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民數記 19

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1 耶和華曉諭摩西亞倫

2 耶和華命定律法中的一條律例乃是這樣:你要吩咐以色列人,把一隻沒有殘疾、未曾負軛、純紅的母牽到你這裡來,

3 祭司以利亞撒;他必牽到外,人就把牛宰在他面前。

4 祭司以利亞撒要用指頭蘸這牛的血,向會幕前面彈次。

5 人要在他眼前把這母焚燒;、血、糞都要焚燒。

6 祭司要把香柏膝草、朱紅色線都丟在燒的火中。

7 祭司必不潔淨到晚上,要衣服,用身,然可以進

8 燒牛的人必不潔淨到晚上,也要衣服,用身。

9 必有一個潔淨的收起母的灰,存在外潔淨的地方,為以色列會眾調做除污穢的。這本是除的。

10 收起母灰的人必不潔淨到晚上,要洗衣服。這要給以色列人和寄居在他們中間的外人作為永遠的定例。

11 摸了人屍的,就必不潔淨。

12 那人到第三要用這除污穢的水潔淨自己,第七就潔淨了。他若在第三不潔淨自己,第七就不潔淨了。

13 凡摸了人屍、不潔淨自己的,就玷污了耶和華的帳幕,這人必從以色列中剪除;因為那除污穢沒有灑在他身上,他就為不潔淨,污穢還在他身上。

14 在帳棚裡的條例乃是這樣:凡進那帳棚的,和一切在帳棚裡的,都必不潔淨。

15 凡敞口的器皿,就是沒有紮上蓋的,也是不潔淨。

16 無論何人在田野裡摸了被刀殺的,或是屍首,或是人的骨頭,或是墳墓,就要不潔淨。

17 要為這不潔淨的人拿些燒成的除灰放在器皿裡,倒上活

18 必當有一個潔淨的拿牛膝草蘸在這中,把在帳棚上,和一切器皿並帳棚內的眾身上,又在摸了骨頭,或摸了被殺的,或摸了自的,或摸了墳墓的那身上。

19 第三和第七,潔淨的人要灑在不潔淨的人身上,第七就使他成為潔淨。那人要衣服,用洗澡,到晚上就潔淨了。

20 但那污穢而不潔淨自己的,要將他從會中剪除,因為他玷污了耶和華的聖所。除污穢的沒有灑在他身上,他是不潔淨的。

21 這要給你們作為永遠的定例。並且那除污穢的人要洗衣服。凡摸除污穢的,必不潔淨到晚上

22 不潔淨人所摸的一切物就不潔淨;摸了這物的人必不潔淨到晚上

   

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Moses

  

At the inmost level, the story of Moses -- like all of the Bible -- is about the Lord and his spiritual development during his human life as Jesus. Moses's role represents establishing forms of worship and to make the people obedient. As such, his primary representation is "the Law of God," the rules God gave the people of Israel to follow in order to represent spiritual things. This can be interpreted narrowly as the Ten Commandments, more broadly as the books of Moses, or most broadly as the entire Bible. Fittingly, his spiritual meaning is complex and important, and evolves throughout the course of his life. To understand it, it helps to understand the meaning of the events in which he was involved. At a more basic level, Moses's story deals with the establishment of the third church to serve as a container of knowledge of the Lord. The first such church -- the Most Ancient Church, represented by Adam and centered on love of the Lord -- had fallen prey to human pride and was destroyed. The second -- the Ancient Church, represented by Noah and the generations that followed him -- was centered on love of the neighbor, wisdom from the Lord and knowledge of the correspondences between natural and spiritual things. It fell prey to the pride of intelligence, however -- represented by the Tower of Babel -- and at the time of Moses was in scattered pockets that were sliding into idolatry. On an external level, of course, Moses led the people of Israel out of Egypt through 40 years in the wilderness to the border of the homeland God had promised them. Along the way, he established and codified their religious system, and oversaw the creation of its most holy objects. Those rules and the forms of worship they created were given as containers for deeper ideas about the Lord, deeper truth, and at some points -- especially when he was first leading his people away from Egypt, a time before the rules had been written down -- Moses takes on the deeper representation of Divine Truth itself, truth from the Lord. At other times -- especially after Mount Sinai -- he has a less exalted meaning, representing the people of Israel themselves due to his position as their leader. Through Moses the Lord established a third church, one more external than its predecessors but one that could preserve knowledge of the Lord and could, through worship that represented spiritual things, make it possible for the Bible to be written and passed to future generations.