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1 亞倫的兩個兒子近到耶和華面前死了死了耶和華曉諭摩西

2 告訴哥哥亞倫,不可隨時進所的幔子內、到櫃上的施恩座前,免得他亡,因為我要從中顯現在施恩座上。

3 亞倫所,要帶一隻公牛犢為贖祭,一隻公綿為燔祭。

4 要穿上細麻布內袍,把細麻布褲子穿在身上,腰束細麻布帶子,頭戴細麻布冠冕;這都是服。他要用身,然後穿戴。

5 要從以色列會眾取兩隻公山羊為贖祭,隻公綿為燔祭。

6 亞倫要把贖祭的公牛奉上,為自己和本家贖

7 也要把兩隻公山羊安置在會幕口、耶和華面前,

8 為那兩隻羊拈鬮,鬮歸與耶和華鬮歸與阿撒瀉勒。

9 亞倫要把那拈鬮歸與耶和華的羊獻為贖祭,

10 但那拈鬮歸與阿撒瀉勒的羊要活著安置在耶和華面前,用以贖罪,打發人送到曠野去,歸與阿撒瀉勒。

11 亞倫要把贖祭的公牛帶來宰了,為自己和本家贖

12 爐,從耶和華面前的上盛滿炭,又拿一捧搗細的料,都入幔子內,

13 耶和華面前,把香放在上,使香的煙遮掩法櫃上的施恩座,免得他亡;

14 也要取些公牛的血,用指頭彈在施恩座的東面,又在施恩座的前面彈血次。

15 隨後他要宰那為百姓作贖祭的公山羊,把羊的血入幔子內,彈在施恩座的上面和前面,好像彈公牛的血一樣。

16 他因以色列人諸般的污穢、過犯,就是他們一切的愆,當這樣在所行贖之禮,並因會幕在他們污穢之中,也要照樣而行。

17 他進所贖罪的時候,會幕裡不可有人,直等到他為自己和本家並以色列會眾贖了罪出

18 他出來,要到耶和華面前的那裡,在上行贖罪之禮,又要取些公牛的血和公山羊的血,抹在上四角的周圍;

19 也要用指頭把血彈在壇上次,潔淨了壇,從壇上除掉以色列人諸般的污穢,使壇成聖

20 亞倫為所和會幕獻完了贖罪祭,就要把那隻活著的公山羊奉上。

21 按在羊上,承認以色列人諸般的孽過犯,就是他們一切的愆,把這歸在羊的上,藉著所派之,送到曠野去。

22 要把這羊放在曠野,這羊要擔當他們一切的罪孽,帶到無人之

23 亞倫要進會幕,把他進所時所穿的細麻布衣服脫下,放在那裡,

24 又要在聖處用身,穿上衣服,出來,把自己的燔祭和百姓的燔祭獻上,為自己和百姓贖罪。

25 祭牲的脂油要在上焚燒。

26 那放羊歸與阿撒瀉勒的人要衣服,用身,然

27 作贖祭的公牛和公山羊的血既所贖,這牛羊就要搬到外,將、糞用焚燒。

28 焚燒的人要衣服,用身,然

29 每逢七初十日,你們要刻苦己心,無論是本地人,是寄居在你們中間的外人,甚麼工都不可做;這要作你們永遠的定例。

30 因在這日要為你們贖,使你們潔淨。你們要在耶和華面前得以潔淨,脫盡一切的愆。

31 這日你們要守為聖安息日,要刻苦己心;這為永遠的定例。

32 那受、接續他父親承接職的祭司要穿上細麻布的衣,行贖罪之禮。

33 他要在至所和會幕行贖罪之禮,並要為眾祭司會眾的百姓贖罪。

34 這要作你們永遠的定例─就是因以色列人一切的,要一年一次為他們贖。於是,亞倫照耶和華所吩咐摩西的行了。

   

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1001. That the “blood” signifies charity, is evident from many things. Thus it signifies the new will part which the regenerate spiritual man receives from the Lord, and which is the same as charity, for the new will is formed of charity. Charity or love is the very essential or life of the will, for no one can say that he wills anything, except from choosing or loving it. To say that one thinks a thing is not to will it, unless willing is in the thought. This new will which is of charity is here the “blood” and this will is not the man’s, but the Lord’s in the man. And because it is the Lord’s, it is never to be mingled with the things of man’s will, and which are so foul, as has been shown. For this reason it was commanded in the representative church that they should not eat flesh with the soul or blood thereof, that is, should not mingle the two together.

[2] The “blood” because it signified charity, signified what is holy; and the “flesh” because it signified man’s will, signified what is profane. And because these things are separate, being contrary, they were forbidden to eat blood; for by eating flesh with the blood was then represented in heaven profanation, or the mingling of what is sacred with what is profane; and this representation in heaven could not then but strike the angels with horror; for at that time all things existing with the man of the church were turned, among the angels, into corresponding spiritual representations, in accordance with the signification of the things in the internal sense. As the nature of all things is determined by that of the man of whom they are predicated, so also is the signification of “blood.” Relatively to the regenerate spiritual man, “blood” signifies charity, or love toward the neighbor; relatively to the regenerate celestial man it signifies love to the Lord; but relatively to the Lord it signifies all His Human essence, consequently Love itself, that is, His mercy toward the human race. Hence “blood” in general, because it signifies love and what is of love, signifies celestial things, which are of the Lord alone; and thus relatively to man the celestial things which he receives from the Lord. The celestial things which the regenerate spiritual man receives from the Lord, are celestial spiritual—of which, by the Divine mercy of the Lord, elsewhere.

[3] That “blood” signifies what is celestial, and in the supreme sense signified the Human essence of the Lord, thus love itself, or His mercy toward the human race, is evident from the sanctity in which it was commanded that blood should be held in the Jewish representative church. For this reason blood was called the blood of the covenant, and was sprinkled upon the people, as also upon Aaron and his sons, together with the anointing oil; and the blood of every burnt offering and sacrifice was sprinkled upon and around the altar (see Exodus 12:7, 13, 22-23; 24:6, 8; Leviticus 1:5, 11, 15; 4:6-7, 17-18, 25, 30, 34; 5:9; 16:14-15, 18-19; Numbers 18:17; Deuteronomy 12:27).

[4] And because blood was held so sacred and man’s will is so profane, the eating of blood was severely prohibited, on account of its representation of the profanation of what is holy.

As in Moses:

It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood (Leviticus 3:17).

“Fat” here denotes celestial life, and “blood” celestial spiritual life. The celestial spiritual is the spiritual which is from the celestial; as in the Most Ancient Church love to the Lord was their celestial, because implanted in their will; their celestial spiritual was the faith therefrom, of which see above n. 30-38, 337, 393, 398). With the spiritual man, however, the celestial does not exist, but the celestial spiritual, because charity has been implanted in his intellectual part.

Again in Moses:

Whosoever of the house of Israel, or of the sojourner sojourning among them, eateth any manner of blood, I will set My faces against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people; for the soul of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar, to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that maketh atonement for the soul. The soul of all flesh, it is the blood thereof; whosoever eateth it shall be cut off (Leviticus 17:10-11, 14).

Here it is plainly shown that the soul of the flesh is in the blood, and that the soul of the flesh is the blood, or the celestial, that is, the holy, which is the Lord’s.

[5] Again:

Be sure that thou eat not the blood; for the blood is the soul, and thou shalt not eat the soul with the flesh (Deuteronomy 12:23-25).

From this passage also it is evident that the blood is called the soul, that is, celestial life, or the celestial, which was represented by the burnt offerings and sacrifices of that church. And in the same way, that what is celestial, which is the Lord’s Own [Domini Proprium]—which alone is celestial and holy—was not to be commingled with that which is man’s own—which is profane—was also represented by the command that they should not sacrifice or offer the blood of the sacrifice on what was leavened (Exodus 23:18; 34:25). What was leavened signified what is corrupt and defiled. That blood is called the soul and signifies the holy of charity, and that the holy of love was represented in the Jewish Church by blood, is because the life of the body consists in the blood. And as the life of the body consists in the blood, this is its ultimate soul, so that the blood may be said to be the corporeal soul, or that in which is the corporeal life of man; and inasmuch as in the representative churches internal things were represented by external, the soul or celestial life was represented by the blood.

  
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