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Leviticus 23

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1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

2 Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, Concerning the appointed·​·festivals of Jehovah, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these, they are My appointed·​·festivals.

3 Six days shall work* be done; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Sabbath*, a holy convocation; you shall not do any work in it: it is the Sabbath of Jehovah in all your dwellings.

4 These are the appointed·​·festivals of Jehovah, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their seasons.

5 In the fourteenth day of the first month between the two·​·evenings* is the Passover of Jehovah.

6 And on the fifteenth day of this month is the festival of unleavened bread to Jehovah; seven days you will eat unleavened bread.

7 In the first day there shall be a holy convocation; you shall not do any work of service in it.

8 But you shall offer a fire·​·offering to Jehovah seven days; in the seventh day is a holy convocation: you shall not do any work of service in it.

9 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

10 Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When you come into the land which I give to you, and shall harvest its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.

11 and he shall wave the sheaf before Jehovah, to be good·​·pleasure for you; on the morrow after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.

12 And you shall make, on the day when you wave the sheaf, a perfect lamb, the son of its year, for a burnt·​·offering to Jehovah.

13 And its gift·​·offering shall be two tenths of flour mixed with oil, a fire·​·offering to Jehovah for a restful smell; and its poured·​·offering shall be of wine, the fourth of a hin.

14 And bread and parched·​·grain and fresh·​·grain you shall not eat, until this same day, until you have brought an offering to your God; it shall be an eternal statute for your generations in all your dwellings.

15 And you shall number to you from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be finished;

16 even·​·to the morrow after the seventh Sabbath you shall number fifty days; and you shall offer a new gift·​·offering to Jehovah.

17 You shall bring from your dwellings two wave breads; they shall be of two tenths of flour, baked with leaven, the firstfruits to Jehovah.

18 And you shall offer on the bread seven perfect lambs, the sons of a year, and one bullock, the young of the herd, and two rams; they shall be for a burnt·​·offering to Jehovah, and their gift·​·offering, and their poured·​·offerings, even a fire·​·offering, a restful smell to Jehovah.

19 And you shall make one male goat of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs, sons of a year, for a sacrifice of peace·​·offerings.

20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before Jehovah, with the two lambs; they shall be holy to Jehovah for the priest.

21 And you shall proclaim on this same day, that it is a holy convocation to you; you shall not do any work of service in it; it shall be an eternal statute in all your dwellings for your generations.

22 And when you harvest the harvest of your land, thou shalt not complete the corners of thy field when thou harvestest, and thou shalt not collect all the collecting of thy harvest; thou shalt forsake them for the afflicted and for the sojourner; I am Jehovah your God.

23 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

24 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first of the month, you shall have a Sabbath, a memorial, a blast of trumpets, a holy convocation.

25 You shall not do any work of service in it; but you shall offer a fire·​·offering to Jehovah.

26 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

27 Surely on the tenth of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonements; it shall be a holy convocation to you; and you shall afflict your souls, and offer a fire·​·offering to Jehovah.

28 And you shall not do any work in this same day; for it is a day of atonements, to make·​·atonement for you before Jehovah your God.

29 For every soul that shall not be afflicted in this same day, he shall be cut·​·off from his people.

30 And every soul that does any work in this same day, I will make· that soul ·perish from among his people.

31 You shall not do any work; it shall be an eternal statute for your generations in all your dwellings.

32 It shall be to you a Sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict your souls. In the ninth of the month in the evening, from evening to evening, you shall rest on your Sabbath.

33 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

34 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the festival of shelters* for seven days to Jehovah.

35 On the first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall not do any work of service in it.

36 seven days you shall offer a fire·​·offering to Jehovah; on the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you; and you shall offer a fire·​·offering to Jehovah: it is a day of restraint; you shall not do any work of service.

37 These are the solemn·​·occasions of Jehovah, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer a fire·​·offering to Jehovah, a burnt·​·offering, and a gift·​·offering, a sacrifice, and poured·​·offerings, every thing in its day;

38 apart from the Sabbaths of Jehovah, and apart from your gifts, and apart from all your vows, and apart from all your freewill offerings, which you give to Jehovah.

39 Only on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the increase of the land, you shall celebrate a festival to Jehovah seven days; on the first day shall be a Sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a Sabbath.

40 And you shall take for yourself on the first day the fruits of the trees of honor, palms of palm·​·trees, and the boughs of intertwined trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall be·​·glad before Jehovah your God seven days.

41 And you shall celebrate it, a festival to Jehovah seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for eternity in your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

42 You shall dwell in shelters seven days; every native in Israel shall dwell in shelters;

43 so·​·that your generations may·​·know that I made the sons of Israel to dwell in shelters, when I brought· them ·out of the land of Egypt; I am Jehovah your God.

44 And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel concerning the appointed·​·festivals of Jehovah.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 5212

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5212. 'And behold, seven heads of grain were coming up on one stalk' means facts known to the natural, which facts existed linked together. This is clear from the meaning of 'heads' or 'tips' as facts known to the natural, dealt with below, and from the meaning of 'on one stalk' as existing linked together, for all present on one stalk are linked together by their common origin. The reason facts are meant by 'heads' or 'tips' is that 'grain' means the good of the natural, 3580; for facts are the containers of natural good, just as heads are of grain. In general all truths are vessels for containing good; and so too are facts since these are truths of the lowest order. Truths of the lowest order, that is, the truths belonging to the exterior natural, are called known facts because they reside in a person's natural or external memory. They are also called such because for the most part they are dependent on the light of the world and can for that reason be presented and represented to others by the use of words, that is, by the use of ideas put into words that draw on things such as belong to the world and the light of the world. The contents of the interior memory however are not called facts but truths since these are dependent on the light of heaven. Without the aid of that light they are unintelligible, and without the use of words, that is, of ideas put into words that draw on things such as belong to heaven and the light of heaven they are inexpressible. The facts meant here by 'heads' or 'tips' are ones that are known to the Church, regarding which see 4749, 4844, 4964, 4965.

[2] The reason there were two dreams, one about seven cows, the other about seven heads of grain, was that in the internal sense both parts of the natural are dealt with, the interior natural and the exterior natural, the rebirth of the two being the subject in what follows. By 'the seven cows' are meant things in the interior natural which have been called the truths belonging to the natural, 5198; by 'the seven heads of grain' are meant the truths in the exterior natural, which are called facts.

[3] Interior facts and exterior ones are meant by 'the tips of the river Euphrates even to the river of Egypt' in Isaiah,

So it will be on that day, that Jehovah will smite from the tip of the river even to the river of Egypt, and you will be gathered one to another, O children of Israel. So it will be on that day, that a great trumpet will be blown, and they will come - those who are perishing in the land of Asshur, and those who are outcasts in the land of Egypt - and they will bow themselves down to Jehovah on the holy mountain, in Jerusalem. Isaiah 27:12-13.

'Those perishing in the land of Asshur' stands for interior truths, and 'the outcasts in the land of Egypt' for exterior truths, which are facts.

[4] Comparison with the blade, the tip or the ear, and the full grain also implies the rebirth of a person by means of factual knowledge, the truths of faith, and the good deeds of charity, in Mark,

Jesus said, The kingdom of God is like when someone casts seed onto the land. Then he sleeps and rises, by night and by day, but the seed sprouts and grows, he himself knowing not how; for the earth bears fruit of its own accord, first the blade, then the ear, after that the full grain in the ear. Once the fruit has been brought forth, he will immediately put in the sickle, because the harvest is established. Mark 4:26-29.

'The kingdom of God', which is compared to the blade, the ear, and the full grain, is heaven existing with a person through regeneration; for one who has been regenerated has the kingdom of God within him and he becomes an image of the kingdom of God, that is, of heaven. 'The blade' is factual knowledge, which comes first; 'the ear' is knowledge of what is true that develops out of that; and 'the full grain' is the good that develops out of this. In addition the laws laid down regarding gleanings, Leviticus 19:9; 23:22; regarding the freedom to pluck the ears on a companion's standing grain, Deuteronomy 23:25; and also regarding the non-eating of bread or of dried ears or of green ones before they had brought a gift to God, Leviticus 23:14, represented such things as are meant by 'ears'.

  
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