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Leviticus 19

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1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

2 Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and say to them, You shall be holy; for I, Jehovah, your God am holy.

3 You shall fear a man his mother, and his father, and keep My Sabbaths; I am Jehovah your God.

4 Turn ye not to vain·​·gods, nor make to yourselves molten gods; I am Jehovah your God.

5 And if you sacrifice a sacrifice of peace·​·offerings to Jehovah, you shall sacrifice it at your own good·​·pleasure.

6 It shall be eaten in the day of your sacrifice, and on the morrow; and what remains until the third day, it shall be burnt·​·up in the fire.

7 And if eating it be eaten on the third day, it is an abomination; it shall not be well·​·pleasing.

8 And he who eats it shall bear his iniquity, for he has profaned that which is holy of Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut·​·off from his peoples.

9 And when you harvest the harvest of your land, thou shalt not complete the corners of thy field, and thou shalt not collect all the collecting of thy harvest.

10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou collect every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the afflicted and sojourner; I am Jehovah your God.

11 You shall not steal, and you shall not deceive, and you shall not do·​·falsely, a man with his fellow.

12 And you shall not promise in My name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God; I am Jehovah.

13 Thou shalt not oppress thy companion, neither rob him; the wages for the work of him who is a hireling shall not pass·​·the·​·night with thee until the morning.

14 Thou shalt not revile someone deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God; I am Jehovah.

15 You shall not do perversity in judgment; thou shalt not accept the faces of the poor*, nor honor the faces of the great; but in justice shalt thou judge thy fellow·​·man.

16 Thou shalt not go slandering among thy people; thou shalt not stand against the blood of thy companion: I am Jehovah.

17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart; reproving thou shalt reprove thy fellow·​·man, and not bear a sin against him.

18 Thou shalt not avenge, and thou shalt not bear·​·a·​·grudge against the sons of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself; I am Jehovah.

19 You shall keep My statutes. Thou shalt not breed thy beast with two·​·types together; thou shalt not sow thy field with two·​·types of seed: and a garment of two·​·types of cloth·​·mixed together shall not come·​·up on thee.

20 And if a man lies with a woman, lying·​·down with seed, and she is a handmaid, promised* to a man, and redeeming she has not been redeemed, or freedom has not been given to her, there shall be a seeking·​·out; they shall not be put·​·to·​·death, for she was· not ·free.

21 And he shall bring his guilt offering to Jehovah, to the entrance of the Tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a guilt offering.

22 And the priest shall make·​·atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before Jehovah for his sin which he has sinned; and the sin which he has sinned shall be pardoned him.

23 And when you shall come into the land, and shall have planted all kinds of trees for food, then its fruit shall be uncircumcised as a foreskin; three years shall it be uncircumcised for you: it shall not be eaten.

24 But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy praises to Jehovah.

25 And in the fifth year you shall eat of its fruit, to add to you its increase; I am Jehovah your God.

26 You shall not eat on the blood; you shall not foretell, nor be·​·a·​·wizard.

27 You shall not round·​·off* the corners of your heads, and thou shalt not mar the corners of thy beard.

28 And a laceration for the soul you shall not put in your flesh, and the writing of a tattoo you shall not put on you; I am Jehovah.

29 Do not profane thy daughter, to cause her to·​·commit·​·harlotry; that the land not commit·​·harlotry, and the land become·​·full of crime.

30 You shall keep My Sabbaths, and My sanctuary you shall fear; I am Jehovah.

31 Turn not to mediums, and to soothsayers seek not, to be defiled by them; I am Jehovah your God.

32 Thou shalt rise·​·up before those with gray·​·hairs, and honor the face of the old, and fear thy God; I am Jehovah.

33 And when a sojourner sojourn with thee in your land, you shall not exploit him.

34 But the sojourner who sojourns with you shall be to you as the native among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt; I am Jehovah your God.

35 You shall not do perversity in judgment, in measurement, in weight, or in volume.

36 A just balance, just stones, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall be to you; I am Jehovah your God, who brought· you ·out of the land of Egypt.

37 And you shall keep all My statutes, and all My judgments, and do them; I am Jehovah.

   


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Apocalypse Revealed # 474

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474. Then the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his hand to heaven and swore by Him who lives forever and ever. (10:6; 10:6) This symbolizes an attestation and testification of the Lord on His own authority.

The angel standing on the sea and on the land means the Lord (no. 470). Lifting up the hand to heaven symbolizes an attestation, here that there should be no more time (verse 6). Swearing symbolizes a testification, here that in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel the mystery of God would be concluded (verse 7). He who lives forever and ever means the Lord, as in Revelation 1:18; 4:9-10, and 5:14 above, and in Daniel 4:34. That the Lord swears on His own authority will be seen shortly.

It is apparent from this that the statement, "Then the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his hand to heaven and swore by Him who lives forever and ever," symbolizes an attestation and testification of the Lord on His own authority.

[2] That Jehovah swears or testifies on His own authority is clear from the following passages:

I have sworn by Myself; a word has gone out of My mouth (which) shall not return... (Isaiah 45:23)

I swear by Myself... that this house shall become a desolation. (Jeremiah 22:5)

Jehovah... has sworn by His soul. (Jeremiah 51:14, Amos 6:8)

...Jehovah has sworn by His holiness. (Amos 4:2)

Jehovah has sworn by His right hand and by the arm of His strength. (Isaiah 62:8)

Behold, I have sworn by My great name... (Jeremiah 44:26)

That Jehovah, which is to say, the Lord, swore by Himself or on His own authority means, symbolically, that Divine truth attests; for the Lord is Divine truth itself, and this attests of itself and on its own authority.

In addition to these passages, that Jehovah swore may be seen in Isaiah 14:24; 54:9, Psalms 89:3, 35; 95:11; 110:4; 132:11.

We are told that Jehovah swore because the church established with the children of Israel was a representational church, and the conjunction of the Lord with the church was represented by a covenant, like one made between two parties who swear to their compact. Therefore, because an oath was a part of any covenant, we are told that Jehovah swore. Still, this does not mean that He swore, but that Divine truth attests to something.

[3] That an oath was a part of any covenant is apparent from the following:

I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you, so that you became Mine... (Ezekiel 16:8)

...to remember His covenant, the oath which He swore... (Luke 1:72-73; cf. Psalms 105:9, Jeremiah 11:5; 32:22, Deuteronomy 1:34; 10:11; 11:9, 21; 26:3, 15; 31:20; 34:4)

Because the covenant was representative of the conjunction of the Lord with the church, and reciprocally of the church with the Lord, and because an oath was a part of any covenant and was to be sworn on the ground of the truth in it, being sworn thus also in appeal to that truth, therefore the children of Israel were permitted to swear by Jehovah, and so in appeal to Divine truth (Exodus 20:7, Leviticus 19:12, Deuteronomy 6:13; 10:20, Isaiah 48:1; 65:16, Jeremiah 4:2, Zechariah 5:4).

After the representative constituents of the church were abrogated, however, the Lord also abrogated oaths to covenants (Matthew 5:33-37; 23:16-22).

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.