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5 Mose 21

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1 Wenn in dem Lande, das Jehova, dein Gott, dir gibt, es zu besitzen, ein Erschlagener auf dem Felde liegend gefunden wird, ohne daß es bekannt ist, wer ihn erschlagen hat,

2 so sollen deine Ältesten und deine Richter hinausgehen und nach den Städten hin messen, die rings um den Erschlagenen sind.

3 Und es geschehe: Die Stadt, welche dem Erschlagenen am nächsten ist, die Ältesten jener Stadt sollen eine Färse nehmen, mit der noch nicht gearbeitet worden ist, die noch nicht am Joche gezogen hat;

4 und die Ältesten jener Stadt sollen die Färse zu einem immer fließenden Bache hinabführen, in welchem nicht gearbeitet und nicht gesät wird, und sollen der Färse daselbst im Bache das Genick brechen.

5 Und die Priester, die Söhne Levis, sollen herzutreten; denn sie hat Jehova, dein Gott, erwählt, ihm zu dienen und im Namen Jehovas zu segnen; und nach ihrem Ausspruch soll bei jedem Rechtsstreit und bei jeder Verletzung geschehen.

6 Und alle Ältesten jener Stadt, die dem Erschlagenen am nächsten sind, sollen ihre Hände über der Färse waschen, welcher das Genick im Bache gebrochen worden ist,

7 und sollen anheben und sprechen: Unsere Hände haben dieses Blut nicht vergossen, und unsere Augen haben es nicht gesehen;

8 vergib, Jehova, deinem Volke Israel, das du erlöst hast, und lege nicht unschuldiges Blut in deines Volkes Israel Mitte. Und die Blutschuld wird ihnen vergeben werden.

9 Und du, du sollst das unschuldige Blut aus deiner Mitte hinwegschaffen; denn du sollst tun, was recht ist in den Augen Jehovas.

10 Wenn du wider deine Feinde zum Kriege ausziehst, und Jehova, dein Gott, sie in deine Hand gibt, und du ihre Gefangenen wegführst,

11 und du siehst unter den Gefangenen ein Weib, schön von Gestalt, und hast Lust zu ihr und nimmst sie dir zum Weibe,

12 so sollst du sie in das Innere deines Hauses führen; und sie soll ihr Haupt scheren und ihre Nägel beschneiden

13 und die Kleider ihrer Gefangenschaft von sich ablegen; und sie soll in deinem Hause bleiben und ihren Vater und ihre Mutter einen Monat lang beweinen; und danach magst du zu ihr eingehen und sie ehelichen, daß sie dein Weib sei.

14 Und es soll geschehen, wenn du kein Gefallen mehr an ihr hast, so sollst du sie nach ihrem Wunsche entlassen; aber du darfst sie keineswegs um Geld verkaufen; du sollst sie nicht als Sklavin behandeln, darum daß du sie geschwächt hast.

15 Wenn ein Mann zwei Weiber hat, eine geliebte und eine gehaßte, und sie gebären ihm Söhne, die geliebte und die gehaßte, und der erstgeborene Sohn ist von der gehaßten:

16 so soll es geschehen, an dem Tage, da er seine Söhne erben läßt was sein ist: Er kann nicht den Sohn der geliebten zum Erstgeborenen machen vor dem Sohne der gehaßten, dem Erstgeborenen;

17 sondern den Erstgeborenen, den Sohn der gehaßten, soll er anerkennen, daß er ihm zwei Teile gebe von allem, was in seinem Besitz gefunden wird; denn er ist der Erstling seiner Kraft, ihm gehört das Recht der Erstgeburt.

18 Wenn ein Mann einen unbändigen und widerspenstigen Sohn hat, welcher der Stimme seines Vaters und der Stimme seiner Mutter nicht gehorcht, und sie züchtigen ihn, aber er gehorcht ihnen nicht:

19 so sollen sein Vater und seine Mutter ihn ergreifen und ihn zu den Ältesten seiner Stadt und zum Tore seines Ortes hinausführen,

20 und sollen zu den Ältesten seiner Stadt sprechen: Dieser unser Sohn ist unbändig und widerspenstig, er gehorcht unserer Stimme nicht, er ist ein Schlemmer und Säufer!

21 Und alle Leute seiner Stadt sollen ihn steinigen, daß er sterbe; und du sollst das Böse aus deiner Mitte hinwegschaffen. Und ganz Israel soll es hören und sich fürchten.

22 Und wenn an einem Manne eine todeswürdige Sünde ist, und er wird getötet, und du hängst ihn an ein Holz,

23 so soll sein Leichnam nicht über Nacht an dem Holze bleiben, sondern du sollst ihn jedenfalls an demselben Tage begraben; denn ein Fluch Gottes ist ein Gehängter; und du sollst dein Land nicht verunreinigen, das Jehova, dein Gott, dir als Erbteil gibt.

   

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6674. 'Of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah' means the nature and state of the natural where that factual knowledge resided. This is clear from the meaning of 'the name' as the essential nature, dealt with in 144, 145, 1896, 2009, and also the state, 1946, 2643, 3422, 4298. For the names contained in the Word all serve to mean different realities, each name embodying in a nutshell all the characteristics, thus the nature and state of that reality to which it refers. Here therefore the names Shiphrah and Puah mean the nature and state of the natural where true factual knowledge resides since this is the reality to which those names refer, as is evident from what appears immediately before this in 6673. A person who is unaware of the fact that a name serves to mean the nature and state of the reality to which it refers can only think that no more than the name is meant when that name is mentioned.

[2] Thus he can only think that when the Lord speaks of His name no more than this is meant, when in fact what is meant is the essential nature of the worship of Him, that is to say, every aspect of faith and charity through which He is to be worshipped, as in Matthew,

Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them. Matthew 18:20.

Not the name is meant here, but worship flowing from faith and charity. In John,

As many as received Him, to them He gave power to be sons of God, to those believing in His name. John 1:12.

Here also 'name' is used to mean faith and charity from which the Lord is worshipped. In the same gospel,

These things have been written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name. John 20:31.

Here the meaning is similar.

[3] In the same gospel,

If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. John 14:13-14.

And elsewhere,

Whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give it to you. John 15:16-17; 16:23-24.

The real meaning here is not that they were to ask the Father in the Lord's name, but that they were to ask the Lord Himself. For no access lies open to Divine Good, which is the Father, 3704, except through the Lord's Divine Human, as the various Churches also well know. This being so, asking the Lord Himself is a request made in accordance with the truths of faith; and if the request is indeed made in accord with them it is granted, as He Himself also says in the place in John quoted immediately before - If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. This matter is made even clearer by the fact that the Lord is meant by Jehovah's 'name', when mentioned as follows in Moses,

I send an angel before you to guard you on the way. Take notice of His face, and hearken to His voice, and do not provoke Him, since My name is in the midst of Him. Exodus 23:20-21.

[4] In John,

Father, glorify Your name. A voice came from heaven, I have both glorified it and will glorify it again. John 12:28.

In the same gospel,

I have manifested Your name to the men (homo) whom You gave to Me out of the world. I made known to them Your name, and I will make it known, that the love with which You have loved Me may be in them, and I in them. John 17:6, 26.

From these quotations it is evident that the Lord's Divine Human is Jehovah's name or whole essential nature. Consequently all Divine worship begins in the Divine Human; and the Divine Human is what one is to worship, for by worshipping this one worships the Divine Himself, no thought of whom can otherwise be formed. And if no such thought can be formed, there can be no communion with Him either.

[5] The truth that the Lord's 'name' is everything constituting the faith and love through which He is to be worshipped is still further evident from the following places: In Matthew,

You will be hated by everyone for My name's sake. Matthew 10:22.

In the same gospel,

He who receives one little child like this in My name receives Me. Matthew 18:5.

In the same gospel,

Everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields, for My name's sake, will receive a hundredfold. Matthew 19:29.

In the same gospel,

They shouted, Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord. Matthew 21:9.

In Luke,

Truly I tell you; for you will not see Me until [the time] comes so that you say, Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! Luke 13:35.

In Mark,

Whoever gives you drink from a cup of water in My name because you are Christ's, truly I say to you, he will not lose his reward. Mark 9:41.

In Luke,

The seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are obedient to us in Your name. Jesus said to them, Do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are obedient to you, but rejoice rather that your names have been written in heaven. Luke 10:17, 20.

'Names written in heaven' are not those people's their faith and charity.

[6] Much the same is meant by 'names written in the Apocalypse,

You have a few names also in Sardis, who have not soiled their garments. He who conquers will be clad in white garments and I will not blot his name out of the book of life; and I will confess his name before the Father and before His angels. Revelation 3:4-5.

Like wise in John,

The one entering by the door is the shepherd of the sheep; he calls his own sheep by name. John 10:2-3.

In Exodus,

Jehovah said to Moses, I know you by name. Exodus 33:12, 17.

In John,

Many believed in His name, seeing His signs which He did. John 2:13.

[7] In the same gospel,

He who believes in Him is not judged: but he who does not believe is judged already because he has not be lifted in the name of the only begotten Son of God. John 3:18.

In Isaiah,

They will fear the name of Jehovah from the west. Isaiah 59:19.

In Micah,

All the peoples walk in the name of their God and we will walk in the name of our God. Micah 4:5.

In Moses it says they were to worship Jehovah God in the place which He would choose and in which He would put His name. Deuteronomy 12:5, 11, 14. Similar phrases occur in Isaiah 18:7 and Jeremiah 7:12, and in many other places besides these, such as Isaiah 26:8, 13; 41:25; 43:7; 49:1; 50:10; 52:5; 26:16; Ezekiel 20:14, 44; 36:21-23; Micah 5:4; Malachi 1:11; Deuteronomy 10:8; Revelation 2:17; 3:12; 13:8; 14:11; 15:2; 17:8; 19:12-13, 16; 22:3-4.

[8] The fact that Jehovah's name means everything involved in the worship of Him, thus in the highest sense everything that goes out from the Lord, is clear in the Blessing,

Jehovah bless you and keep you;

Jehovah make His face shine upon you and be merciful to you;

Jehovah lift up His face upon you and give you peace.

So shall they put My name upon the sons of Israel. Numbers 6:23-27.

From all this one may now see what is meant by the following commandment in the Decalogue,

You shall not take the name of your God in vain, for Jehovah will not hold him innocent who has taken His name in vain. Exodus 20:7.

One may likewise see what is meant in the Lord's Prayer by hallowed be Your name, Matthew 6:9.

  
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