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Leviticus 17

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1 Verder sprak de HEERE tot Mozes, zeggende:

2 Spreek tot Aaron, en tot zijn zonen, en tot al de kinderen Israels, en zeg tot hen: Dit is het woord, hetwelk de HEERE geboden heeft, zeggende:

3 Een ieder van het huis Israels, die een os, of lam, of geit in het leger slachten zal, of die ze slachten zal buiten het leger;

4 En dezelve aan de deur van de tent der samenkomst niet brengen zal, om een offerande den HEERE voor den tabernakel des HEEREN te offeren; het bloed zal dienzelven man toegerekend worden, hij heeft bloed vergoten; daarom zal dezelve man uit het midden zijns volks uitgeroeid worden;

5 Opdat, wanneer de kinderen Israels hun slachtofferen brengen, welke zij op het veld slachten, dat zij die den HEERE toebrengen, aan de deur van de tent der samenkomst tot den priester, en dezelve tot dankofferen den HEERE slachten.

6 En de priester zal het bloed op het altaar des HEEREN, aan de deur van de tent der samenkomst, sprengen; en hij zal het vet aansteken, tot een liefelijken reuk den HEERE.

7 En zij zullen ook niet meer hun slachtofferen den duivelen, welke zij nahoereren, offeren; dat zal hun een eeuwige inzetting zijn voor hun geslachten.

8 Zeg dan tot hen: Een ieder van het huis Israels, en van de vreemdelingen, die in het midden van hen als vreemdelingen verkeren, die een brandoffer of slachtoffer zal offeren,

9 En dat tot de deur van de tent der samenkomst niet zal brengen, om hetzelve den HEERE te bereiden; diezelve man zal uit zijn volken uitgeroeid worden.

10 En een ieder uit het huis Israels, en uit de vreemdelingen, die in het midden van hen als vreemdelingen verkeren, die enig bloed zal gegeten hebben, tegen diens ziel, die dat bloed zal gegeten hebben, zal Ik Mijn aangezicht zetten, en zal die uit het midden haars volks uitroeien.

11 Want de ziel van het vlees is in het bloed; daarom heb Ik het u op het altaar gegeven, om over uw zielen verzoening te doen; want het is het bloed, dat voor de ziel verzoening zal doen.

12 Daarom heb Ik tot de kinderen Israels gezegd: Geen ziel van u zal bloed eten; noch de vreemdeling, die als vreemdeling in het midden van u verkeert, zal bloed eten.

13 Een ieder ook van de kinderen Israels en van de vreemdelingen, die als vreemdelingen in het midden van hen verkeren, die enig wild gedierte, of gevogelte, dat gegeten wordt, in de jacht gevangen zal hebben; die zal deszelfs bloed vergieten, en zal dat met stof bedekken.

14 Want het is de ziel van alle vlees; zijn bloed is voor zijn ziel; daarom heb Ik tot de kinderen Israels gezegd: Gij zult geens vleses bloed eten; want de ziel van alle vlees, dat is zijn bloed; zo wie dat eet, zal uitgeroeid worden.

15 En alle ziel onder de inboorlingen of onder de vreemdelingen, die een dood aas of het verscheurde zal gegeten hebben, die zal zijn klederen wassen, en zich met water baden, en onrein zijn tot aan den avond; daarna zal hij rein zijn.

16 Maar indien hij die niet wast, en zijn vlees niet baadt, zo zal hij zijn ongerechtigheid dragen.

   

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9506. 'And you shall make a mercy-seat from pure gold' means the hearing and reception of all things that belong to worship arising from the good of love. This is clear from the meaning of 'the mercy-seat' as the cleansing from evils or forgiveness of sins, consequently the hearing and reception of all things that belong to worship, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'gold' as the good of love, dealt with in 113, 1551, 1552, 5658, 6914. The truth that 'the mercy-seat' means the cleansing from evils and forgiveness of sins is clear from those places in the Word where propitiation or expiation is referred to. 1 The reason why the hearing and reception of all things belonging to worship is also meant is that only those who have made propitiation or expiation, that is, been cleansed from evils, are heard by the Lord and have their worship accepted by Him; it does not happen with those who are steeped in evils, that is, have not made expiation or propitiation. Therefore also Aaron was not allowed to approach the mercy-seat until he had been cleansed and had made propitiation for himself and the people.

[2] The truth that 'the mercy-seat' consequently means the hearing and reception of all things that belong to worship is also clear from the consideration that Jehovah spoke to Moses over the mercy-seat between the cherubs. The reason why worship arising from the good of love is that which is received is that no one is allowed to enter heaven and so approach the Lord other than a person who is governed by good, that is to say, by the good of love to the Lord and the good of charity towards the neighbour, see 8516, 8539, 8722, 8772, 9139, 9227, 9230, 9274; no one else is heard nor can anyone else's worship be received. This also explains why there were cherubs over the mercy-seat; for watchfulness and providence are meant by 'the cherubs', guarding against access to the Lord except through the good of love, that is, guarding against entrance into heaven by any apart from those who are governed by good, and also guarding against those in hell gaining access to the inhabitants of heaven and doing them harm. All this shows what was meant by the presence of the mercy-seat over the ark and by that of the cherubs over the mercy-seat, and by the fact that the mercy-seat and the cherubs too were made from pure gold; for 'gold' means the good of love, and 'the ark' heaven where the Lord is.

[3] The truth that 'the mercy-seat' means the cleansing from evils, and so the forgiveness of sins, is clear from places in the Word where 'propitiation' or 'expiation' 2 is referred to, as in David,

O Jehovah, expiate our sins for Your name's sake. Psalms 79:9.

In the same author,

He, being merciful, has expiated iniquity. Psalms 78:38.

In the same author,

You will expiate me with hyssop and I shall become clean; You will wash me and I shall be made whiter than snow. Psalms 51:7.

In Isaiah,

Evil will come upon you, which you will not know how to ward off; calamity will befall you, which you will not be able to expiate. Isaiah 47:11.

And in Moses,

Sing, O nations, the people of Him who will avenge the blood of His servants, and will expiate His land, His people. Deuteronomy 32:43.

[4] Expiations were effected by means of sacrifices; and it says that when they were offered the priest would expiate him from sin, and he would be pardoned, 3 Leviticus 4:26, 31, 35; 5:6, 10, 13, 16, 18; 6:7; 9:7; 15:15, 30. Expiation was also effected by 'silver', Exodus 30:16; Psalms 49:7. Hence also the day of expiations 4 before the feast of tabernacles, Leviticus 23:27-32. But it should be recognized that none of those expiations constituted a real cleansing from evils or forgiveness of sins; it only represented it. For every religious observance among the Israelite and Jewish nation was merely representative of the Lord, His kingdom and Church, and such realities as belong to heaven and the Church. How representations brought such realities to angels' awareness in heaven, see 9229.

[5] Since the cleansing from evils and forgiveness of sins was meant by 'the mercy-seat', the hearing and reception of all things that belonged to worship was also meant; for one who has been cleansed from evils is heard and his worship is received. This was represented by Jehovah's speaking above the mercy-seat to Moses and His commanding what the children of Israel should do, as is clear from verse 22 of the present chapter, where it says,

And I will meet with you there, and I will speak to you from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubs which are over the ark of the Testimony, [declaring] everything that I shall command you for the children of Israel.

The like occurs elsewhere,

Whenever Moses spoke to Jehovah he heard the voice speaking from above the mercy-seat that was over the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubs. Numbers 7:89.

The fact that a person was heard and his worship was received when he had been cleansed from evils was represented by Aaron's not going into the holy place within the veil before the mercy-seat unless he had first made expiation for himself and the people, by ceremonial washing, sacrifices, incense, and blood, as stated in Leviticus 16:2-16, which concludes,

In this way he shall expiate the holy place from the uncleannesses of the children of Israel, and from their transgressions in regard of all their sins.

It also says in verse 2 that Jehovah would appear at the mercy-seat 'in the cloud', meaning in Divine Truth adjusted to people's ability to receive and understand it, such as the Word is in the sense of the letter, 4060, 4391, 5922, 6343 (end), 6752, 8106, 8443, 8781.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. The Latin word propitiatorium rendered the mercy-seat may be translated more literally as the place of propitiation.

2. The Hebrew verb behind expiate, used in an uncommon way in the following quotations, means cover over. The Latin verb generally means atone for or purify what is defiled.

3. i.e. the priest shall make atonement for the person's sin, and the person will stand forgiven

4. Generally known as the day of atonement

  
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