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Tredje Mosebog 6

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1 HE EN talede fremdeles til Moses og sagde:

2 Når nogen forsynder sig og gør sig skyldig i Svig mod HE EN, idet han frakender sin Næste etten til noget, der var ham betroet, et Håndpant eller noget, han har røvet, eller han aftvinger sin Næste noget,

3 eller han finder noget, som er tabt, og nægter det, eller han aflægger falsk Ed angående en af alle de Ting, som Mennesket forsynder sig ved at gøre,

4 så skal han, når han har forsyndet sig og føler sig skyldig, tilbagegive det, han har røvet, eller det, han har aftvunget, eller det, som var ham betroet, eller det tabte, som han har fundet,

5 eller alt det, hvorom han har aflagt falsk Ed; han skal erstatte det med dets fulde Værdi med Tillæg af en Femtedel. Han skal give den retmæssige Ejer det, den Dag han gør Bod.

6 Og til Bod skal han af Småkvæget bringe HE EN en lydefri Væder, der er taget god; som Skyldoffer skal han bringe den til Præsten.

7 Da skal Præsten skaffe ham Soning for HE ENs Åsyn, så han finder Tilgivelse for enhver Ting, hvorved man pådrager sig Skyld.

8 HE EN taled fremdeles til Moses og sagde:

9 Giv Aron og hans Sønner dette Bud: Dette er Loven om Brændofferet. Brændofferet skal blive liggende på sit Bål på Alteret Natten over til næste Morgen, og Alterilden skal holdes ved lige dermed.

10 Så skal Præsten iføre sig sin Linnedklædning, og Linnedbenklæder skal han iføre sig over sin Blusel, og han skal borttage Asken, som bliver tilbage, når Ilden fortærer Brændofferet på Alteret, og lægge den ved Siden af Alteret.

11 Derefter skal han afføre sig sine Klæder og tage andre Klæder på og bringe Asken uden for Lejren til et urent Sted.

12 Ilden på Alteret skal holdes ved lige dermed, den må ikke gå ud: og Præsten skal hver Morgen tænde ny Brændestykker på Alteret og lægge Brændofferet til ette derpå og så bringe Takofrenes Fedtdele som øgoffer derpå.

13 En stadig Ild skal holdes ved lige på Alteret, den må ikke gå ud.

14 Dette er Loven om Afgrødeofferet: Arons Sønner skal frembære det for HE ENs Åsyn, hen til Alteret.

15 Så skal han tage en Håndfuld af Afgrødeofferets Mel og Olie og al øgelsen, der følger med Afgrødeofferet, det, der skal ofres deraf, og bringe det som øgoffer på Alteret til en liflig Duft for HE EN.

16 Men esten deraf skal Aron og hans Sønner spise; usyret skal det spises på et helligt Sted; i Åbenbaringsteltets Forgård skal de spise det.

17 Det må ikke bages syret. Jeg har givet dem det som deres Del af mine Ildofre; det er højhelligt ligesom Syndofferet og Skyldofferet.

18 Alle af Mandkøn blandt Arons Sønnerspise det; denne Del af HE ENs Ildofre skal være en evig gyldig ettighed, de har Krav på fra Slægt til Slægt. Enhver, som rører derved, bliver hellig.

19 HE EN talede fremdeles til Moses og sagde:

20 Dette er den Offergave, Aron og hans Sønner skal frembære for HE EN: En Tiendedel Efa fint Hvedemel, et dagligt Afgrødeoffer, Halvdelen om Morgenen og Halvdelen om Aftenen.

21 Det skal tilberedes på Plade med Olie, og du skal frembære det godt æltet, og du skal bryde det i Stykker; et Afgrødeoffer, som er brudt i Stykker, skal du frembære til en liflig Duft for HE EN.

22 Den Præst iblandt hans Sønner, der salves i hans Sted, skal ofre det; det skal være en evig gyldig ettighed for HE EN, og som Heloffer skal det ofres.

23 Ethvert Afgrødeoffer fra en Præst skal være et Heloffer; det må ikke spises.

24 HE EN talede fremdeles til Moses og sagde:

25 Tal til Aron og hans Sønner og sig: Dette er Loven om Syndofferet. Der, hvor Brændofferet slagtes. skal Syndofferet slagtes for HE ENs Åsyn; det er højhelligt.

26 Den Præst, der frembærer Syndofferet, skal spise det; det skal spises på et helligt Sted, i Åbenbaringsteltets Forgård.

27 Enhver, som rører ved Kødet deraf, bliver hellig. Hvis noget af dets Blod stænkes på en Klædning, skal det Stykke, Blodet er stænket på, tvættes på et helligt Sted.

28 Det Lerkar, det koges i, skal slås i Stykker; og hvis det er kogt i et Kobberkar, skal dette skures og skylles med Vand.

29 Alle af Mandkøn blandt Præsterne må spise det; det er højhelligt.

30 Men intet Syndoffer må spises, når noget af dets Blod bringes ind i Åbenbaringsteltet for at skaffe Soning i Helligdommen; det skal opbrændes.

   


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2342. 'And he baked unleavened bread' means purification. This is clear from the meaning of 'unleavened' or without yeast. In the Word 'bread' means in general every celestial and spiritual food, and so in general everything celestial and spiritual, see 276, 680, 1798, 2165, 2177. The need for the latter to be free of all impurities or unholiness was represented by 'unleavened bread'; for 'yeast' means the evil and falsity by means of which celestial and spiritual things are rendered impure and profane. On account of this representation those who belonged to the representative Church were forbidden in sacrifices to offer any bread or minchah other than bread without yeast, that is, unleavened, as is clear in Moses,

Every minchah which you bring to Jehovah shall be made without yeast. Leviticus 2:11. In the same author,

You shall not sacrifice the blood of My sacrifice with that made with yeast. Exodus 23:18; 34:25.

[2] They were also forbidden therefore to eat any other bread during the seven days of the Passover than bread without yeast, that is, which was unleavened. This prohibition occurs in the following verses in Moses,

For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even on the first day you shall remove yeast from your houses, for anyone eating that made with yeast, that soul shall be cut off from Israel, from the first day until the seventh. In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month, in the evening. For seven days no yeast shall be found in your houses, for anyone eating that made with yeast, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether a settler or one born in the land. Exodus 12:15, 19-20.

The same prohibition appears in other places as well, such as Exodus 13:6-7; 23:15; 34:18; Deuteronomy 16:3-4. Consequently the Passover is called the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Leviticus 23:6; Numbers 28:16-17; Matthew 26:17; Luke 22:1, 7.

[3] That the Passover represented the glorification of the Lord and so the conjunction of the Divine with the human race will in the Lord's Divine mercy be shown elsewhere. And because the conjunction of the Lord with the human race is effected by means of love and charity, and by means of the faith deriving from these, celestial and spiritual things were represented by the unleavened bread which they were to eat each day during the Passover. Consequently to prevent the defilement of those things by anything unholy they were strictly forbidden to eat anything made with yeast, so strictly that any who did so were to be cut off; for those who profane celestial and spiritual things inevitably perish. Anyone may see that but for this arcanum within it that observance, together with so harsh a penalty, would never have been introduced.

[4] Everything that was commanded in that Church represented some arcanum, even the actual cooking, as with every instruction which the children of Israel carried out when they were leaving Egypt, namely that they were to eat that night flesh roasted by fire, and unleavened bread on bitter herbs; they were not to eat it raw or cooked in water; the head had to be on its legs; they were to let none of it remain until the morning; they were to burn what was left over with fire, Exodus 12:8-10. Every detail of these instructions was representative - eating it at night; flesh roasted by fire; unleavened bread on bitter herbs; the head on the legs; not raw; not cooked in water; not leaving any until the morning; and burning what was left with fire. But the arcana represented are in no way apparent unless they are disclosed by means of the internal sense. That sense alone shows that all these details are Divine.

[5] Something similar was done in the ritual for the taking of a Nazirite vow. The priest was to take the cooked shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and he was to place them on the palms of the Nazirite after he had shaved his consecrated head, Numbers 6:19. Anyone who does not know that a Nazirite represented the celestial man himself does not know either that every detail of these instructions embodies celestial things, and so arcana, which are not apparent in the letter, namely the instructions to take the cooked shoulder of a ram, an unleavened cake, an unleavened wafer, and to shave off his hair. This also shows what kind of opinion regarding the Word can be gained by people who do not believe in the existence of an internal sense, for without the internal sense such details are of no consequence at all. But when the ceremonial or ritualistic element has been stripped away everything becomes Divine and holy. Everything else has a deeper meaning, as does 'unleavened bread' which means the holiness of love, or what is most holy, as it is also called in Moses,

The unleavened bread that was left over was to be eaten by Aaron and his sons in a holy place, for it was most holy. Leviticus 6:16-17.

'Unleavened bread' therefore means pure love, and 'the baking of that which is unleavened' purification.

  
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