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Leviticus 20

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1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

2 And to the sons of Israel thou shalt say, A man, a man from the sons of Israel and from the sojourners who sojourn in Israel, who gives from his seed to Molech, dying he shall be put·​·to·​·death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

3 And I will put My face against that man, and will cut· him ·off from among his people; because he has given of his seed to Molech, in·​·order·​·to defile My sanctuary, and to profane My holy name.

4 And if hiding the people of the land do hide their eyes from that man, when he gives from his seed to Molech, putting· him not ·to·​·death;

5 then I will set My face against that man, and against his family, and will cut· him ·off, and all who commit·​·harlotry after him, to commit·​·harlotry after Molech, from among their people.

6 And the soul who turns· the ·face to mediums, and to soothsayers, to commit·​·harlotry after them, I also will put My face against that soul, and will cut· him ·off from among his people.

7 And sanctify yourselves, and be ye holy; for I am Jehovah your God.

8 And you shall keep My statutes, and do them; I am Jehovah who is sanctifying you.

9 For a man, a man who reviles his father and his mother, dying he shall be made to die; he has reviled his father and his mother; his blood shall be on him.

10 And the man who commits·​·adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits·​·adultery with the wife of his companion, the adulterer and the adulteress dying shall be·​·put·​·to·​·death.

11 And the man who lies with the wife of his father has revealed the nakedness of his father; the two of them dying shall be·​·put·​·to·​·death; their bloods* shall be on them.

12 And a man that lie with his daughter-in-law, the two of them dying shall be put·​·to·​·death; they have done confusion; their bloods shall be on them.

13 And a man that lie with a male as he would lie with a woman, the two of them have done an abomination; dying they shall be put·​·to·​·death; their bloods shall be on them.

14 And when a man takes a woman and her mother, it is a crime; they shall be burnt·​·up with fire, both he and they; and there shall not be crime in your midst.

15 And a man who gives himself to lie with a beast, dying he shall be·​·put·​·to·​·death; and you shall kill the beast.

16 And a woman that comes·​·near to any beast to lie·​·down with it, then thou shalt kill the woman and the beast; dying they shall be put·​·to·​·death; their bloods shall be on them.

17 And a man who takes his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a wicked thing*, and they shall be cut·​·off before the eyes of the sons of their people; he has revealed the nakedness of his sister; he shall bear his iniquity.

18 And a man who lies with a woman with infirmity, and shall reveal her nakedness; he has made·​·naked her issue, and she has revealed the issue of her blood; and the two of them shall be cut·​·off from among their people.

19 And thou shalt not reveal the nakedness of the sister of thy mother, nor the sister of thy father; for he has made·​·naked his own kin; they shall bear their iniquity.

20 And a man who lies with his aunt, he has revealed the nakedness of his uncle; they shall bear their sin; they shall·​·die childless.

21 And a man who takes the wife of his brother, and she is isolated; he has revealed the nakedness of his brother; they shall be childless.

22 And you shall keep all My statutes, and all My judgments, and do them; that the land, whither I bring you to dwell in her, vomit· you not ·out.

23 And you shall not walk in the statutes of the nation that I sent·​·out from before you; for they did all of these things, and I loathed them.

24 But I have said to you, You shall possess their ground, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land that flows with milk and honey; I am Jehovah your God, who distinguished you from other people.

25 And you shall distinguish between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean; and you shall not make your souls be·​·detestable by the beast, or by the fowl, or by any thing that creeps on the ground, which I distinguished for you to be·​·unclean.

26 And you shall be holy to Me; for I, Jehovah, am holy, and distinguished you from other people, that you should be Mine.

27 And a man or a woman that is a medium, or a soothsayer, among them, dying shall be·​·put·​·to·​·death; they shall stone them with stones; their bloods shall be on them.

   


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Man (as in person or human being)

  
Face-towers depicting Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, Bayon-temple in Angkor, Cambodia (late 12th to beginning 13th century), by Manfred Werner

Man" is a tricky word to discuss, because the Hebrew of the Old Testament uses six different words that are generally translated as "man," with shades of meaning that are difficult to express in English. Swedenborg, meanwhile, uses two different words in the original Latin: "vir," which is a singular male person, and "homo," which usually has a meaning akin to "mankind" or "humanity" -- but is sometimes used for a singular male person as well. When used in the sense of "human" or "mankind," the meaning of "man" is based on the fact that the Lord is the perfect, divine human, and is in a way the archetype for our humanity. The Lord is, in His essence, love itself -- perfect, infinite, divine love, which is the source of all life. So in the ultimate sense, "man" represents the Lord's love and goodness. In less exalted uses, it represents the love and goodness that exists in churches, societies, and individual people. That's because the love we have, as individuals and collectively, is a reflection of the Lord's love, and our humanity is a reflection of the Lord's humanity.

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