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Numbers 6

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1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

2 Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When a man or woman shall vow the special vow of a Nazarite, to be·​·a·​·Nazarite to Jehovah;

3 he shall separate himself from wine and strong·​·drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, nor vinegar of strong·​·drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes, nor dry.

4 All the days of his Nazariteship, from all that is made from the vine of the wine, from the pulp even to the skin, he shall not eat.

5 All the days of the vow of his being·​·a·​·Nazarite a razor shall not go·​·across over his head; until the days be·​·fulfilled, in which he makes· himself ·a·​·Nazarite to Jehovah, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head become·​·great.

6 All the days that he makes· himself ·a·​·Nazarite to Jehovah he shall come upon no dead soul.

7 For his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, he shall not make· himself ·unclean for them when they die; for Nazariteship of his God is upon his head.

8 All the days of his being·​·a·​·Nazarite he is holy to Jehovah.

9 And if someone die, dying by him all of·​·a·​·sudden, suddenly, and he has defiled the head of his Nazariteship, then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, in the seventh day shall he shave it.

10 And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves, or two young doves, to the priest, to the entrance of the Tabernacle of the congregation;

11 and the priest shall make one for a sin offering, and one for a burnt·​·offering, and make·​·atonement for him, for that which he sinned by the soul, and shall sanctify his head in that day.

12 And he shall make· himself ·a·​·Nazarite to Jehovah the days of his being·​·a·​·Nazarite, and shall bring a lamb, a son of a year for a guilt offering; but the first days shall fall, for his Nazariteship was defiled.

13 And this is the law of the Nazarite, in the day the days of his Nazariteship are·​·fulfilled; he shall be brought to the entrance of the Tabernacle of the congregation.

14 And he shall offer his offering to Jehovah, a he-lamb, a son of his year, a perfect one, for a burnt·​·offering, and one ewe-lamb, a daughter of her year, perfect, for a sin offering, and one perfect ram for peace·​·offerings,

15 and a basket of unleavened flour, cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their gift·​·offering, and their poured·​·offerings.

16 And the priest shall offer them before Jehovah, and shall make his sin offering, and his burnt·​·offering;

17 and he shall make the ram for a sacrifice of peace·​·offerings to Jehovah, on the basket of unleavened bread; and the priest shall make his gift·​·offering and his poured·​·offering.

18 And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his Nazariteship at the entrance of the Tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his Nazariteship, and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace·​·offerings.

19 And the priest shall take the cooked arm of the ram, and one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the palms of the Nazarite, after the hair of his Nazariteship is shaven.

20 And the priest shall wave them for a waving before Jehovah; it is holy for the priest, on the chest portion of the waving and upon the hind·​·quarter of the uplifting; and afterwards the Nazarite may drink wine.

21 This is the law of the Nazarite who has vowed, and of his offering to Jehovah for his being·​·a·​·Nazarite, apart from what his hand shall attain; as the mouth of the vow which he vowed, so he shall do on·​·account·​·of the law of his being·​·a·​·Nazarite.

22 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

23 Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, Thus you shall bless the sons of Israel, saying to them,

24 Jehovah bless thee, and keep thee;

25 Jehovah make His face to give·​·light to thee, and be·​·gracious·​·to thee;

26 Jehovah lift·​·up His face to thee, and set for thee peace.

27 And they shall set My name on the sons of Israel; and I will bless them.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 9306

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9306. 'Take notice of his face' means holy fear. This is clear from the meaning of 'taking notice of the face', when it has reference to the Lord, whom 'the angel' is used to mean to here, as fearing that He may be angry on account of evils, or provoked on account of transgressions, as below; and fearing these things is holy fear. Regarding this fear, see 2826, 3718, 3719, 5459, 5534, 7280, 7788, 8816, 8925. The words 'taking notice of his face' are used because 'the face' means the interior things that constitute a person's life, thus his thought and affection, and in particular his faith and love. The reason for this is that the face has been fashioned so that it can produce an image of a person's interiors. It has been so fashioned to the end that those things which belong to the internal man may appear within the external, thus to the end that those things which belong to the spiritual world can be visualized in the natural world and so have an effect on one's neighbour. It is well known that the face presents visually, or as if in a mirror, what a person thinks and loves. This is so with honest people's faces, and especially with angels' faces, see 1999, 2434, 3527, 3573, 4066, 4326, 4796-4799, 5102, 5695, 6604, 8248-8250. For this reason 'face' in the original language is a general term that is used to describe the feelings a person has which reveal themselves, such as those of indulgence, favour, goodwill, helpfulness, or kindness, and also lack of pity, anger, or vengeance. So it is that in that language when this word is coupled with another it means beside, with, in front of, on account of, or else against, thus whatever is within, from, for, or against the person himself. For as has been stated, 'the face' is a person's true self, or that present within a person which reveals itself.

[2] All this enables one to know what is meant by the face of Jehovah, or 'the face of the angel', who in this instance is the Lord in respect of His Divine Human - namely the Divine Good of Divine Love, and the Divine Truth emanating from that Divine Good, since these reside within Jehovah or the Lord, come from Him, indeed are Himself, see 222, 223, 5585. From this it is evident what 'the face of Jehovah' means in the Blessing,

Jehovah make His face shine upon you and be merciful to you. Jehovah lift up His face upon you and give you peace. Numbers 6:25-26.

In David,

God be merciful to us and bless us and make His face shine upon us. Psalms 67:1.

The like may be seen in Psalms 80:3, 7, 19; 119:134-135; Daniel 9:17; and in other places.

[3] So it is that the Lord's Divine Human is called 'the angel of Jehovah's face' in Isaiah,

I will cause the mercies of Jehovah to be remembered. He has rewarded 1 them according to His mercies, and according to the abundance of His mercies; and He became their Saviour. And the angel of His face saved them; in His love and in His pity He redeemed them. Isaiah 63:7-9.

The reason why the Lord's Divine Human is called 'the angel of Jehovah's face' is that the Divine Human is the Divine Himself facially, that is, in outward form, as also the Lord teaches in John,

If you know Me you know My Father also, and from now on you know Him and have seen Him. Philip said, Show us the Father. Jesus said to him, Have I been with you so long, and yet you do not know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father. I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me. John 14:7-11.

[4] 'Jehovah's (or the Lord's) face' also means anger, vengeance, punishment, and ill. It does so because simple people, in accepting the general idea that all things come from God, believe that even ill, especially the misery of punishment, comes from Him. For this reason - in keeping with that general idea, and also with appearances - anger, vengeance, punishment, or ill is attributed to Jehovah the Lord, when in fact the Lord is not the source of them but man. Regarding this, see 1861, 2447, 5798, 6071, 6832, 6991, 6997, 7533, 7632, 7877, 7926, 8197, 8227, 8228, 8282, 8483, 8632, 8875, 9128. This kind of meaning appears here in 'take notice of his face, lest you provoke him, for he will not bear your transgression', and also in Leviticus,

Whoever eats any blood, I will set My face against the soul eating blood and will cut him off from among his people. Leviticus 17:10.

In Jeremiah,

I have set My face against the city for ill and not for good. Jeremiah 21:10.

And in David,

Jehovah's face is against evildoers, to cut off the memory of them from the earth. Psalms 34:16.

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