Isis. This God forbids, chap. xxi. 5. And Ezechiel, (xliv. 20,) probably with reference to this law, says, Neither shall they shave their heads, nor wear long hair....and no priest shall drink wine when, &c.
Garments, sacred vestments, which were worn only in the tabernacle or temple. (Calmet)
The high priests are forbidden to tear their garments at funerals, (chap. xxi. 10,) as this would betray a want of fortitude.
Perhaps. This does not imply any doubt. (Menochius) See Genesis iii. 3.
Indignation of God, punishing the people, while there is none to entreat for them.
Burning of the two priests.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Paula
I cannot adequately extol the mysteries of Scripture, nor sufficiently admire the spiritual meaning conveyed in its most simple words. We are told, for instance, that lamentation was made for Moses; yet when the funeral of Joshua is described no mention at all is made of weeping. The reason, of course, is that under Moses, that is under the old Law, all men were bound by the sentence passed on Adam’s sin, and when they descended into hell were rightly accompanied with tears. For, as the apostle says, “death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned.” But under Jesus, that is, under the Gospel of Christ, who has unlocked for us the gate of paradise, death is accompanied, not with sorrow, but with joy. The Jews go on weeping to this day; they make bare their feet, they crouch in sackcloth, they roll in ashes. …
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).