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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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9229. 'And men of holiness shall you be to Me' means a state of life then composed of good. This is clear from the meaning of 'men of holiness' as those who are led by the Lord, for the Divine which emanates from the Lord is holiness itself, 6788, 7499, 8127 (end), 8302, 8806. Consequently those who receive that emanation in faith and also in love are called holy ones. Anyone who imagines that a person is holy from any other source, or that anything present with a person is holy apart from that which comes and is received from the Lord is very much mistaken; for that which is the person's own, and is called his proprium, is evil.

The human proprium is nothing but evil, see 210, 215, 694, 874-876, 987, 1047, 4328, 5660, 5786, 8480, 8944.

To the extent that a person can be withheld from his proprium, the Lord can be present with him, and therefore to the same extent holiness resides with him, 1023, 1044, 1581, 2256, 2388, 2406, 2411, 8206, 8393, 8988 (end), 9014.

[2] The truth that the Lord is the Only Holy One, and that nothing is holy except that which emanates from the Lord, and so that which a person receives from the Lord, is evident from everywhere in the Word, as in John,

I make Myself holy, that they also may be made holy in the truth. John 17:19.

'Making Himself holy' means making Himself Divine by His own power. Consequently those who receive Divine Truth emanating from the Lord in faith and life are said to be 'made holy in the truth'.

[3] This also explains why after the Resurrection, when the Lord spoke to the disciples, He breathed on them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit, John 20:22. 'Breathing on (or into)' was a sign that represented the imparting of life through faith and love, as also in Genesis,

Jehovah breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man (homo) became a living soul. Genesis 2:7.

Other examples like this may be seen elsewhere, such as Psalms 33:6; 104:29-30; Job 32:8; 33:4; John 3:8. Therefore also the Word is said to be inspired because it comes from the Lord, and those who wrote the Word have been called 'inspired'. Breathing, and so breathing on or inspiring, corresponds to the life of faith, see 97, 1119, 1120, 3883-3896. This explains why the term spirit in the Word is derived from the word for wind, and holiness from the Lord is called Jehovah's wind, 8286, and why the Holy Spirit is the holiness emanating from the Lord, 3704, 4673 (end), 5307, 6788, 6982, 6993, 8127 (end), 8302, 9199.

[4] So also it says in John 1:33 that the Lord baptizes with the Holy Spirit, and in Luke 3:16 that He baptizes with the Holy Spirit and with fire. 'Baptizing' in the internal sense means regenerating, 4255, 5120 (end), 9088; 'baptizing with the Holy Spirit' means regenerating by means of the good of faith; and 'baptizing with fire' means regenerating by means of the good of love, 'fire' being the good of love, see 934, 4906, 5215, 6314, 6832, 6834, 6849, 7324. In John,

Who is not going to fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. Revelation 15:4.

In Luke the angel telling Mary about the Lord said,

That which is holy will be born from you. Luke 1:35.

And in Daniel,

I saw in the visions of my head while on my bed, and behold, a vigilant and holy one came down from heaven. Daniel 4:13.

In these places 'that which is holy' and 'a holy one' stand for the Lord.

[5] Because the Lord alone is holy He is called in the Old Testament the Holy One of Israel, the Redeemer, the Saviour, and the Regenerator, as in Isaiah 1:4; 5:19, 24; 10:20; 12:6; 17:7; 29:19; 30:11-12, 15; 31:1; 37:23; 41:14, 16, 20; 43:3, 14; 45:11; 47:4; 48:17; 49:7; 54:5; 55:5; 60:9, 14; Jeremiah 50:29; 51:5; Ezekiel 39:7; Psalms 71:22; 78:41; 89:18. This is why the Lord in heaven, and consequently heaven itself, is called the dwelling-place of holiness, Jeremiah 25:30; 31:23; 1 Isaiah 63:15; the sanctuary, 2 Ezekiel 11:16; 24:21; and also the mountain of holiness, Psalms 3:4. It is also why the middle of the tent [of meeting], where the ark containing the law was, was called The Holy of Holies, Exodus 26:33-34; for the law in the ark in the middle of the tent [of meeting], represented the Lord in respect of the Word. For the law is the Word, 6752, 7463.

[6] All this shows why it is that the angels are called holy in Matthew 25:31; Mark 8:38; Luke 9:26; Psalms 149:1; Daniel 8:13; also the prophets, Luke 1:70; and the apostles too, Revelation 18:20. Not that they are holy by their own virtue but that the Lord, who alone is holy and the only source of holiness, makes them so. For truths are meant by 'the angels', because they are those who receive truth from the Lord, 1925, 4085, 4295, 4402, 7268, 7873, 8192, 8301; teachings which present the truth that comes through the Word from the Lord are meant by 'the prophets', 2534, 7269; and all the truths and forms of the good of faith in their entirety which come from the Lord are meant by 'the apostles', 3488, 3858 (end), 6397.

[7] Consecrations 3 among the Israelite and Jewish people took place in order that the Lord who alone was holy might be represented, and in order that holiness, which He alone is the source of, might be represented. This is the reason for the consecration of Aaron and his sons, Exodus 29:1ff; Leviticus 8:10-11, 13, 30; the consecration of their garments, Exodus 29:21ff; the consecration of the altar in order that it might be most holy, 4 Exodus 29:37ff; the consecration of the tent of meeting, the ark of the Testimony, the table, all the vessels, the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering and its vessels, and the laver and its base, Exodus 30:26ff.

[8] The truth that the Lord is the real Holiness that was represented is evident also from the Lord's words in Matthew when they are seen in the internal sense,

Fools and blind! Which of the two is greater, the gold or the temple that makes the gold holy? And which of the two is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift holy? Matthew 23:17-19.

'The temple' represented the Lord Himself, and so did 'the altar', while 'the gold' was a sign of the good that comes from the Lord, and 'the gift' or a sacrifice was a sign of things constituting faith and charity that come from the Lord.

The Lord was represented by 'the temple', see 2777, 3720, and by 'the altar', 2777, 2811, 4489, 8935, 8940. 'Gold' was a sign of good that comes from the Lord, 1551, 1552, 5658, and 'a sacrifice' a sign of worship springing from faith and charity that come from the Lord, 922, 923, 2805, 2807, 2830, 6905, 8680, 8682, 8936.

[9] From all this it is now evident why it is that the children of Israel were called a holy people in Deuteronomy 26:19 and elsewhere, or as in the present verse men of holiness. That is to say, they were so called because every single aspect of their worship represented Divine realities that are the Lord's, and celestial and spiritual things of His kingdom and Church. On this account they were called holy in a representative sense; they themselves were not holy on that account, because representatives had regard to the holy things that were represented, not to the person who represented them, see 665, 1097 (end), 1361, 3147, 3881 (end), 4208, 4281, 4288, 4293, 4307, 4444, 4500, 6304, 7048, 7439, 8588, 8788, 8806.

[10] On that account also was Jerusalem called holy, and Zion the mountain of holiness in Zechariah 8:3 and elsewhere, as well as in Matthew,

And the tombs were opened, and many bodies of dead holy ones were raised; and coming out of their tombs after the Lord's resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many. Matthew 27:52-53.

Here Jerusalem is called 'the holy city', when in fact, quite to the contrary, it was unholy because the Lord was crucified there at that time, for which reason it is called 'Sodom and Egypt' in John,

Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. Revelation 11:8.

Yet it is called holy, because it means the Lord's kingdom and the Church, 402, 2117, 3654. The appearance of 'dead holy ones' there, an event witnessed by some in vision, was a sign of the salvation of people who belonged to the spiritual Church, and of the raising of those people to the Holy Jerusalem, which is heaven - the people who had been kept up to that time on the lower earth, spoken of in 6854, 6914, 7091, 7828, 7932, 8049, 8054, 8159, 8321.

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1Jeremiah 31:23 refers to a dwelling-place of righteousness [and] mountain of holiness, to be exact

2. i.e. an especially holy place

3. i.e. dedicating persons or things to holy functions or purposes

4. literally, the holiness of holinesses

  
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1 The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,

2 and he said, "See now, my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way." They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night."

3 He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

5 They called to Lot, and said to him, "Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them."

6 Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him.

7 He said, "Please, my brothers, don't act so wickedly.

8 See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don't do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof."

9 They said, "Stand back!" Then they said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!" They pressed hard on the man Lot, and drew near to break the door.

10 But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.

11 They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

12 The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:

13 for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it."

14 Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

15 When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Get up! Take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city."

16 But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife's hand, and his two daughters' hands, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.

17 It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Don't look behind you, and don't stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!"

18 Lot said to them, "Oh, not so, my lord.

19 See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can't escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.

20 See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my soul will live."

21 He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

22 Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

23 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.

24 Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.

25 He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.

26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

27 Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.

28 He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

29 It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

30 Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.

31 The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.

32 Come, let's make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."

33 They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn't know when she lay down, nor when she arose.

34 It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."

35 They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn't know when she lay down, nor when she got up.

36 Thus both of Lot's daughters were with child by their father.

37 The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.

38 The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.