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4 Mosebok 6

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1 Og Herren talte til Moses og sa:

2 Tal til Israels barn og si til dem: Når en mann eller kvinne gjør et hellig løfte om å ville være nasireer og vie sig til Herren,

3 så skal han holde sig fra vin og sterk drikk; eddik av vin eller annen sterk eddik skal han ikke drikke og heller ikke nogen saft som er tillaget av druer; hverken friske eller tørre druer skal han ete.

4 Så lenge hans innvielse varer, skal han ikke ete noget av det som tillages av vintreet, like fra kjerne til skall.

5 Så lenge hans innvielses-løfte gjelder, skal der ikke gå rakekniv over hans hode; inntil hans innvielses-tid er til ende, skal han være hellig, han skal la sitt hodehår vokse fritt.

6 Så lenge han er innvidd til Herren, skal han ikke komme nær noget lik.

7 Ikke engang om hans far eller mor eller bror eller søster dør, må han føre urenhet over sig for deres skyld; for han bærer på sitt hode tegnet på innvielsen til sin Gud.

8 Hele sin innvielses-tid er han hellig for Herren.

9 Men dør der nogen hos ham uventet og brått og fører urenhet over hans innvidde hode, da skal han rake sitt hode den dag han blir ren; den syvende dag skal han rake det.

10 Og på den åttende dag skal han komme til presten med to turtelduer eller to dueunger, til inngangen til sammenkomstens telt.

11 Og presten skal ofre den ene til syndoffer og den andre til brennoffer og gjøre soning for ham og rense ham for den synd han har ført over sig ved å komme nær liket. Så skal han samme dag hellige sitt hode,

12 og på ny vie sig til Herren for like sa lang tid som han først hadde lovt, og føre frem et årsgammelt lam til skyldoffer; den første tid gjelder ikke mere, fordi hans innvielse blev utskjemt.

13 Dette er loven for nasireeren: Den dag hans innvielses-tid er til ende, skal han føres frem til inngangen til sammenkomstens telt,

14 og han skal bære frem for Herren sitt offer, et årsgammelt værlam uten lyte til brennoffer og et årsgammelt hunlam uten lyte til syndoffer og en vær uten lyte til takkoffer

15 og en kurv med usyrede kaker av fint mel, kaker med olje i, og usyrede brødleiver smurt med olje, og matofferet og drikkofferne som hører til.

16 Og presten skal bære det frem for Herrens åsyn og ofre hans syndoffer og hans brennoffer.

17 Og væren skal han ofre som takkoffer til Herren sammen med kurven med de usyrede kaker, og så skal presten ofre hans matoffer og hans drikkoffer.

18 Derefter skal nasireeren rake sitt innvidde hode ved inngangen til sammenkomstens telt, og han skal ta sitt innvidde hodehår og legge det på ilden som er under takkofferet.

19 Og presten skal ta en bog av væren, efterat den er kokt, og en usyret kake av kurven og en usyret brødleiv og legge dem i hendene på nasireeren, efterat han har raket av sitt innvielsestegn.

20 Så skal presten svinge dem for Herrens åsyn; det er helliget presten foruten svinge-brystet og løfte-låret. Siden kan nasireeren drikke vin.

21 Dette er loven for den som gjør et nasireer-løfte, dette er det han skal ofre til Herren på grunn av sin innvielse, foruten det han ellers har råd til; han skal holde sig efter det løfte han har gjort, foruten det loven om hans innvielse krever.

22 Og Herren talte til Moses og sa:

23 Tal til Aron og hans sønner og si: Således skal I si når I velsigner Israels barn:

24 Herren velsigne dig og bevare dig!

25 Herren la sitt åsyn lyse over dig og være dig nådig!

26 Herren løfte sitt åsyn på dig og gi dig fred!

27 Således skal de legge mitt navnIsraels barn, og jeg vil velsigne dem.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9836

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9836. 'Two shoulders joined together shall it have at its two ends, and it shall be joined together' means an everlasting preservation of good and truth on every side by all exertion and power through a total uniting together. This is clear from the meaning of 'shoulders' as all the force and power, dealt with in 1085, 4931-4937, though the expressions 'placing on the shoulders' and 'carrying on them', used below in reference to the two shoham stones on which the names of the sons of Israel were engraved, mean an everlasting preservation of good and truth (for all forms of good and truths in their entirety are meant by 'the names of the sons of Israel', a subject dealt with further on); from the meaning of 'joined together' as a total uniting; and from the meaning of 'the two ends', or to the right and to the left, as on every side, dealt with in 8613.

[2] The implications of all this are that the ephod, as has been shown above, represented the outermost part of the Lord's spiritual kingdom. Thus the shoulder-pieces, on which the two shoham stones with the names of the sons of Israel had been placed, represented the everlasting preservation of good and truth; and the joining together of the ephod on the shoulders, and also in front of the breast and behind the back, represented a total uniting. This helps to make clear what is meant by the details stated further on regarding the shoulder-pieces and the engravings on them, namely the everlasting preservation of the good and truth present by all exertion and power, thus the preservation of the heavens. The stones with the names of the sons of Israel had been placed on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, which represented the outermost part of the spiritual kingdom, because all preservation is dependent on the condition of what exists on last and lowest levels. For everything within terminates and forms a base for itself there on which to rest and remain in existence. Things on last and lowest levels resemble the soles and the upper parts of the feet on which the entire body stands; they are also like the hands and arms through which the body exercises its powers. Furthermore the strength of the body is concentrated there. This also explains why the hands and arms, the soles and feet too, correspond to the last and lowest parts of heaven. The fact that power and might reside in things which are last and lowest was represented in the Ancient Church by Nazirites and the hair on their head, in which their might resided, as is evident from Samson in Judges 14-16, and also their holiness, 3301. Regarding the hair, which on those men's heads was their Naziriteship, that it corresponds to the lowest levels of good and truth, or good and truth on lowest levels, see 3301, 5247, 6437.

[3] The residing of power in last and lowest things, and also the preservation in these of more internal ones in their proper condition, are matters which may be understood by people who know what the situation is with things in the natural order which follow one another in sequence and consequently exist together with one another. Things which follow in sequence finally come together on the last and lowest level, where they exist side-by-side in the same order. This being so, the things existing together with one another, which are last and lowest, serve those following one another in sequence, which are prior and higher, as corresponding supports on which they rest and are thereby preserved.

[4] 'The shoulders' means all the force and power exerted in offering resistance, breaking, or impelling. This is clear in Ezekiel,

You push with side and shoulder, and butt with your horns all the weak sheep, until you have scattered them abroad. Ezekiel 34:21.

In the same prophet,

Egypt has been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. When they took hold of you by the hand, you were broken, and you tore open their whole shoulder. 1 Ezekiel 29:6-7.

'Tearing open the whole shoulder' stands for depriving of all the power to grasp truths, 'Egypt' being the perverted factual knowledge which causes such deprivation.

[5] In Zechariah,

They refused to listen, and turned 2 a stubborn shoulder. Zechariah 7:11.

'Turning a stubborn shoulder' stands for offering resistance. In David,

They thought a wicked deed, [but] they did not prevail; for You will set a shoulder against them. Psalms 21:11-12.

'Setting a shoulder against them' too stands for offering resistance, and so stands for power. The fact that 'shoulder' means power is evident from representatives in the next life, where those who offer resistance are seen setting an opposing shoulder.

[6] Placing onto the shoulders and carrying on them means preserving everlastingly in a state of good and truth through all exertion and power. This is clear in Isaiah,

The nations will bring your sons in their bosom, and carry your daughters on their shoulder. Isaiah 49:22.

This refers to a new Church. 'Sons' means truths, and 'daughters' forms of good; and 'carrying on the shoulder' stands for preserving them. The preservation of good in its proper condition was also represented by the action of the children of Israel, who carried their dough on their shoulder when they were going out of Egypt, Exodus 12:34; and by that of the sons of Kohath, who carried holy things 3 on their shoulder, Numbers 7:9. This explains why the Lord, who spoke by means of correspondences, said that when the lost sheep was found the owner placed it on his shoulder, rejoicing, Luke 15:5. 'The sheep that was lost and found' is good as it resides with someone who comes to his senses.

[7] Since 'carrying on the shoulder' had this meaning it is also said of those who love and preserve gold and silver that they carry them on their shoulder, Isaiah 46:7. Carrying also means holding something in its proper state or condition, see 9500. All this shows what was meant by the engraving of the names of the sons of Israel on the two shoham stones and the placement of them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, and by the injunction that 'Aaron shall bear (or carry) them on his two shoulders for a remembrance', verse 12. 'Carrying on the shoulder', when it has reference to subjection, means servitude, see Genesis 49:15; Psalms 81:6; Isaiah 9:4; 10:27; Matthew 23:4; Zephaniah 3:9. But when it has reference to dominion it means supreme power, Isaiah 9:6; 22:22.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, you dug through for them all the shoulder

2. literally, gave

3. literally, the works of the holy place (or of holiness)

  
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Exodus 12:34

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34 The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.