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Leviticus 7

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1 And this is the law of the guilt offering; it is a holy of holies.

2 In the place where they slaughter the burnt·​·offering shall they slaughter the guilt offering; and its blood shall he sprinkle on the altar all around.

3 And he shall offer from it all its fat; the tail, and the fat covering the inwards,

4 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is on the entrails, and the caul on the liver, on the kidneys, it he shall remove;

5 and the priest shall burn· them ·for·​·incense on the altar for a fire·​·offering to Jehovah; it is a guilt offering.

6 Every male among the priests shall eat of it; it shall be eaten in a holy place: it is a holy of holies.

7 As is the sin offering, so is the guilt offering; there is one law for them: the priest who makes·​·atonement with it shall have it.

8 And the priest who offers a burnt·​·offering for a man, that priest shall have for himself the skin of the burnt·​·offering which he has offered.

9 And all the gift·​·offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is made in the cooking·​·pot, and on the griddle, shall be for the priest offering it.

10 And every gift·​·offering, mixed with oil, and dry, is for all the sons of Aaron, a man as his brother.

11 And this is the law of the sacrifice of the peace·​·offerings, which he shall offer to Jehovah.

12 If he offer it for a confession, then he shall offer upon the sacrifice of confession unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mixed with oil, of bubbled flour.

13 On the cakes, he shall offer his offering of leavened bread upon the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace·​·offerings.

14 And from it he shall offer one from all the offering an uplifting to Jehovah, it shall be for the priest sprinkling the blood of the peace·​·offerings.

15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace·​·offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten in the day of his offering; he shall not let· any of it ·stay until morning.

16 But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten in the day that he offers his sacrifice; and on the morrow even the remainder of it shall be eaten:

17 but the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt·​·up with fire.

18 And if eating there shall be eaten any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace·​·offerings on the third day, it shall not be well·​·pleasing, it shall not be reckoned to him who offers it; it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eats of it shall bear her iniquity.

19 And the flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt·​·up with fire; and the flesh, all that be clean shall eat the flesh.

20 But the soul that eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace·​·offerings, that pertain to Jehovah, having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut·​·off from his people.

21 And the soul that shall touch any uncleanness, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean beast, or any detestable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace·​·offerings, which is for Jehovah, even that soul shall be cut·​·off from his people.

22 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

23 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, You shall eat not any fat of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.

24 And the fat of the carcass, and the fat of that which is torn, may be made use of for any other use; but eating you shall not eat it.

25 For any eating the fat of the beast, of which they offer a fire·​·offering to Jehovah, then the soul who eats it shall be cut·​·off from his peoples.

26 And you shall not eat any blood, of the fowl or of the beast, in any of your dwellings.

27 Any soul who eats any blood, even that soul shall be cut·​·off from his peoples.

28 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

29 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, He who offers the sacrifice of his peace·​·offerings to Jehovah shall bring his offering to Jehovah of the sacrifice of his peace·​·offerings.

30 Let his own hands bring the fire·​·offerings of Jehovah, the fat upon the chest portion, he shall bring it with the chest portion, to wave it as a wave offering before Jehovah.

31 And the priest shall burn· the fat ·for·​·incense on the altar; but the chest portion shall be for Aaron and for his sons.

32 And the right hind·​·quarter you shall give to the priest for an uplifting from the sacrifices of your peace·​·offerings.

33 He among the sons of Aaron, who offers the blood of the peace·​·offerings, and the fat, shall have the right hind·​·quarter for his portion.

34 For I have taken the chest portion of the waving and the hind·​·quarter of the uplifting from the sons of Israel from the sacrifices of their peace·​·offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons from the sons of Israel, for an eternal statute.

35 This is the anointing of Aaron, and the anointing of his sons, from the fire·​·offerings of Jehovah, in the day he offered them to be·​·priests to Jehovah;

36 which Jehovah commanded to give them from among the sons of Israel, in the day He anointed them, it is an eternal statute for their generations.

37 This is the law of the burnt·​·offering, of the gift·​·offering, and of the sin offering, and of the guilt offering, and of the infillings, and of the sacrifice of the peace·​·offerings;

38 which Jehovah commanded Moses in Mount Sinai, in the day that He commanded the sons of Israel to offer their offerings to Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 9936

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9936. 'And it shall be on Aaron's forehead' means from the Lord's Divine Love. This is clear from the representation of 'Aaron' as the Lord in respect of Divine Good, which is the Good of His Divine Love, dealt with in 9806; and from the meaning of 'forehead', when the Lord is the subject, as His Divine Love. 'The Lord's face', which is the same as 'Jehovah's face', means all attributes of Divine Love, such as mercy, peace, goodness, or wisdom, 222, 223, 5585, 6848, 6849, 9306, 9545, 9546. These are meant by 'Jehovah's face' or 'the Lord's face' because in general 'the face' means a person's interiors, that is, a person's affections and consequent thoughts, thus the things which constitute his love and faith, see the places referred to in 9546. These are meant by 'the face' because they shine from the face, as if seen in their imprint or image, which also is why the face is called the image of the mind. So it is that when 'face' is mentioned in connection with Jehovah or the Lord the attributes of His Divine Love are meant. 'Forehead' in particular means Divine Love itself, because interiors have been allotted their own provinces in the face. The interiors that belong to love reside in the province of the forehead, those belonging to wisdom and intelligence in the province of the eyes, those belonging to perception in the province of the nose, and those belonging to utterance in the province of the mouth.

[2] From all this it is evident why 'forehead' - when the Lord, represented by Aaron, is the subject - means Divine Love. Since someone's forehead corresponds to his love those governed by celestial love, that is, by love to the Lord derived from the Lord, are said 'to have a sign on their foreheads', meaning that they are under the Lord's protection because they abide in His Love, as in Ezekiel,

Jehovah said, Go through the middle of Jerusalem and make a sign on the foreheads of the men (vir) who groan and sigh over all the abominations done in the midst of it, and strike; do not let your eye spare. But against any man (vir) on whom there is a sign do not go near. Ezekiel 9:4-6.

In John, in the Book of Revelation,

Behold, a Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him a hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Father's name written on their foreheads. Revelation 14:1.

In the same book,

They will see the face of God and of the Lamb, and His name will be on their foreheads. Revelation 22:4.

In the same book,

It was declared that they should not harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only the people who did not have God's sign on their foreheads. Revelation 9:4.

[3] 'Having God's sign on their foreheads' and 'having God and the Lamb's name on them' stand for their being kept safe from molestation by evils from hell, because they abide in the Lord through love. 'The grass' and 'any green thing', which were not to be harmed, stand for true factual knowledge by means of which the truth of faith develops, 7571, 7691; and 'any tree', which too was not to be harmed, stands for the perception of truth springing from good, 103, 2163, 2722, 2972, 4552, 7692.

[4] In Moses,

You shall love Jehovah your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength. You shall bind these words as a sign onto your hand, and let them be as frontlets between your eyes. Deuteronomy 6:4-5, 8.

'As frontlets' stands for as a sign of love to Jehovah God. The words 'between your eyes' are used because intelligence and wisdom which are born from that love are meant by 'eyes'; and wisdom born from that love consists in having God constantly before one's eyes. This is self-evidently so because the subject is love to Jehovah God. The declaration that they should love Him with all their heart, with all their soul, and with all their strength, means that they should do so with all their human powers. 'With the heart' means with the will where the good of love resides, 7542, 9050, 9300, 9495; and 'with the soul' means with the understanding where the truth of faith resides, and so with faith, 9050. These two powers belong to the internal man. 'With all their strength' means with those powers of will and understanding as they exist in the external man. The strength and power of the love of both, of the external man and of the internal, are meant by 'hands', 4931-4937, 7518; and this is why it says that those words were to be bound 'as a sign on the hand'.

[5] Since 'the forehead' by virtue of its correspondence means celestial or heavenly love with those who are good, with those who are bad it accordingly means hellish love, which is the opposite of heavenly. The forehead of the latter is called a bronze forehead in Isaiah 48:4, and an obstinate forehead in Ezekiel 3:7-8. And in reference to those ruled by hellish love it is said that they had the mark of the beast on their foreheads, Revelation 13:16; 14:9; 20:4, and also the name of Babylon on their foreheads, Revelation 17:5.

  
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