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Numbers 15

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1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

2 Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When you have come to the land of your dwellings, which I give to you,

3 and will make a fire·​·offering to Jehovah, a burnt·​·offering or a sacrifice, for a special vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn·​·occasions, to make a restful smell to Jehovah, from the herd, or from the flock;

4 then he who offers his offering to Jehovah shall offer a gift·​·offering of a tenth of flour mixed with the fourth of a hin of oil.

5 And the fourth part of a hin of wine for a poured·​·offering shalt thou make with the burnt·​·offering or sacrifice, for one lamb.

6 Or for a ram, thou shalt make for a gift·​·offering two tenths of flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil.

7 And for a poured·​·offering thou shalt offer a third of a hin of wine, for a restful smell to Jehovah.

8 And when thou makest the young of the herd for a burnt·​·offering, or for a sacrifice to make·​·a·​·special vow, or for peace·​·offerings to Jehovah,

9 then he shall offer upon a son of the herd a gift·​·offering of three tenths of flour mixed with half a hin of oil.

10 And thou shalt offer for a poured·​·offering half a hin of wine, a fire·​·offering, a restful smell to Jehovah.

11 In·​·this·​·manner shall it be done for one ox, or for one ram, or for an animal·​·of·​·the·​·flock among the lambs or among the goats.

12 According·​·to the number that you shall make, so you shall make for every one according·​·to their number.

13 Every native of the country shall do these things in·​·this·​·manner, to offer a fire·​·offering, a restful smell to Jehovah.

14 And when a sojourner sojourn with you, or whoever be in your midst for your generations, and will make a fire·​·offering, a restful smell to Jehovah, as you do, so he shall do.

15 One statute shall be for you of the assembly, and also for the sojourner who sojourns with you, an eternal statute for your generations; as you are, so shall the sojourner be before Jehovah.

16 One law and One judgment shall be for you, and for the sojourner who sojourns with you.

17 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

18 Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When you come into the land whither I bring you,

19 then it shall be, that, when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall lift·​·up an uplifting to Jehovah.

20 You shall lift·​·up a cake of the first of your dough for an uplifting; as you do the uplifting of the threshing·​·floor, so you shall lift· it ·up.

21 From the first of your dough you shall give to Jehovah an uplifting for your generations.

22 And if you have erred, and not done all these commandments, which Jehovah has spoken to Moses,

23 Even all that Jehovah has commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that Jehovah commanded it, and beyond unto your generations;

24 then it shall be, if anything be done by ignorance away from the eyes of the congregation, that all the congregation shall make one bullock, a son of the herd, for a burnt·​·offering, for a restful smell to Jehovah, with its gift·​·offering, and its poured·​·offering, according·​·to the judgment, and one male goat of the goats for a sin offering.

25 And the priest shall make·​·atonement for all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and it shall be pardoned them; for it is ignorance; and they shall bring their offering, a fire·​·offering to Jehovah, and their sin offering before Jehovah, for their ignorance,

26 and it shall be pardoned to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and the sojourner who sojourns among them; because all the people were in ignorance.

27 And if a certain soul sin by ignorance, then he shall offer a she-goat, a daughter of a year for a sin offering.

28 And the priest shall make·​·atonement for the soul who sins being·​·ignorant, when he sins in ignorance before Jehovah, to make·​·atonement for him; and it shall be pardoned to him.

29 You shall have one law for him who does something by ignorance, for the native among the sons of Israel, and for the sojourner who sojourns in their midst.

30 But the soul who does anything with a high hand, from the native and from the sojourner, he blasphemes Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut·​·off from among his people.

31 Because he despises the word of Jehovah, and has made· His commandment ·of·​·none·​·effect, that soul being cut·​·off shall be cut·​·off; her iniquity shall be upon her.

32 And the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, and they found a man gathering·​·up wood on the Sabbath day.

33 And they who found him gathering·​·up wood offered him to Moses and unto Aaron, and to all the congregation.

34 And they placed him under guard, for it was not made·​·clear what should be done to him.

35 And Jehovah said to Moses, Dying the man shall be made to die; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.

36 And all the congregation brought· him ·out to outside the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

37 And Jehovah said to Moses, saying,

38 Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them that they make for themselves fringes on the wings of their garments unto their generations, and that they put on the fringe of the wing a strand of blue;

39 and it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may see it, and remember all the commandments of Jehovah, and do them; and that you explore not after your own heart and after your own eyes, after which you committed·​·harlotry;

40 so·​·that you may remember, and do all My commandments, and be holy to your God.

41 I am Jehovah your God, who brought· you ·out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; I am Jehovah your God.

   


Thanks to the Kempton Project for the permission to use this New Church translation of the Word.

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Apocalypse Revealed # 242

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242. The second living creature like a calf. This symbolizes the Divine truth of the Word in respect to its affection.

Beasts of the earth symbolize various natural affections. They are also embodiments of them. And a calf symbolizes an affection for knowing. This affection is represented by a calf in the spiritual world, and in the Word it is consequently also symbolized by a calf, as in Hosea,

...we repay (to Jehovah) the calves of our lips. (Hosea 14:2)

"Calves of the lips" are confessions from an affection for truth.

In Malachi:

To you who fear My name the sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in its wings... that you may grow fat like fattened calves. (Malachi 4:2)

A comparison is made with fattened calves because they symbolize people who are filled with concepts of truth and goodness owing to an affection for knowing them.

In the book of Psalms:

The voice of Jehovah... makes (the cedars of Lebanon) dance like a calf... (Psalms 29:5, 6)

The cedars of Lebanon symbolize concepts of truth. That is why the passage says that the voice of Jehovah makes them dance like a calf. The voice of Jehovah is Divine truth, in the process here of affecting.

[2] Since the Egyptians loved knowledge, they therefore made themselves calves as a sign of their affection for it. But after they began to worship the calves as deities, then calves in the Word symbolized affections for knowing falsities, as in Jeremiah 46:20-21). Therefore we are told in Hosea:

...they have made for themselves a molten image... of their silver... Sacrificing a human being, they kiss the calves. (Hosea 13:2)

To make for oneself a molten image of silver means, symbolically, to falsify truth. To sacrifice a human being means, symbolically, to destroy wisdom. And to kiss calves means, symbolically, to accept falsities out of an affection for them.

In Isaiah:

There the calf will feed; there it will lie down and consume its branches. (Isaiah 27:10)

The same is symbolically meant by the calf in Jeremiah 34:18-20.

[3] Since all Divine worship springs from affections for truth and goodness and so for concepts of them, therefore the sacrifices in which the worship of the church primarily consisted among the children of Israel used various animals, such as lambs, she-goats, kids, sheep, he-goats, calves, and oxen; and calves were used because they symbolized an affection for knowing truths and goods, which is the first natural affection. This affection was symbolically meant by the sacrifices of calves in Exodus 29:11-12, 1 1 Samuel 1:25; 16:2, 1 Kings 18:23-26, 33.

The second living creature looked like a calf because the Divine truth of the Word, which it symbolizes, affects hearts, and so teaches and instills.

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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.