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1 Wenn eine SeeLE sündigen würde, daß er einen Fluch höret, und er des Zeuge ist, oder gesehen oder erfahren hat und nicht angesagt, der ist einer Missetat schuldig.

2 Oder wenn eine SeeLE etwas Unreines anrühret, es sei ein Aas eines unreinen Tieres oder Viehes oder Gewürmes, und wüßte es nicht, der ist unrein und hat sich verschuldet.

3 Oder wenn er einen unreinen Menschen anrühret, in waserlei Unreinigkeit der Mensch unrein werden kann, und wüßte es nicht, und wird's inne, der hat sich verschuldet.

4 Oder wenn eine SeeLE schwöret, daß ihm aus dem Munde entfähret, Schaden oder Gutes zu tun (wie denn einem Menschen ein Schwur entfahren mag, ehe er's bedacht), und wird's inne, der hat sich an der einem verschuldet.

5 Wenn es nun geschiehet, daß er sich der eines verschuldet und erkennet sich, daß er daran gesündigt hat,

6 so soll er für seine Schuld dieser seiner Sünde, die er getan hat, dem HERRN bringen von der Herde eine Schaf oder Ziegenmutter zum Sündopfer; so soll ihm der Priester seine Sünde versöhnen.

7 Vermag er aber nicht ein Schaf, so bringe er dem HERRN für seine Schuld, die er getan hat, zwo Turteltauben oder zwo junge Tauben, die erste zum Sündopfer, die andere zum Brandopfer.

8 Und bringe sie dem Priester. Der soll die erste zum Sündopfer machen und ihr den Kopf abkneipen hinter dem Genick, und nicht abbrechen.

9 Und sprenge mit dem Blut des Sündopfers an die Seite des Altars und lasse das übrige Blut ausbluten an des Altars Boden. Das ist das Sündopfer.

10 Die andere aber soll er zum Brandopfer machen nach seinem Recht. Und soll also der Priester ihm seine Sünde versöhnen, die er getan hat; so wird's ihm vergeben.

11 Vermag er aber nicht zwo Turteltauben oder zwo junge Tauben, so bringe er für seine Sünde sein Opfer, einen zehnten Teil Epha Semmelmehl zum Sündopfer. Er soll aber kein Öl drauf legen noch Weihrauch drauf tun: denn es ist ein Sündopfer.

12 Und soll's zum Priester bringen. Der Priester aber soll eine Handvoll davon nehmen zum Gedächtnis und anzünden auf dem Altar zum Feuer dem HERRN. Das ist ein Sündopfer.

13 Und der Priester soll also seine Sünde, die er getan hat, ihm versöhnen, so wird's ihm vergeben. Und soll des Priesters sein, wie ein Speisopfer.

14 Und der HERR redete mit Mose und sprach:

15 Wenn sich eine SeeLE vergreift, daß sie es versiehet, und sich versündiget an dem, das dem HERRN geweihet ist, soll sie ihr Schuldopfer dem HERRN bringen, einen Widder ohne Wandel von der Herde, der zween Sekel Silbers wert sei nach dem Sekel des Heiligtums, zum Schuldopfer.

16 Dazu, was er gesündiget hat an dem Geweiheten, soll er wiedergeben und das fünfte Teil darüber geben, und soll's dem Priester geben; der soll ihn versöhnen mit dem Widder des Schuldopfers, so wird's ihm vergeben.

17 Wenn eine SeeLE sündiget und tut wider irgend ein Gebot des HERRN, das sie nicht tun sollte, und hat es nicht gewußt, die hat sich verschuldet und ist einer Missetat schuldig.

18 Und soll bringen einen Widder von der Herde ohne Wandel, der eines Schuldopfers wert ist, zum Priester; der soll ihm seine Unwissenheit versöhnen, die er getan hat und wußte es nicht; so wird's ihm vergeben.

19 Das ist das Schuldopfer, das er dem HERRN verfallen ist.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 4748

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4748. 'And their camels carrying spices, and resin' and stacte' means interior natural truths. This is clear from the general meaning of 'camels' as things belonging to the natural man which serve the spiritual, and from their specific meaning as general facts within the natural man, dealt with in 3048, 3071, 3114, 3143, 3145, 4156; and from the meaning of 'spices, resin, and stacte' as interior natural truths joined to the good there, which are dealt with below. Among the ancients, sweet smelling and fragrant substances were used in their sacred worship; from these substances they obtained their frankincense and incense, similar substances being mixed with oil for their anointings. But no one today knows why those fragrances were used, for the reason that no knowledge at all exists of the fact that all aspects of the worship of the ancients had their origin in the spiritual and celestial things existing in heaven, or that those aspects of it corresponded to these. Mankind has been removing itself so far from spiritual and celestial things, immersing itself in natural, worldly, and bodily ones, that it lives in obscurity, many people having a negative attitude of mind to the existence of anything spiritual or celestial.

[2] The reason frankincense and incense were used among the ancients in sacred acts of worship is that 'odour' corresponds to perception, and 'a fragrant odour' - like that of the aromas which various kinds of spices have - to a pleasing and acceptable perception, as is the perception of truth derived from good, or of faith from charity. Indeed the correspondence of one to the other is such that, as often as it pleases the Lord, actual perceptions in the next life are converted into odours. Regarding these, see what has already been told from experience in 925, 1514, 1517-1519, 3577, 4624-4634. What specifically is meant here by 'spices, resin, and stacte' may be seen from other places where these three are mentioned. In general they mean interior truths within the natural, but those truths which are derived from the good there; for truths do not on their own constitute the natural, but good does by means of truths. Consequently variations exist, conditioned by what the truth joined to the good is like and therefore by what the good is like, since the particular nature of the good depends on what the truths are like.

[3] 'Gilead' means exterior good like that belonging to the senses, called pleasure, 4117, 4124, while 'Egypt' in the good sense means facts, which are the external truths of the natural man that correspond to, that is, are in accord with, that good, 1462. Therefore the reference to Ishmaelites from Gilead bringing down those aromatic commodities on camels to Egypt means bringing their own interior truths, based on their own facts, to the facts meant by 'Egypt', which matters are dealt with below. Interior truths are conclusions based on exterior truths, that is, on facts; for the facts belonging to the natural man are the means that enable conclusions to be drawn about interior truths and thereby to identify them, just as a person identifies another's state of mind in his facial expressions and in the twinkling of light in his eyes, as well as in his tone of voice and his gestures.

[4] Because such truths are the means by which a person's natural is made more perfect and also receives correction, healing is therefore associated with spices of this kind - with resin, for example, in Jeremiah,

Is there no balsamic resin in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why has not the healing of the daughter of my people arisen? Jeremiah 8:22.

In the same prophet,

Go up to Gilead to take resin, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you have multiplied medicaments; there is no healing for you. Jeremiah 46:11.

In the same prophet,

Suddenly Babel has fallen and been broken; wail over her! Take resin for her pain; perhaps she will be healed. Jeremiah 51:8.

[5] Wares similar to this mean spiritual things, as is quite evident in John,

The merchants of the earth will weep and will mourn over Babel, that nobody buys their wares any longer, wares of gold and silver, and precious stones, and pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel made of most precious wood, and bronze, and iron, and marble, and cinnamon, and incense, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and draught-cattle, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and the bodies and souls of people. Revelation 18:11-13.

These wares would never have been listed in this specific manner if each and all had not meant the kinds of things that exist in the Lord's kingdom and in His Church. Otherwise they would have been words that had no real meaning. It is well known that 'Babel' means those who turn all worship of the Lord into worship of themselves, so that profanity exists inwardly while outwardly they are doing what is holy. This being so, 'their wares' means the things which, for the sake of worship of themselves, they themselves have invented enthusiastically and skillfully, as well as doctrinal teachings and ideas of good and truth from the Word which they have twisted to suit themselves. Thus the individual wares mentioned in these verses mean specific features of their invention, 'cinnamon, incense, ointment, and frankincense' meaning truths that are derived from good, but with those people perverted truths and falsities that are the products of evil.

[6] Something similar may be seen in what is recorded in Ezekiel regarding the wares of Tyre,

Judah and the land of Israel, they were your traders. Wheat of minnith and pannag, and honey, and oil, and resin, they exchanged for your trading. Ezekiel 27:17.

Here also 'resin' means truth derived from good. To one who has no belief in the internal sense of the Word all these expressions will be mere words and so vessels with nothing in them, when in fact they hold Divine, celestial, and spiritual things within them.

  
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