Ritual impurity also defiles or renders impure sancta, and so it has to be kept separate from sancta.

仪式上的不洁也会玷污或弄脏圣所，因此它必须远离圣所。

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So if you're impure at home and just minding your own business, it's no big deal. It's only a problem if you decide you want to go to the sanctuary. So purity and impurity are states of qualification or disqualification for contact with sancta.

如果在家的时候不纯洁，一心只关注自己的事情，这倒不是什么大事，只有当你想去圣所的时候,才是个问题，因此纯洁和不纯洁只是表明了,你是否有资格接触圣所。

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These are spelled out in Leviticus 18 and Leviticus 20, those two chapters. Besides defiling the sinner, moral impurity symbolically defiles various sancta, especially the sanctuary, but also God's name and also the Holy Land itself.

这些都在《利未记》十八章和二十章里讲清楚了，除了玷污人使人变得有罪，道德上的不洁从象征意义上玷污了各层圣所，尤其是最外面那层圣所，同时也玷污了上帝的名字,和“圣地“这个名字。

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