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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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Arcana Coelestia # 10038

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10038. Shalt thou burn with fire without the camp. That this signifies that those things were to be committed to hell, and to be defiled with the evils of the love of self, is evident from the signification of “burning with fire,” as being to consume with the evils of the love of self; for by “burning” is signified consuming, and by “fire” the evil of the love of self (see n. 1297, 5071, 5215, 6314, 6832, 7324, 7575, 9141, 9434); and from the signification of “the camp,” as being heaven and the church, and in the opposite sense where heaven and the church are not, thus hell (of which in what follows). That “to be burned with fire” denotes to be consumed by the evils of the love of self, is because this love consumes all the goods and truths of faith. That the love of self does this is known to scarcely anyone at this day, and consequently neither is it known that this love is hell with man, and that it is meant by “hell fire.”

[2] For there are two fires of life with man; one is the love of self, the other is love to God. They who are in the love of self cannot be in love to God, because these loves are opposite. They are opposite because the love of self produces all evils, which are contempt for others in comparison with self, enmity against those who do not favor, and finally hatreds, revenges, ferocities, cruelties; which evils wholly resist the Divine influx, and consequently extinguish the truths and goods of faith and of charity, for these are what flow in from the Lord. Anyone who reflects is able to know that everyone’s love is the fire of his life; for without love there is no life, and such as the love is such is the life; and from this it can be known that the love of self produces evils of every kind, and that it so far produces them as it is regarded as the end, that is, so far as it reigns. The worst kind of the love of self is the love of ruling for the sake of self, that is, solely for the sake of honor and self-advantage. They who are in this love are indeed able to make a profession of faith and charity; but they do this with the mouth, and not with the heart; nay, the worst of them regard the things of faith and charity, thus the holy things of the church, as means to attain their ends. But of the Lord’s Divine mercy I will speak specifically of the love of self, and its various kinds, and the evils that spring from it, and of the state of such in the other life. These things have been said that it may be known what is denoted by being “burnt with fire without the camp.”

[3] That the camp where the sons of Israel encamped represented heaven and the church, and hence that “without the camp” denotes where heaven and the church are not, thus hell, can be seen from what is related in the Word about the camp and the encamping of the sons of Israel in the wilderness, as from these words in Moses:

The sons of Israel shall encamp, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their armies; and the Levites shall encamp around the Habitation of the testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the sons of Israel (Numbers 1:52-53; 2:2).

The tribes of Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun encamped to the east; the tribes of Reuben, Simeon, and Gad to the south; the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin to the west; and the tribes of Dan, Asher, and Naphtali to the north; but the Levites in the midst of the camp (Numbers 2:10). The like applied when they set out on their journeys, Numbers 2:17, 10:1 to the end. 1

Their encampments were so ordered that they might represent heaven and the church (n. 9320); by the tribes also, according to which they encamped, were represented all the goods and truths of heaven and the church in the complex (n. 3858, 3926, 3939, 4060, 6335, 6337, 6397, 6640, 7836, 7891, 7996-7997); hence it is said that “Jehovah dwelt in the midst of the camp” (Numbers 5:3), and that “He walketh in the midst of them, and therefore they shall be holy” (Deuteronomy 23:14); and in the prophetic utterance of Balaam it is said, “when he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes, he said, How good are thy tabernacles, O Jacob, and thy habitations, O Israel” (Numbers 24:2-3, 5).

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1. [Editor’s note, 2014: The sentence marked was accidentally skipped in the Potts translation. The missing text has been supplied from the Elliott translation.]

[4] As by the camp was represented heaven and the church, it follows that by “without the camp” was signified where heaven and the church are not, thus hell; and therefore everyone that was unclean and also that was guilty was sent forth thither, as can be seen from the following passages:

Ye shall send forth out of the camp every leper, and everyone that suffereth with an issue, everyone unclean on account of a soul, from a male even to a female, ye shall send them abroad out of the camp, that they pollute not the camp, in the midst of which Jehovah dwelleth (Numbers 5:2-3; Leviticus 13:45-46).

A man that is not clean by chance of the night shall go abroad out of the camp, and shall not come into the midst of the camp; when he shall wash himself in waters, and the sun hath set, he shall enter into the camp. Thou shalt have a space without the camp, whither thou mayest go forth abroad, and thou shall cover thine excrement with a paddle, because Jehovah walketh in the midst of the camp; therefore the camp shall be holy (Deuteronomy 23:10-15).

It was also commanded that persons should be stoned “without the camp” (Leviticus 24:14; Numbers 15:35-36). From all this it is now evident that by “burning with fire the flesh, skin, and dung of the bullock without the camp,” is signified that the evils which are signified by these things were to be committed to hell.

  
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