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1 Ja Issand rääkis Moosesega, öeldes:

2 'Käsi Iisraeli lapsi, et nad saadaksid leerist ära kõik pidalitõbised ja kõik, kellel on voolus, ja kõik, kes on roojased surnu pärast!

3 Saatke ära niihästi meesterahvas kui naisterahvas; saatke nad väljapoole leeri, et nad ei roojastaks oma leeri, kus mina elan nende keskel!'

4 Ja Iisraeli lapsed tegid nõnda ja saatsid need väljapoole leeri; nõnda nagu Issand oli Moosest käskinud, nõnda Iisraeli lapsed tegid.

5 Ja Issand rääkis Moosesega, öeldes:

6 'Ütle Iisraeli lastele: Kui mees või naine teeb mõne inimliku patu ega ole ustav Issandale, ja see hing saab süüdlaseks,

7 siis ta peab tunnistama oma pattu, mis ta on teinud, ja ta hüvitagu oma eksimus täies ulatuses ning lisagu sellele viies osa ja andku sellele, kelle vastu ta eksis!

8 Aga kui sel mehel ei ole pärijat, kelle kätte võlga tasuda, siis kuulub tasutav võlg Issandale, see tähendab preestrile, lisaks lepitusjäärale, kellega ta toimetab tema eest lepitust.

9 Ka iga tõstelõiv kõigist Iisraeli laste pühadest andidest, mida nad toovad preestrile, on preestri oma.

10 Iga mehe pühitsetud annid on preestri omad; mis keegi annab preestrile, on preestri oma.'

11 Ja Issand rääkis Moosesega, öeldes:

12 'Räägi Iisraeli lastega ja ütle neile: Kui mõne mehe naine rikub abielu ja on tema vastu truuduseta,

13 ning keegi magab sugutades tema juures, mis jääb varjatuks tema mehe silma eest, ilma et naist avastataks, kuigi ta on ennast roojastanud, aga tema vastu ei ole tunnistajat ja teda ei ole tabatud,

14 meest aga valdab armukadeduse vaim ja ta armukadestab oma naist, kes ennast on roojastanud, või valdab teda armukadeduse vaim ja ta armukadestab oma naist, kuigi see ei ole ennast roojastanud,

15 siis viigu mees oma naine preestri juurde ja viigu tema eest ohvrianniks üks kann odrajahu; aga ta ärgu valagu selle peale õli ja ärgu pangu selle peale viirukit, sest see on armukadeduse-roaohver, meenutus-roaohver, mis meenutab süüd.

16 Ja preester toogu naine ja pangu ta seisma Issanda ette!

17 Ja preester võtku pühitsetud vett saviastjasse ja preester võtku elamu põrandalt põrmu ning pangu vette!

18 Ja preester pangu naine seisma Issanda ette, päästku valla naise juuksed ning andku ta käte peale meenutus-roaohver, see on armukadeduse-roaohver; ja preestri käes olgu kibe needevesi!

19 Ja preester vannutagu naist ning öelgu temale: Kui keegi ei ole maganud su juures ja kui sa ei ole ennast roojastades hüljanud oma meest, siis ärgu sul olgu mingit viga sellest needeveest!

20 Aga kui sa oled hüljanud oma mehe, ja kui sa oled ennast roojastanud ning keegi teine mees, mitte su oma mees, on sind magatanud -

21 siis preester vannutagu seda naist sajatusevandega ja preester öelgu naisele: Issand pangu sind sajatuseks ja vandumiseks su rahva sekka! Issand lasku su niuded kiduda ja su kõht paisuda!

22 Mingu see needevesi su sisikonda, et su kõht paisuks ja niuded kiduksid! Ja naine öelgu: Aamen, aamen!

23 Ja preester kirjutagu need sajatused raamatusse ning uhtku seda kibeda veega!

24 Siis ta andku naisele juua kibedat needevett ja see needevesi mingu temasse kibedaks piinaks!

25 Ja preester võtku naise käest armukadeduse-roaohver ja kõigutagu roaohvrit Issanda ees ning viigu see altarile!

26 Ja preester võtku roaohvrist peotäis selle lõhnavaks ohvriosaks ning süüdaku altaril põlema; ja seejärel andku ta naisele vett juua!

27 Ja kui ta on andnud temale vett juua, siis sünnib temaga nõnda: kui ta ennast on roojastanud ja on hüljanud oma mehe, siis läheb needevesi temasse kibedaks piinaks ning ta kõht paisub ja niuded kiduvad, ja naine saab sajatuseks oma rahva seas.

28 Aga kui naine ei ole ennast roojastanud, vaid on puhas, siis ta on süüta ja võib sigitada ihuvilja.

29 See on seadus armukadeduse puhul. Kui naine on hüljanud oma mehe ja on ennast roojastanud,

30 või kui meest valdab armukadeduse vaim ja ta armukadestab oma naist, siis seadku ta naine Issanda ette ja preester talitagu naisega täiesti selle seaduse järgi!

31 Mees olgu vaba süüst, aga niisugune naine kandku oma süüd!'

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 10038

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10038. 'You shall burn with fire outside the camp' means that those things must be banished to hell and be consumed by the evils of self-love. This is clear from the meaning of 'burning with fire' as consuming by means of the evils of self-love, for 'burning' means consuming or devouring and 'fire' the evil of self-love (for these meanings of 'burning' and 'fire', see 1297, 5071, 5215, 6314, 6832, 7324, 7575, 9141, 9434); and from the meaning of 'the camp' as heaven and the Church, and in the contrary sense the place where heaven and the Church do not exist, thus where hell exists, dealt with below. The reason why 'being burned with fire' means being consumed by the evils of self-love is that that love consumes every good or truth of faith. Scarcely anyone at the present day knows that self-love does this, nor consequently that this love constitutes hell with a person and that it is what should be understood by hell-fire.

[2] There are two fires of life that exist with a person; one is self-love, the other is love to God. Those in whom self-love predominates cannot be governed by love to God, for those loves are opposites. They are opposites because self-love gives rise to all evils, which are contempt for others in comparison with self, enmity towards those who do not treat oneself favourably, and in the end to hatred, vengeance, brutality, and cruelty; and these evils act in total opposition to Divine influx, consequently annihilate truths and forms of the good of faith and charity, these being the things that flow in from the Lord. Anybody who stops to reflect may know that everyone's love is the fire of his life - for without love there is no life, and the character of the love determines that of the life - and therefore that self-love gives rise to evils of every kind, doing so in the measure that he has only himself in view, that is, self-love reigns in him. The worst kind of self-love is the love of dominion over others for selfish reasons, that is, the love of possessing dominion solely for the sake of position and gain. Those in whom that love predominates may, it is true, make profession of faith and charity, but they do so with their lips, not with their heart; indeed the worst among them look on the things that belong to faith and charity, thus the holy things of the Church, as means to their own ends. But self-love and all the different types of it, also the evils that gush out of it, and the condition of the selfish in the next life, must in the Lord's Divine mercy be stated in detail somewhere else. They have been referred to here to enable people to know what 'being burned with fire outside the camp' means.

[3] The fact that 'the camp' where the children of Israel were encamped represented heaven and the Church, and therefore that 'outside the camp' represented the place where heaven and the Church did not exist, thus where hell was, becomes clear from those places in the Word which mention the camp and the encampment of the children of Israel in the wilderness, such as the following in Moses,

The children of Israel shall camp, [every] man by his own camp, and [every] man by his own standard, according to their armies. And the Levites shall camp around the dwelling-place of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel. Numbers 1:52-53; 2:2.

In addition, Numbers 2:1-end says that the tribes of Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun encamped to the east; the tribes of Reuben, Simeon, and Gad to the south; the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin to the west; and the tribes of Dan, Asher, and Naphtali to the north. But the Levites were in the middle of their camps. The like applied when they set out on their journeys, Numbers 2:17; 10:1-end. The reason why their encampments were arranged in that kind of order was so that they might represent heaven and the Church, 9320 (end). Moreover the tribes according to which the children of Israel set up their camps represented all the forms of good and all the truths in their entirety that belonged to heaven and the Church, 3858, 3926, 3939, 4060, 6335, 6337, 6397, 6640, 7836, 7891, 7996, 7997. This explains why it says that Jehovah dwells in the middle of the camps, Numbers 5:3, and that He walks in the middle of them and they will therefore be holy, Deuteronomy 23:14, and why, in the prophecy uttered by Balaam, when he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes, he said, How good are your tabernacles, O Jacob, and your dwelling-places, O Israel! Numbers 24:2-3, 5.

[4] Since heaven and the Church was represented by the camp it follows that 'outside the camp' meant the place where neither heaven nor the Church existed, thus where hell was. That is why everyone who was unclean and also anyone who was guilty was sent out there, as may be recognized from the following,

You shall send out of the camp everyone who is leprous, and everyone suffering a discharge, and everyone unclean on account of a soul 1 . Whether they are male or female 2 you shall send them outside the camp, so that they may not defile the camps, in the middle of which Jehovah dwells. Numbers 5:2-3; Leviticus 13:45-46.

A man who is not clean by reason of an accident in the night shall go outside the camp and not come into the middle of the camp. When he has washed himself with water and the sun has set he shall enter the camp. There shall be a space for you outside the camp where you may go out, and you shall cover your excrement by means of a spade 3 , since Jehovah walks in the middle of the camp. Therefore the camp shall be holy. Deuteronomy 23:10-14.

And the stoning of people was done outside the camp, Leviticus 24:14; Numbers 15:35-36.

From all this it is now clear that 'you shall burn with fire the flesh, skin, and dung of the young bull, outside the camp' means that evils, meant by these things, must be banished to hell.

[5] The same thing as was represented by the camp and the area outside it was also represented by the land of Canaan and the lands around it after that land had been divided up as inheritances among the children of Israel. This is why in the Word 'the land of Canaan' or simply 'the land' means heaven and the Church, and 'the children of Israel' those who are in heaven and the Church. For the meaning of 'the land' as heaven and the Church, see the places referred to in 9325; and for that of 'the children of Israel' as those who are there, 9340.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. i.e. unclean through contact with a dead body

2. literally, From male even to female

3. literally, peg or nail

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