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5 Mózes 16

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1 Ügyelj az Abib hónapra, és készíts az Úrnak, a te Istenednek páskhát; mert az Abib hónapban hozott ki téged az Úr, a te Istened Égyiptomból éjjel.

2 Páskha gyanánt pedig ölj az Úrnak, a te Istenednek juhot és ökröt azon a helyen, a melyet kiválaszt az Úr, a te Istened, hogy oda helyezze az õ nevét.

3 Ne egyél azzal semmi kovászost, [hanem] hét napon át egyél azzal kovásztalan lepényeket, nyomorúságnak kenyerét, (mert sietséggel jöttél ki Égyiptom földérõl) hogy megemlékezzél arról a napról életednek minden idejében, a melyen kijöttél Égyiptom földérõl.

4 És ne lásson senki kovászt hét napon át sehol a te határodban; és a húsból, a melyet az elsõ napon estve megáldozol, semmi ne maradjon reggelig.

5 Nem ölheted le a páskhát akármelyikben a te városaid közül, a melyeket az Úr, a te Istened ád néked;

6 Hanem azon a helyen, a melyet kiválaszt az Úr, a te Istened, hogy az õ nevét oda helyezze: ott öld le a páskhát estve, napnyugtakor, abban az idõben, a mikor kijöttél Égyiptomból.

7 Azon a helyen süsd és edd is meg, a melyet kiválaszt az Úr, a te Istened; reggel pedig fordulj vissza és menj haza a te hajlékodba.

8 Hat napon át egyél kovásztalant; hetednapon pedig az Úrnak, a te Istenednek berekesztõ ünnepe lévén, ne munkálkodjál [azon.]

9 Számlálj [azután] magadnak hét hetet; attól fogva kezdjed számlálni a hét hetet, hogy sarlódat a vetésbe bocsátod.

10 És tarts hetek ünnepét az Úrnak, a te Istenednek, a te kezednek szabad akarat szerint való adományával, a melyet ahhoz képest adj, a mint megáldott téged az Úr, a te Istened.

11 És örvendezz az Úrnak, a te Istenednek színe elõtt, te és a te fiad, és leányod, szolgád, szolgálóleányod, és a lévita, a ki a te kapuidon belõl van, és a jövevény, az árva és az özvegy, a kik te közötted vannak, azon a helyen, a melyet kiválasztott az Úr, a te Istened, hogy oda helyezze az õ nevét.

12 És emlékezzél meg róla, hogy te [is] szolga voltál Égyiptomban; és tartsd meg, és teljesítsd e rendeléseket.

13 A sátorok ünnepét hét napig tartsd, mikor begyûjtöd [a termést] a te szérûdrõl és sajtódról.

14 És örvendezz a te ünnepeden, te és a te fiad, a te leányod, szolgád és szolgálóleányod, a lévita, a jövevény, az árva és az özvegy, a kik belõl vannak a te kapuidon.

15 Hét napig ünnepelj az Úrnak, a te Istenednek azon a helyen, a melyet kiválaszt az Úr; mert megáld téged az Úr, a te Istened minden termésedben, és kezeidnek minden munkájában; azért örvendezz igen!

16 Minden esztendõben háromszor jelenjen meg közüled minden férfiú az Úrnak, a te Istenednek színe elõtt azon a helyen, a melyet kiválaszt; a kovásztalan kenyerek ünnepén, a hetek ünnepén, és a sátorok ünnepén. De üres kézzel senki se jelenjen meg az Úr elõtt!

17 Kiki az õ képessége szerint [adjon,] az Úrnak, a te Istenednek áldása szerint, a melyet ád néked.

18 Bírákat és felügyelõket állíts minden kapudba, a melyeket az Úr, a te Istened ád néked, a te törzseid szerint, hogy ítéljék a népet igaz ítélettel.

19 El ne fordítsd az itéletet; személyt se válogass; ajándékot se végy; mert az ajándék megvakítja a bölcsek szemeit, és elfordítja az igazak beszédét.

20 Igazságot, igazságot kövess, hogy élhess, és örökségül bírhasd azt a földet, a melyet az Úr, a te Istened ád néked.

21 Ne plántálj magadnak berket semmiféle fából, az Úrnak, a te Istenednek oltára mellé, a melyet készítesz magadnak.

22 Oszlopot se emelj magadnak, a mit gyûlöl az Úr, a te Istened.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 661

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661. And shall send gifts one to another, signifies their consociation. This is evident from the signification of "to send gifts," as being to be consociated by love and friendship through good will; for gifts from such an affection and disposition bring together both the well-disposed as well as the ill-disposed; here those are meant who are opposed to the goods of love and the truths of doctrine, which are signified by "the two witnesses" who were killed and cast forth into the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt. It is to be known that to the ill-disposed and wicked nothing is more delightful than to destroy the goods of love and the truths of doctrine wherever they are, and to do evil to those with whom these are; for such burn with hatred against these; consequently from the hell where such are there continually breathes forth a deadly hatred against celestial love and spiritual faith, and therefore against heaven, and especially against the Lord Himself; and as often as they are permitted to do evil they are in the delight of their heart. Such is the brutal nature of those who are in hell.

This, therefore, is what is meant by "they shall rejoice over them and shall be glad." Moreover, the wicked enter into friendships and consociate themselves for doing harm to the well disposed; they are consociated by the delight of hatred, which is the delight of their love; this makes them appear as if friends in heart, when yet they are enemies. This, therefore, is the signification of "shall send gifts one to another."

[2] Because gifts captivate the mind and consociate, it was a custom in ancient times to give gifts to the priest and the prophet, as also to the prince and the king, when they were approached (1 Samuel 9:7, 8); and it was also a statute:

That they should not appear empty (that is, without a gift) before Jehovah, but in their feasts everyone should bring a gift according as he had been blessed (Exodus 23:15; 34:20; Deuteronomy 16:16, 17).

So too:

The wise men from the east brought gifts to the Lord just born, gold, frankincense, and myrrh (Matthew 2:11);

according to the prediction in David (Psalms 72:10). So again:

The oblations upon the altar, which were sacrifices, and also the meal offerings and drink-offerings, were called gifts (Isaiah 18:7; 57:6; 66:20; Zephaniah 3:10; Matthew 5:23, 24; and elsewhere);

and this because external gifts signified internal or spiritual gifts, namely, such as go forth from the heart, and thence are of the affection and faith; and as by these conjunction is effected, in the spiritual sense "gifts" in reference to God signify conjunction, and in reference to men consociation.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for their permission to use this translation.

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Exodus 23

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1 "You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

2 "You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;

3 neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.

4 "If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.

5 If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don't leave him, you shall surely help him with it.

6 "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

7 "Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

8 "You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

9 "You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

10 "For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase,

11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

12 "Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.

13 "Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don't invoke the name of other gods, neither let them be heard out of your mouth.

14 "You shall observe a feast to me three times a year.

15 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out from Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty.

16 And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field: and the feast of harvest, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.

17 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.

18 "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning.

19 The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of Yahweh your God. "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

20 "Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

21 Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don't provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.

22 But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.

23 For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.

24 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.

25 You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst.

26 No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

27 I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

28 I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.

29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you.

30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land.

31 I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

32 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you."