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Tredje Mosebog 12

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1 Og HE EN talede til Moses og sagde:

2 Tal til Israeliterne og sig: Når en Kvinde bliver frugtsommelig og føder en Dreng, skal hun være uren i syv Dage; ligesom i den Tid hun har sin månedlige Urenhed, skal hun være uren.

3 På den ottende Dag skal Drengen omskæres på sin Forhud.

4 Derefter skal hun holde sig hjemme i tre og tredive Dage, medens hun har sit enselsesblod; hun må ikke røre ved noget helligt eller komme til Helligdommen, før hendes enselsestid er omme.

5 Føder hun derimod et Pigebarn, skal hun være uren i to Uger ligesom under sin månedlige Urenhed; og derpå skal hun holde sig hjemme i seks og tresindstyve Dage, medens hun har sit enselsesblod.

6 Når hendes enselsestid er omme, skal hun, både efter et Drengebarn og et Pigebarn, bringe et årgammelt Lam som Brændoffer og en Dueunge eller Turteldue som Syndoffer til Præsten ved Åbenbaringsteltets Indgang;

7 og han skal frembære det for HE ENs Åsyn og skaffe hende Soning, så hun bliver ren efter sit Blodtab. Det er Loven om en Kvinde. der føder, hvad enten det er en Dreng eller en Pige.

8 Men hvis hun ikke evner at give et Lam, skal hun tage to Turtelduer eller Dueunger, en til Brændoffer og en til Syndoffer, og Præsten skal skaffe hende Soning, så hun bliver ren.

   


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7839. 'The son of a year it shall be to you' means a complete state. This is clear from the meaning of 'the son' as truth, dealt with in 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2623, 1803, 1813, 3373, 3704; and from the meaning of 'a year' as a whole period from start to finish, dealt with in 2906, and so a complete state. What a complete state is must be explained. The expression 'complete state' is used when good is such that it lacks nothing it needs for receiving the inflow of innocence. The truths of faith when they have been joined to the good of charity cause good to be such; for spiritual good receives its specific quality from the truths of faith. This is how to understand what a complete state is, meant by 'the son of a year'. But the state is not complete when truths have not as yet brought a specific quality to good, enabling it to receive a corresponding state of innocence. That complete state begins to exist when people look from good towards truths; it is not yet complete while they are looking from truths towards good. The second of these is the state of those undergoing regeneration, whereas the first is that of those who have been regenerated. Those undergoing regeneration are guided by truth that leads to good, those who have been regenerated by truth that springs from good; that is, the former live in obedience to truth, the latter are led by an affection to do it. The former are therefore members of the external Church, whereas the latter are members of the internal. Since 'the son of a year' meant a complete state, the command occurs so many times for a lamb or a kid, the son of a year, to be sacrificed, as in Exodus 29:38; Leviticus 9:3; 12:6; 14:10; 23:12, 18-19; Numbers 6:12; 7:15ff, 87-88; 15:27; 28:9, 11; and where the new temple is the subject in Ezekiel,

The prince shall make 1 a burnt offering of a lamb, a perfect, year-old lamb, 2 daily, to Jehovah; each morning he shall make 1 it. Ezekiel 46:13.

Here 'the new temple' is used to mean the Lord's spiritual kingdom. 'The prince' is those who know genuine truths and are led by them to good; 'a burnt offering of a lamb' is worship of the Lord that springs from the good of innocence; and 'year-old' means a complete state.

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1. The Hebrew means You shall make. But earlier verses in Ezekiel 46 refer to the prince.

2. literally, a perfect son of a year

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