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1 Ingen som er gildet, enten ved knusning eller ved å skjæres, skal være med i Herrens menighet.

2 Ingen som er født i hor, skal være med i Herrens menighet, enn ikke hans ætt i tiende ledd skal være med i Herrens menighet.

3 Ingen ammonitt eller moabitt skal være med i Herrens menighet; enn ikke deres ætt i tiende ledd skal nogensinne være med i Herrens menighet,

4 fordi de ikke kom eder i møte med brød og vann på veien, da I drog ut av Egypten, og fordi han* leide Bileam, Beors sønn, fra Petor i Mesopotamia imot dig til å forbanne dig. / {* kongen i Moab.}

5 Men Herren din Gud vilde ikke høreBileam, og Herren din Gud vendte forbannelsen til velsignelse for dig, fordi Herren din Gud hadde dig kjær.

6 Du skal aldri i dine levedager søke deres velferd og lykke.

7 Men du skal ikke avsky edomitten, for han er din bror; og du skal ikke avsky egypteren, for du har levd som fremmed i hans land.

8 Deres ætt i tredje ledd kan få være med i Herrens menighet.

9 Når du drar ut mot dine fiender og slår leir, da skal du vokte dig for alt som er usømmelig.

10 Er nogen blandt eder uren efter noget som har hendt ham om natten, så skal han gå utenfor leiren, han skal ikke komme inn i leiren.

11 Mot aften skal han bade sig i vann, og når solen går ned, kan han komme inn i leiren.

12 Du skal ha et sted utenfor leiren som du skal gå ut til.

13 Og mellem dine redskaper skal du ha en spade; med den skal du grave et hull, når du setter dig der ute, og så igjen dekke over det som er gått fra dig;

14 for Herren din Gud vandrer midt i din leir for å utfri dig og gi dine fiender i din vold, og din leir skal være hellig, forat han ikke skal se noget motbydelig hos dig og vende sig bort fra dig.

15 Du skal ikke sende en træl tilbake til hans herre når han er rømt fra sin herre og har flyktet til dig.

16 Han skal bli hos dig i ditt land på det sted han utvelger sig i en av dine byer, hvor det tykkes ham best; du skal ikke være hård imot ham.

17 Der skal ikke være nogen tempelskjøge* blandt Israels døtre, og der skal ikke være nogen tempelboler* blandt Israels sønner. / {* d.e. en som driver utukt til ære for avgudene.}

18 Du skal ikke komme med skjøgelønn eller hundepenger inn i Herrens, din Guds hus, om du skulde ha gjort noget sådant løfte; for begge deler er en vederstyggelighet for Herren din Gud.

19 Du skal ikke ta rente av din bror, hverken av penger eller av matvarer eller av nogen annen ting som der tas rente av.

20 Av utlendingen kan du ta rente; men av din bror må du ikke ta rente; da skal Herren din Gud velsigne dig i alt det du tar dig fore i det land du kommer inn i for å ta det i eie.

21 Når du gjør Herren din Gud et løfte, da skal du ikke vente med å holde det; for Herren din Gud vil kreve det av dig, og du vil få synd på dig.

22 Men om du lar være å gjøre noget løfte, vil du ikke få synd på dig.

23 Hvad dine leber har talt, skal du holde og gjøre, fordi du frivillig og med egen munn har gitt Herren din Gud ditt løfte.

24 Når du kommer inn i din næstes vingård, da kan du ete druer, så meget du vil, til du er mett; men du må ikke sanke noget i ditt spann.

25 Når du kommer inn i din næstes kornaker, da kan du plukke aks med din hånd; men sigd må du ikke bruke på din næstes kornaker.

   

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10303. 'And you shall beat some of it very fine' means the arrangement of truths into their own series. This is clear from the meaning of 'beating very small' - when it refers to the frankincense and spices, by which levels of truth are meant - as the arrangement of truths into their own series; for much the same is meant by 'beating' as by 'grinding', though 'grinding' is used in reference to wheat, barley, and spelt, whereas 'beating' is used in reference to oil, frankincense, and spices.

[2] What is meant specifically by 'beating' and 'grinding' no one can know without knowledge of what a person is like when the different kinds of good and truth meant by wheat, barley, flour, fine flour, oil, frankincense, and spices have been arranged into order for the uses they are to serve. For 'grinding' and 'beating' mean arranging them so that they may serve a use. When 'grinding' has reference to different kinds of good, which are meant by 'wheat' or 'barley', it means the way that good is arranged and brought forward in the form of truths, and its application in this form to one use or another. Good furthermore never presents itself within useful services except through truths; for good is arranged into order in the form of truths and in this way acquires specific quality. Unless it has been arranged in the form of truths good has no specific quality; and when it is arranged in the form of truths it is arranged into series, depending on the item under discussion, in accord with the use that item serves. The good enters those items as an affection belonging to love, and this gives rise to what is enjoyable, lovely, and pleasing. Something similar is meant here by 'beating very fine', for 'pure frankincense' means spiritual good, 10296, and the kinds of truth that are arranged into order by the good are the spices stacte, onycha, and galbanum, 10292-10294.

[3] What being arranged into series is must also be stated briefly. Truths are said to have been arranged into series when they have been arranged in accordance with the form of heaven, which consists of angelic communities. The character of that form is clear from the correspondence of all the members, internal organs, and other organs of the human being with the Grand Man, which is heaven. Regarding that correspondence, see in the places referred to in 10030(end). Within those members and organs all the individual parts are arranged into series and into series of series. Fibres and vessels form them, as is well known to those who are acquainted from anatomy with the weavings and interweavings of the more internal constituents of the body. The truths from good present in a person are arranged into similar series.

[4] So it is that a person who has been regenerated is heaven in its smallest form, corresponding to the Grand Man; and that the person's truth and good make him wholly and completely what he is.

A person who has been regenerated is heaven in its smallest form, see in the places referred to 9279.

His truth and his good constitute a person, 10298 above.

The truths with regenerate people have been arranged into series in accord with the arrangement in which angelic communities exist, 5339, 5343, 5530.

The series into which the truths with those who are good have been arranged, and the series into which the falsities with those who are evil have been arranged are meant in the Word by 'sheafs' and 'bundles', as in Leviticus 23:9-15; Psalms 126:6; 129:7; Amos 2:13; Micah 4:12; Jeremiah 9:22; Zechariah 12:6; Matthew 13:30.

[5] When therefore it is evident what 'beating' and 'grinding' mean one can know the meaning in the internal sense of the description stating that the children of Israel ground the manna in mills or beat it in mortars, and made it into cakes, Numbers 11:8. 'The manna' was a sign of celestial and spiritual good, 8464, and 'grinding' and 'beating' arranging it to serve useful purposes; for whatever is mentioned in the Word is a sign of the kinds of realities that exist in heaven and in the Church. Every detail there has an inner meaning. One can also know the meaning when it says that they should not take as a pledge the mill or the milling stone, for anyone who does so takes the [person's] soul as a pledge, Deuteronomy 24:6. 'The mill' and 'the milling stone' mean that which prepares good so that it may be applicable to one use or another. 'Barley' too and 'wheat' mean good, and 'flour' and 'fine flour' truths; and its own truths are the means by which good is applied to any such use, as stated above.

[6] From all this it may be seen what 'mill', 'millstone', and 'sitting at the mill' mean in the following places: In Matthew,

At that time two women will be grinding; one will be taken, the other left. Matthew 24:41.

In the same gospel,

Whoever causes one of these little ones believing in Me to stumble, it would be better for him if an ass's millstone 1 were hung onto his neck and he were plunged into the depth of the sea. Matthew 18:6; Mark 9:42.

In the Book of Revelation,

A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus will Babylon be thrown down with violence; no sound of a mill will be heard in it any more. Revelation 18:21-22.

In Jeremiah,

I will take away from them the voice of joy, the sound of mills, and the light of the lamp. Jeremiah 25:10.

And in Isaiah,

O daughter of Babel, sit on the ground; without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans. Take a mill and grind flour. Isaiah 47:1-2.

Even as 'mill' and 'grinding' in the good sense mean application to good purposes, so in the contrary sense they mean application to evil ones. Consequently when Babel and Chaldea are the subject they mean the application [of what is good and true] in favour of their own loves, which are self-love and love of the world; for with them 'barley' and 'wheat' mean adulterated good, and 'flour' the resulting falsified truth. The profanation of goodness and truth through applying them to those loves is also meant by the action of Moses when he ground up the golden calf into tiny pieces, sprinkled them on the water coming down from Mount Sinai, and made the children of Israel drink it, Exodus 32:20; Deuteronomy 9:21.

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1. i.e. the upper, rotating stone of an ass-driven mill

  
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