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Tredje Mosebog 16

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1 HE EN talede til Moses, efter at Døden havde ramt Arons to Sønner, da de trådte frem for HE ENs Åsyn og døde,

2 og HE EN sagde til Moses: Sig til din Broder Aron, at han ikke til enhver Tidgå ind i Helligdommen inden for Forhænget foran Sonedækket på Arken, ellers skal han , thi jeg kommer til Syne i Skyen over Sonedækket.

3 Kun således må Aron komme ind i Helligdommen: Med en ung Tyr til Syndoffer og en Væder til Brændoffer;

4 han skal iføre sig en hellig Linnedkjortel, bære Linnedbenklæder over sin Blusel, omgjorde sig med et Linnedbælte og binde et Linned Hovedklæde om sit Hoved; det er hellige Klæder; og han skal bade sit Legeme i Vand, før han ifører sig dem.

5 Af Israeliternes Menighed skal han tage to Gedebukke til Syndoffer og en Væder til Brændoffer.

6 Så skal Aron ofre sin egen Syndoffertyr og skaffe sig og sit Hus Soning.

7 Derefter skal han tage de to Bukke og stille dem frem for HE ENs Åsyn ved Indgangen til Åbenbaringsteltet.

8 Og Aron skal kaste Lod om de to Bukke, et Lod for HE EN og et for Azazel;

9 og den Buk, der ved Loddet tilfalder HE EN, skal Aron føre frem og ofre som Syndoffer;

10 men den Buk, der ved Loddet tilfalder Azazel, skal fremstilles levende for HE ENs Åsyn, for at man kan fuldbyrde Soningen over den og sende den ud i Ørkenen til Azazel.

11 Aron skal da føre sin egen Syndoffertyr frem og skaffe sig og sit Hus Soning og slagte sin egen Syndoffertyr.

12 Derpå skal han tage en Pandefuld Gløder fra Alteret for HE ENs Åsyn og to Håndfulde stødt, vellugtende øgelse og bære det inden for Forhænget.

13 Og han skal komme øgelse på Ilden for HE ENs Åsyn, så at øgelsesskyen skjuler Sonedækket oven over Vidnesbyrdet, for at han ikke skal .

14 Så skal han tage noget af Tyrens Blod og stænke det med sin Finger fortil på Sonedækket, og foran Sonedækket skal han syv Gange stænke noget af Blodet med sin Finger.

15 Derefter skal han slagte Folkets Syndofferbuk, bære dens Blod inden for Forhænget og gøre med det som med Tyrens Blod, stænke det på Sonedækket og foran Sonedækket.

16 Således skal han skaffe Helligdommen Soning for Israeliternes Urenhed og deres Overtrædelser, alle deres Synder, og på samme Måde skal han gøre med Åbenbaringsteltet, der har sin Plads hos dem midt i deres,Urenhed.

17 Intet Menneske må komme i Åbenbaringsteltet, når han går ind for at skaffe Soning i Helligdommen, før han går ud igen. Således skal han skaffe sig selv, sit Hus og hele Israels Forsamling Soning.

18 Så skal han gå ud til Alteret, som står for HE ENs Åsyn, og skaffe det Soning; han skal tage noget af Tyrens og Bukkens Blod og stryge det rundt om på Alterets Horn,

19 og han skal syv Gange stænke noget af Blodet derpå med sin Finger og således rense det og hellige det for Israeliternes Urenheder.

20 Når han så er færdig med at skaffe Helligdommen, Åbenbaringsteltet og Alteret Soning, skal han føre den levende Buk frem.

21 Aron skal lægge begge sine Hænder på Hovedet af den levende Buk og over den bekende alle Israeliternes Misgerninger og alle deres Overtrædelser, alle deres Synder, og lægge dem på Bukkens Hoved og så sende den ud i Ørkenen ved en Mand, der holdes rede dertil.

22 Bukken skal da bære alle deres Misgerninger til et øde Land, og så skal han slippe Bukken løs i Ørkenen.

23 Derpå skal Aron gå ind i Åbenbaringsteltet, afføre sig Linnedklæderne, som han tog på, da han gik ind i Helligdommen, og lægge dem der;

24 så skal han bade sit Legeme i Vand på et helligt Sted, iføre sig sine sædvanlige Klæder og gå ud og ofre sit eget Brændoffer og Folkets Brændoffer og således skaffe sig og Folket Soning.

25 Og Syndofferets Fedt skal han bringe som øgoffer på Alteret.

26 Men den, som fører Bukken ud til Azazel, skal tvætte sine Klæder og bade sit Legeme i Vand; derefter må han komme ind i Lejren.

27 Men Syndoffertyren og Syndofferbukken, hvis Blod blev båret ind for at skaffe Soning i Helligdommen, skal man bringe uden for Lejren, og man skal brænde deres Hud og deres Kød og Skarn.

28 Og den, der brænder dem, skal tvætte sine Klæder og bade sit Legeme; derefter må han komme ind i Lejren.

29 Det skal være eder en evig gyldig Anordning. Den tiende Dag i den syvende Måned skal I faste og afholde eder fra alt Arbejde, både den indfødte og den fremmede, der bor iblandt eder.

30 Thi den Dag skaffes der eder Soning til eders enselse; fra alle eders Synder renses I for HE ENs Åsyn.

31 Det skal være eder en fuldkommen Hviledag, og I skal faste: det skal være en evig gyldig Anordning.

32 Præsten, som salves og indsættes til at gøre Præstetjeneste i. Stedet for sin Fader, skal skaffe Soning, han skal iføre sig Linnedklæderne, de hellige Klæder,

33 og han skal skaffe det Allerhelligste Soning; og Åbenbaringsteltet og Alteret skal han skaffe Soning; og Præsterne og alt Folkets Forsamling skal han skaffe Soning.

34 Det skal være eder en evig gyldig Anordning, for at der kan skaffes Israeliterne Soning for alle deres Synder een Gang om Året. Og Aron gjorde som HE EN bød Moses.

   


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1001. 'Blood' means charity, as becomes clear from many considerations, and so means the new will part which a regenerate spiritual person receives from the Lord. This new will part is identical with charity, for it is from charity that the new will takes form. Indeed charity, or love, is the essential element or the life of the will, for nobody can possibly say he wills something unless he takes delight in it or loves it. When people say they have something in mind this does not imply that they will it, unless will is implicit in thought. This new will which is one of charity is 'the blood' here. It is not the person's own but the Lord's residing with him. And because it is the Lord's it must never be mixed together with things that belong to the person's own will which, as stated, is so foul. This was the reason why in the representative Church people were commanded not to eat flesh with its soul, that is, not to eat the blood. That is to say, they were not to mix the one with the other. Because 'blood' meant charity it meant that which was holy, and because 'flesh' meant what belonged to the merely human will, it meant that which was unholy. And because these, being opposites, were quite separate, people were forbidden to eat blood. For in those times 'the eating of flesh together with the blood' was representative in heaven of profanation, or the mixing together of holy and unholy - which representation in heaven could do nothing else than strike the angels with horror. For at that period of time all things that took place among members of the Church were converted among angels - according to the meaning such things had in the internal sense - into corresponding spiritual representations.

[2] Since the nature of everything depends on that of the person to whom it refers, the same holds true with regard to the meaning of blood. When it refers to a regenerate spiritual person 'blood' means charity or love towards the neighbour. When it refers to a regenerate celestial person it means love to the Lord. But when it refers to the Lord it means the whole of His Human Essence, and so Love itself, which is His mercy towards the human race. Consequently since 'blood' in general means love and what belongs to love, it means heavenly things that are the Lord's alone, and so in reference to man it means the heavenly things a person receives from the Lord. The heavenly things that a regenerate spiritual person receives from the Lord are celestial-spiritual. These in the Lord's Divine mercy will be dealt with elsewhere.

[3] That 'blood' means heavenly things, and in the highest sense meant the Lord's Human Essence, and so Love itself, which is His mercy towards the human race, becomes clear from the sacredness that the Jewish representative Church was required to attach to blood. For this reason blood was called 'the blood of the covenant'. It was sprinkled over the people, and also, together with the anointing oil, over Aaron and his sons. And [the blood] of every burnt offering and sacrifice was sprinkled over and around the altar. For these details, 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; 16:12-15; 18, 19; Numbers 18:17; Deuteronomy 12:27.

[4] Because blood was held to be so holy, and what belonged to the merely human will was so unholy, they were strictly forbidden to eat blood because this represented the profanation of what is holy, as in Moses,

It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your dwelling-places, that you shall not eat any fat or any blood. Leviticus 3:17.

'Fat' stands for celestial life, and 'blood' in this instance for celestial-spiritual life. The celestial-spiritual is that which is spiritual having a celestial origin, as with the Most Ancient Church. With them love to the Lord was the celestial because this had been implanted in their will, while that which was celestial-spiritual with them was faith flowing from it, dealt with in 30-38, 337, 793, 398. But with a spiritual person the celestial does not exist, only the celestial-spiritual, because charity is implanted in the understanding part of his mind.

In the same author,

As for anyone from the house of Israel or from the sojourner sojourning among them who eats any blood, I will set My face 1 against the soul eating 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 for you upon the altar, to make atonement for your souls, for the blood itself will make atonement by reason of the soul. The soul of all flesh is the blood of it; everyone eating it shall be cut off. Leviticus 17:10-11, 14.

Here it is plainly stated that the soul of the flesh is in the blood and that the soul of [all] flesh is the blood, or that which is celestial, that is, that which is holy and is the Lord's.

[5] In the same author,

Be sure that you do not eat blood, for the blood is the soul and you shall not eat the soul with the flesh. Deuteronomy 12:23-25.

From these words similarly it is clear that the blood is called the soul, that is, celestial life, or that which is celestial, and was represented by the burnt offerings and sacrifices of that Church. In a similar way, it was the requirement not to mingle that which was celestial - the Lord's Proprium, which alone is celestial and holy - with man's proprium, which is unholy, that was represented also by their being forbidden to make a sacrifice of, that is, to offer, the blood of the sacrifice with anything leavened, Exodus 23:18; 34:25. That which was 'leavened' meant that which was corrupt and filthy.

[6] The reason Why 'blood' is called the soul and means the holiness of charity, and why the holiness of love was represented in the Jewish Church by 'blood', is that the life of the body lies in the blood. And because the life of the body lies in the blood it is its ultimate soul, so that the blood therefore may be called the bodily soul, or the place where a person's bodily life resides. And because in representative Churches internal things were represented by external, the soul or celestial life was therefore represented by 'the blood'.

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