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3 Mose 17

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1 Und Jehova redete zu Mose und sprach:

2 ede zu Aaron und zu seinen Söhnen und zu allen Kindern Israel und sprich zu ihnen: Dies ist es, was Jehova geboten und gesagt hat:

3 Jedermann aus dem Hause Israel, der ein ind oder ein Schaf oder eine Ziege im Lager schlachtet, (Vergl. 5. Mose 12,13-28) oder der außerhalb des Lagers schlachtet,

4 und es nicht an den Eingang des Zeltes der Zusammenkunft gebracht hat, um es Jehova als Opfergabe darzubringen vor der Wohnung Jehovas, selbigem Manne soll Blut zugerechnet werden: Blut hat er vergossen, und selbiger Mann soll ausgerottet werden aus der Mitte seines Volkes;

5 auf daß die Kinder Israel ihre Schlachtopfer (O. Schlachttiere) bringen, die sie auf freiem Felde schlachten, daß sie sie Jehova bringen an den Eingang des Zeltes der Zusammenkunft zu dem Priester und sie als Friedensopfer dem Jehova schlachten.

6 Und der Priester soll das Blut an den Altar Jehovas sprengen vor dem Eingang des Zeltes der Zusammenkunft und das Fett räuchern zum lieblichen Geruch dem Jehova.

7 Und sie sollen nicht mehr ihre Schlachtopfer (W. Schlachttiere) den Dämonen (Eig. den Böcken (welche abgöttisch verehrt wurden). Vergl. 2. Chron. 11,15) schlachten, denen sie nachhuren. Das soll ihnen eine ewige Satzung sein bei ihren Geschlechtern.

8 Und du sollst zu ihnen sagen: Jedermann aus dem Hause Israel und von den Fremdlingen, die in ihrer Mitte weilen, der ein Brandopfer oder Schlachtopfer opfert

9 und es nicht an den Eingang des Zeltes der Zusammenkunft bringt, um es Jehova zu opfern, selbiger Mann soll ausgerottet werden aus seinen Völkern.

10 Und jedermann aus dem Hause Israel und von den Fremdlingen, die in ihrer Mitte weilen, der irgend Blut essen wird, -wider die Seele, die das Blut isset, werde ich mein Angesicht richten und sie ausrotten aus der Mitte ihres Volkes.

11 Denn die Seele des Fleisches ist im Blute, und ich habe es euch auf den Altar gegeben, um Sühnung zu tun für eure Seelen; denn das Blut ist es, welches Sühnung tut durch (O. für) die Seele.

12 Darum habe ich zu den Kindern Israel gesagt: Niemand (W. keine Seele) von euch soll Blut essen; auch der Fremdling, der in eurer Mitte weilt, soll nicht Blut essen.

13 Und jedermann von den Kindern Israel und von den Fremdlingen, die in eurer Mitte weilen, der ein Wildbret oder einen Vogel erjagt, die gegessen werden, soll ihr Blut ausfließen lassen und es mit Erde bedecken.

14 Denn die Seele alles Fleisches: sein Blut, das ist seine Seele; (Vergl. 5. Mose 12,23; W. sein Blut ist als seine Seele) und ich habe zu den Kindern Israel gesagt: Das Blut irgend welches Fleisches sollt ihr nicht essen, denn die Seele alles Fleisches ist sein Blut; jeder, der es isset, soll ausgerottet werden. -

15 Und jeder, der (W. jede Seele, die) ein Aas oder Zerrissenes isset, er sei Eingeborener oder Fremdling, der soll seine Kleider waschen und sich im Wasser baden, und er wird unrein sein bis an den Abend; dann wird er rein sein.

16 Und wenn er sie nicht wäscht und sein Fleisch nicht badet, so wird er seine Ungerechtigkeit tragen.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9965

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9965. 'That they may not bear iniquity and die' means the elimination of the whole of worship. This is clear from the meaning of 'bearing the iniquity', when the subject is the priestly office of Aaron and his sons, as a removal or shifting away of falsities and evils with those who are governed by good derived from the Lord, dealt with above in 9937. But when it speaks of them 'bearing iniquity and dying' the elimination of the whole of worship is meant, see 9928; for the representative worship died because nothing of it appeared any longer in heaven. The situation in all this may become clear from what has been stated and shown above in 9959-9961. They also died when they did not act in accordance with the statutes, 1 as is evident from Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu, who were devoured by fire from heaven when they did not take the fire of the altar to burn incense but foreign 2 fire, Leviticus 10:1-2ff. 'The fire of the altar' represented God's love, thus love from the Lord, whereas 'foreign fire' represented love from hell. The elimination of worship was meant by their burning incense with this fire and their consequent death. For the meaning of 'fire' as love, see 5215, 6832, 7324, 7575, 7852.

[2] Many places in the Word state that they would bear iniquity when they did not do things in accordance with the statutes, and by this was meant damnation because sins had not been removed. Not that they themselves were condemned on account of disobeying the statutes. Rather by doing so they eliminated representative worship and in so doing represented the damnation of those who remain in their sins. For none are condemned because they fail in their performance of outward religious observances, only because of evils in the heart, thus because of failing in such observances as a result of evil in the heart. This is what 'bearing iniquity' means in the following places: In Moses,

If a soul sins and acts against any of Jehovah's commandments regarding what ought not to be done, 3 though he does not know it, yet he will be guilty and will bear his iniquity. Leviticus 5:17-18.

Here the retention of evils and consequent damnation should not be understood literally by 'bearing iniquity', although that is the spiritual meaning; for it says 'though he does not know it', implying that what the person has done does not spring from evil in the heart.

[3] In the same author,

If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering is eaten at all on the third day, the one offering it will not be accepted. It is an abomination, and the soul that eats it will bear his iniquity, and will be cut off from his people. Leviticus 7:18; 19:7-8.

Here also 'bearing iniquity' means remaining in his sins and being as a result in a state of damnation. It does so not because the person ate some of his sacrifice on the third day, but because 'eating it on the third day' represented something abominable, namely an action leading to damnation. Thus 'bearing iniquity and being cut off from his people' represented the damnation of those who performed the abomination meant by that deed. Nevertheless there was no condemnation on account of his having eaten it, for interior evils that were represented are what condemn, not exterior actions in which those evils are not present.

[4] In the same author,

Every soul who eats a carcass 4 or that which has been torn, and does not wash his clothes and bathe his flesh shall bear his iniquity. Leviticus 17:15-16.

Since 'eating a carcass or that which has been torn' represented making evil or falsity one's own, the expression 'bearing iniquity' also has a representative meaning. In the same author,

If a man who is clean fails to keep the Passover, this soul shall be cut off from his people, because he did not bring the offering of Jehovah at its appointed time; he shall bear his sin. Numbers 9:13.

'The Passover' represented deliverance by the Lord from damnation, 7093 (end), 7867, 7995, 9286-9292; and 'the Passover supper' represented being joined to the Lord through the good of love, 7836, 7997, 8001. And since these things were represented it was decreed that anyone who did not keep the Passover should be cut off from his people and that he should bear his sin. The failure to keep it was not really so great a crime; rather it represented those who at heart refuse to accept the Lord and consequently deliverance from sins, and so who have no wish to be joined to Him through love. Thus it represented their damnation.

[5] In the same author,

The children of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting, or else they will bear iniquity and die. 5 Levites shall perform the work of the tent of meeting, and these shall bear the iniquity. Numbers 18:22-23.

The reason why the people would bear iniquity and die if they were to go near the tent of meeting to do the work there was that they would thereby eliminate the representative worship assigned to the function of the priests. The function of the priests or the priestly office represented the Lord's entire work of salvation, 9809; and this is why it says that the Levites, who also were priests, should bear the people's iniquity, by which expiation or atonement was meant, that is, removal from evils and falsities with those who are governed by good derived from the Lord alone, 9937. 'Bearing iniquity' means real damnation when this expression is used in reference to those who perform evil deeds because their heart is evil, such as those mentioned in Leviticus 20:17, 19-20; 24:15-16; Ezekiel 18:20; 23:49; and elsewhere.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. i.e. the laws of worship; see 8972.

2. i.e. unauthorized or profane

3. literally, and does one of [all] Jehovah's commandments [about] things which ought not to be done

4. i.e. an animal that had not been slaughtered but had died naturally

5. literally, to bear iniquity, dying

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.