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Mooseksen kirja 8

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1 Ja Herra puhui Moosekselle sanoen:

2 "Ota Aaron ja hänen poikansa ynnä heidän vaatteensa ja voiteluöljy sekä syntiuhrimullikka ja ne kaksi oinasta ja kori, jossa happamattomat leivät ovat,

3 ja kokoa kaikki seurakunta ilmestysmajan oven eteen".

4 Ja Mooses teki, niinkuin Herra oli häntä käskenyt, ja seurakunta kokoontui ilmestysmajan oven eteen.

5 Ja Mooses sanoi seurakunnalle: "Näin on Herra käskenyt tehdä".

6 Ja Mooses toi Aaronin ja hänen poikansa esille ja pesi heidät vedellä.

7 Sitten hän pani hänen yllensä ihokkaan ja vyötti hänet vyöllä ja puki hänet viittaan ja pani kasukan hänen päälleen ja vyötti hänet kasukan vyöllä ja sitoi sen hänen ympärilleen

8 ja asetti hänen rintaansa rintakilven ja pani kilpeen uurimin ja tummimin

9 ja pani käärelakin hänen päähänsä ja pani käärelakkiin, sen etupuolelle, kultaisen otsakoristeen, pyhän otsalehden, niinkuin Herra oli Moosesta käskenyt.

10 Ja Mooses otti voiteluöljyn ja voiteli asumuksen ja kaikki, mitä siinä oli, ja pyhitti ne;

11 ja hän pirskoitti sitä seitsemän kertaa alttarille ja voiteli alttarin kaikkine kaluineen ynnä altaan jalustoineen pyhittääkseen ne.

12 Ja hän vuodatti voiteluöljyä Aaronin päähän ja voiteli hänet pyhittääkseen hänet.

13 Ja Mooses toi esille Aaronin pojat ja puki heidän yllensä ihokkaat ja vyötti heidät vyöllä ja sitoi päähineet heidän päähänsä, niinkuin Herra oli Moosesta käskenyt.

14 Ja hän toi esille syntiuhrimullikan, ja Aaron ja hänen poikansa laskivat kätensä syntiuhrimullikan pään päälle.

15 Sitten Mooses teurasti sen ja otti sen verta ja siveli sitä sormellansa alttarin sarviin yltympäri ja puhdisti alttarin; ja muun veren hän vuodatti alttarin juurelle ja pyhitti sen toimittamalla sen sovituksen.

16 Ja Mooses otti kaiken sisälmysten päällä olevan rasvan ja maksanlisäkkeen ja molemmat munuaiset rasvoineen ja poltti ne alttarilla.

17 Mutta mullikan nahkoinensa, lihoinensa ja rapoinensa hän poltti tulessa leirin ulkopuolella, niinkuin Herra oli Moosesta käskenyt.

18 Ja hän toi esille polttouhrioinaan, ja Aaron ja hänen poikansa laskivat kätensä oinaan pään päälle.

19 Ja Mooses teurasti sen ja vihmoi veren alttarille ympärinsä

20 ja leikkeli oinaan määräkappaleiksi; sitten Mooses poltti pään ynnä kappaleet ja rasvan.

21 Mutta sisälmykset ja jalat hän pesi vedessä; ja niin Mooses poltti koko oinaan alttarilla. Se oli polttouhri suloiseksi tuoksuksi, uhri Herralle, niinkuin Herra oli Moosekselle käskyn antanut.

22 Ja hän toi esille toisen oinaan, vihkiäisoinaan, ja Aaron ja hänen poikansa laskivat kätensä oinaan pään päälle.

23 Ja Mooses teurasti sen ja otti sen verta ja siveli sitä Aaronin oikean korvan lehteen ja oikean käden peukaloon ja oikean jalan isoonvarpaaseen.

24 Ja Mooses toi Aaronin pojat esille ja siveli verta heidän oikean korvansa lehteen ja oikean kätensä peukaloon ja heidän oikean jalkansa isoonvarpaaseen, mutta vihmoi muun veren alttarille ympärinsä.

25 Ja hän otti rasvan ja rasvahännän ja kaiken sisälmysten päällä olevan rasvan ja maksanlisäkkeen ja molemmat munuaiset rasvoineen ja oikean reiden.

26 Sitten hän otti happamattomien leipien korista, joka oli Herran edessä, yhden happamattoman kakun ja yhden öljyyn leivotun kakun ja yhden ohukaisen ja pani ne rasvojen ja oikean reiden päälle

27 ja pani kaikki nämä Aaronin käsiin ja hänen poikiensa käsiin, ja toimitutti niiden heilutuksen Herran edessä.

28 Sitten Mooses otti ne heidän käsistänsä ja poltti ne alttarilla polttouhrin päällä; tämä oli vihkiäisuhri suloiseksi tuoksuksi, uhri Herralle.

29 Ja Mooses otti rintalihan ja toimitti sen heilutuksen Herran edessä; vihkiäisoinaasta tuli tämä Mooseksen osaksi, niinkuin Herra oli Moosekselle käskyn antanut.

30 Ja Mooses otti voiteluöljyä ja verta, jota oli alttarilla, ja pirskoitti sitä Aaronin ja hänen vaatteidensa päälle ja samoin hänen poikiensa ja heidän vaatteidensa päälle ja pyhitti niin Aaronin ja hänen vaatteensa ynnä hänen poikansa ja heidän vaatteensa.

31 Ja Mooses sanoi Aaronille ja hänen pojillensa: "Keittäkää liha ilmestysmajan ovella ja syökää se siinä ynnä leipä, joka on vihkiäisuhriin kuuluvassa korissa, niinkuin minä olen käskenyt ja sanonut: Aaron poikinensa syököön sen.

32 Mutta mitä jää tähteeksi lihasta ja leivästä, se polttakaa tulessa.

33 Seitsemään päivään älkää lähtekö ilmestysmajan ovelta, älkää ennenkuin teidän vihkimispäivänne ovat kuluneet umpeen, sillä seitsemän päivää kestää teidän vihkimisenne.

34 Niinkuin on tehty tänä päivänä, niin on Herra käskenyt vastakin tehdä toimittaakseen teille sovituksen.

35 Ja olkaa seitsemän päivää ilmestysmajan ovella, päivät ja yöt, ja toimittakaa Herran palvelustehtävät, ettette kuolisi; sillä niin on minulle käsky annettu."

36 Ja Aaron ja hänen poikansa tekivät kaiken, mitä Herra oli Mooseksen kautta käskenyt.

   

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4236. And Jacob said when he saw them, This is the camp of God. That this signifies heaven, is because the “camp of God” signifies heaven, for the reason that an “army” signifies truths and goods (n. 3448), and truths and goods are marshaled by the Lord in heavenly order; hence an “encamping” denotes a marshalling by armies; and the heavenly order itself which is heaven, is the “camp.” This “camp” or order is of such a nature that hell cannot possibly break in upon it, although it is in the constant endeavor to do so. Hence also this order, or heaven, is called a “camp,” and the truths and goods (that is, the angels) who are marshaled in this order, are called “armies.” This shows whence it is that the “camp of God” signifies heaven. It is this very order, and thus heaven itself, which was represented by the encampments of the sons of Israel in the wilderness; and their dwelling together in the wilderness according to their tribes was called the “camp.” The tabernacle in the midst, and around which they encamped, represented the Lord Himself. That the sons of Israel encamped in this manner, may be seen in Numbers 1:1-54 33:2-56; as also that they encamped around the tabernacle by their tribes-toward the east Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun; toward the south Reuben, Simeon, and Gad; toward the west Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin; toward the north Dan, Asher, and Naphtali; and the Levites in the middle near the tabernacle (2:2-34).

[2] The tribes signified all goods and truths in the complex (see n. 3858, 3862, 3926, 3939, 4060). It was for this reason that when Balaam saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes, and the spirit of God came upon him, he uttered his enunciation, saying:

How good are thy tabernacles, O Jacob, thy dwelling places, O Israel, as the valleys are they planted, as gardens by the river (Numbers 24:5-6).

That by this prophecy was not meant the people named Jacob and Israel, but that it was the heaven of the Lord that was represented, is very manifest. For the same reason their marshallings in the wilderness, that is, their encampings by tribes, are called “camps” in other passages of the Word; and by a “camp” is there signified in the internal sense heavenly order; and by “encamping” a marshalling in accordance with this order, namely, the order in which goods and truths are disposed in heaven (as in Leviticus 4:12; 8:17; 13:46; 14:8; 16:26, 28; 24:14, 23; Numbers 2; 4:5-33; 5:2-4; 9:17 to the end; 10:1-10, 28; 11:31-32; 12:14-15; 31:19-24; Deuteronomy 23:10-14).

[3] That the “camp of God” denotes heaven may also be seen in Joel:

The earth quaked before Him, the heavens trembled, the sun and the moon were blackened, and the stars withdrew their brightness, and Jehovah uttered His voice before His army, for His camp is exceeding many, for numerous is he that doeth His word (Joel 2:10-11).

In Zechariah:

I will encamp at my house from the army, on account of him who passeth by, and on account of him who goeth away, lest the extortioner should pass over them (Zech. 9:8).

In John:

Gog and Magog went up over the plain of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city; but fire came up from God and consumed them (Revelation 20:9);

“Gog and Magog” denote those who are in external worship that is separated from internal and made idolatrous (n. 1151); the “plain of the earth” denotes the truth of the church (that a “plain” is the truth which is of doctrine may be seen above, n. 2450; and that the “earth” is the church, n. 556, 662, 1066, 1067, 1850, 2117, 2118, 3355); the “camp of the saints” denotes the heaven or kingdom of the Lord on the earth, which is the church.

[4] As most things in the Word have also an opposite sense, so likewise has a “camp,” which then signifies evils and falsities, consequently hell; as in David:

Though the evil should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear (Psalms 27:3).

In the same:

God hath scattered the bones of them that encamp against me; thou hast put them to shame, because God hath rejected them (Psalms 53:5).

By the camp of Assyria, in which the angel of Jehovah smote a hundred and eighty-five thousand (Isaiah 37:36), nothing else is meant; and the same by the camp of the Egyptians (Exodus 14:20).

  
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Numbers 4:5-33

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5 When the camp moves forward, Aaron shall go in, and his sons, and they shall take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the Testimony with it,

6 and shall put a covering of sealskin on it, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its poles.

7 "On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it.

8 They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.

9 "They shall take a blue cloth, and cover the lampstand of the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it.

10 They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame.

11 "On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.

12 "They shall take all the vessels of ministry, with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, and cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame.

13 "They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it.

14 They shall put on it all its vessels, with which they minister about it, the fire pans, the flesh hooks, the shovels, and the basins; all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its poles.

15 "When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it: but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting.

16 "The duty of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be the oil for the light, the sweet incense, the continual meal offering, and the anointing oil, the requirements of all the tabernacle, and of all that is in it, the sanctuary, and its furnishings."

17 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

18 "Don't cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;

19 but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them everyone to his service and to his burden;

20 but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die."

21 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

22 "Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers' houses, by their families;

23 you shall count them from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old; all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.

24 "This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:

25 they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the Tent of Meeting, its covering, and the covering of sealskin that is above on it, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,

26 and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and around the altar, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and whatever shall be done with them. Therein shall they serve.

27 At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden, and in all their service; and you shall appoint their duty to them in all their responsibilities.

28 This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the Tent of Meeting: and their duty shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

29 "As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families, by their fathers' houses;

30 you shall count them from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who enters on the service, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting.

31 This is the duty of their burden, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,

32 and the pillars of the court around it, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name you shall appoint the instruments of the duty of their burden.

33 This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the Tent of Meeting, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest."