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3 Mosebok 27

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1 Og Herren talte til Moses og sa:

2 Tal til Israels barn og si til dem: Når nogen gjør et hellig løfte efter det verd du setter på folk som helliger sig til Herren,

3 da skal du verdsette en mann som er mellem tyve og seksti år gammel, til femti sekel sølv efter helligdommens sekel.

4 Men er det en kvinne, da skal du verdsette henne til tretti sekel.

5 Er det en som er mellem fem år og tyve år gammel, da skal du verdsette en som er av mannkjønn, til tyve sekel, og en som er av kvinnekjønn, til ti sekel.

6 Er det en som er mellem en måned og fem år gammel, da skal du verdsette en gutt til fem sekel sølv og en pike til tre sekel sølv.

7 Er det en som er seksti år gammel eller derover, da skal du, dersom det er en mann, verdsette ham til femten sekel, og en kvinne til ti sekel.

8 Men dersom nogen er for fattig til å betale efter din verdsetning, da skal han stilles frem for presten, og presten skal verdsette ham; efter som den som har gjort løftet, har råd til, skal presten verdsette ham.

9 Dersom det er dyr, sådanne som en ofrer til Herren, da skal alt det en gir Herren av sådant, være hellig.

10 En skal ikke gi noget annet i stedet og ikke bytte det, hverken et godt med et dårlig eller et dårlig med et godt; bytter nogen et dyr med et annet, da skal både det og det som det byttes med, være hellig.

11 Men dersom det er et eller annet urent dyr, som en ikke ofrer til Herren, da skal dyret stilles frem for presten,

12 og presten skal verdsette det efter som det er, godt eller dårlig; som du, prest, verdsetter det, således skal det være.

13 Men vil nogen innløse det, da skal han gi femtedelen mere enn det du har verdsatt det til.

14 Når nogen helliger sitt hus som gave til Herren, da skal presten verdsette det efter som det er, godt eller dårlig; som presten verdsetter, til hvis arvejord i landet den har således skal det stå ved makt.

15 Men dersom den som har helliget sitt hus, vil innløse det, da skal han gi femtedelen mere enn du har verdsatt det til, så blir det hans.

16 Dersom nogen helliger Herren noget av sin jordeiendom, da skal du verdsette det efter utsæden, en homer byggsæd til femti sekel sølv.

17 Dersom han helliger sin jord fra jubelåret av, da skal din verdsetning stå ved makt.

18 Men dersom han helliger sin jord efter jubelåret, da skal presten utregne pengene efter de år som er tilbake til næste jubelår; og der skal gjøres avkortning i det verd du har satt.

19 Vil den som har helliget jorden, innløse den, da skal han gi femtedelen mere enn du har verdsatt den til, så skal den være hans for godt.

20 Men dersom han ikke innløser jorden, eller han selger den til en annen, da kan den ikke innløses mere.

21 Men når jorden gis fri i jubelåret, skal den være helliget Herren, likesom bannlyst jord; den skal høre presten til som hans eiendom.

22 Men dersom nogen helliger Herren et jordstykke som han har kjøpt, som ikke har hørt til den jordeiendom han har arvet,

23 da skal presten utregne for ham hvor høit det skal verdsettes, efter tiden inntil jubelåret, og han skal samme dag gi det du verdsetter det til; det skal være helliget Herren.

24 I jubelåret skal jorden komme tilbake til den han har kjøpt den av, til hvis arvejord i lander har hørt.

25 All din verdsetning skal skje efter helligdommens sekel; sekelen skal være tyve gera.

26 Det førstefødte i buskapen skal ikke nogen hellige; som førstefødt hører det Herren til, enten det er et stykke storfe eller småfe, hører det Herren til.

27 Men dersom det er av de urene dyr, da skal en innløse det efter din verdsetning og legge femtedelen til; dersom det ikke innløses, da skal det selges efter din verdsetning.

28 Men intet bannlyst som nogen vier til Herren av alt det han eier, må selges eller innløses, enten det er folk eller fe eller jordeiendom; alt bannlyst er høihellig for Herren.

29 Intet menneske som lyses i bann, skal løses; han skal late livet.

30 All landets tiende av jordens sæd og av trærnes frukt hører Herren til; den er helliget Herren.

31 Vil nogen innløse noget av sin tiende, da skal han legge femtedelen til.

32 Og all tiende av storfe og av småfe, av alt det som går under hyrdestaven - hvert tiende stykke - skal være helliget Herren.

33 En skal ikke se efter om det er godt eller dårlig, og ikke bytte det; bytter en det, da skal både det og det som det byttes med, være hellig; det skal ikke innløses.

34 Dette er de bud som Herren gav Moses på Sinai berg og bød ham kunngjøre for Israels barn.

   

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10225. From a son of twenty years and upward. That this signifies the state of the intelligence of truth and good, is evident from the signification of “twenty,” when said of a man’s age, as being a state of the intelligence of truth and good. That “twenty” denotes a state of the intelligence of truth and good, is because when a man attains the age of twenty years he begins to think from himself; for from earliest infancy to extreme old age a man passes through a number of states in respect to his interiors that belong to intelligence and wisdom. The first state is from birth to his fifth year; this is a state of ignorance and of innocence in ignorance, and is called infancy. The second state is from the fifth year to the twentieth; this is a state of instruction and of memory-knowledge, and is called childhood and youth. The third state is from the twentieth year to the sixtieth, which is a state of intelligence, and is called adolescence, young manhood, and manhood. The fourth or last state is from the sixtieth year upward, which is a state of wisdom, and of innocence in wisdom.

[2] These successive states of the life of man are signified by the numbers of the years of age—“five,” “twenty,” and “sixty,” in the following passages in Moses:

When anyone shall make a special vow, the estimation of a male shall be from a son of twenty years even to a son of sixty years, fifty shekels of silver. If it be a female, the estimation shall be thirty shekels. And if from a son of five years even unto to a son of twenty years, the estimation shall be, if a male, twenty shekels; and if a female, ten shekels. And if it be from the son of a month even unto five years, the estimation of a male shall be five shekels; of a female three shekels. And if it be from a son of sixty years upward, the estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and of a female ten shekels (Leviticus 27:2-7).

[3] That the first state is a state of ignorance and also of innocence in ignorance is plain. During the continuance of this state, the interiors are being formed for use, consequently are not manifest, but only those most external, that belong to the sensuous man; and when these alone are manifest, there is ignorance; for whatever man understands and perceives is from the interiors; from which it can also be seen that the innocence which exists at that time and is called the innocence of infancy, is innocence most external.

[4] That the second state is a state of instruction and of memory-knowledge is also plain; this state is not as yet a state of intelligence, because at that time the child or youth does not form any conclusions from himself, neither does he from himself discriminate between truths and truths, nor even between truths and falsities, but from others; he merely thinks and speaks things of memory, thus from mere memory-knowledge; nor does he see and perceive whether a thing is so, except on the authority of his teacher, consequently because another has said so.

[5] But the third is called a state of intelligence, because the man then thinks from himself, and discriminates and forms conclusions; and that which he then concludes is his own, and not another’s. At this time faith begins, for faith is not the faith of the man himself until he has confirmed what he believes by the ideas of his own thought. Previous to this, faith was not his, but another’s in him, for his belief was in the person, not in the thing. From this it can be seen that the state of intelligence commences with man when he no longer thinks from a teacher, but from himself; which is not the case until the interiors are opened toward heaven. Be it known that the exteriors with man are in the world, and the interiors in heaven; and that in proportion as light flows in from heaven into what is from the world, the man is intelligent and wise; and this according to the degree and quality of the opening of his interiors, which are so far opened as the man lives for heaven and not for the world.

[6] But the last state is a state of wisdom and of innocence in wisdom; which is when the man is no longer concerned about understanding truths and goods, but about willing and living them; for this is to be wise. And a man is able to will truths and goods, and to live them, just insofar as he is in innocence, that is, insofar as he believes that he has nothing of wisdom from himself, but that whatever he has of wisdom is from the Lord; also insofar as he loves to have it so; hence it is that this state is also a state of innocence in wisdom.

[7] From the succession of these states the man who is wise may also see the wonderful things of the Divine Providence, which are that a prior state is constantly the plane of the states which follow, and that the opening or unfolding of the interiors proceeds successively from outermosts even to inmosts; and at last so that what was first (namely, ignorance and innocence), but in outermosts, is also last, but in inmosts; for he who knows that of himself he is ignorant of all things, and that whatever he knows is from the Lord, is in the ignorance of wisdom, and also in the innocence of wisdom. From all this it can be seen what is the state of intelligence which is signified by “twenty,” when this number is predicated of man’s age.

[8] The like is also meant by this number in other passages of the Word, as in Moses:

Take ye the sum of all the congregation, from a son of twenty years and upward, everyone that goeth forth into the army in Israel (Numbers 1:2-3, 18, and following verses).

The subject treated of in this passage is the encampment and journeying of the sons of Israel according to the tribes, and thereby is also signified the setting in order and disposing by the Lord of the truths and goods of faith and love; by the “encampment,” the setting in order and disposing (n. 4236, 8103, 8130, 8131, 8155); and by the “tribes,” the goods and truths of faith and love in the whole complex (n. 3858, 3926, 3939, 4060, 6335, 6337, 6397). Hence by “a son of twenty years and upward” are meant those who are in a state of intelligence, for with these the truths and goods of faith and love can be set in order and disposed by the Lord, because the Lord flows into their understanding and will, and sets them in order and disposes them, and also removes and casts down falsities and evils. Therefore it is said “from a son of twenty years and upward everyone that goeth forth into the army,” for by “the army” is signified truths disposed in this order-that they do not fear falsities and evils; but repel them if they assault. (That such truths are meant in the internal sense by an “army,” see n. 3448, 7236, 7988, 8019)

[9] But with those who are in a state of infancy and childhood, thus who are under twenty years of age, truths and goods have not been so set in order as to enable them to go forth into the army and into warfare, because, as before said, they do not as yet from themselves discriminate, and form any conclusions; consequently they cannot as yet by means of the rational dispel anything of falsity or evil; and they who are not able to do this are not let into combats. For this reason a man is not admitted into temptations, which are spiritual combats against falsities and evils, until he is in a state of intelligence, that is, until he comes to his own judgment (n. 3928, 4248, 4249, 8963).

[10] The like is signified by the age of “twenty years and upward” in other passages in Moses:

Jehovah said to Moses and Eleazar, Take ye the sum of all the assembly of the sons of Israel, from a son of twenty years and upward, everyone that goeth forth to warfare in Israel (Numbers 26:2-3);

in the spiritual sense by “going forth to warfare” is signified to go forth into combats against the falsities and evils which are from hell.

[11] One who does not know that a “son of twenty years and upward” signifies a state of intelligence, or those who are in this state, cannot know either why, when they murmured against Jehovah, it is said that they should “die in the wilderness from twenty years and upward, all who came up out of Egypt” (Numbers 14:29; 32:10-11); for they who are in such a state of intelligence that they can discriminate, conclude, and judge from themselves are blamable for their evil; but not those who are not yet in this state. From this also it is evident that by “twenty years,” when said of a person’s age, is signified a state of understanding, or of judgment. But the number “twenty” has a different signification when said of a different subject (see above, n. 10222).

  
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