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1 Jos joku varastaa härjän taikka lampaan ja teurastaa eli myy sen; hänen pitää antaman viisi härkää yhdestä härjästä, ja neljä lammasta yhdestä lampaasta.

2 Jos varas käsitetään, koska hän itsensä sisälle kangottaa, ja hän lyödään kuoliaaksi, niin ei pidä tappajan vereen vikapään oleman.

3 Vaan jos aurinko on noussut hänen ylitsensä, niin pitää tappajan kuolemaan vikapään oleman: kaiketi pitää hänen jällensä maksaman; jollei hänellä ole varaa, niin myytäkään hän varkautensa tähden.

4 Jos varkaan kappale löydetään täydellisesti hänen tyköänsä, härkä, aasi, eli lammas; niin pitää hänen jällensä kaksikertaisesti maksaman.

5 Jos joku syöttää toisen pellon eli viinamäen, niin että hän päästää sisälle karjansa, ja syöttää toisen pellossa, hänen pitää siitä parhaasta, kuin hänen omassa pellossansa eli viinamäessänsä löydetään maksaman.

6 Jos valkia vallallensa pääsee, ja orjantappuroihin syttyy, niin että kykäät eli laiho, eli pelto poltetaan, niin sen pitää maksaman, kuin valkian päästi.

7 Jos joku antaa lähimmäisellensä rahaa, eli muuta kalua kätköön, ja se varastetaan hänen huoneestansa: jos se varas löydetään, niin hänen pitää sen kaksikertaisesti maksaman.

8 Ja jos ei varas löydetä, niin pitää huoneen isäntä tuotaman tuomarien eteen vannotettaa, jos ei hän ole käsiänsä satuttanut lähimmäisensä kaluun.

9 Kaiken väärän asian tähden härjästä eli aasista, taikka lampaasta, eli vaatteesta ja kaiken sen tähden kuin pois tullut on, josta joku sanoo: tämä se on, niin pitää heidän molempain asiansa tuleman tuomarien eteen; jonka tuomarit vikapääksi löytävät, sen pitää lähimmäisellensä kaksikertaisesti maksaman.

10 Jos joku antaa lähimmäisellensä aasin, eli härjän, eli lampaan, taikka mikä eläin se olis, tähteelle, ja se kuolee, taikka saa muutoin vamman, taikka ajetaan pois, ettei yksikään sitä näe:

11 Niin pitää valan heidän molempain välillänsä käymän Herran kautta, ettei hän ole satuttanut kättänsä lähimmäisensä kaluun; ja sen jonka kalu oma oli, pitää siihen tyytymän, ja toisen ei pidä sitä maksaman.

12 Jos varas sen varastaa häneltä, niin pitää hänen sen maksaman sen isännälle.

13 Mutta jos se raadeltu on, niin pitää hänen todistajat tuoman, ja ei mitään jälleen antaman.

14 Jos joku ottaa lainaksi lähimmäiseltänsä, ja se tulee rivinomaksi eli kuolee, niin ettei sen isäntä ole läsnä, niin hänen pitää sen kokonansa maksaman.

15 Mutta jos sen isäntä on siihen tykönä, niin ei hänen pidä sitä maksaman; jos se palkalla oli, niin saakoon palkkansa.

16 Jos joku viettelee neitseen, joka ei vielä ole kihlattu, ja makaa hänen, sen pitää kaiketi hänelle antaman huomenlahjan, ja ottaman hänen emännäksensä.

17 Jos hänen isänsä ei tahdo häntä antaa hänelle, niin hänen pitää antaman rahaa, niin paljo kuin neitseen huomenlahja on.

18 Velhonaista ei sinun pidä salliman elää.

19 Joka järjettömäin luontokappalten kanssa yhteyntyy, sen pitää totisesti kuoleman.

20 Se joka uhraa jumalille, ja ei ainoalle Herralle, hänen pitää kirottu oleman.

21 Muukalaisia ei sinun pidä ahdistaman, eikä myös polkuna pitämän: sillä te olette myös olleet muukalaisna Egyptin maalla.

22 Ei teidän pidä yhtään leskeä eli orpolasta murheelliseksi saattaman.

23 Koska sinä jonkun heistä murheelliseksi saatat: jos hän hartaasti huutaa minun tyköni, niin minä tahdon totisesti kuulla hänen huutonsa.

24 Ja minun vihani julmistuu, niin että minä tapan heidät miekalla; ja teidän emäntänne pitää tuleman leskiksi, ja teidän lapsenne orvoiksi.

25 Koska sinä lainaat minun kansalleni rahaa, köyhälle kuin sinun tykönäs on, ei sinun pidä oleman häntä vastaan niinkuin kasvon ottaja, eli korkoa hänen päällensä paneman.

26 Koska sinä lähimmäiseltäs vaatteet otat pantiksi, niin sinun pitää antaman sen hänelle jällensä, ennen kuin aurinko laskee.

27 Sillä se on hänen ainoa verhonsa, ja vaate hänen ihollansa: missästä hän makais? Ja tapahtuu, että hän huutaa minun tyköni, niin minä kuulen häntä; sillä minä olen laupias.

28 Tuomareita ei sinun pidä kiroileman, ja ylimmäistä sinun kansassas ei sinun pidä sadatteleman.

29 Sinun uutistas ja pisarias ei sinun pidä viivyttelemän. Esikoisen sinun pojistas pitää sinun antaman minulle.

30 Niin pitää myös sinun tekemän härkäis ja lammastes kanssa. Seitsemän päivää anna heidän olla emäinsä tykönä, kahdeksantena päivänä pitää sinun sen antaman minulle.

31 Teidän pitää oleman pyhä kansa minulle. Sentähden ei teidän pidä syömän lihaa, joka metsän pedoilta raadeltu on, mutta heittämän sen koirille.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 9164

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9164. 'Or is led away captive' means removal. This is clear from the meaning of 'being led away captive', when it has reference to the good or truth present with a person, as removal. The situation here is that when truth that springs from good reigns in a person the truth he believes in the most strongly lies in the middle, and the truths he believes in less strongly are stationed further and further away from the middle, ending with those about which he is in doubt. Bordering the truths are falsities, but they are not part of that sequence of truths. Nor do they stand upright pointing to heaven in the way that the truths springing from good do, but are bent over pointing downwards, and in the measure that they arise from evil they look towards hell. But when falsity supplants truth order is turned upside down; the truths move away to the sides and form the outer circle, and the falsities arising from evil occupy the middle. This shows what removal is used to mean, regarding which see also 3436, 6084, 6103. The reason why that kind of removal is meant by 'being led away captive' is that when falsities take truths captive they lead them away in that manner. Such things are also meant by 'being taken captive' and 'being led away captive' in Jeremiah,

The wind will feed on all your shepherds, and your lovers will be led away into captivity. Jeremiah 22:22.

In the same prophet,

Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished, for your sons have been led away into captivity, and your daughters into captivity. Yet I will bring back the captives 1 of Moab in the last days. Jeremiah 48:46-47.

'Sons' who have been led away into captivity are truths, and 'daughters' are forms of good. And in Luke,

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken captive among all the gentiles; 2 and at length Jerusalem will be trodden underfoot by the gentiles. 2 Luke 21:24.

This refers to the close of the age, which is the final period of the Church. 'Falling by the edge of the sword' means being destroyed by falsities, 'the sword' being falsity engaged in conflict against truth, 2799, 4499, 6353, 7102, 8294. 'The gentiles' among whom they will be taken captive and by whom the Church will be trodden underfoot are evils that give rise to falsities, see 1259, 1260, 1849, 1868, 6306; and 'Jerusalem' which will be trodden underfoot then is the Church, 2117, 3654.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, the captivity

2. or the nations

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 7102

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7102. 'Lest perhaps He fall on us with pestilence and sword' means to avoid the damnation of evil and falsity. This is clear from the meaning of 'lest perhaps He fall on' as lest they run into - into damnation; from the meaning of 'pestilence' as the damnation of evil, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'sword' as the vastation of truth, and also the punishment of falsity, dealt with in 2799, and so also as damnation, since the punishment of falsity, when truth has been devasted, is damnation.

[2] The Word mentions four kinds of vastation and punishment - sword, famine, evil wild animal, and pestilence. 'Sword' means the vastation of truth and the punishment of falsity; 'famine' the vastation of good and the punishment of evil; 'evil wild animal' the punishment of evil that arises out of falsity; and 'pestilence' the punishment of evil that does not arise out of falsity but out of evil. And since punishment is meant, damnation is meant also, since damnation is the punishment suffered by those who persist in evil. Those four kinds of punishment are referred to as follows in Ezekiel,

. . . when I shall send My four severe 1 judgements - sword, and famine, and evil wild animal, and pestilence - onto Jerusalem, to cut off man and beast from it. Ezekiel 14:21.

In the same prophet,

I will send famine and evil wild animals upon you, and I will make you bereft. And pestilence and blood will pass through you; in particular I will bring the sword upon you. Ezekiel 5:17.

[3] The meaning of 'pestilence' as the punishment of evil and its damnation is evident from the following places: In Ezekiel,

Those in waste places will die by the sword, and the one who is in the open field 2 I will give to the wild animals to devour him, and those who are in fortifications and caverns will die from pestilence. Ezekiel 33:27.

'In waste places dying by the sword' stands for suffering the vastation of truth and consequently the damnation of falsity. 'The one who is in the open field being given to the wild animals to devour him' stands for the damnation of those ruled by evil arising out of falsity. 'Those who are in fortifications and caverns, dying from pestilence' stands for the damnation of evil which uses falsity to fortify itself.

[4] In the same prophet,

The sword is without, and pestilence and famine within; he that is in the field will die by the sword, but him that is in the city famine and pestilence will devour. Ezekiel 7:15.

'The sword' stands for the vastation of truth and the damnation of falsity; 'famine' and 'pestilence' stand for the vastation of good and the damnation of evil. The sword is said to be 'without' and famine and pestilence 'within' because the vastation of truth takes place externally but the vastation of good internally. When however a person leads a life that rests on falsity, damnation is meant by the words 'he that is in the field will die by the sword'; and when a person leads a life ruled by evil which he defends by the use of falsity, damnation is meant by the words 'him that is in the city famine and pestilence will devour'.

[5] In Leviticus,

I will bring upon you a sword executing the vengeance of the covenant; wherever you are gathered into your cities, I will send pestilence into the midst of you, and you will be delivered 3 into the hand of the enemy. When I have cut off your supply of bread 4 ... Leviticus 26:25-26.

Here in a similar way 'a sword' stands for the vastation of truth and the damnation of falsity, 'pestilence' for the damnation of evil. The vastation of good, meant by 'famine', is described when [the Lord] speaks of cutting off their supply of bread. 'Cities' into which they would be gathered has the same meaning as 'the city' just above - falsities that are used to defend evils. For the meaning of 'cities' as truths, and so in the contrary sense as falsities, see 402, 2268, 2712, 2943, 3216, 4492, 4493.

[6] In Ezekiel,

Therefore because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your abominations, a third part of you will die from pestilence, and be annihilated [by famine] in your midst; then a third will fall by the sword around you; finally I will scatter a third to every wind, so that I will draw out a sword after them. Ezekiel 5:11-12.

'Famine' stands for the damnation of evil, 'sword' for the damnation of falsity. 'Scattering to every wind' and 'drawing out a sword after them' stand for getting rid of truths and seizing on falsities.

[7] In Jeremiah,

If they offer burnt offering or minchah, I am not accepting those things, but I will consume those people by sword, famine, and pestilence. Jeremiah 14:12.

In the same prophet,

I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they will die from a great pestilence. Afterwards I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and those in this city left from the pestilence, and from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. He who remains in this city will die by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes out and defects to the Chaldeans besieging you will live, and his soul will become spoil to him. Jeremiah 21:6-7, 9.

In the same prophet,

I will send sword, famine, and pestilence upon them, till they are consumed from upon the earth. Jeremiah 24:10.

Here also 'sword' means the vastation of truth, 'famine' the vastation of good, and 'pestilence' damnation; and 'sword', 'famine', and 'pestilence' have the same meanings in the following places as well: Jeremiah 27:8; 29:17-18; 32:24, 36; 34:17; 38:2; 42:17, 22; 44:13; Ezekiel 12:16.

[8] Since those three scourges follow in their own particular order [of severity], David was presented by the prophet Gad with the three. He had to choose between the coming of seven years of famine, fleeing three months before his enemies, or three days of pestilence in the land, 2 Samuel 24:13. ('Fleeing before his enemies' implies 'the sword'.) In Amos,

I have sent the pestilence upon you in the way of Egypt, I have killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. 5 Amos 4:10.

'The pestilence in the way of Egypt' stands for the vastation of good by means of falsities, which are 'the way of Egypt'. 'Killing young men with the sword, along with captured horses' stands for the vastation of truth, truths being meant by 'young men' and intellectual concepts by 'horses', 5 2761, 2762, 3217, 5321, 6534.

[9] In Ezekiel,

Pestilence and blood will pass through you. Ezekiel 5:17.

In the same prophet,

I will send upon her pestilence and blood in her streets. Ezekiel 28:23.

Here 'pestilence' stands for good that has been adulterated, and 'blood' for truth that has been falsified. For the meaning of 'blood' as falsified truth, see 4735, 6978.

[10] In David,

You will not be afraid of the terror of the night, of the arrow that flies by day, of the pestilence that creeps in thick darkness, of death that lays waste at noonday. Psalms 91:5-6.

'The terror of the night' stands for falsity which lies concealed; 'the arrow that flies by day' for falsity which is out in the open; 'the pestilence that creeps in thick darkness' for evil which lies concealed; 'death which lays waste at noonday' for evil which is out in the open. The fact that 'pestilence' means evil and the damnation of evil is evident from the use of the word 'death', which is distinguished here from pestilence solely by its being said of death that it 'lays waste at noonday' but of pestilence that it 'creeps in thick darkness'. In the same author,

He opened a way for His anger; He did not spare their soul from death, and He subjected their life to pestilence. Psalms 78:50.

This refers to the Egyptians, 'pestilence' standing for every kind of evil and its damnation.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, evil

2. literally, upon the face of the field

3. The Latin means I will deliver you but the Hebrew means you will be delivered.

4. literally, While I am about to break the staff of bread for you

5. literally, the captivity of your horses

  
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