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4 Mose 6

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1 Und der HERR redete mit Mose und sprach:

2 Sage den Kindern Israel und sprich zu ihnen: Wenn ein Mann oder Weib ein sonderlich Gelübde tut dem HERRN, sich zu enthalten,

3 der soll sich Weins und starken Getränks enthalten, Weinessig oder starken Getränks Essig soll er auch nicht trinken, auch nichts, das aus Weinbeeren gemacht wird; er soll weder frische noch dürre Weinbeeren essen,

4 solange solch sein Gelübde währet; auch soll er nichts essen, das man vom Weinstock macht, weder Weinkern noch Hülsen.

5 Solange die Zeit solches seines Gelübdes währet, soll kein Schermesser über sein Haupt fahren, bis daß die Zeit aus sei, die er dem HERRN gelobet hat; denn er ist heilig und soll das Haar auf seinem Haupt lassen frei wachsen.

6 Die ganze Zeit über, die er dem HERRN gelobet hat, soll er zu keinem Toten gehen.

7 Er soll sich auch nicht verunreinigen an dem Tod seines Vaters, seiner Mutter, seines Bruders oder seiner Schwester; denn das Gelübde seines Gottes ist auf seinem Haupt.

8 Und die ganze Zeit über seines Gelübdes soll er dem HERRN heilig sein.

9 Und wo jemand vor ihm unversehens plötzlich stirbt, da wird das Haupt seines Gelübdes verunreiniget; darum soll er sein Haupt bescheren am Tage seiner Reinigung, das ist, am siebenten Tage.

10 Und am achten Tage soll er zwo Turteltauben bringen, oder zwo junge Tauben, zum Priester vor die Tür der Hütte des Stifts.

11 Und der Priester soll eine zum Sündopfer und die andere zum Brandopfer machen und ihn versöhnen, daß er sich an einem Toten versündiget hat, und also sein Haupt desselben Tages heiligen,

12 daß er dem HERRN die Zeit seines Gelübdes aushalte. Und soll ein jährig Lamm bringen zum Schuldopfer. Aber die vorigen Tage sollen umsonst sein, darum daß sein Gelübde verunreiniget ist.

13 Dies ist das Gesetz des Verlobten: Wenn die Zeit seines Gelübdes aus ist, so soll man ihn bringen vor die Tür der Hütte des Stifts.

14 Und er soll bringen sein Opfer dem HERRN, ein jährig Lamm ohne Wandel zum Brandopfer und ein jährig Schaf ohne Wandel zum Sündopfer und einen Widder ohne Wandel zum Dankopfer

15 und einen Korb mit ungesäuerten Kuchen von Semmelmehl, mit Öl gemenget, und ungesäuerte Fladen, mit Öl bestrichen, und ihre Speisopfer und Trankopfer.

16 Und der Priester soll's vor den HERRN bringen und soll sein Sündopfer und sein Brandopfer machen.

17 Und den Widder soll er zum Dankopfer machen dem HERRN samt dem Korbe mit dem ungesäuerten Brot; und soll auch sein Speisopfer und sein Trankopfer machen.

18 Und soll dem Verlobten das Haupt seines Gelübdes bescheren vor der Tür der Hütte des Stifts; und soll das Haupthaar seines Gelübdes nehmen und aufs Feuer werfen, das unter dem Dankopfer ist.

19 Und soll den gekochten Bug nehmen von dem Widder und einen ungesäuerten Kuchen aus dem Korbe und einen ungesäuerten Fladen und soll's dem Verlobten auf seine Hände legen, nachdem er sein Gelübde abgeschoren hat,

20 und soll's vor dem HERRN weben. Das ist heilig dem Priester samt der Webebrust und der Hebeschulter. Danach mag der Verlobte Wein trinken.

21 Das ist das Gesetz des Verlobten, der sein Opfer dem HERRN gelobet, von wegen seines Gelübdes, außer dem, was er sonst vermag; wie er gelobet hat, soll er tun nach dem Gesetz seines Gelübdes.

22 Und der HERR redete mit Mose und sprach:

23 Sage Aaron und seinen Söhnen und sprich: Also sollt ihr sagen zu den Kindern Israel, wenn ihr sie segnet:

24 Der HERR segne dich und behüte dich!

25 Der HERR lasse sein Angesicht leuchten über dir und sei dir gnädig!

26 Der HERR hebe sein Angesicht über dich und gebe dir Frieden!

27 Denn ihr sollt meinen Namen auf die Kinder Israel legen, daß ich sie segne.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 2187

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2187. 'And they ate' means communication in this manner. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'eating' as being communicated, and also being joined together, as is also evident from the Word. The injunction that Aaron, and his sons the Levites, and also the people were to eat the consecrated elements of the sacrifices in a holy place meant nothing other than the communication, conjunction, and making one's own, as stated above in 2177, at the point where Leviticus 6:16-17, is referred to. For it was celestial and spiritual food that was meant by the consecrated elements, and thus making that food their own by eating those elements. These consecrated elements were those parts of the sacrifices which were not burned on the altar but were eaten either by the priests or by the people who brought the offering, as becomes clear from very many places where the sacrifices are the subject. The consecrated elements that were to be eaten by the priests are referred to in Exodus 29:32-33; Leviticus 6:16, 26; 7:6, 15-16, 18; 8:31; 10:12-13; Numbers 18:9-11; and those to be eaten by the people, in Leviticus 19:5-6; Deuteronomy 12:27; 27:7; and elsewhere. And that those who were unclean were not to eat of them is referred to in Leviticus 7:19-21; 22:4-7. These ritual feasts took place in a holy place near the altar, either at the gate or in the court outside the tent. And they meant nothing else than the communication, conjunction, and making of celestial goods one's own, for those feasts represented celestial food. For what celestial food is, see 56-58, 680, 681, 1480, 1695. And all those consecrated elements were called 'bread', for the meaning of which see above in 2165. Something similar was represented by Aaron and his sons eating the loaves of the presence, or the shewbread, in a holy place, Leviticus 24:9.

[2] The reason for the law given to the Nazirite that during the days of his Naziriteship he was forbidden to eat anything that is produced from the grape - from which wine is made - from pips even to skin, Numbers 6:4, is that the Nazirite represented the celestial man, and the celestial man is such as is not willing even to mention spiritual things, see Volume One, in 202, 337, 880 (end), 1647. And because 'wine' and 'the grape', and also whatever came from the grape, meant that which is spiritual, the Nazirite was therefore forbidden to eat of them, that is, to have any communication with spiritual things, to join himself to them, or to make them his own.

[3] Something similar is meant by 'eating' in Isaiah,

Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters, and he who has no money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend money on that which is not bread, and your labour on that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to Me and eat what is good, and your soul will delight itself in fatness. Isaiah 55:1-2.

And also what is said in John,

To him who conquers I will grant to eat from the tree of life which is in the middle of the Paradise of God. Revelation 2:7.

'The tree of life' is the celestial itself, and in the highest sense it is the Lord Himself since He is the source of everything celestial, that is, of all love and charity. Thus 'eating from the tree of life' is the same as feeding on the Lord; and 'feeding on the Lord' is being endowed with love and charity, thus with those things that belong to heavenly life, as the Lord Himself declares in John,

I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread he will live for ever. He who feeds on Me will live through Me. John 6:51, 57. But they said, This is a hard saying. Jesus said however, The words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life. John 6:60, 63.

From this it is evident what is meant by 'eating' in the Holy Supper, Matthew 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-23; Luke 22:19-20 - having communication, being joined together, and making one's own.

[4] From this it is also plain what is meant by the Lord's statement that

Many will come from the east and from the west and will recline with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Matthew 8:11.

The Lord did not mean that they were going to feast with these three in the kingdom of God but that they were to enjoy the celestial goods meant by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. That is to say, they were to enjoy the inmost celestial goods of love, meant by -Abraham'; also a lower type of goods, which are intermediate, as those are which belong to the rational, meant by 'Isaac'; and a still lower type of goods which are celestial-natural, such as occur in the first heaven, meant by 'Jacob'. These are the things which constitute the internal sense of these words. That such things are meant by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, see 1893, and wherever else they are the subject. For whether one speaks of enjoying those celestial things, or whether one speaks of enjoying the Lord, whom they represent, it amounts to the same since the Lord is the source of all those things, and the Lord is their All in all.

  
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Genesis 18

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1 Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

2 He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,

3 and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don't go away from your servant.

4 Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

5 I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant." They said, "Very well, do as you have said."

6 Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly prepare three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."

7 Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.

8 He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

9 They asked him, "Where is Sarah, your wife?" He said, "See, in the tent."

10 He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

12 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"

13 Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'

14 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."

15 Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."

16 The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.

17 Yahweh said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do,

18 since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."

20 Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

21 I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know."

22 The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.

23 Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

24 What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?

25 Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"

26 Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake."

27 Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.

28 What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."

29 He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?" He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake."

30 He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?" He said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."

31 He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake."

32 He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."

33 Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.