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Lévitique 13

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1 L'Eternel parla à Moïse et à Aaron, et dit:

2 Lorsqu'un homme aura sur la peau de son corps une tumeur, une dartre, ou une tache blanche, qui ressemblera à une plaie de lèpre sur la peau de son corps, on l'amènera au sacrificateur Aaron, ou à l'un de ses fils qui sont sacrificateurs.

3 Le sacrificateur examinera la plaie qui est sur la peau du corps. Si le poil de la plaie est devenu blanc, et que la plaie paraisse plus profonde que la peau du corps, c'est une plaie de lèpre: le sacrificateur qui aura fait l'examen déclarera cet homme impur.

4 S'il y a sur la peau du corps une tache blanche qui ne paraisse pas plus profonde que la peau, et que le poil ne soit pas devenu blanc, le sacrificateur enfermera pendant sept jours celui qui a la plaie.

5 Le sacrificateur l'examinera le septième jour. Si la plaie lui paraît ne pas avoir fait de progrès et ne pas s'être étendue sur la peau, le sacrificateur l'enfermera une seconde fois pendant sept jours.

6 Le sacrificateur l'examinera une seconde fois le septième jour. Si la plaie est devenue pâle et ne s'est pas étendue sur la peau, le sacrificateur déclarera cet homme pur: c'est une dartre; il lavera ses vêtements, et il sera pur.

7 Mais si la dartre s'est étendue sur la peau, après qu'il s'est montré au sacrificateur pour être déclaré pur, il se fera examiner une seconde fois par le sacrificateur.

8 Le sacrificateur l'examinera. Si la dartre s'est étendue sur la peau, le sacrificateur le déclarera impur; c'est la lèpre.

9 Lorsqu'il y aura sur un homme une plaie de lèpre, on l'amènera au sacrificateur.

10 Le sacrificateur l'examinera. S'il y a sur la peau une tumeur blanche, si cette tumeur a fait blanchir le poil, et qu'il y ait une trace de chair vive dans la tumeur,

11 c'est une lèpre invétérée dans la peau du corps de cet homme: le sacrificateur le déclarera impur; il ne l'enfermera pas, car il est impur.

12 Si la lèpre fait une éruption sur la peau et couvre toute la peau de celui qui a la plaie, depuis la tête jusqu'aux pieds, partout où le sacrificateur portera ses regards, le sacrificateur l'examinera;

13 et quand il aura vu que la lèpre couvre tout le corps, il déclarera pur celui qui a la plaie: comme il est entièrement devenu blanc, il est pur.

14 Mais le jour où l'on apercevra en lui de la chair vive, il sera impur;

15 quand le sacrificateur aura vu la chair vive, il le déclarera impur: la chair vive est impure, c'est la lèpre.

16 Si la chair vive change et devient blanche, il ira vers le sacrificateur;

17 le sacrificateur l'examinera, et si la plaie est devenue blanche, le sacrificateur déclarera pur celui qui a la plaie: il est pur.

18 Lorsqu'un homme aura eu sur la peau de son corps un ulcère qui a été guéri,

19 et qu'il se manifestera, à la place où était l'ulcère, une tumeur blanche ou une tache d'un blanc rougeâtre, cet homme se montrera au sacrificateur.

20 Le sacrificateur l'examinera. Si la tache paraît plus enfoncée que la peau, et que le poil soit devenu blanc, le sacrificateur le déclarera impur: c'est une plaie de lèpre, qui a fait éruption dans l'ulcère.

21 Si le sacrificateur voit qu'il n'y a point de poil blanc dans la tache, qu'elle n'est pas plus enfoncée que la peau, et qu'elle est devenue pâle, il enfermera cet homme pendant sept jours.

22 Si la tache s'est étendue sur la peau, le sacrificateur le déclarera impur: c'est une plaie de lèpre.

23 Mais si la tache est restée à la même place et ne s'est pas étendue, c'est une cicatrice de l'ulcère: le sacrificateur le déclarera pur.

24 Lorsqu'un homme aura eu sur la peau de son corps une brûlure par le feu, et qu'il se manifestera sur la trace de la brûlure une tache blanche ou d'un blanc rougeâtre,

25 le sacrificateur l'examinera. Si le poil est devenu blanc dans la tache, et qu'elle paraisse plus profonde que la peau, c'est la lèpre, qui a fait éruption dans la brûlure; le sacrificateur déclarera cet homme impur: c'est une plaie de lèpre.

26 Si le sacrificateur voit qu'il n'y a point de poil blanc dans la tache, qu'elle n'est pas plus enfoncée que la peau, et qu'elle est devenue pâle, il enfermera cet homme pendant sept jours.

27 Le sacrificateur l'examinera le septième jour. Si la tache s'est étendue sur la peau, le sacrificateur le déclarera impur: c'est une plaie de lèpre.

28 Mais si la tache est restée à la même place, ne s'est pas étendue sur la peau, et est devenue pâle, c'est la tumeur de la brûlure; le sacrificateur le déclarera pur, car c'est la cicatrice de la brûlure.

29 Lorsqu'un homme ou une femme aura une plaie à la tête ou à la barbe,

30 le sacrificateur examinera la plaie. Si elle paraît plus profonde que la peau, et qu'il y ait du poil jaunâtre et mince, le sacrificateur déclarera cet homme impur: c'est la teigne, c'est la lèpre de la tête ou de la barbe.

31 Si le sacrificateur voit que la plaie de la teigne ne paraît pas plus profonde que la peau, et qu'il n'y a point de poil noir, il enfermera pendant sept jours celui qui a la plaie de la teigne.

32 Le sacrificateur examinera la plaie le septième jour. Si la teigne ne s'est pas étendue, s'il n'y a point de poil jaunâtre, et si elle ne paraît pas plus profonde que la peau,

33 celui qui a la teigne se rasera, mais il ne rasera point la place où est la teigne; et le sacrificateur l'enfermera une seconde fois pendant sept jours.

34 Le sacrificateur examinera la teigne le septième jour. Si la teigne ne s'est pas étendue sur la peau, et si elle ne paraît pas plus profonde que la peau, le sacrificateur le déclarera pur; il lavera ses vêtements, et il sera pur.

35 Mais si la teigne s'est étendue sur la peau, après qu'il a été déclaré pur,

36 le sacrificateur l'examinera. Et si la teigne s'est étendue sur la peau, le sacrificateur n'aura pas à rechercher s'il y a du poil jaunâtre: il est impur.

37 Si la teigne lui paraît ne pas avoir fait de progrès, et qu'il y ait crû du poil noir, la teigne est guérie: il est pur, et le sacrificateur le déclarera pur.

38 Lorsqu'un homme ou une femme aura sur la peau de son corps des taches, des taches blanches,

39 le sacrificateur l'examinera. S'il y a sur la peau de son corps des taches d'un blanc pâle, ce ne sont que des taches qui ont fait éruption sur la peau: il est pur.

40 Lorsqu'un homme aura la tête dépouillée de cheveux, c'est un chauve: il est pur.

41 S'il a la tête dépouillée de cheveux du côté de la face, c'est un chauve par-devant: il est pur.

42 Mais s'il y a dans la partie chauve de devant ou de derrière une plaie d'un blanc rougeâtre, c'est la lèpre qui a fait éruption dans la partie chauve de derrière ou de devant.

43 Le sacrificateur l'examinera. S'il y a une tumeur de plaie d'un blanc rougeâtre dans la partie chauve de derrière ou de devant, semblable à la lèpre sur la peau du corps,

44 c'est un homme lépreux, il est impur: le sacrificateur le déclarera impur; c'est à la tête qu'est sa plaie.

45 Le lépreux, atteint de la plaie, portera ses vêtements déchirés, et aura la tête nue; il se couvrira la barbe, et criera: Impur! Impur!

46 Aussi longtemps qu'il aura la plaie, il sera impur: il est impur. Il habitera seul; sa demeure sera hors du camp.

47 Lorsqu'il y aura sur un vêtement une plaie de lèpre, sur un vêtement de laine ou sur un vêtement de lin,

48 la chaîne ou à la trame de lin, ou de laine, sur une peau ou sur quelque ouvrage de peau,

49 et que la plaie sera verdâtre ou rougeâtre sur le vêtement ou sur la peau, à la chaîne ou à la trame, ou sur un objet quelconque de peau, c'est une plaie de lèpre, et elle sera montrée au sacrificateur.

50 Le sacrificateur examinera la plaie, et il enfermera pendant sept jours ce qui en est attaqué.

51 Il examinera la plaie le septième jour. Si la plaie s'est étendue sur le vêtement, à la chaîne ou à la trame, sur la peau ou sur l'ouvrage quelconque fait de peau, c'est une plaie de lèpre invétérée: l'objet est impur.

52 Il brûlera le vêtement, la chaîne ou la trame de laine ou de lin, l'objet quelconque de peau sur lequel se trouve la plaie, car c'est une lèpre invétérée: il sera brûlé au feu.

53 Mais si le sacrificateur voit que la plaie ne s'est pas étendue sur le vêtement, sur la chaîne ou sur la trame, sur l'objet quelconque de peau,

54 il ordonnera qu'on lave ce qui est attaqué de la plaie, et il l'enfermera une seconde fois pendant sept jours.

55 Le sacrificateur examinera la plaie, après qu'elle aura été lavée. Si la plaie n'a pas changé d'aspect et ne s'est pas étendue, l'objet est impur: il sera brûlé au feu; c'est une partie de l'endroit ou de l'envers qui a été rongée.

56 Si le sacrificateur voit que la plaie est devenue pâle, après avoir été lavée, il l'arrachera du vêtement ou de la peau, de la chaîne ou de la trame.

57 Si elle paraît encore sur le vêtement, à la chaîne ou à la trame, ou sur l'objet quelconque de peau, c'est une éruption de lèpre: ce qui est attaqué de la plaie sera brûlé au feu.

58 Le vêtement, la chaîne ou la trame, l'objet quelconque de peau, qui a été lavé, et d'où la plaie a disparu, sera lavé une seconde fois, et il sera pur.

59 Telle est la loi sur la plaie de la lèpre, lorsqu'elle attaque les vêtements de laine ou de lin, la chaîne ou la trame, ou un objet quelconque de peau, et d'après laquelle ils seront déclarés purs ou impurs.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 678

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678. And an evil and noxious sore formed. This symbolizes interior evils and falsities destructive of every good and truth in the church.

The sore here symbolizes nothing else than evil arising from a life in accordance with this chief point of the doctrine, that faith alone justifies and saves without works of the law. For we are told next that it formed in people who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image, which symbolizes that faith and a life in accordance with it. Therefore an evil and noxious sore symbolizes interior evils and falsities destructive of every good and truth in the church. Its being noxious symbolizes its destructiveness, and evil cannot but destroy goodness, and falsity truth.

This is the symbolic meaning of the sore because sores of the body arise from a vitiated condition of the blood or some other internal malignancy. So, too, with sores viewed according to their meaning in the spiritual sense. Those sores arise from lusts and their accompanying delights, which are their internal causes. The evil itself symbolized by the sore, which in its outward expressions seems to be delightful, inwardly conceals in itself lusts, from which it arises and of which it consists.

[2] It should rightly be known, however, that the interior constituents of the human mind in everyone exist in a sequential order and in a concurrent one. They exist in sequential order from its higher or prior constituents to ones lower or subsequent. They exist in concurrent order in their outmost or final expressions, though they range in these from interior elements to outer ones, as from a center to the peripheries. The reality of this is something we showed many times in Angelic Wisdom Regarding Divine Love and Wisdom, nos. 173-281, in a section on degrees. It is apparent from those numbers that the outmost degree embraces all the prior ones.

It follows, therefore, that all lusts for evil exist inwardly in a concurrent order in the evil itself that a person perceives in himself. Every evil that a person perceives in himself exists in its outmost expressions. Consequently, when a person rejects evil, he at the same time rejects also its lusts, though he still does not do this on his own, but from the Lord. A person can indeed on his own reject evil, but not its lusts. Therefore, when he wishes to reject some evil and is fighting against it, he must look to the Lord, since the Lord operates from inmost elements to outmost ones. For He enters through a person's soul and purifies him.

We have said this much to make known that a sore symbolizes evil appearing in its outmost or final expressions, arising from an internal malignancy. This is the case with all people who persuade themselves that faith alone saves, and for that reason do not reflect upon any evil in themselves or look to the Lord.

[3] Sores and wounds symbolize evils in outmost expressions arising from interior ones, or lusts, also in the following places:

From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness... A wound and a scar, and a fresh blow, have not been expressed, have not been bound up, have not been softened with oil. (Isaiah 1:6-7)

...my iniquities have passed through my head... My wounds have putrefied, have decayed, because of my foolishness. (Psalms 38:4-5)

In the day that Jehovah binds up the fracture of His people... He will heal the blow's wound. (Isaiah 30:26)

...if you do not obey the voice of Jehovah..., being careful to do... His commandments... Jehovah will strike you with the sore of Egypt, with hemorrhoids and scabies, and itching... and with an evil sore upon the knees and upon the legs... from which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head. (Deuteronomy 28:15, 27, 35)

The sore of the boils that broke out on man and beast in Egypt (Exodus 9:8-11) has just this symbolic meaning; for the miracles done there symbolized the evils and falsities with which the Egyptians were taken up.

Moreover, because the Jewish nation engaged in a profanation of the Word, and this is the symbolic meaning of leprosy, therefore leprosy occurred not only in their flesh, but also in their garments, houses, and vessels. The various kinds of profanation were also symbolized by the various evil consequences of leprosy, namely swellings, the sores of the swellings, white and reddish pimples, abscesses, burning feelings, losses of skin pigmentation, scaly patches of skin, and so on (see Leviticus 13). For the church with that nation was a representational church, in which internal things were represented by external ones that corresponded to them.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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Leviticus 13

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1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

2 "When a man shall have a rising in his body's skin, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes in the skin of his body the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons, the priests:

3 and the priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the body: and if the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the body's skin, it is the plague of leprosy; and the priest shall examine him, and pronounce him unclean.

4 If the bright spot is white in the skin of his body, and its appearance isn't deeper than the skin, and its hair hasn't turned white, then the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days.

5 The priest shall examine him on the seventh day, and, behold, if in his eyes the plague is arrested, and the plague hasn't spread in the skin, then the priest shall isolate him for seven more days.

6 The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day; and behold, if the plague has faded, and the plague hasn't spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

7 But if the scab spreads on the skin, after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again.

8 The priest shall examine him; and behold, if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy.

9 "When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought to the priest;

10 and the priest shall examine him. Behold, if there is a white rising in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the rising,

11 it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not isolate him, for he is unclean.

12 "If the leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the infected person from his head even to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest;

13 then the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean of the plague. It has all turned white: he is clean.

14 But whenever raw flesh appears in him, he shall be unclean.

15 The priest shall examine the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is unclean. It is leprosy.

16 Or if the raw flesh turns again, and is changed to white, then he shall come to the priest;

17 and the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the plague has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean of the plague. He is clean.

18 "When the body has a boil on its skin, and it has healed,

19 and in the place of the boil there is a white rising, or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be shown to the priest;

20 and the priest shall examine it; and behold, if its appearance is lower than the skin, and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. It has broken out in the boil.

21 But if the priest examines it, and behold, there are no white hairs in it, and it isn't deeper than the skin, but is dim, then the priest shall isolate him seven days.

22 If it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a plague.

23 But if the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn't spread, it is the scar from the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

24 "Or when the body has a burn from fire on its skin, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white, or white,

25 then the priest shall examine it; and behold, if the hair in the bright spot has turned white, and its appearance is deeper than the skin; it is leprosy. It has broken out in the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy.

26 But if the priest examines it, and behold, there is no white hair in the bright spot, and it isn't lower than the skin, but is faded; then the priest shall isolate him seven days.

27 The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. If it has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy.

28 If the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn't spread in the skin, but is faded, it is the swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean; for it is the scar from the burn.

29 "When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard,

30 then the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is an itch, it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.

31 If the priest examines the plague of itching, and behold, its appearance isn't deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall isolate him the person infected with itching seven days.

32 On the seventh day the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if the itch hasn't spread, and there is no yellow hair in it, and the appearance of the itch isn't deeper than the skin,

33 then he shall be shaved, but he shall not shave the itch; and the priest shall shut him up who has the itch seven more days.

34 On the seventh day, the priest shall examine the itch; and behold, if the itch hasn't spread in the skin, and its appearance isn't deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

35 But if the itch spreads in the skin after his cleansing,

36 then the priest shall examine him; and behold, if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest shall not look for the yellow hair; he is unclean.

37 But if in his eyes the itch is arrested, and black hair has grown in it; the itch is healed, he is clean. The priest shall pronounce him clean.

38 "When a man or a woman has bright spots in the skin of the body, even white bright spots;

39 then the priest shall examine them; and behold, if the bright spots on the skin of their body are a dull white, it is a harmless rash, it has broken out in the skin; he is clean.

40 "If a man's hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean.

41 If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald. He is clean.

42 But if there is in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague; it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead.

43 Then the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the rising of the plague is reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh,

44 he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head.

45 "The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, 'Unclean! Unclean!'

46 All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. Outside of the camp shall be his dwelling.

47 "The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woolen garment, or a linen garment;

48 whether it is in warp, or woof; of linen, or of wool; whether in a skin, or in anything made of skin;

49 if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything made of skin; it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be shown to the priest.

50 The priest shall examine the plague, and isolate the plague seven days.

51 He shall examine the plague on the seventh day. If the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever use the skin is used for, the plague is a destructive mildew. It is unclean.

52 He shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of skin, in which the plague is: for it is a destructive mildew. It shall be burned in the fire.

53 "If the priest examines it, and behold, the plague hasn't spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin;

54 then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which the plague is, and he shall isolate it seven more days.

55 Then the priest shall examine it, after the plague is washed; and behold, if the plague hasn't changed its color, and the plague hasn't spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire. It is a mildewed spot, whether the bareness is inside or outside.

56 If the priest looks, and behold, the plague has faded after it is washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:

57 and if it appears again in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is spreading. You shall burn with fire that in which the plague is.

58 The garment, either the warp, or the woof, or whatever thing of skin it is, which you shall wash, if the plague has departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and it will be clean."

59 This is the law of the plague of mildew in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.