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1 HE EN talede fremdeles til Moses og sagde:

2 Tal til Israeliterne og sig til dem: Når en Mand eller Kvinde vil aflægge et Nasiræerløfte for således at indvie sig til HE EN,

3 skal han afholde sig fra Vin og stærk Drik; Vineddike og stærk Drik må han ikke drikke, ej heller nogen som helst drik af Druer; han må hverken spise friske eller tørrede Druer;

4 så længe hans Indvielse varer, må han intet som helst nyde, der kommer af Vinstokken, hverken umodne Druer eller friske Skud.

5 Så længe hans Indvielsesløfte gælder, må ingen agekniv komme på hans Hoved; indtil Udløbet af den Tid han indvier sig til HE EN, skal han være hellig og lade sit Hovedhår vokse frit.

6 Hele den Tid han har indviet sig til HE EN, må han ikke komme Lig nær;

7 selv når hans Fader eller Moder, hans Broder eller Søster dør, må han ikke pådrage sig Urenhed ved dem, thi han bærer sin Guds indvielse på sit Hoved.

8 Så længe hans Indvielse varer, er han helliget HE EN.

9 Men når nogen uventet og pludselig dør i hans Nærhed, og han således bringer Urenhed over sit indviede Hoved, skal han rage sit Hoved, den Dag han atter bliver ren; den syvende Dag skal han rage det;

10 og den ottende Dag skal han bringe to Turtelduer eller Dueunger til Præsten ved Åbenbaringsteltets Indgang.

11 Og Præsten skal ofre den ene som Syndoffer og den anden som Brændoffer og skaffe ham Soning, fordi han har syndet ved at røre ved Lig. Derpå skal han samme Dag atter hellige sit Hoved

12 og atter indvie sig til HE EN for lige så lang Tid, som han før havde indviet sig, og bringe et årgammelt Lam som Skyldoffer; den forløbne Tid regnes ikke med, da han har bragt Urenhed over sit indviede Hoved.

13 Dette er Loven om Nasiræeren: Når hans indvielsestid er til Ende, skal han begive sig til Åbenbaringsteltets Indgang

14 og som Offergave bringe HE EN et årgammelt, lydefrit Væderlam til Brændoffer, et årgammelt, lydefrit Hunlam til Syndoffer og EN lydefri Væder til Takoffer,

15 en Kurv med usyret Bagværk, Kager af fint Hvedemel, rørte i Olie, og usyrede Fladbrød, smurte med Olie, desuden det tilhørende Afgrødeoffer og de tilhørende Drikofre.

16 Så skal Præsten bringe det for HE ENs Åsyn og ofre hans Syndoffer og Brændoffer,

17 og Væderen skal han ofre som Takoffer til HE EN tillige med de usyrede Brød i Kurven; derpå skal Præsten ofre hans Afgrødeoffer og Drikofer.

18 Så skal Nasiræeren ved Indgangen til Åbenbaringsteltet rage sit indviede Hoved og tage sit indviede Hovedhår og kaste det i Ilden under Takofferet.

19 Og Præsten skal tage den kogte Bov af Væderen og een usyret Kage og eet usyret Fladbrød af Kurven og lægge dem på Nasiræerens Hænder, efter at han har afraget sit indviede Hovedhår.

20 Og Præsten skal udføre Svingningen dermed for HE ENs Åsyn; det tilfalder Præsten som Helliggave foruden Svingningsbrystet og Offerydelseskøllen. Derefter må Nasiræeren atter drikke Vin.

21 Det er Loven om Nasiræeren, der aflægger Løfte, om hans Offergave til HE EN i Anledning af Indvielsen, foruden hvad han ellers evner at give; overensstemmende med Løftet, han aflægger, skal han forholde sig efter den for hans Indvielse gældende Lov.

22 HE EN talede fremdeles til Moses og sagde:

23 Tal til Aron og hans Sønner og sig: Når I velsigner Israeliterne, skal I sige til dem:

24 HE EN velsigne dig og bevare dig,

25 HE EN lade sit Ansigt lyse over dig og være dig nådig,

26 HE EN løfte sit Åsyn på dig og give dig Fred!

27 Således skal de lægge mit Navn på Israeliterne, og jeg vil velsigne dem.

   


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6119. For why should we die beside thee because the silver faileth? That this signifies that otherwise by reason of the lack of truth there would be spiritual death, is evident from the signification of “dying,” as being spiritual death (of which in what follows); and from the signification of “silver failing,” as being a lack of truth (that “silver” denotes true and adaptable memory-knowledge may be seen above, n. 6112). In regard to the fact that there is spiritual death when there is a lack of truth, the case is this. Spiritual life consists in activities according to truths, consequently in uses; for they who are in spiritual life have an appetite and a longing for truths with a view to life, that is, that they may live according to them, thus with a view to uses. So far therefore as they are able to receive truths in accordance with which uses may be done, so far they are in spiritual life, because so far they are in the light of intelligence and of wisdom. When therefore truths fail, as is the case when a state of shade comes, which is signified in the Word by “evening” (n. 6110), the spiritual life labors; for such things present themselves as belong to shade, that is, to spiritual death; for in this case they are not as before kept in the light, but are in part let back into their own; and hence there arises from the shade an image of spiritual death, that is, of damnation.

[2] That by “death” is signified spiritual death, or damnation, is evident from very many passages in the Word, of which it will suffice to adduce the following.

In Isaiah:

In righteousness He shall judge the poor, and reprove with rectitude the wretched of the earth. But He shall smite the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips shall He cause the wicked to die (Isaiah 11:4);

speaking of the Lord. The “rod of His mouth,” and the “breath of His lips,” denote the Divine truth from which is judgment; “to die” denotes to be damned. Again:

He will swallow up death eternally; and the Lord Jehovih will wipe away the tear from upon all faces (Isaiah 25:8).

Again:

The dead shall not live; the Rephaim shall not rise; because Thou hast visited, Thou hast extinguished them (Isaiah 26:14).

Again:

Thy dead shall live, my carcass, they shall arise (Isaiah 26:19).

Again:

Ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell have we made a vision; your covenant with death shall be abolished, and your vision with hell shall not stand (Isaiah 28:15, 18).

[3] In Jeremiah:

Ye wait for the light, but He turns it into the shadow of death, He makes it thick darkness (Jeremiah 13:16).

In Ezekiel:

Ye have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to make the souls live that should not live (Ezekiel 13:19).

In Hosea:

I will redeem them from the hand of hell; from death I will deliver them; O death, I will be thy pests; O hell, I will be thy destruction (Hos. 13:14).

In David:

Thou liftest me up from the gates of death (Psalms 9:13).

Again:

Enlighten mine eyes, lest perchance I sleep death (Psalms 13:3).

Again:

The cords of death compassed me, and the cords of hell (Psalms 18:4-5).

Again:

They shall be set as a flock in hell; death shall pasture them (Psalms 49:14).

In John:

I have the keys of hell and of death (Revelation 1:18).

Again:

He that overcometh shall not be hurt in the second death (Revelation 2:11).

[4] Again:

I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, but thou art dead. Be thou watchful, and establish the things that remain, which are ready to die (Revelation 3:1-2).

In Matthew:

The people that sitteth in darkness saw a great light; and to them that sit in the region and shadow of death, to them light hath arisen (Matthew 4:16).

In John:

He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, shall have eternal life, and shall not come into judgment, but hath passed from death unto life (John 5:24).

Again:

I go away, and ye shall seek Me, but ye shall die in your sin. I said therefore unto you that ye shall die in your sins; for unless ye believe that I am, ye shall die in your sins. If anyone shall keep My word, he shall never see death (John 8:21, 24, 51-52).

As “death” signified damnation, the people of the representative church were forbidden to touch the dead, and if they touched they were unclean, and were to be cleansed (Ezekiel 44:25; Leviticus 15:31; 2 1:1, 2; 22:8; Numbers 6:6-12; 19:11).

  
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Leviticus 22:8

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8 That which dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall not eat, defiling himself by it. I am Yahweh.