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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.

   


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1071. That 'he drank wine' means that he wished to probe into matters of faith is clear from the meaning of 'wine'. 'A vineyard' or 'a vine', as has been shown, is the spiritual Church, or member of the spiritual Church. The grape, clusters, and bunches are its fruit, and these mean charity and what belongs to charity. Wine however means faith deriving from charity, and all things that belong to faith. Thus 'grape means the celestial aspect of that Church, and 'wine' the spiritual. The celestial, as often stated already, comprises the will, while the spiritual comprises the understanding. That 'he drank of the wine' means that he wished to probe into matters of faith, and to do so indeed by means of reasonings, is clear from the reason given why 'he was drunk', that is, sank into errors. Indeed the member of this Church did not possess any perception at all as the member of the Most Ancient Church had done. Instead he had to acquire knowledge of what good and truth were by learning about them from doctrinal matters concerning faith which had been gathered together and preserved from the perception that had existed in the Most Ancient Church. And these matters of doctrine constituted the Word of the Ancient Church. As with the Word, doctrinal matters concerning faith were in many instances such that, without perception, they could not be believed; for spiritual and celestial things infinitely transcend human comprehension, and this is why reasoning enters in. But the person who refuses to believe those things until he comprehends them is never able to believe, as often shown already. See what appears in 128, 130, 195, 196, 215, 232, 233.

[2] That 'grapes in the Word means charity and what belongs to charity, and that 'wine' means both faith deriving from charity and also matters of faith, becomes clear from the following places: In Isaiah,

My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. 1 He looked for it to yield grapes, and it yielded wild grapes. Isaiah 5:1-2, 4.

Here 'grapes' stands for charity and the fruits of charity. In Jeremiah,

I will surely gather them, says Jehovah; there will be no grapes on the vine nor figs on the fig tree. Jer, 8:13.

'Vine' stands for the spiritual Church, 'grapes' for charity. In Hosea,

Like grapes in the wilderness I found Israel, like the first fruit on the fig tree, in the beginning, I saw your fathers. Hosea 9:10.

'Israel' stands for the Ancient Church, 'grape' for the fact that they were endowed with charity. These words are used in the contrary sense when 'Israel' stands for the sons of Jacob. In Micah,

There was no cluster to eat; my soul desired the first fruit. The holy man has perished from the earth, and there is none upright among men. Micah 7:1-2.

'Cluster' stands for charity or that which is holy, 'first fruit' for faith or that which is upright.

[3] In Isaiah,

Thus said Jehovah, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it. Isaiah 65:8.

'Cluster' stands for charity, 'new wine' for goods that stem from charity, and truths deriving from these. In Moses,

He washes his clothing in wine, and His garment in the blood of grapes. Genesis 49:11.

This is a prophecy concerning the Lord. 'Wine' stands for that which is spiritual deriving from what is celestial, 'blood of grapes' for the celestial in respect to spiritual Churches. So 'grapes' stands for charity itself, 'wine' for faith itself. In John,

The angel said, Put in your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the earth, for its grapes have ripened. Revelation 14:18.

This refers to the last times when there is no faith, that is, when there is no charity. For no faith exists other than that which inheres in charity, and in essence is charity itself. Consequently when it is said that there is no longer any faith, as in the last times, it means that there is no charity.

[4] As 'grapes' means charity, so 'wine' means faith deriving from charity, for wine is obtained from grapes. In addition to these and previous quotations concerning the vineyard and the vine, the following also make the point clear: In Isaiah,

Gladness and exaltation have been taken away from Carmel, and in the vineyards there is no singing, no joyful noise. No treader treads out wine in the presses; I have made the hedad 2 to cease. Isaiah 16:10.

This stands for the fact that the spiritual Church, meant by 'Carmel', has been vastated, 'none treading wine in the presses' for the fact that no longer are there any people who possess faith. In the same prophet,

The inhabitants of the earth will be scorched and few men left. The new wine will mourn, the vine will languish; they will not drink wine with singing, strong drink will be bitter to those drinking it; there will be an outcry in the streets over wine. Isaiah 24:6-7, 9, 11.

The vastated spiritual Church being the subject, 'wine' stands for truths of faith that are considered valueless. In Jeremiah,

They will say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they faint like one who has been run through in the streets of the city. Lamentations 2:12.

'Where is corn and wine?' means, Where is love and faith? 'Streets of the city' means truths here, as elsewhere in the Word. 'Those who have been run through in them' means that they do not know what the truths of faith are.

[5] In Amos,

I will bring again the captivity of My people Israel, and they will build the ruined cities and inhabit them. And they will plant vineyards and drink their wine. Amos 9:14.

This refers to the spiritual Church, meant by Israel, to which 'planting vineyards and drinking wine' is attributed when it becomes a Church such as derives faith from charity. In Zephaniah,

They will build houses but not inhabit them, and they will plant vineyards but not drink their wine. Zephaniah 1:13; Amos 5:11.

Here 'vineyard' and 'wine' stand for the contrary situation when the spiritual Church has been vastated. In Zechariah,

They will be like a mighty man of Ephraim, and their heart will rejoice as from wine, and their sons will see it and rejoice. Zechariah 10:7.

This refers to the house of Judah, that it would be such by virtue of the goods and truths of faith. In John the command not to do harm to oil and wine, Revelation 6:6, stands for doing no harm to what is celestial and spiritual, that is, to things of love and faith.

[6] In the Jewish Church, since 'wine' meant faith in the Lord, the libation of wine in the sacrifices also represented faith, as in Numbers 15:1-15; 28:11-15, 18-end; Numbers 29:7-end; Leviticus 23:12-13; Exodus 29:40. Hence the following is said in Hosea,

Threshing-floor and winepress will not feed them, and new wine will be deceptive in her. They will not dwell in Jehovah's land, but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and in Assyria they will eat what is unclean: They will not pour libations of wine to Jehovah, they will not be pleasing to Him. Hosea 9:1-4.

This refers to Israel, or the spiritual Church, and to those people in it who pervert and defile holy things and the truths of faith by wishing to probe into them by means of knowledge and reasonings. 'Egypt' is knowledge, 'Assyria' reasoning, and 'Ephraim' one who engages in reasoning.

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1. literally, on a horn of a son of oil

2. A Hebrew word which is a shout of exaltation.

  
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