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Exode 29

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1 Or c'est ici ce que tu leur feras, quand tu les sanctifieras pour m'exercer la Sacrificature : prends un veau du troupeau, et deux béliers sans tare;

2 Et des pains sans levain, et des gâteaux sans levain pétris à l'huile, et des beignets sans levain, oints d'huile; et tu les feras de fine farine de froment.

3 Tu les mettras dans une corbeille, et tu les présenteras dans la corbeille; [tu présenteras] aussi le veau et les deux moutons.

4 Puis tu feras approcher Aaron et ses fils à l'entrée du Tabernacle d'assignation, et tu les laveras avec de l'eau.

5 Ensuite tu prendras les vêtements, et tu feras vêtir à Aaron la chemise et le Rochet de l'Ephod, l'Ephod, et le Pectoral, et tu le ceindras par-dessus avec le ceinturon exquis de l'Ephod.

6 Puis tu mettras sur sa tête la Tiare, et la couronne de sainteté sur la Tiare.

7 Et tu prendras l'huile de l'onction, et la répandras sur sa tête; et tu l'oindras ainsi.

8 Puis tu feras approcher ses fils, et tu leur feras vêtir les chemises,

9 Et tu les ceindras du baudrier, Aaron, [dis-je], et ses fils, et tu leur attacheras des calottes; et ils posséderont la Sacrificature par ordonnance perpétuelle; et tu consacreras ainsi Aaron et ses fils.

10 Et tu feras approcher le veau devant le Tabernacle d'assignation, et Aaron et ses fils poseront leurs mains sur la tête du veau.

11 Et tu égorgeras le veau devant l'Eternel, à l'entrée du Tabernacle d'assignation.

12 Puis tu prendras du sang du veau, et le mettras avec ton doigt sur les cornes de l'autel, et tu répandras tout le reste du sang au pied de l'autel.

13 Tu prendras aussi toute la graisse qui couvre les entrailles, et la taie qui est sur le foie, et les deux rognons, et la graisse qui est sur eux, et tu les feras fumer sur l'autel.

14 Mais tu brûleras au feu la chair du veau, sa peau, et sa fiente, hors du camp; c'est un sacrifice pour le péché.

15 Puis tu prendras l'un des béliers, et Aaron et ses fils poseront leurs mains sur la tête du bélier.

16 Puis tu égorgeras le bélier, et prenant son sang, tu le répandras sur l'autel tout à l’entour.

17 Après tu couperas le bélier par pièces, et ayant lavé ses entrailles et ses jambes, tu les mettras sur ses pièces et sur sa tête.

18 Et tu feras fumer tout le bélier sur l'autel; c'est un holocauste à l'Eternel, c'est une suave odeur; une offrande faite par feu à l'Eternel.

19 Puis tu prendras l'autre bélier, et Aaron et ses fils mettront leurs mains sur sa tête.

20 Et tu égorgeras le bélier, et prenant de son sang, tu le mettras sur le mol de l'oreille [droite] d'Aaron, et sur le mol de l'oreille droite de ses fils, et sur le pouce de leur main droite, et sur le gros orteil de leur pied droit, et tu répandras le reste du sang sur l'autel tout à l’entour.

21 Et tu prendras du sang qui sera sur l'autel, et de l'huile de l'onction, et tu en feras aspersion sur Aaron, et sur ses vêtements, sur ses fils, et sur les vêtements de ses fils avec lui; ainsi et lui, et ses vêtements, et ses fils, et les vêtements de ses fils, seront sanctifiés avec lui.

22 Tu prendras aussi la graisse du bélier, et la queue, et la graisse qui couvre les entrailles, la taie du foie, les deux rognons, et la graisse qui est dessus, et l'épaule droite; car c'est le bélier des consécrations.

23 [Tu prendras] aussi un pain, un gâteau à l'huile, et un beignet de la corbeille où seront ces choses sans levain, laquelle sera devant l'Eternel.

24 Et tu mettras toutes ces choses sur les paumes des mains d'Aaron, et sur les paumes des mains de ses fils, et tu les tournoieras en offrande tournoyée devant l'Eternel.

25 Puis les recevant de leurs mains, tu les feras fumer sur l'autel, sur l'holocauste, pour être une odeur agréable devant l'Eternel; c'est un sacrifice fait par feu à l'Eternel.

26 Tu prendras aussi la poitrine du bélier des consécrations, qui est pour Aaron, et tu la tournoieras en offrande tournoyée, devant l'Eternel; et elle sera pour ta part.

27 Tu sanctifieras donc la poitrine de l'offrande tournoyée, et l'épaule de l'offrande élevée, tant ce qui aura été tournoyé, que ce qui aura été élevé du bélier des consécrations, de ce qui est pour Aaron, et de ce qui est pour ses fils.

28 Et ceci sera une ordonnance perpétuelle pour Aaron et pour ses fils, [de ce qui sera offert] par les enfants d'Israël; car c'est une offrande élevée. Quand il y aura une offrande élevée de [celles qui sont faites] par les enfants d'Israël, de leurs sacrifices de prospérité, leur offrande élevée sera à l'Eternel.

29 Et les saints vêtements qui seront pour Aaron, seront pour ses fils après lui, afin qu'ils soient oints et consacrés dans ces vêtements.

30 Le Sacrificateur qui succédera en sa place d'entre ses fils, et qui viendra au Tabernacle d'assignation, pour faire le service au lieu Saint, en sera revêtu durant sept jours.

31 Or tu prendras le bélier des consécrations, et tu feras bouillir sa chair dans un lieu saint;

32 Et Aaron et ses fils mangeront à l'entrée du Tabernacle d'assignation, la chair du bélier, et le pain qui sera dans la corbeille.

33 Ils mangeront donc ces choses, par lesquelles la propitiation aura été faite, pour les consacrer [et] les sanctifier; mais l'étranger n'en mangera point, parce qu'elles sont saintes.

34 Que s'il y a des restes de la chair des consécrations, et du pain jusqu’au matin, tu brûleras ces restes-là au feu; on n'en mangera point, parce que c'est une chose sainte.

35 Tu feras donc ainsi à Aaron et à ses fils, selon toutes les choses que je t'ai commandées; tu les consacreras durant sept jours.

36 Tu sacrifieras pour le péché tous les jours un veau pour faire la propitiation, et tu offriras pour l'autel un sacrifice pour le péché en faisant propitiation pour lui, et tu l'oindras pour le sanctifier.

37 Pendant sept jours tu feras propitiation pour l'autel, et tu le sanctifieras; et l'autel sera une chose très-sainte; tout ce qui touchera l'autel sera saint.

38 Or c'est ici ce que tu feras sur l'autel; tu offriras chaque jour continuellement deux agneaux d'un an.

39 Tu sacrifieras l'un des agneaux au matin, et l'autre agneau entre les deux vêpres.

40 Avec une dixième de fine farine pétrie dans la quatrième partie d'un Hin d’huile vierge, et avec une aspersion de vin de la quatrième partie d'un Hin pour chaque agneau.

41 Et tu sacrifieras l'autre agneau entre les deux vêpres, avec un gâteau comme au matin, et tu lui feras la même aspersion, en bonne odeur; c'est un sacrifice fait par feu à l'Eternel.

42 Ce sera l'holocauste continuel en vos âges, à l'entrée du Tabernacle d'assignation devant l'Eternel, où je me trouverai avec vous pour te parler.

43 Je me trouverai là pour les enfants d'Israël, et [le Tabernacle] sera sanctifié par ma gloire.

44 Je sanctifierai donc le Tabernacle d'assignation et l'autel. Je sanctifierai aussi Aaron et ses fils, afin qu'ils m'exercent la Sacrificature.

45 Et j'habiterai au milieu des enfants d'Israël, et je leur serai Dieu;

46 Et ils sauront que je suis l'Eternel leur Dieu, qui les ai tirés du pays d'Egypte, pour habiter au milieu d'eux. Je suis l'Eternel leur Dieu.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 379

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379. "And made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb." This symbolically means, and by truths have purified those religious beliefs from the falsities accompanying evil, and so have been reformed by the Lord.

Some evils are evils that accompany falsity, and some falsities are falsities that accompany evil. Evils that accompany falsity are found among people who, in accord with their religion, believe that evils do not condemn, provided they orally confess that they are sinners. And falsities that accompany evil are found among people who justify the evils they harbor.

As in no. 378 above, robes here symbolize general truths drawn from the Word, which constitute the people's religious beliefs. They are said to have made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb because the color white is predicated of truths (nos. 167, 231, 232), meaning therefore that they used truths to purify their falsities.

This symbolically means also that thus they were reformed by the Lord, because all who have fought against evils in the world and have believed in the Lord are, after their departure from the world, taught by the Lord and led by truths away from the falsities of their religion. And so they are reformed. That is because people who refrain from evils as being sins possess goodness of life, and goodness of life desires truths, and acknowledges and accepts them. But this is never the case with evil of life.

People believe that the blood of the Lamb here and elsewhere in the Word symbolizes the Lord's suffering of the cross. But the suffering of the cross was the final temptation or trial by which the Lord completely overcame the hells and fully glorified His humanity. By these two means He saved mankind (see The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord, nos. 12-14, 15-17, and also no. 67 above). Moreover, because by His suffering of the cross the Lord fully glorified His humanity, which is to say, made it Divine, therefore nothing else can be meant by His flesh and blood but the Divinity in Him and emanating from Him - His flesh meaning the Divine goodness of His Divine love, and His blood meaning the Divine truth emanating from that goodness.

[2] Blood is mentioned many times in the Word, and everywhere it symbolizes, in the spiritual sense, either the Lord's Divine truth, which is the same as the Divine truth of the Word, or in an opposite sense, the Divine truth of the Word falsified or profaned, as can be seen from the following passages.

First, that blood symbolizes the Lord's Divine truth or the Divine truth of the Word can be seen from these passages:

Blood was called the blood of the covenant, and a covenant conjoins, a conjunction that the Lord accomplishes by His Divine truth. So, for example, in Zechariah:

By the blood of your covenant, I will set your prisoners free from the pit... (Zechariah 9:11)

After Moses read the Book of the Law in the hearing of the people, he sprinkled half the blood on the people and said,

This is the blood of the covenant which Jehovah has made with you in accordance with all these words. (Exodus 24:3-8)

Moreover,

(Jesus) took the cup..., and gave it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you. ...this is My blood, the blood of the new covenant... (Matthew 26:27-28, cf. Mark 14:24, Luke 22:20)

The blood of the new covenant or testament symbolizes nothing else than the Word, which is called a covenant or testament - the Old Covenant or Testament, and the New Covenant or Testament - thus symbolizing the Divine truth in it.

[3] Since blood has this symbolic meaning, the Lord therefore gave His disciples wine, saying, "This is My blood" - wine symbolizing Divine truth (no. 316). Wine is also on that account called "the blood of grapes" (Genesis 49:11, Deuteronomy 32:14).

This is still further apparent from these words of the Lord:

Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you will have no life in you... For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. (John 6:53-56).

It is clearly apparent that blood here means Divine truth, because the text says that he who drinks has life, and abides in the Lord, and the Lord in him. This is the effect of Divine truth and a life in accordance with it, and an effect confirmed by the Holy Supper, as everyone in the church may know.

[4] Since blood symbolizes the Lord's Divine truth, which is the same as the Divine truth of the Word, and this is the essence of the Old and New Covenants or Testaments, therefore blood was the holiest representative symbol in the Israelite Church, in which every single thing corresponded to something spiritual. So, for example, the people were to take some of the blood of the paschal lamb and put it on the doorposts and lintel of their houses to keep the plague from coming upon them (Exodus 12:7, 13, 22). The blood of the burnt offering was to be sprinkled on the altar, at the base of the altar, on Aaron and his sons, and on their vestments (Exodus 29:12, 16, 20-21).

[5] The blood of the Lamb has a like symbolism in the following verses in the book of Revelation:

...war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon... And they overcame it by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony... (Revelation 12:7, 11)

For no one can think that Michael and his angels overcame the dragon with anything other than the Lord's Divine truth in the Word. Angels in heaven, indeed, cannot think of any blood, nor do they think of the Lord's suffering, but of His Divine truth and resurrection. Consequently, when a person thinks about the Lord's blood, angels perceive His Divine truth, and when a person thinks about the Lord's suffering, they perceive His glorification, and then only His resurrection. I have been granted to know the reality of this by much experience.

[6] That blood symbolizes Divine truth is apparent also from these verses in the book of Psalms:

(God) will save the souls of the needy... Precious shall be their blood in His sight. And they shall live, and He will give them the gold of Sheba. (Psalms 72:13-15)

The blood, precious in the sight of God, stands for Divine truth among those people. The gold of Sheba is the resulting wisdom.

In Ezekiel:

Gather together... to My great sacrifice... on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood. You shall... drink the blood of the princes of the earth... You shall... drink blood till you are drunk at My sacrifice which I am sacrificing for you... (Thus) I will set My glory among the nations. (Ezekiel 39:17-21)

Blood here does not mean blood, because the statement is that they will drink the blood of the princes of the earth and that they will drink blood till they are drunk. But the true meaning of the word emerges when blood is understood to mean Divine truth. The subject there, too, is the Lord's church, which He would establish among gentiles.

[7] Second, that blood symbolizes Divine truth can be clearly seen from its opposite meaning, in which it symbolizes the Divine truth of the Word falsified or profaned, as is apparent from these passages:

He who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil... (Isaiah 33:15)

You shall destroy those who speak falsehood; Jehovah abhors the bloody and deceitful man. (Psalms 5:6)

...everyone recorded for life in Jerusalem, when the Lord has... rinsed away (her) blood... from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of purification. (Isaiah 4:3-4)

...on the day you were born... I saw you trampled in your blood, and I said to you in your blood, "Live!" ...I washed you and rinsed away the blood upon you... (Ezekiel 16:5-6, 9, 22, 36, 38)

They wandered blind in the streets; they have defiled themselves with blood, and what they cannot touch, they touch with their garments. (Lamentations 4:13-14)

The garment is polluted with blood. (Isaiah 9:5)

Also on your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent... (Jeremiah 2:34)

Your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings... (Isaiah 1:15-16)

...your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken a lie... They make haste to shed innocent blood. (Isaiah 59:3, 7)

...Jehovah is coming out... to visit the iniquity... of the earth; then the earth will disclose her blood... (Isaiah 26:21)

...as many as received Him, to them He gave the ability to be children of God..., who were born, not of blood... (John 1:12-13)

In (Babylon) was found the blood of prophets and saints... (Revelation 18:24)

...the sea... became as the blood of a dead man... ...the springs of water... became blood. (Revelation 16:3-4. Cf. Isaiah 15:9, Psalms 105:29)

The like is symbolized by the rivers, ponds, and pools of water in Egypt being turned into blood (Exodus 7:15-25).

...the moon (shall be turned) into blood, before the coming of the great... day of Jehovah. (Joel 2:31)

...the moon became... blood. (Revelation 6:12)

In these places and many others, blood symbolizes the truth of the Word falsified, and also profaned. But this can be seen more clearly when these passages in the Word are read in context.

So, then, since blood in an opposite sense symbolizes the truth of the Word falsified or profaned, it is apparent that blood in a true sense symbolizes the truth of the Word not falsified.

  
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Apocalypse Revealed # 377

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377. So he said to me, "These are ones who are coming out of the great tribulation." This symbolically means that they are people who have undergone temptations or trials, and have fought against evils and falsities.

To be shown that tribulation means an infestation by evils and falsities and a spiritual battle against them, which is a temptation or trial, see nos. 33, 95, 100, 101.

  
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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.