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1 Kaj la Eternulo ekparolis al Moseo, dirante:

2 Parolu al la Izraelidoj, kaj diru al ili:Se viro aux virino decidos fari sanktan promeson de konsekrigxo, por konsekri sin al la Eternulo,

3 tiam li devas deteni sin de vino kaj de ebriigajxo, vinagron vinan kaj vinagron de ebriigajxoj li ne devas trinki, kaj nenian trinkajxon el vinberoj li devas trinki, kaj vinberojn fresxajn aux sekigitajn li ne devas mangxi.

4 Dum la tuta tempo de sia konsekriteco li devas mangxi nenion, kio estas farita el vinberoj, de la kernoj gxis la sxelo.

5 Dum la tuta tempo de la promesita konsekriteco razilo ne devas ektusxi lian kapon; gxis la finigxo de la tempo, por kiu li konsekris sin al la Eternulo, li estas sankta; li lasu libere kreski la harojn de sia kapo.

6 Dum la tuta tempo, por kiu li konsekris sin al la Eternulo, li ne aliru al mortinta korpo.

7 Ne cxe sia patro, nek cxe sia patrino, nek cxe sia frato, nek cxe sia fratino li malpurigxu, se ili mortis; cxar konsekro al lia Dio estas sur lia kapo.

8 Dum la tuta tempo de sia konsekriteco li estas sankta al la Eternulo.

9 Kaj se iu mortos apud li subite, neatendite, kaj li malpurigos sian konsekritan kapon, li pritondu sian kapon en la tago de sia purigxo, en la sepa tago li gxin pritondu;

10 kaj en la oka tago li alportu du turtojn aux du kolombidojn al la pastro, al la pordo de la tabernaklo de kunveno.

11 Kaj la pastro faros el unu pekoferon kaj el la dua bruloferon, kaj li pekliberigos lin de tio, kion li pekis per la mortinta korpo, kaj li sanktigos lian kapon en tiu tago.

12 Kaj li konsekros sin al la Eternulo por la tempo de sia konsekriteco, kaj li alportos jaragxan sxafidon kiel kulpoferon; kaj la tempo antauxa perdos sian valoron, cxar lia konsekriteco malpurigxis.

13 Kaj jen estas la legxo pri la konsekrito:kiam finigxos la tempo de lia konsekriteco, oni venigu lin al la pordo de la tabernaklo de kunveno;

14 kaj li alportu kiel oferon al la Eternulo unu jaragxan sxafidon sendifektan kiel bruloferon, kaj unu jaragxan sxafidinon sendifektan kiel pekoferon, kaj unu virsxafon sendifektan kiel pacoferon,

15 kaj korbon da macoj el delikata faruno, kukojn miksitajn kun oleo, kaj flanojn nefermentintajn, sxmiritajn per oleo, kaj ilian farunoferon kaj versxoferon.

16 Kaj la pastro prezentos tion antaux la Eternulon kaj faros lian pekoferon kaj lian bruloferon.

17 Kaj el la virsxafo li faros pacoferon al la Eternulo kune kun la korbo da macoj, kaj la pastro faros lian farunoferon kaj lian versxoferon.

18 Kaj la konsekrito pritondos cxe la pordo de la tabernaklo de kunveno sian konsekritan kapon, kaj li prenos la harojn de sia konsekrita kapo, kaj metos sur la fajron, kiu estas sub la pacofero.

19 Kaj la pastro prenos la kuiritan sxultron de la virsxafo kaj unu nefermentintan kukon el la korbo kaj unu nefermentintan flanon, kaj li metos tion sur la manon de la konsekrito, kiam tiu estos pritondinta sian konsekritan kapon.

20 Kaj la pastro skuos tion kiel skuoferon antaux la Eternulo; sanktigita gxi estu por la pastro, krom la brustajxo de skuado kaj la femuro de levado. Poste la konsekrito povas trinki vinon.

21 Tio estas la legxo pri konsekrito, kiu donis sanktan promeson; lia ofero apartenas al la Eternulo pro lia konsekriteco, krom tio, kion permesos al li lia bonhavo; konforme al sia promeso, kiun li promesis, li faru, laux la legxo pri lia konsekriteco.

22 Kaj la Eternulo ekparolis al Moseo, dirante:

23 Diru al Aaron kaj al liaj filoj jene:Tiamaniere benu la Izraelidojn; diru al ili:

24 La Eternulo vin benu kaj vin gardu;

25 La Eternulo lumu al vi per Sia vizagxo kaj favorkoru vin;

26 La Eternulo turnu Sian vizagxon al vi kaj donu al vi pacon.

27 Tiel ili metu Mian nomon sur la Izraelidojn, kaj Mi ilin benos.

   

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6674. 'Of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah' means the nature and state of the natural where that factual knowledge resided. This is clear from the meaning of 'the name' as the essential nature, dealt with in 144, 145, 1896, 2009, and also the state, 1946, 2643, 3422, 4298. For the names contained in the Word all serve to mean different realities, each name embodying in a nutshell all the characteristics, thus the nature and state of that reality to which it refers. Here therefore the names Shiphrah and Puah mean the nature and state of the natural where true factual knowledge resides since this is the reality to which those names refer, as is evident from what appears immediately before this in 6673. A person who is unaware of the fact that a name serves to mean the nature and state of the reality to which it refers can only think that no more than the name is meant when that name is mentioned.

[2] Thus he can only think that when the Lord speaks of His name no more than this is meant, when in fact what is meant is the essential nature of the worship of Him, that is to say, every aspect of faith and charity through which He is to be worshipped, as in Matthew,

Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them. Matthew 18:20.

Not the name is meant here, but worship flowing from faith and charity. In John,

As many as received Him, to them He gave power to be sons of God, to those believing in His name. John 1:12.

Here also 'name' is used to mean faith and charity from which the Lord is worshipped. In the same gospel,

These things have been written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name. John 20:31.

Here the meaning is similar.

[3] In the same gospel,

If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. John 14:13-14.

And elsewhere,

Whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give it to you. John 15:16-17; 16:23-24.

The real meaning here is not that they were to ask the Father in the Lord's name, but that they were to ask the Lord Himself. For no access lies open to Divine Good, which is the Father, 3704, except through the Lord's Divine Human, as the various Churches also well know. This being so, asking the Lord Himself is a request made in accordance with the truths of faith; and if the request is indeed made in accord with them it is granted, as He Himself also says in the place in John quoted immediately before - If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. This matter is made even clearer by the fact that the Lord is meant by Jehovah's 'name', when mentioned as follows in Moses,

I send an angel before you to guard you on the way. Take notice of His face, and hearken to His voice, and do not provoke Him, since My name is in the midst of Him. Exodus 23:20-21.

[4] In John,

Father, glorify Your name. A voice came from heaven, I have both glorified it and will glorify it again. John 12:28.

In the same gospel,

I have manifested Your name to the men (homo) whom You gave to Me out of the world. I made known to them Your name, and I will make it known, that the love with which You have loved Me may be in them, and I in them. John 17:6, 26.

From these quotations it is evident that the Lord's Divine Human is Jehovah's name or whole essential nature. Consequently all Divine worship begins in the Divine Human; and the Divine Human is what one is to worship, for by worshipping this one worships the Divine Himself, no thought of whom can otherwise be formed. And if no such thought can be formed, there can be no communion with Him either.

[5] The truth that the Lord's 'name' is everything constituting the faith and love through which He is to be worshipped is still further evident from the following places: In Matthew,

You will be hated by everyone for My name's sake. Matthew 10:22.

In the same gospel,

He who receives one little child like this in My name receives Me. Matthew 18:5.

In the same gospel,

Everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields, for My name's sake, will receive a hundredfold. Matthew 19:29.

In the same gospel,

They shouted, Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord. Matthew 21:9.

In Luke,

Truly I tell you; for you will not see Me until [the time] comes so that you say, Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! Luke 13:35.

In Mark,

Whoever gives you drink from a cup of water in My name because you are Christ's, truly I say to you, he will not lose his reward. Mark 9:41.

In Luke,

The seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are obedient to us in Your name. Jesus said to them, Do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are obedient to you, but rejoice rather that your names have been written in heaven. Luke 10:17, 20.

'Names written in heaven' are not those people's their faith and charity.

[6] Much the same is meant by 'names written in the Apocalypse,

You have a few names also in Sardis, who have not soiled their garments. He who conquers will be clad in white garments and I will not blot his name out of the book of life; and I will confess his name before the Father and before His angels. Revelation 3:4-5.

Like wise in John,

The one entering by the door is the shepherd of the sheep; he calls his own sheep by name. John 10:2-3.

In Exodus,

Jehovah said to Moses, I know you by name. Exodus 33:12, 17.

In John,

Many believed in His name, seeing His signs which He did. John 2:13.

[7] In the same gospel,

He who believes in Him is not judged: but he who does not believe is judged already because he has not be lifted in the name of the only begotten Son of God. John 3:18.

In Isaiah,

They will fear the name of Jehovah from the west. Isaiah 59:19.

In Micah,

All the peoples walk in the name of their God and we will walk in the name of our God. Micah 4:5.

In Moses it says they were to worship Jehovah God in the place which He would choose and in which He would put His name. Deuteronomy 12:5, 11, 14. Similar phrases occur in Isaiah 18:7 and Jeremiah 7:12, and in many other places besides these, such as Isaiah 26:8, 13; 41:25; 43:7; 49:1; 50:10; 52:5; 26:16; Ezekiel 20:14, 44; 36:21-23; Micah 5:4; Malachi 1:11; Deuteronomy 10:8; Revelation 2:17; 3:12; 13:8; 14:11; 15:2; 17:8; 19:12-13, 16; 22:3-4.

[8] The fact that Jehovah's name means everything involved in the worship of Him, thus in the highest sense everything that goes out from the Lord, is clear in the Blessing,

Jehovah bless you and keep you;

Jehovah make His face shine upon you and be merciful to you;

Jehovah lift up His face upon you and give you peace.

So shall they put My name upon the sons of Israel. Numbers 6:23-27.

From all this one may now see what is meant by the following commandment in the Decalogue,

You shall not take the name of your God in vain, for Jehovah will not hold him innocent who has taken His name in vain. Exodus 20:7.

One may likewise see what is meant in the Lord's Prayer by hallowed be Your name, Matthew 6:9.

  
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