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Tredje Mosebog 2

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1 Når nogen vil frembære et Afgrødeoffer som Offergave for HE EN, skal hans Offergave bestå af fint Hvedemel, og han skal hælde Olie derover og komme øgelse derpå.

2 Og han skal bringe det til Arons Sønner, Præsterne; og Præsten skal tage en Håndfuld af Melet og Olien og al øgelsen, det, som skal ofres af Afgrødeofferet, og bringe det som øgoffer på Alteret, et Ildoffer til en liflig Duft for HE EN;

3 men esten af Afgrødeofferet skal tilfalde Aron og hans Sønner som en højhellig Del af HE ENs Ildofre.

4 Men når du som Offergave vil bringe et Afgrødeoffer af Bagværk fra Bagerovnen, skal det bestå af fint Hvedemel, usyrede Kager, rørte i Olie, og usyrede Fladbrød, smurte med Olie.

5 Er derimod din Offergave et Afgrødeoffer, bagt på Plade, så skal det bestå af usyret fint Hvedemel, rørt i Olie;

6 du skal bryde det i Stykker og hælde Olie derover. Det er et Afgrødeoffer.

7 Men er din Offergave et Afgrødeoffer, bagt i Pande, skal det tilberedes af fint Hvedemel med Olie.

8 Det Afgrødeoffer, der tilberedes af disse Ting, skal du bringe HE EN; man skal bringe det til Præsten, og han skal bære det hen til Alteret;

9 og Præsten skal af Afgrødeofferet udtage det, som skal ofres deraf, og bringe det som øgoffer på Alteret, et Ildoffer til en liflig Duft for HE EN.

10 Men esten af Afgrødeofferet skal tilfalde Aron og hans Sønner som en højhellig Del af HE ENs Ofre.

11 Intet Afgrødeoffer, som I bringer HE EN, må tilberedes syret; thi Surdejg eller Honning må I aldrig bringe som øgoffer, som Ildoffer for HE EN.

12 Kun som Offergave af Førstegrøde må I frembære disse Ting for HE EN, men de må ikke komme på Alteret til en liflig Duft.

13 Og du skal komme Salt i enhver Afgrødeoffergave, du frembærer, du må ikke undlade at komme din Guds Pagts Salt i dit Afgrødeoffer, men du skal frembære Salt med enhver af dine Offergaver.

14 Dersom du vil frembære HE EN et Afgrødeoffer af Førstegrøden, skal det, du frembærer som Afgrødeoffer af din Førstegrøde, være friske Aks, ristede over Ilden, knuste, af nyhøstet Korn;

15 og du skal hælde Olie derover og komme øgelse derpå. Det er et Afgrødeoffer,

16 Al øgelsen og det, som skal ofres af de knuste Aks og Olien, skal Præsten bringe som øgoffer, et Ildoffer for HE EN.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 7978

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7978. 'And they baked the dough which they brought out of Egypt - unleavened cakes' means that from the truth of good further good was produced that had no falsity at all in it. This is clear from the meaning of 'baking' - when used in reference to the truth of good, meant by 'the dough' - as producing; from the meaning of 'the dough' as the truth of good, dealt with above in 7966; and from the meaning of 'unleavened cakes' as forms of good that have no falsity at all in them, since 'unleavened' means without falsity, see 2342, 7906. This is the second state of truth from good that they passed through when they were delivered, see above in 7966, 7972. The reason why 'cakes' means forms of good is that they are cakes of bread, and 'bread' in the internal sense is the good of love, dealt with in 276, 680, 2165, 2177, 3464, 3478, 3735, 3813, 4211, 4217, 4735, 4976, 5915. But bread in the form of cakes is distinguished from bread in general, in that bread in the form of cakes means the good of love towards the neighbour, which is spiritual good, while bread in general means the good of love to the Lord, which is celestial good. Such spiritual good was meant by 'the minchah' which was offered and burned with the sacrifice on the altar; for 'the minchah' was baked into cakes and into wafers, as is made clear in Exodus 29:2-3, 23-24, 32; Leviticus 2:2 and following verses; 6:20-21; Numbers 6:15, 19; 15:18-21.

[2] Something similar was meant by 'the twelve loaves of the presence which too were baked into cakes, described in Moses as follows,

You shall take fine flour and bake it into twelve cakes; two-tenths [of an ephah] shall there be in one cake. And you shall place them in two rows, six in a row, on the clean table before Jehovah. And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, and it shall be loaves of bread serving as a memorial, a fire-offering to Jehovah. Leviticus 24:5-9.

From these instructions it becomes clear that 'the loaves' meant what was holy, for such instructions would never have been issued but for that reason. And since they meant what was holy they were also called in verse 9 of the same chapter 'holiness of holinesses.' 1 But these loaves meant the good of celestial love, and their being baked into cakes meant forms of the good of spiritual love. From these verses and from those in the references given above it becomes clear that something similar is meant by the bread in the Holy Supper.

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1. A very literal rendering of the Hebrew

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