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1 Ja Issand kutsus Moosese ning rääkis kogudusetelgist temaga, öeldes:

2 'Räägi Iisraeli lastega ja ütle neile: Kui keegi teist tahab tuua Issandale ohvrianni kariloomadest, siis ta toogu oma ohvriand veistest või lammastest ja kitsedest!

3 Kui tema ohvrianniks on põletusohver veistest, siis ta toogu üks veatu isaloom; ta toogu see kogudusetelgi ukse juurde, et ta leiaks armu Issanda ees!

4 Ja ta pangu oma käsi põletusohvri pea peale, et see leiaks armu tema heaks ja tooks temale lepituse!

5 Siis ta tapku mullikas Issanda ees ja Aaroni pojad, preestrid, toogu veri ning piserdagu verd ümberringi altarile, mis on kogudusetelgi ukse ees!

6 Ta nülgigu põletusohver ja raiugu see tükkideks!

7 Ja preester Aaroni pojad tehku altarile tuli ja pangu puid tulle!

8 Ja preestrid, Aaroni pojad, seadku tükid koos pea ja rasvaga puude peale, mis on altaril olevas tules!

9 Sisikond ja jalad pestagu veega, ja preester süüdaku see kõik altaril põlema: see on põletusohver, healõhnaline tuleohver Issandale!

10 Ja kui ta ohvriand põletusohvriks on lammastest või kitsedest, siis ta toogu selleks veatu isaloom

11 ja tapku see Issanda ees altari põhjapoolses küljes; ja preestrid, Aaroni pojad, piserdagu selle verd altarile ümberringi!

12 Ja ta raiugu see tükkideks koos pea ja rasvaga, ja preester seadku need puude peale, mis on altaril olevas tules!

13 Sisikond ja jalad pestagu veega, ja preester toogu kõik see ning süüdaku altaril põlema: see on põletusohver, healõhnaline tuleohver Issandale!

14 Ja kui tema ohvrianniks Issandale on põletusohver lindudest, siis ta toogu oma ohver turteltuvidest või muudest tuvidest!

15 Preester viigu see altari juurde ja näpistagu sellelt pea ning süüdaku see altaril põlema; ja selle veri pigistatagu altari seina peale!

16 Ta eemaldagu selle pugu koos sulestikuga ja visaku see altari kõrvale, idapoolsesse külge, tuhaasemele!

17 Siis ta lõigaku see lõhki tiibade juurest, ilma neid eraldamata, ja preester süüdaku see altaril põlema puude peal, mis on tules: see on põletusohver, healõhnaline tuleohver Issandale!

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Arcana Coelestia # 870

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870. That 'a dove' means the truths and goods of faith residing with a person who is to be regenerated is clear from the meaning of 'a dove' in the Word, especially from the dove that alighted on Jesus when He was baptized, as mentioned in Matthew,

When Jesus was baptized He went up immediately out of the water, and behold, the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on Himself. Matthew 3:16-17; and in John 1:32, Luke 3:21-22; Mark 1:10-11.

Here 'a dove' meant nothing else than the holiness of faith, and the 'baptism' itself meant regeneration. It also meant therefore the truth and good of faith residing with the new Church that was to arise, which truth and good people receive through being regenerated by the Lord.

[2] Similar things were represented and embodied in the young doves or the turtle doves - mentioned in Leviticus 1:14-end; 5:7-10; 12:6; 14:21-22; 15:14-15, 29-30; Numbers 6:10-11; Luke 2:22-24 - which they used to offer as sacrifices and as burnt offerings in the Jewish Church, as becomes clear from each of the references just given. Anyone may grasp that they had such a meaning merely from the fact that they could not have been anything else than things of a representative nature. Otherwise they would be pointless, and in no sense Divine, for the external side of the Church is lifeless, but is made alive by the internal, as is the internal by the Lord.

[3] That 'a dove' in general means the intellectual concepts of faith is also clear in the Prophets, as in Hosea,

Ephraim will be like a stupid dove with no heart; they called Egypt, they went away to Assyria. Hosea 7:11.

In the same prophet, speaking of Ephraim,

They will tremble like a bird out of Egypt and a dove from the land of Assyria. Hosea 11:11.

Here 'Ephraim' stands for one who has intelligence, 'Egypt' for him who has knowledge, 'Assyria' for him who is rational, and 'a dove' stands for what belongs to the intellectual concepts of faith, the subject there being the regeneration of the spiritual Church. In David,

O Jehovah, deliver not the soul of [Your] turtle dove to the wild animal. Psalms 74:19.

'Wild animal' stands for people without any charity, 'the soul of a turtle dove' for the life of faith. See what has been stated and shown already in 40, 776, about birds meaning intellectual things. Harmless, beautiful, clean, and useful birds in particular mean intellectual truths and goods; but harmful, ugly, unclean, and useless ones, such as the raven, which is here used as the opposite of the dove, mean their opposites, namely falsities.

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