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利未記 6

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1 耶和華曉諭摩西

2 若有人犯罪,干犯耶和華,在鄰舍交付他的物上,或是在交易上行了詭詐,或是搶奪人的財物,或是欺壓鄰舍,

3 或是在撿了遺失的物上行了詭詐,說謊起誓,在這切的事上犯了甚麼罪;

4 他既犯了罪,有了過犯,就要歸還他所搶奪的,或是因欺壓所得的,或是人交付他的,或是人遺失他所撿的物,

5 或是他因甚麼物起了假誓,就要如數歸還,另外加上五分之一,在查出他有罪的日子要交還本主。

6 也要照你所估定的價,把贖愆祭牲─就是羊群中一隻沒有殘疾的公綿─牽到耶和華面前,給祭司為贖愆祭。

7 祭司要在耶和華面前為他贖罪;他無論行了甚麼事,使他有了罪,都必蒙赦免。

8 耶和華曉諭摩西

9 你要吩咐亞倫和他的子孫說,燔祭的條例乃是這樣:燔祭要放在的柴上,從晚上到天亮,上的要常常燒著。

10 祭司要穿上細麻布衣服,又要把細麻布褲子穿在身上,把上所燒的燔祭灰收起來,倒在的旁邊;

11 隨後要脫去這衣服,穿上別的衣服,把灰拿到外潔淨之處。

12 上的要在其上常常燒著,不可熄滅。祭司要每日早晨在上面燒柴,並要把燔祭擺在上,在其上燒平安祭牲的脂油。

13 上必有常常燒著的,不可熄滅。

14 素祭的條例乃是這樣:亞倫的子孫要在前把這祭獻在耶和華面前。

15 祭司要從其中─就是從素祭的細麵中─取出自己的一把,又要取些和素祭上所有的乳,燒在上,奉給耶和華為馨素祭的紀念。

16 下的,亞倫和他子孫要,必在聖處不帶酵而,要在會幕的院子裡

17 烤的時候不可攙。這是從所獻我的火祭中賜他們的分,是至的,和贖祭並贖愆祭一樣。

18 凡獻給耶和華的火祭,亞倫子孫中的男丁都要這一分,直到萬,作他們永得的分。摸這些祭物的,都要成為

19 耶和華曉諭摩西

20 亞倫的日子,他和他子孫所要獻給耶和華的供物,就是細麵伊法十分之一,為常獻的素祭:早晨一半,晚上一半。

21 要在鐵鏊上用調和做成,調勻了,你就拿進來;烤好了分成塊子,獻給耶和華為馨的素祭。

22 亞倫的子孫中,接續他為受膏的祭司,要把這素祭獻上,要全燒給耶和華。這是永遠的定例。

23 祭司的素祭都要燒了,卻不可

24 耶和華曉諭摩西

25 你對亞倫和他的子孫,贖祭的條例乃是這樣:要在耶和華面前、宰燔祭牲的地方宰贖祭牲;這是至的。

26 為贖罪獻這祭的祭司要,要在聖處,就是在會幕的院子裡

27 凡摸這祭的要成為;這祭牲的血若彈在甚麼衣服上,所彈的那一件要在處洗淨。

28 惟有祭物的瓦器要打碎;若是在銅器裡,這銅器要擦磨,在中涮淨。

29 祭司中的男丁都可以;這是至的。

30 凡贖祭,若將血帶進會幕所贖,那肉都不可,必用焚燒。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 2342

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2342. 'And he baked unleavened bread' means purification. This is clear from the meaning of 'unleavened' or without yeast. In the Word 'bread' means in general every celestial and spiritual food, and so in general everything celestial and spiritual, see 276, 680, 1798, 2165, 2177. The need for the latter to be free of all impurities or unholiness was represented by 'unleavened bread'; for 'yeast' means the evil and falsity by means of which celestial and spiritual things are rendered impure and profane. On account of this representation those who belonged to the representative Church were forbidden in sacrifices to offer any bread or minchah other than bread without yeast, that is, unleavened, as is clear in Moses,

Every minchah which you bring to Jehovah shall be made without yeast. Leviticus 2:11. In the same author,

You shall not sacrifice the blood of My sacrifice with that made with yeast. Exodus 23:18; 34:25.

[2] They were also forbidden therefore to eat any other bread during the seven days of the Passover than bread without yeast, that is, which was unleavened. This prohibition occurs in the following verses in Moses,

For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even on the first day you shall remove yeast from your houses, for anyone eating that made with yeast, that soul shall be cut off from Israel, from the first day until the seventh. In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month, in the evening. For seven days no yeast shall be found in your houses, for anyone eating that made with yeast, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether a settler or one born in the land. Exodus 12:15, 19-20.

The same prohibition appears in other places as well, such as Exodus 13:6-7; 23:15; 34:18; Deuteronomy 16:3-4. Consequently the Passover is called the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Leviticus 23:6; Numbers 28:16-17; Matthew 26:17; Luke 22:1, 7.

[3] That the Passover represented the glorification of the Lord and so the conjunction of the Divine with the human race will in the Lord's Divine mercy be shown elsewhere. And because the conjunction of the Lord with the human race is effected by means of love and charity, and by means of the faith deriving from these, celestial and spiritual things were represented by the unleavened bread which they were to eat each day during the Passover. Consequently to prevent the defilement of those things by anything unholy they were strictly forbidden to eat anything made with yeast, so strictly that any who did so were to be cut off; for those who profane celestial and spiritual things inevitably perish. Anyone may see that but for this arcanum within it that observance, together with so harsh a penalty, would never have been introduced.

[4] Everything that was commanded in that Church represented some arcanum, even the actual cooking, as with every instruction which the children of Israel carried out when they were leaving Egypt, namely that they were to eat that night flesh roasted by fire, and unleavened bread on bitter herbs; they were not to eat it raw or cooked in water; the head had to be on its legs; they were to let none of it remain until the morning; they were to burn what was left over with fire, Exodus 12:8-10. Every detail of these instructions was representative - eating it at night; flesh roasted by fire; unleavened bread on bitter herbs; the head on the legs; not raw; not cooked in water; not leaving any until the morning; and burning what was left with fire. But the arcana represented are in no way apparent unless they are disclosed by means of the internal sense. That sense alone shows that all these details are Divine.

[5] Something similar was done in the ritual for the taking of a Nazirite vow. The priest was to take the cooked shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and he was to place them on the palms of the Nazirite after he had shaved his consecrated head, Numbers 6:19. Anyone who does not know that a Nazirite represented the celestial man himself does not know either that every detail of these instructions embodies celestial things, and so arcana, which are not apparent in the letter, namely the instructions to take the cooked shoulder of a ram, an unleavened cake, an unleavened wafer, and to shave off his hair. This also shows what kind of opinion regarding the Word can be gained by people who do not believe in the existence of an internal sense, for without the internal sense such details are of no consequence at all. But when the ceremonial or ritualistic element has been stripped away everything becomes Divine and holy. Everything else has a deeper meaning, as does 'unleavened bread' which means the holiness of love, or what is most holy, as it is also called in Moses,

The unleavened bread that was left over was to be eaten by Aaron and his sons in a holy place, for it was most holy. Leviticus 6:16-17.

'Unleavened bread' therefore means pure love, and 'the baking of that which is unleavened' purification.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.