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Levitico 24

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1 L’Eterno parlò ancora a Mosè dicendo:

2 "Ordina ai figliuoli d’Israele che ti portino dell’olio di uliva puro, vergine, per il candelabro, per tener le lampade continuamente accese.

3 Aaronne lo preparerà nella tenda di convegno, fuori del velo che sta davanti alla testimonianza, perché le lampade ardano del continuo, dalla sera al mattino, davanti all’Eterno. E’ una legge perpetua, di generazione in generazione.

4 Egli le disporrà sul candelabro d’oro puro, perché ardano del continuo davanti all’Eterno.

5 Prenderai pure del fior di farina, e ne farai cuocere dodici focacce; ogni focaccia sarà di due decimi d’efa.

6 Le metterai in due file, sei per fila, sulla tavola d’oro puro davanti all’Eterno.

7 E porrai dell’incenso puro sopra ogni fila, e sarà sul pane come una ricordanza, come un sacrifizio fatto mediante il fuoco all’Eterno.

8 Ogni giorno di sabato si disporranno i pani davanti all’Eterno, del continuo; saranno forniti dai figliuoli d’Israele; è un patto perpetuo.

9 I pani apparterranno ad Aaronne e ai suoi figliuoli, ed essi li mangeranno in luogo santo; poiché saranno per loro cosa santissima tra i sacrifizi fatti mediante il fuoco all’Eterno. E’ una legge perpetua".

10 Or il figliuolo di una donna israelita e di un Egiziano uscì tra i figliuoli d’Israele; e fra questo figliuolo della donna israelita e un Israelita nacque una lite.

11 Il figliuolo della Israelita bestemmiò il nome dell’Eterno, e lo maledisse; onde fu condotto a Mosè. La madre di quel tale si chiamava Shelomith figliuola di Dibri, della tribù di Dan.

12 Lo misero in prigione, finché fosse deciso che cosa fare per ordine dell’Eterno.

13 E l’Eterno parlò a Mosè dicendo:

14 "Mena quel bestemmiatore fuori del campo; e tutti quelli che l’hanno udito posino le mani sul suo capo, e tutta la raunanza lo lapidi.

15 E parla ai figliuoli d’Israele, e di’ loro: Chiunque maledirà il suo Dio porterà la pena del suo peccato.

16 E chi bestemmia il nome dell’Eterno dovrà esser messo a morte; tutta la raunanza lo dovrà lapidare. Sia straniero o nativo del paese, quando bestemmi il nome dell’Eterno, sarà messo a morte.

17 Chi percuote mortalmente un uomo qualsivoglia, dovrà esser messo a morte.

18 Chi percuote a morte un capo di bestiame, lo pagherà: vita per vita.

19 Quand’uno avrà fatto una lesione al suo prossimo, gli sarà fatto com’egli ha fatto:

20 frattura per frattura, occhio per occhio, dente per dente; gli si farà la stessa lesione ch’egli ha fatta all’altro.

21 Chi uccide un capo di bestiame, lo pagherà; ma chi uccide un uomo sarà messo a morte.

22 Avrete una stessa legge tanto per il forestiero quanto per il nativo del paese; poiché io sono l’Eterno, l’Iddio vostro".

23 E Mosè parlò ai figliuoli d’Israele, i quali trassero quel bestemmiatore fuori del campo, e lo lapidarono. Così i figliuoli d’Israele fecero quello che l’Eterno aveva ordinato a Mosè.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9938

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9938. 'Which the children of Israel shall sanctify, even in all their gifts of holy things' means acts of worship representative of removal from sins. This is clear from the meaning of 'gifts' - or presents, which among the Israelite and Jewish nation were primarily burnt offerings, sacrifices, and minchahs - as the inner realities of acts of worship; for those realities were represented by these acts. The inner realities of worship are the fruits of love and faith; they are therefore pardonings of sins, that is, removals from them, since faith and love are the means by which the Lord moves sins away. For in the measure that the good of love and faith comes in, or what amounts to the same thing, heaven comes in, sins are removed, that is, hell is removed - the hell within the person as well as the hell outside him. From this it is evident what should be understood by the gifts which they made holy, that is, offered. The gifts were called holy, and giving or offering them was called sanctifying them, because they represented holy realities. For they were offered to expiate people, thus to remove them from their sins, which is accomplished by means of faith in and love to the Lord received from the Lord.

[2] Gifts and presents were said to be made to Jehovah, though Jehovah, that is, the Lord, is not the receiver of gifts or presents, but the giver of them, freely to everyone. Even so, His will is that they should come from a person as though they did so from that person himself, provided the person acknowledges that they do not actually come from him but from the Lord. For the Lord imparts a desire to do good because he loves it, and a desire to speak the truth because he believes it. The actual desire flows in from the Lord, yet appears to be inherent in the person and so to flow from the person. For whatever a person does out of love and desire for it, he does from his life, love being what composes anyone's life. From this it is evident that the things that are called gifts and presents made to the Lord by a person are essentially gifts and presents made to a person by the Lord, and that they are called gifts and presents on account of what they appear to be. All who are wise at heart recognize this appearance, but not so the simple. Yet their gifts and presents are acceptable, so far as they are made in ignorance that has innocence within it. Innocence is the good of love to God, and dwells within ignorance, especially with the wise at heart. Those who are wise at heart know, indeed perceive, that nothing whatever of the wisdom within themselves originates in themselves, but that the all of wisdom is attributable to the Lord, that is, the all of the good of love and the all of the truth of faith are attributable to Him, and that for this reason even with the wise innocence dwells in ignorance. From this it is evident that the acknowledgement of this matter, and especially the perception of it, constitutes the innocence of wisdom.

[3] The gifts offered in the Jewish Church, which were primarily burnt offerings, sacrifices, and minchahs, were also spoken of as offerings made for the expiations of sins; for they were offered for the sake of being pardoned from sins, that is, being removed from them. Those who belonged to that Church also thought that sins were pardoned, indeed completely taken away, by means of these offerings; for it is said of people who have offered them that they will be pardoned, see Leviticus 4:26, 31, 35; 5:6, 10, 13, 16, 18; 6:7; 9:7; 15:15, 30. But they were unaware of the fact that their gifts represented more internal things, thus the kinds of things that are done by a person from love and faith received from the Lord; that these are what expiate, that is, remove sins; and that when they have been removed they appear to have been completely removed or banished, as has been shown above in the present paragraph and the one before it. The worship of that nation was representative, and so was external devoid of anything internal; and it was by means of this worship that heaven was joined to mankind, in those times, see the places referred to in 9320 (end), 9380.

  
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Exodus 21

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1 "Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.

2 "If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

3 If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.

4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

5 But if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;'

6 then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.

7 "If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.

8 If she doesn't please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.

9 If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter.

10 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.

11 If he doesn't do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

12 "One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

13 but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.

14 If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

15 "Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

16 "Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

17 "Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

18 "If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but is confined to bed;

19 if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.

20 "If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

21 Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.

22 "If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman's husband demands and the judges allow.

23 But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,

24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

25 burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.

26 "If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

27 If he strikes out his male servant's tooth, or his female servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

28 "If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible.

29 But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.

30 If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him.

31 Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.

32 If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

33 "If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn't cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,

34 the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.

35 "If one man's bull injures another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal.

36 Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.