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3 Mosebok 9

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1 Og på den åttende dag kalte Moses Aron og hans sønner og Israels eldste til sig.

2 Og han sa til Aron: Ta dig en oksekalv til syndoffer og en vær til brennoffer, begge uten lyte, og led dem frem for Herrens åsyn!

3 Og du skal tale til Israels barn og si: Ta en gjetebukk til syndoffer og en kalv og et lam, begge årsgamle og uten lyte, til brennoffer,

4 og en okse og en vær til takkoffer, for å ofre dem for Herrens åsyn, og et matoffer, tillaget med olje! For idag vil Herren åpenbare sig for eder.

5 Og de tok det som Moses hadde befalt, og farte det frem foran sammenkomstens telt; og hele menigheten trådte til og stod for Herrens åsyn.

6 Da sa Moses: Dette er det Herren har befalt eder å gjøre; så skal Herrens herlighet åpenbare sig for eder.

7 sa Moses til Aron: Tred frem til alteret og ofre ditt syndoffer og ditt brennoffer og gjør soning for dig og for folket, og ofre så folkets offer og gjør soning for dem, således som Herren har befalt!

8 Og Aron trådte frem til alteret og slaktet den kalv som skulde være syndoffer for ham selv.

9 Og Arons sønner bar blodet til ham, og han dyppet sin finger i blodet og strøk det på alterets horn, og resten av blodet helte han ut ved alterets fot.

10 Men fettet og nyrene og den store leverlapp av syndofferet brente han på alteret, således som Herren hadde befalt Moses.

11 Og kjøttet og huden brente han op med ild utenfor leiren.

12 Så slaktet han brennofferet; og Arons sønner rakte ham blodet, og han sprengte det rundt om på alteret.

13 Og de rakte ham brennofferet, stykke for stykke, og hodet, og han brente det på alteret.

14 Og han tvettet innvollene og føttene og brente dem sammen med brennofferet på alteret.

15 Så førte han folkets offer frem; han tok bukken som skulde være syndoffer for folket, og slaktet den og ofret den til et syndoffer, likesom det første offerdyr.

16 Så førte han brennofferet frem og ofret det, som det var foreskrevet.

17 Derefter bar han matofferet frem og tok en håndfull av det og brente på alteret, foruten morgenbrennofferet.

18 Så slaktet han oksen og væren som skulde være folkets takkoffer; og Arons sønner rakte ham blodet, og han sprengte det rundt om på alteret.

19 Men fettstykkene av oksen, og halen og fettet som dekket innvollene, og nyrene og den store leverlapp av væren -

20 disse fettstykker la de på bryststykkene; og han brente fettstykkene på alteret,

21 men bryststykkene og det høire lår svinget Aron for Herrens åsyn, således som Moses hadde befalt.

22 Og Aron løftet sine hender over folket og velsignet dem; og så steg han ned, efterat han hadde ofret syndofferet og brennofferet og takkofferet.

23 Derefter gikk Moses og Aron inn i sammenkomstens telt, og da de kom ut igjen, velsignet de folket. Da åpenbarte Herrens herlighet sig for hele folket,

24 og det gikk ild ut fra Herrens åsyn og fortærte brennofferet og fettstykkene på alteret; og hele folket så det, og de ropte høit av glede og falt ned på sitt ansikt.

   

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9938. 'Which the children of Israel shall sanctify, even in all their gifts of holy things' means acts of worship representative of removal from sins. This is clear from the meaning of 'gifts' - or presents, which among the Israelite and Jewish nation were primarily burnt offerings, sacrifices, and minchahs - as the inner realities of acts of worship; for those realities were represented by these acts. The inner realities of worship are the fruits of love and faith; they are therefore pardonings of sins, that is, removals from them, since faith and love are the means by which the Lord moves sins away. For in the measure that the good of love and faith comes in, or what amounts to the same thing, heaven comes in, sins are removed, that is, hell is removed - the hell within the person as well as the hell outside him. From this it is evident what should be understood by the gifts which they made holy, that is, offered. The gifts were called holy, and giving or offering them was called sanctifying them, because they represented holy realities. For they were offered to expiate people, thus to remove them from their sins, which is accomplished by means of faith in and love to the Lord received from the Lord.

[2] Gifts and presents were said to be made to Jehovah, though Jehovah, that is, the Lord, is not the receiver of gifts or presents, but the giver of them, freely to everyone. Even so, His will is that they should come from a person as though they did so from that person himself, provided the person acknowledges that they do not actually come from him but from the Lord. For the Lord imparts a desire to do good because he loves it, and a desire to speak the truth because he believes it. The actual desire flows in from the Lord, yet appears to be inherent in the person and so to flow from the person. For whatever a person does out of love and desire for it, he does from his life, love being what composes anyone's life. From this it is evident that the things that are called gifts and presents made to the Lord by a person are essentially gifts and presents made to a person by the Lord, and that they are called gifts and presents on account of what they appear to be. All who are wise at heart recognize this appearance, but not so the simple. Yet their gifts and presents are acceptable, so far as they are made in ignorance that has innocence within it. Innocence is the good of love to God, and dwells within ignorance, especially with the wise at heart. Those who are wise at heart know, indeed perceive, that nothing whatever of the wisdom within themselves originates in themselves, but that the all of wisdom is attributable to the Lord, that is, the all of the good of love and the all of the truth of faith are attributable to Him, and that for this reason even with the wise innocence dwells in ignorance. From this it is evident that the acknowledgement of this matter, and especially the perception of it, constitutes the innocence of wisdom.

[3] The gifts offered in the Jewish Church, which were primarily burnt offerings, sacrifices, and minchahs, were also spoken of as offerings made for the expiations of sins; for they were offered for the sake of being pardoned from sins, that is, being removed from them. Those who belonged to that Church also thought that sins were pardoned, indeed completely taken away, by means of these offerings; for it is said of people who have offered them that they will be pardoned, see Leviticus 4:26, 31, 35; 5:6, 10, 13, 16, 18; 6:7; 9:7; 15:15, 30. But they were unaware of the fact that their gifts represented more internal things, thus the kinds of things that are done by a person from love and faith received from the Lord; that these are what expiate, that is, remove sins; and that when they have been removed they appear to have been completely removed or banished, as has been shown above in the present paragraph and the one before it. The worship of that nation was representative, and so was external devoid of anything internal; and it was by means of this worship that heaven was joined to mankind, in those times, see the places referred to in 9320 (end), 9380.

  
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