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1 Og Herren talte til Moses og sa:

2 Byd Israels barn at de skal sende ut av leiren alle spedalske og alle som har flod, og alle som er blitt urene ved lik!

3 Både mann og kvinne skal I sende bort; utenfor leiren skal I sende dem, forat de ikke skal gjøre deres leir uren, der hvor jeg bor midt iblandt dem.

4 Og Israels barn gjorde så og sendte dem utenfor leiren; som Herren hadde sagt til Moses, således gjorde Israels barn.

5 Og Herren talte til Moses og sa:

6 Si til Israels barn: Når en mann eller kvinne gjør nogen av de synder som mennesker gjør, og bærer sig troløst at mot Herren, så de fører skyld over sig,

7 da skal de bekjenne den synd som de har gjort, og godtgjøre det de med urette har tatt, med dets fulle verd og enda legge til femtedelen; de skal gi det til den som de har syndet mot.

8 Men dersom mannen ikke har efterlatt sig nogen nær slektning som de kan gi vederlaget til, da skal vederlaget høre Herren til og tilfalle presten foruten sonings-væren, som skal ofres til soning for dem.

9 Og alle gaver, alt det som Israels barn helliger og kommer til presten med, skal høre ham til;

10 hver manns hellige gaver skal høre presten til; det nogen gir ham, skal høre ham til.

11 Og Herren talte til Moses og sa:

12 Tal til Israels barn og si til dem: Når en manns hustru forsynder sig og er ham utro,

13 og en annen mann har samleie med henne, men hennes mann ikke vet om det, fordi hun har latt sig vanære i lønndom, og der ikke er noget vidne mot henne, og hun ikke er grepet på fersk gjerning,

14 og det så kommer en skinnsykens ånd over ham, så han blir skinnsyk på sin hustru, og hun virkelig har latt sig vanære, eller det kommer en skinnsykens ånd over ham, så han blir skinnsyk på sin hustru, uaktet hun ikke har latt sig vanære,

15 da skal mannen ta sin hustru med sig til presten og som offer for henne ha med tiendedelen av en efa byggmel; men han skal ikke helle olje på det, heller ikke legge virak på det; for det er et skinnsyke-matoffer, et ihukommelses-matoffer, som skal minne om en brøde.

16 Så skal presten føre henne frem og stille henne for Herrens åsyn.

17 Og presten skal ta hellig vann i et lerkar og ta noget av støvet som er på tabernaklets gulv, og kaste i vannet.

18 Og når presten har stilt kvinnen frem for Herrens åsyn, skal han løse hennes hår og legge ihukommelses-matofferet i hennes hender - et skinnsyke-matoffer er det - og i sin hånd skal presten ha bitterhetens vann, som volder forbannelse.

19 Så skal presten ta kvinnen i ed og si til henne: Så sant ingen har ligget hos dig, og så sant du ikke har vært utro mot din mann og latt dig vanære, så skal du intet mén ha av dette bitterhetens vann som volder forbannelse.

20 Men er det så at du har vært utro mot din mann og latt dig vanære, og at nogen annen enn din mann har hatt samleie med dig

21 - nu skal presten lese op forbannelses-eden for kvinnen og si til henne: - så gjøre Herren dig til en forbannelse og til en ed blandt ditt folk; han la dine hofter svinne inn og din buk hovne op;

22 og dette vann som volder forbannelse, skal trenge inn i dine innvoller, så din buk hovner op og dine hofter svinner inn. Og kvinnen skal si: Amen! Amen!

23 Derefter skal presten skrive op disse forbannelser på et blad og vaske dem ut i bitterhetens vann,

24 og han skal la kvinnen drikke bitterhetens vann, som volder forbannelse, og vannet som volder forbannelse, skal trenge inn i henne og volde bitter ve.

25 Så skal presten ta skinnsyke-matofferet av kvinnens hånd og svinge det for Herrens åsyn og bære det frem til alteret.

26 Og presten skal ta en håndfull av matofferet som ihukommelses-offer og brenne det på alteret; Og så skal han la kvinnen drikke vannet.

27 Og når han har latt henne drikke vannet, da skal det skje at dersom hun har latt sig vanære og har vært utro mot sin mann, så skal vannet som volder forbannelse, trenge inn i henne og volde bitter ve; hennes buk skal hovne op og hennes hofter svinne inn; og den kvinne skal bli til en forbannelse blandt sitt folk.

28 Men har kvinnen ikke latt sig vanære, og er hun ren, da skal hun intet mén ha av det, og hun skal få barn.

29 Dette er skinnsyke-loven: Når en kvinne er utro mot sin mann og lar sig vanære,

30 eller når en skinnsykens ånd kommer over en mann, så han blir skinnsyk på sin hustru, så skal han stille kvinnen frem for Herrens åsyn, og presten skal gjøre med henne alt det som er sagt i denne lov.

31 Og mannen skal være fri for skyld, men kvinnen skal lide for sin misgjerning.

   

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10038. 'You shall burn with fire outside the camp' means that those things must be banished to hell and be consumed by the evils of self-love. This is clear from the meaning of 'burning with fire' as consuming by means of the evils of self-love, for 'burning' means consuming or devouring and 'fire' the evil of self-love (for these meanings of 'burning' and 'fire', see 1297, 5071, 5215, 6314, 6832, 7324, 7575, 9141, 9434); and from the meaning of 'the camp' as heaven and the Church, and in the contrary sense the place where heaven and the Church do not exist, thus where hell exists, dealt with below. The reason why 'being burned with fire' means being consumed by the evils of self-love is that that love consumes every good or truth of faith. Scarcely anyone at the present day knows that self-love does this, nor consequently that this love constitutes hell with a person and that it is what should be understood by hell-fire.

[2] There are two fires of life that exist with a person; one is self-love, the other is love to God. Those in whom self-love predominates cannot be governed by love to God, for those loves are opposites. They are opposites because self-love gives rise to all evils, which are contempt for others in comparison with self, enmity towards those who do not treat oneself favourably, and in the end to hatred, vengeance, brutality, and cruelty; and these evils act in total opposition to Divine influx, consequently annihilate truths and forms of the good of faith and charity, these being the things that flow in from the Lord. Anybody who stops to reflect may know that everyone's love is the fire of his life - for without love there is no life, and the character of the love determines that of the life - and therefore that self-love gives rise to evils of every kind, doing so in the measure that he has only himself in view, that is, self-love reigns in him. The worst kind of self-love is the love of dominion over others for selfish reasons, that is, the love of possessing dominion solely for the sake of position and gain. Those in whom that love predominates may, it is true, make profession of faith and charity, but they do so with their lips, not with their heart; indeed the worst among them look on the things that belong to faith and charity, thus the holy things of the Church, as means to their own ends. But self-love and all the different types of it, also the evils that gush out of it, and the condition of the selfish in the next life, must in the Lord's Divine mercy be stated in detail somewhere else. They have been referred to here to enable people to know what 'being burned with fire outside the camp' means.

[3] The fact that 'the camp' where the children of Israel were encamped represented heaven and the Church, and therefore that 'outside the camp' represented the place where heaven and the Church did not exist, thus where hell was, becomes clear from those places in the Word which mention the camp and the encampment of the children of Israel in the wilderness, such as the following in Moses,

The children of Israel shall camp, [every] man by his own camp, and [every] man by his own standard, according to their armies. And the Levites shall camp around the dwelling-place of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel. Numbers 1:52-53; 2:2.

In addition, Numbers 2:1-end says that 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 were in the middle of their camps. The like applied when they set out on their journeys, Numbers 2:17; 10:1-end. The reason why their encampments were arranged in that kind of order was so that they might represent heaven and the Church, 9320 (end). Moreover the tribes according to which the children of Israel set up their camps represented all the forms of good and all the truths in their entirety that belonged to heaven and the Church, 3858, 3926, 3939, 4060, 6335, 6337, 6397, 6640, 7836, 7891, 7996, 7997. This explains why it says that Jehovah dwells in the middle of the camps, Numbers 5:3, and that He walks in the middle of them and they will therefore be holy, Deuteronomy 23:14, and why, in the prophecy uttered by Balaam, when he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes, he said, How good are your tabernacles, O Jacob, and your dwelling-places, O Israel! Numbers 24:2-3, 5.

[4] Since heaven and the Church was represented by the camp it follows that 'outside the camp' meant the place where neither heaven nor the Church existed, thus where hell was. That is why everyone who was unclean and also anyone who was guilty was sent out there, as may be recognized from the following,

You shall send out of the camp everyone who is leprous, and everyone suffering a discharge, and everyone unclean on account of a soul 1 . Whether they are male or female 2 you shall send them outside the camp, so that they may not defile the camps, in the middle of which Jehovah dwells. Numbers 5:2-3; Leviticus 13:45-46.

A man who is not clean by reason of an accident in the night shall go outside the camp and not come into the middle of the camp. When he has washed himself with water and the sun has set he shall enter the camp. There shall be a space for you outside the camp where you may go out, and you shall cover your excrement by means of a spade 3 , since Jehovah walks in the middle of the camp. Therefore the camp shall be holy. Deuteronomy 23:10-14.

And the stoning of people was done outside the camp, Leviticus 24:14; Numbers 15:35-36.

From all this it is now clear that 'you shall burn with fire the flesh, skin, and dung of the young bull, outside the camp' means that evils, meant by these things, must be banished to hell.

[5] The same thing as was represented by the camp and the area outside it was also represented by the land of Canaan and the lands around it after that land had been divided up as inheritances among the children of Israel. This is why in the Word 'the land of Canaan' or simply 'the land' means heaven and the Church, and 'the children of Israel' those who are in heaven and the Church. For the meaning of 'the land' as heaven and the Church, see the places referred to in 9325; and for that of 'the children of Israel' as those who are there, 9340.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. i.e. unclean through contact with a dead body

2. literally, From male even to female

3. literally, peg or nail

  
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