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1 Ja Herra puhui Mosekselle, sanoen:

2 Puhu Aaronille ja hänen pojillensa, että he karttaisivat Israelin lasten pyhitettyä, joita he pyhittävät minulle, ja ettei he häpäisisi minun pyhää nimeäni; sillä minä olen Herra.

3 Sano siis heille ja heidän suvuillensa: jokainen kuin teidän siemenestänne menee pyhitetyn tykö, jonka Israelin lapset pyhittävät Herralle, ja hänen saastaisuutensa on hänessä, hänen sielunsa pitää hävitettämän minun kasvoini edestä; sillä minä olen Herra.

4 Kuka ikänä Aaronin siemenestä on spitalinen eli vuotavainen, sen ei pidä syömän pyhitetyistä, ennen kuin hän puhdistetaan. Ja jos joku rupee johonkuhun saastaiseen ruumiisen, taikka siihen, joka siemenensä vuodattaa unessa,

5 Taikka se, joka rupee johonkuhun matelevaiseen, joka hänelle saastainen on, taikka ihmiseen, joka hänelle saastainen on, ja kaikkinaiseen, joka hänen saastuttaa:

6 Se sielu joka rupee johonkuhun niistä, pitää oleman saastainen ehtoosen asti, ja ei pidä syömän pyhitetyistä, vaan hänen pitää ensin viruttaman ruumiinsa vedellä.

7 Ja koska aurinko laskenut on, ja hän on puhdistettu, niin syökään sitte pyhitetyistä; sillä se on hänen ruokansa.

8 Raatoa ja mitä pedolta raadeltu on, ei hänen pidä syömän, ettei hän siitä saastutettaisi; sillä minä olen Herra.

9 Sentähden heidän pitää pitämän minun säätyni, ettei heidän pitäisi syntiä saattaman päällensä, ja kuoleman siitä, koska he saastuttavat itsensä; sillä minä olen Herra, joka heitä pyhitän.

10 Mutta ei yksikään muukalainen pidä syömän pyhitetyistä, eikä papin perhe, eikä myös joku palkollinen pidä syömän pyhitettyä.

11 Vaan koska pappi ostaa jonkun hengen rahallansa, se syökään siitä, ja se joka hänen huoneessansa syntynyt on, se myös syökään hänen leivästänsä.

12 Ja jos papin tytär tulee jonkun muukalaisen emännäksi, niin ei hänen pidä syömän pyhitetystä ylennyksestä.

13 Mutta jos papin tytär tulee leskeksi, eli hyljätyksi ja ei hänellä ole siementä, ja hän tulee jälleen kotia isänsä huoneeseen, niin hänen pitää syömän isänsä leivästä, niinkuin silloinkin, koska hän neitsenä oli. Mutta ei yksikään muukalainen pidä siitä syömän.

14 Ja jos joku syö pyhitetyistä tietämätä, hänen pitää lisäämän siihen viidennen osan, ja antaman papille pyhitetyn,

15 Ettei heidän pitäisi saastuttaman Israelin lasten pyhitettyjä, joita he ylentävät Herralle,

16 Ettei he saattaisi rikosta ja vikaa päällensä, syödessänsä heidän pyhitetyistänsä; sillä minä olen Herra, joka heitä pyhitän.

17 Ja Herra puhui Mosekselle, sanoen:

18 Puhu Aaronille ja hänen pojillensa, ja kaikille Israelin lapsille, ja sano heille: kuka ikänä Israelin huoneesta, eli muukalainen Israelissa, tahtoo uhrata, olkoon se lupauksesta, taikka vapaasta ehdosta, jota he tahtovat uhrata Herralle polttouhriksi,

19 Että se hänelle olis otollinen teiltä, niin pitää sen oleman virheettömän härkyisen karjasta, oinaan karitsoista, eli kauriin vuohista.

20 Mutta ei yhtäkään, jossa virhe on, pidä teidän uhraaman; sillä ei se ole hänelle otollinen teiltä.

21 Jos joku tahtoo uhrata Herralle kiitosuhria, eli erinomaisesta lupauksesta, taikka vapaasta ehdosta, karjasta eli lampaista, sen pitää oleman virheettömän, että se olis otollinen: ei siinä pidä yhtään virhettä oleman.

22 Jos se on sokia, taikka raajarikko, taikka jäsenpuoli, taikka kuivettu, taikka rupinen, taikka köhnäinen, niin ei pidä teidän senkaltaisia Herralle uhraaman, ja ei pidä teidän tuliuhria niistä antaman Herran alttarille.

23 Härjän eli lampaan, liiallisen eli puuttuvaisen jäsenistä, saat sinä uhrata vapaasta ehdostas; mutta ei se ole otollinen lupauksen edestä.

24 Eikä myös sinun pidä sitä Herralle uhraaman, mikä muserrettu, eli runneltu, eli revitty, eli haavoitettu on; ei teidän pidä sitä teidän maassanne tekemän.

25 Ei myös teidän pidä uhraaman jonkun muukalaisen kädestä teidän Jumalanne leipää kaikista niistä; sillä ne ovat turmellut ja virheelliset: ei ne ole otolliset teiltä.

26 Ja Herra puhui Mosekselle, sanoen:

27 Koska vasikka, eli karitsa, eli vohla pojittu on, niin olkaan emänsä tykönä seitsemän päivää; mutta kahdeksantena päivänä, ja sen jälkeen, on se otollinen tuliuhriksi Herralle.

28 Olkoon se nauta, eli lammas, niin ei pidä se teurastettaman sikiöinensä yhtenä päivänä.

29 Koska te uhraatte Herralle kiitosuhria, teidän pitää sen niin uhraaman, että se teiltä otollinen olis.

30 Se pitää syötämän sinä päivänä, ja ei pidä mitään tähteeksi huomeneksi jätettämän; sillä minä olen Herra.

31 Sentähden pitäkäät minun käskyni ja tehkäät ne, sillä minä olen Herra.

32 Ettette häpeäisi minun pyhää nimeäni, ja että minä pyhitettäisiin Israelin lasten keskellä; sillä minä olen Hera, joka teitä pyhitän,

33 Ja joka olen teidät johdattanut Egyptin maalta, että minä olisin teidän Jumalanne: minä Herra.

   


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9296. 'And the feast of ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in [the fruit of] your labours from the field' means the worship of a thankful mind on account of the implanting of good after that, and so on account of regeneration and complete deliverance from damnation. This is clear from the meaning of 'the feast' as worship of the Lord and thanksgiving, dealt with above in 9286, 9287, 9294, and so the worship of a thankful mind; from the meaning of 'ingathering', when speaking of the implanting of truth in good, as the implanting of good itself; from the meaning of 'the end of the year' as the end of labours; and from the meaning of 'when you have gathered in [the fruit of] your labours from the field' as the enjoyment and use of all that has been planted in good. For not only products of the field are meant by 'labours' but also those of the vineyard and the olive-grove, so that the fruits of the earth are meant, as is evident from the description of this feast in Moses,

You shall celebrate the feast of tabernacles seven days, when you gather in from your threshing-floor, and from your winepress. And Jehovah your God will bless you in all your produce, and in all the labour of your hands. Deuteronomy 16:13, 15.

And elsewhere,

On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the earth, you shall keep the feast of Jehovah seven days. Leviticus 23:39.

[2] Since this feast means worshipping the Lord with a thankful mind on account of the implanting of good, and so on account of complete deliverance from damnation, what the implanting of good is must first be explained here. It has been shown in various places already that a person has two powers of life - the understanding and the will - and that the understanding is dedicated to receiving truth and the will to receiving good. For there are two realities to which all things throughout creation, both in heaven and in the world, have connection, namely truth and good. From this it is also evident that these two realities compose a person's life, that the truth of faith and the good of charity compose his new life, and that unless they have both been implanted in the person he has no new life. In what way the truth of faith is sown and implanted in a person is well known in the Church, but in what way the good of charity is, is not as yet so well known. When a person is a young child he receives good from the Lord, that good being the good of innocence as it exists with young children. This good composes the first beginnings of a new will with a person, and it develops in the next period of life in the measure that he leads an innocent life among those of his own age, behaves properly in life and does what he is told by parents and teachers. It develops more fully however with those who subsequently allow themselves to be regenerated. This the Lord foresees, and according to the state of their subsequent life He makes provision for it. For in every present moment the Lord foresees what is bad and provides what is good; He does so from the moment the person is conceived even into eternity. At a later stage, when the person has grown up and starts to think from self, then to the extent that he is carried away by the delights of self-love and love of the world that new will, that is, first beginnings of a new will, is closed, and to the extent that he is not carried away by those delights it is opened and also perfected.

[3] But in what way it is perfected through the implanting of truth must be stated next. That new will, which is formed from the good of innocence, is the dwelling-place by means of which the Lord comes in and resides with a person, rousing the person to will what is good, and from willing good to doing it. This influx is effective with a person to the extent that he refrains from evils. It gives him the ability to know, see into, reflect on, and have an understanding of truths and forms of good. The truths and forms of good occur on the level of both private and public life, and he receives that ability according to his delight in service. After this the Lord flows by way of that good into the truths the person knows from the teachings of the Church; He then summons from his memory the kinds of truths that may help him serve usefully in life, implanting those truths in the good and perfecting it. So it is that the good present with a person depends entirely on his service in life. If that service is rendered for his neighbour's benefit, that is, for the good of fellow-citizen, country, Church, heaven, and for the Lord, then that good is the good of charity. But if his service in life is rendered solely for the sake of self and the world, then those first beginnings of a new will are closed. Below them a will is formed from the evils of self-love and love of the world, and arising from this an understanding from falsities. This will is closed above and open below, that is, it is closed in heaven's direction and open in the world's. All this shows in what way truths are planted in good and give it form. It also shows that when a person is governed by good he is in heaven with the Lord; for as stated above, the new will, where the good of charity resides, is the Lord's dwelling-place and is therefore heaven with a person. And the new understanding extending from it is so to speak a tabernacle or booth through which people pass in and out.

[4] These kinds of things in general and in particular were represented by this feast, which was a feast of ingathering of the fruits of the earth, and was called the feast of tabernacles. The establishment of this feast, spoken of in Moses as follows, shows that this is so,

On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the earth, you shall keep the feast of Jehovah seven days; on the first day there shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day a sabbath. And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of a fine tree, 1 fronds of palm trees, and the bough of a thick tree, and willows of the powerful stream; and you shall be glad before Jehovah your God seven days. You shall dwell in tabernacles seven days. All native Israelites shall dwell in tabernacles, that your generations may know that I caused the children of Israel to dwell in tabernacles when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. Leviticus 23:39-44.

And elsewhere,

You shall celebrate the feast of tabernacles seven days, when you gather in from your threshing-floor, and from your press. You shall be glad in your feast, you and your son and your daughter and your male slave and your female slave and the Levite and the sojourner and the orphan and the widow who are within your gates. And you will be altogether glad. Deuteronomy 16:13-15.

[5] The state when good has been implanted by the Lord through truth, thus the state when heaven resides with a person, was represented by this feast. This is evident from the internal sense of all that is mentioned in these passages, which is this: The fifteenth day of the seventh month means the end of the former state and the beginning of a new state. (That this is the meaning of the fifteenth, see 8400, and also of the seventh, 728, 6508, 8976, 9228.) The fruit of the earth, which had been gathered in by then, means the good of charity, 43, 55, 913, 983, 2846, 2847, 3146, 7690, 7692. Gathering in from the threshing-floor and from the press has a similar meaning. For grain, which is a product of the threshing-floor, is the good of truth, 5295, 5410; wine, which is a product of the press, is truth derived from good, 6377; and oil, which is also a product of the press, is good which is a source of truth, 886, 3728, 4582, 4638. A sabbath on the first day and a sabbath on the eighth day mean the joining of truth to good, and in a reciprocal manner the joining of good to truth, the sabbath meaning truth and good joined together, 8495, 8510, 8890, 8893, 9274. The reason why the eighth day too was called a sabbath is that eighth meant the beginning of a new state, 2044, 8400 (end).

[6] The fruit of a fine tree which they were to take on the first day meant festivity and joy because good had been implanted, which is why the words you shall be glad before Jehovah follow; fronds of palm trees meant internal truths of that good, 8369; the bough of a thick (or tangled) tree meant relatively external truths of good, or known facts, 2831, 8133; and willows of the powerful stream meant rather more external truths, which belong to impressions received by the bodily senses. The tabernacles in which they were to dwell seven days means the holiness of love received from the Lord and offered in return to the Lord, 414, 1102, 2145, 2152, 3312, 3391, 4391, 4599, also the holiness of union, 8666. Native Israelites means those governed by the good of charity, and therefore also means - in the abstract sense - that good, 3654, 4598, 5801, 5803, 5806, 5812, 5817, 5819, 5826, 5833, 6426, 7957. The rejoicing of all at that time meant the joy such as that felt by those who are governed by good received from the Lord, thus such as that felt by those in heaven. For one who is governed by the good of charity received from the Lord is in heaven with the Lord. These are the things on account of which that feast was established.

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1. literally, a tree of honour

  
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