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Leviticus 26

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1 You shall not make for you vain·​·gods nor a graven image; you shall not raise·​·up a statue; you shall not put stone imagery in your land, to bow·​·down to it; for I am Jehovah your God.

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

3 If you walk in My statutes, and keep My commandments, and do them;

4 then I will give your showers in their time, and the land shall give her produce, and the tree of the field shall give its fruit.

5 And for you the threshing shall overtake the vintage, and the vintage shall overtake the seed time; and you shall eat your bread to satisfaction, and dwell in your land securely.

6 And I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie·​·down, and none shall frighten you; and I will make the evil animal cease from the land, and the sword shall not pass·​·through in your land.

7 And you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

8 And five of you shall pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you shall pursue a myriad; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

9 And I will turn· My ·face to you, and make· you ·fruitful, and multiply you, and raise·​·up My covenant with you.

10 And you shall eat the old which is old*, and bring·​·out the old from before the new.

11 And I will put My Habitation among you; and My soul shall not abhor you.

12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you shall be My people.

13 I am Jehovah your God, who brought· you ·out from the land of Egypt, from being their servants; and I have broken the braces of your yoke, and caused you to go erect.

14 But if you will not hearken to Me, and will not do all these commandments;

15 and if you shall reject My statutes, and if your soul abhor My judgments, that you will not do all My commandments, to make· My covenant ·of·​·none·​·effect,

16 I also will do this to you; and I will visit on you vexation, the consumption, and the fever, that shall consume· the eyes ·completely, and torment of soul; and you shall sow your seed to emptiness, and your enemies shall eat it.

17 And I will put My face against you, and you shall be struck before your enemies; they that hate you shall have·​·dominion over you; and you shall flee and none pursues you.

18 And if you will not as·​·far·​·as these hearken to Me, then I will chastise you seven times again for your sins.

19 And I will break the pride of your strength; and I will put your heavens as iron, and your earth as bronze;

20 and your power shall be finished in emptiness; and your land shall not give her produce, and the tree of the land shall not give its fruit.

21 And if you walk contrary with Me, and are· not ·willing to hearken to Me; then I will add upon you seven smitings according·​·to your sins.

22 And I will send wild·​·animals of the field among you, and they shall bereave you, and shall cut·​·off your beasts, and make· you ·few; and your ways shall be·​·desolate.

23 And if you will not be instructed by Me by these things, but will walk contrary to Me;

24 and I will also walk contrary to you, and I will smite you yet seven times for your sins.

25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the vengeance of My covenant; and when you are gathered·​·together into your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and you shall be given into the hand of the enemy.

26 When I have broken the rod of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall return you your bread by weight; and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.

27 And if you will not in this hearken to Me, but walk contrary to Me;

28 then I will walk contrary to you also in fury; and I, yea, I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

29 And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters you shall eat.

30 And I will blot·​·out your high·​·places, and cut·​·off your sun·​·statues, and put your corpses upon the corpses of your idols, and My soul shall abhor you.

31 And I will put your cities as a waste, and I will desolate your sanctuaries, and I will not smell the restful smell of your offerings.

32 And I will desolate the land; and your enemies upon her who dwell in her shall be·​·desolate.

33 And I will disperse you among the nations, and will unsheathe a sword after you; and your land shall be desolate, and your cities shall be a waste.

34 Then shall the land be·​·well·​·pleased in her Sabbaths, all the days of her desolation, and you are in the land of your enemies; then shall the land rest, and be well·​·pleased in her Sabbaths.

35 All the days it is·​·desolate it shall rest; that it did not rest in your Sabbaths, when you dwelt upon it.

36 And upon them that are left among you I will bring dismay* into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the voice of a leaf blown·​·away shall pursue them; and they shall flee as·​·if fleeing a sword; and they shall fall and none pursues.

37 And they shall stumble, a man upon his brother, as·​·it·​·were before a sword, and none pursues; and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies

38 And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat· you ·up.

39 And they who are left among you shall waste·​·away in their iniquity in the lands of your enemies; and yea, in the iniquities of their fathers shall they waste·​·away with them.

40 And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against Me, and that also they have walked contrary to Me;

41 and that I also have gone contrary to them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then are·​·well·​·pleasing of the punishment of their iniquity;

42 and I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

43 And the land shall be forsaken of them, and shall be·​·well·​·pleased with her Sabbaths, when she is·​·desolated from them. And they shall be·​·well·​·pleased with their iniquity; because, even because, they rejected My judgments, and their soul abhorred My statutes.

44 And yea, for even this, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, and I will not abhor them to consume· them ·all, to make· My covenant with them ·of·​·none·​·effect; for I am Jehovah their God.

45 But I will remember for them the covenant of the first ones, whom I brought·​·out from the land of Egypt in the eyes of the nations, to be to them their God; I am Jehovah.

46 These are the statutes and judgments and laws which Jehovah gave, between Him and the sons of Israel in Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 8972

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8972. Verse 1 And these are the judgements which you shall set before them means those more external truths such as must exist in a civic state where the Church is representative, which flow from the internal truths belonging to order in heaven. The fact that these things are meant by 'the judgements that were to be set before the children of Israel' is clear from the meaning of 'judgements' as truths, dealt with in 2235, 6397, 7206, 8685, 8695. The reason why 'judgements' are truths is that all judgement is effected by means of truths; therefore 'executing judgement' in the Word means executing truth, that is, judging in accordance with truths. But the plural 'judgements' means civil laws, thus those more external truths such as exist in a civic state. The words 'where the Church is representative' are added because these truths contain and embody within themselves the truths that belong to order in heaven, as may be recognized from the internal sense of them.

[2] The laws which the Lord delivered to the children of Israel and commanded them to keep were divided into commandments, judgements, and statutes. The term 'commandments' was given to those which were laws of life, 'judgements' to those which were laws of the civic state, and 'statutes' to those which were laws of worship. As regards judgements specifically, they are the kinds of laws that are contained in the present chapter and also some that follow. They served as laws in a Church in which inner realities, those of heaven and of the Church, were represented by outward things; but they do not serve as laws in a Church in which inner realities are no longer represented by outward things, as in the Christian Church. The reason for this is that inner realities have been revealed to people of this Church, and therefore inner realities are the channel through which contact is made with heaven, not outward things, as had been the situation before the Christian Church. Here is the reason why members of the Christian Church are not bound to adhere to the outward requirements of the laws called judgements and statutes, only to the inward ones. Holiness still remains within them because they hold holy truths within them, as also does every single command in the Word regarding the sacrifices. Although these are no longer prescriptive laws they remain holy constituents of the Word because of the Divine realities which they hold within themselves and which they represented. For when they are read by a Christian the Divine realities which are held within them and which were represented by them are discerned in heaven. They fill the angels with holiness, and at the same time the reader too through influx from the angels, especially if the reader himself is thinking at the same time about the Divine realities within them. From this it is evident that even the Old Testament Word is extremely holy.

[3] The fact that the laws which the Lord delivered to the children of Israel and commanded them to keep were divided into commandments that were laws of life, judgements that were laws of the civic state, and statutes that were laws of worship, is evident in Moses,

Jehovah said to Moses, Go, say to them, Go back into your tents. But you, stand here with Me, that I may tell you all the commandments, and statutes, and judgements which you shall teach them, so that they may do them. Deuteronomy 5:30-31.

In the same author,

Furthermore these are the commandments, statutes, and judgements which Jehovah your God commanded to teach you. Deuteronomy 6:1.

In the same author,

Therefore you shall keep the commandments and the statutes and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them. Deuteronomy 7:11.

In David,

If his sons forsake My law and do not walk in My judgements, if they profane My statutes and do not keep My commandments, I will visit their transgression with the rod. Psalms 89:30-32.

[4] Furthermore all the laws, in that they were those of a representative Church, were generally called judgements and statutes, as in Moses,

Now therefore, O Israel, hear the statutes and the judgements which I will teach you, that you may do them. What great nation [is there] that has righteous statutes and judgements, like all this law which I will set before you today? Deuteronomy 4:1, 8; 5:1.

In Ezekiel.

Jerusalem has changed My judgements into wickedness more than the nations, and My statutes more than the lands that are around her; for they have repudiated My judgements, and have not walked in My statutes. Ezekiel 5:6-7.

In the same prophet,

Let him 1 walk in My statutes and keep My judgements - to do the truth. Ezekiel 18:9.

In addition to these there are many other places, such as Leviticus 18:5; 19:37; 20:22; 25:18; 26:15; Deuteronomy 26:17; Ezekiel 11:12, 20; 20:11, 13, 25; 37:24.

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Ezekiel 20:13

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13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they didn't walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.