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1 Og Herren talte til Moses efterat de to Arons sønner var døde, de som måtte dengang de trådte frem for Herrens åsyn.

2 Og Herren sa til Moses: Tal til Aron, din bror, og si at han ikke til enhver tid må gå inn i helligdommen innenfor forhenget, frem til nådestolen som er over arken, forat han ikke skal ; for jeg vil åpenbare mig i skyen over nådestolen.

3 Dette skal Aron ha med sig når han går inn i helligdommen: en ung okse til syndoffer og en vær til brennoffer.

4 Han skal klæ sig i en hellig underkjortel av lin og ha benklær av lin på sitt legeme og omgjorde sig med et belte av lin og binde en hue av lin på sitt hode; dette er de hellige klær, og han skal bade sitt legeme i vann før han klær sig i dem.

5 Og av Israels barns menighet skal han få to gjetebukker til syndoffer og en vær til brennoffer.

6 Så skal Aron føre frem sin egen syndoffer-okse og gjøre soning for sig og sitt hus.

7 Og han skal ta de to gjetebukker og stille dem frem for Herrens åsyn, ved inngangen til sammenkomstens telt.

8 Og Aron skal kaste lodd om de to gjetebukker, ett lodd for Herren og ett lodd for Asasel*. / {* den onde ånd.}

9 Og den bukk som ved loddet er tilfalt Herren, skal Aron føre frem og ofre til syndoffer.

10 Men den bukk som ved loddet er tilfalt Asasel, skal stilles levende frem for Herrens åsyn, forat det skal gjøres soning ved den, og så skal den sendes ut i ørkenen til Asasel.

11 Når Aron fører frem sin egen syndoffer-okse og gjør soning for sig og sitt hus, skal han først slakte syndoffer-oksen.

12 Så skal han fylle ildkaret med glør fra alteret for Herrens åsyn og sine hender med finstøtt velluktende røkelse og bære det innenfor forhenget.

13 Og han skal legge røkelsen på ilden for Herrens åsyn, så skyen av røkelsen skjuler nådestolen, som er over vidnesbyrdet, forat han ikke skal .

14 Så skal han ta noget av oksens blod og sprenge med sin finger på fremsiden av nådestolen, og foran nådestolen skal han sprenge noget av blodet syv ganger med sin finger.

15 Derefter skal han slakte den bukk som skal være syndoffer for folket, og bære dens blod innenfor forhenget; han skal gjøre med dens blod likesom han gjorde med oksens blod, og sprenge det på nådestolen og foran nådestolen.

16 Således skal han gjøre soning for helligdommen og rense den for Israels barns urenhet og for alle deres overtredelser som de har forsyndet sig med; og likeså skal han gjøre med sammenkomstens telt, som er reist blandt dem midt i deres urenhet.

17 Og det må ikke være noget menneske i sammenkomstens telt når han går inn for å gjøre soning i helligdommen, og til han går ut igjen; og således skal han gjøre soning for sig og for sitt hus og for hele Israels menighet.

18 Så skal han gå ut til alteret som er reist for Herrens åsyn, og gjøre soning for det; han skal ta av oksens blod og av bukkens blod og stryke rundt om på alterets horn

19 og sprenge noget av blodet på det syv ganger med sin finger og således rense og hellige det fra Israels barns urenhet.

20 Når han så har fullført soningen for helligdommen og for sammenkomstens telt og for alteret, da skal han føre frem den levende bukk.

21 Og Aron skal legge begge sine hender på den levende bukks hode og bekjenne over den alle Israels barns misgjerninger og alle deres overtredelser som de har forsyndet sig med; han skal legge dem på bukkens hode og sende den ut i ørkenen med en mann som står rede dertil.

22 Og bukken skal bære alle deres misgjerninger med sig ut i villmarken, og så skal han slippe bukken løs i ørkenen.

23 Derefter skal Aron gå inn i sammenkomstens telt og ta av sig de linklær som han tok på da han gikk inn i helligdommen, og han skal la dem bli der.

24 Så skal han bade sitt legeme i vann på et hellig sted og ta på sig sine andre klær og så gå ut og ofre sitt eget brennoffer og folkets brennoffer og gjøre soning for sig og for folket.

25 Og fettet av syndofferet skal han brenne på alteret.

26 Men den som førte bukken ut til Asasel, skal tvette sine klær og bade sitt legeme i vann; derefter kan han gå inn i leiren.

27 Syndoffer-oksen og syndofferbukken, hvis blod blev båret inn for å gjøre soning i helligdommen, skal føres utenfor leiren, og deres skinn og deres kjøtt og deres skarn skal brennes op med ild.

28 Og den som brenner det op, skal tvette sine klær og bade sitt legeme i vann; derefter kan han gå inn i leiren.

29 Og dette skal være en evig lov for eder: I den syvende måned, på den tiende dag i måneden, skal I faste og ikke gjøre noget arbeid, hverken den innfødte eller den fremmede som bor iblandt eder.

30 For på denne dag skal det gjøres soning for eder for å rense eder, så I blir rene for Herren for alle eders synder.

31 En høihellig sabbat skal det være for eder, og da skal I faste - det skal være en evig lov.

32 Og den prest som salves, og som innvies til å gjøre prestetjeneste i sin fars sted, skal utføre soningen; han skal klæ sig i linklærne, de hellige klær,

33 og han skal gjøre soning for det Aller-helligste og gjøre soning for sammenkomstens telt og for alteret og gjøre soning for prestene og for hele det samlede folk.

34 Og dette skal være en evig lov for eder, at det gjøres soning for Israels barn til renselse for alle deres synder én gang om året. Og Aron gjorde som Herren hadde befalt Moses.

   

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2180. And took a son of an ox tender and good. That this signifies the celestial natural which the rational associated to itself, in order that it might conjoin itself with the perception from the Divine, is evident from the signification in the Word of a “bullock” or “son of an ox,” as being natural good. And as the Lord’s rational is treated of, it is called “tender” from the celestial-spiritual, or the truth of good; and “good” from the celestial itself, or good itself. In the genuine rational there is the affection of truth and the affection of good; but its chief thing [primarium] is the affection of truth (as before shown, n. 2072). Hence it is first called “tender,” and yet is called both “tender and good,” according to the usual practice in the Word, to indicate the marriage of good and truth (spoken of above, n. 2173).

[2] That a “bullock,” or “son of an ox,” signifies the celestial natural, or what is the same, natural good, is especially evident from the sacrifices, which were the principal representatives of worship in the Hebrew Church, and afterwards in the Jewish. Their sacrifices were made either from the herd or from the flock, thus from animals of various kinds that were clean, such as oxen, bullocks, he-goats, sheep, rams, she-goats, kids, and lambs; besides turtledoves and young pigeons, all of which animals signified internal things of worship, that is, things celestial and spiritual (n. 2165, 2177); the animals taken from the herd signifying celestial natural things, and those from the flock celestial rational things; and as both the natural and the rational things are more and more interior, and are various, therefore so many kinds and species of those animals were made use of in the sacrifices; as is also evident from its being prescribed what animals should be offered-in the burnt-offerings; in the sacrifices of various kinds, as in those that were daily, those of the Sabbaths and festivals, those that were voluntary, those for thanksgiving and vows, those expiatory of guilt and sin, those of purifying and cleansing, and those of inauguration-and also from their being expressly named, and how many of them should be used in each kind of sacrifice; which would never have been done unless each had signified some special thing. This is very evident from those passages where the sacrifices are treated of (as Exodus 29; Leviticus 1, 3, 4, 9, 16, 23; Numbers 7, 8, 15, 29). But this is not the place to set forth what each one signified. The case is similar in the Prophets where these animals are named, and from them it is evident that “bullocks” signified celestial natural things.

[3] That no other than heavenly things were signified, is also evident from the cherubs seen by Ezekiel, and from the animals before the throne seen by John. Concerning the cherubs the Prophet says:

The likeness of their faces was the face of a man, and they four had the face of a lion on the right side, and they four had the face of an ox on the left side, and they four had the face of an eagle (Ezekiel 1:10).

Concerning the four animals before the throne John says:

Around the throne were four animals; the first animal was like a lion, the second animal like a young bullock, the third animal had a face like a man, the fourth animal was like a flying eagle; saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is to come (Revelation 4:6-8).

Everyone can see that holy things were represented by the cherubs and by these animals, and also by the oxen and young bullocks in the sacrifices. In like manner in the prophecy of Moses concerning Joseph:

Let it come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the head of him that was a Nazirite from his brethren. The firstling of his ox, honor is his; and his horns are the horns of the unicorn, with them he shall push the peoples together, to the ends of the earth (Deuteronomy 33:16-17).

None can understand these things unless it is known what an ox, a unicorn, horns, and other things signify in the internal sense.

[4] As regards sacrifices in general, they were indeed enjoined through Moses on the people of Israel, but the Most Ancient Church, that existed before the flood, knew nothing whatever about sacrifices; nor did it even come into their minds to worship the Lord by slaughtering animals. The Ancient Church, that existed after the flood, was likewise unacquainted with sacrifices. This church was indeed in representatives, but not in sacrifices. In fact sacrifices were first instituted in the following church, which was called the Hebrew Church, and from this spread to the nations, and from the same source they came to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and thus to the descendants of Jacob. That the nations were in a worship of sacrifices, was shown above (n. 1343); and that so were Jacob’s posterity before they went out of Egypt, thus before sacrifices were commanded by Moses upon Mount Sinai, is evident from what is said in Exodus 5:3; 10:25, 27; 18:12; 24:4-5; and especially from their idolatrous worship before the golden calf.

[5] Thus described in Moses:

Aaron built an altar before the calf, and Aaron made proclamation and said, Tomorrow is the feast of Jehovah. And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt-offerings and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat, and to drink, and rose up to play (Exodus 32:5-6).

This was done while Moses was upon Mount Sinai, and thus before the command concerning the altar and the sacrifices came to them. The command came on this account-that the worship of sacrifices had become idolatrous with them, as it had with the gentiles, and from this worship they could not be withdrawn, because they regarded it as the chief holy thing. For what has once been implanted from infancy as holy, especially if by fathers, and thus inrooted, the Lord never breaks, but bends, unless it is contrary to order itself. This is the reason why it was directed that sacrifices should be instituted in the way described in the books of Moses.

[6] That sacrifices were by no means acceptable to Jehovah, thus were merely permitted and tolerated for the reason just stated, is very evident in the Prophets, as we read in Jeremiah:

Thus saith Jehovah Zebaoth the God of Israel, Add your burnt-offerings to your sacrifices, and eat flesh. I spoke not unto your fathers, and I commanded them not in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offering and sacrifice; but this word I commanded them, saying, Obey My voice, and I will be your God (Jeremiah 7:21-23).

In David:

O Jehovah, sacrifice and offering Thou hast not willed, burnt-offering and sin-offering Thou hast not required. I have desired to do Thy will, O my God (Psalms 40:6, 8).

In the same:

Thou delightest not in sacrifice, that I should give it; burnt-offering Thou dost not accept. The sacrifices of God are a broken 1 spirit (Psalms 51:16-17).

In the same:

I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds; sacrifice to God confession (Psalms 50:9, 13-14; 107:21-22; 116:17; Deuteronomy 23:19).

In Hosea:

I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings (Hos. 6:6).

Samuel said to Saul:

Hath Jehovah pleasure in burnt-offerings and sacrifices? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, to hearken than the fat of rams (1 Samuel 15:22).

In Micah:

Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself to the high God? Shall I come before Him with burnt-offerings, with calves of a year old? Will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do judgment, and to love mercy, and to humble thyself in walking with thy God (Micah 6:6-8).

[7] From all this it is now evident that sacrifices were not commanded, but permitted; also that nothing else was regarded in the sacrifices than what is internal; and that it was the internal, not the external, that was acceptable. On this account also, the Lord abrogated them, as was likewise foretold by Daniel in these words:

In the midst of the week shall He cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease (Daniel 9:27),

where the Lord’s advent is treated of. (See what is said concerning sacrifices in volume 1, n. 922-923, 1128, 1823.) As regards the “son of an ox” which Abraham “made” or prepared for the three men, the case is the same as with that animal in the sacrifices. That it had a like signification is evident also from his telling Sarah to take three measures of fine flour. Concerning the fine flour to a bullock, we read in Moses:

When ye be come into the land; when thou shalt make a son of an ox a burnt-offering or a sacrifice, in pronouncing publicly a vow, or peace-offerings unto Jehovah, thou shalt offer upon the son of an ox a meat offering of three tenths of fine flour, mingled with oil (Numbers 15:8-9), where it is in like manner “three,” here “three tenths,” and above, “three measures;” but to a ram there were to be only two tenths, and to a lamb one tenth (Numbers 15:4-6).

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. Contritus; but infractus n. 9818.

  
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