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1 Isto é o que lhes farás para os santificar, para que me administrem o sacerdócio: Toma um novilho e dois carneiros sem defeito,

2 e pão ázimo, e bolos ázimos, amassados com azeite, e coscorões ázimos, untados com azeite; de flor de farinha de trigo os farás;

3 e os porás num cesto, e os trarás no cesto, com o novilho e os dois carneiros.

4 Então farás chegar Arão e seus filhos à porta da tenda da revelação e os lavarás, com água.

5 Depois tomarás as vestes, e vestirás a Arão da túnica e do manto do éfode, e do éfode mesmo, e do peitoral, e lhe cingirás o éfode com o seu cinto de obra esmerada;

6 e pôr-lhe-ás a mitra na cabeça; e sobre a mitra porás a coroa de santidade;

7 então tomarás o óleo da unção e, derramando-lho sobre a cabeça, o ungirás.

8 Depois farás chegar seus filhos, e lhes farás vestir túnicas,

9 e os cingirás com cintos, a Arão e a seus filhos, e lhes atarás as tiaras. Por estatuto perpétuo eles terão o sacerdócio; consagrarás, pois, a Arão e a seus filhos.

10 Farás chegar o novilho diante da tenda da revelação, e Arão e seus filhos porão as mãos sobre a cabeça do novilho;

11 e imolarás o novilho perante o Senhor, à porta da tenda da revelação.

12 Depois tomarás do sangue do novilho, e com o dedo o porás sobre as pontas do altar, e todo o sangue restante derramarás à base do altar.

13 Também tomarás toda a gordura que cobre as entranhas, o redenho do fígado, os dois rins e a gordura que houver neles, e queimá-los-ás sobre o altar;

14 mas a carne do novilho, o seu couro e o seu excremento queimarás fora do arraial; é sacrifício pelo pecado.

15 Depois tomarás um carneiro, e Arão e seus filhos porão as mãos sobre a cabeça dele,

16 e imolarás o carneiro e, tomando o seu sangue, o espargirás sobre o altar ao redor;

17 e partirás o carneiro em suas partes, e lavarás as suas entranhas e as suas pernas, e as porás sobre as suas partes e sobre a sua cabeça.

18 Assim queimarás todo o carneiro sobre o altar; é um holocausto para o Senhor; é cheiro suave, oferta queimada ao Senhor.

19 Depois tomarás o outro carneiro, e Arão e seus filhos porão as mãos sobre a cabeça dele;

20 e imolarás o carneiro, e tomarás do seu sangue, e o porás sobre a ponta da orelha direita de Arão e sobre a ponta da orelha direita de seus filhos, como também sobre o dedo polegar da sua mão direita e sobre o dedo polegar do seu direito; e espargirás o sangue sobre o altar ao redor.

21 Então tomarás do sangue que estará sobre o altar, e do óleo da unção, e os espargirás sobre Arão e sobre as suas vestes, e sobre seus filhos, e sobre as vestes de seus filhos com ele; assim ele será santificado e as suas vestes, também seus filhos e as vestes de seus filhos com ele.

22 Depois tomarás do carneiro a gordura e a cauda gorda, a gordura que cobre as entranhas e o redenho do fígado, os dois rins com a gordura que houver neles e a coxa direita (porque é carneiro de consagração),

23 e uma fogaça de pão, um bolo de pão azeitado e um coscorão do cesto dos pães ázimos que estará diante do Senhor,

24 e tudo porás nas mãos de Arão, e nas mãos de seus filhos; e por oferta de movimento o moverás perante o Senhor.

25 Depois o tomarás das suas mãos e o queimarás no altar sobre o holocausto, por cheiro suave perante o Senhor; é oferta queimada ao Senhor.

26 Também tomarás o peito do carneiro de consagração, que é de Arão, e por oferta de movimento o moverás perante o Senhor; e isto será a tua porção.

27 E santificarás o peito da oferta de movimento e a coxa da oferta alçada, depois de movida e alçada, isto é, aquilo do carneiro de consagração que for de Arão e de seus filhos;

28 e isto será para Arão e para seus fihos a porção de direito, para sempre, da parte dos filhos de Israel, porque é oferta alçada; e oferta alçada será dos filhos de Israel, dos sacrifícios das suas ofertas pacíficas, oferta alçada ao Senhor.

29 As vestes sagradas de Arão ficarão para seus filhos depois dele, para nelas serem ungidos e sagrados.

30 Sete dias os vestirá aquele que de seus filhos for sacerdote em seu lugar, quando entrar na tenda da revelação para ministrar no lugar santo.

31 Também tomarás o carneiro de consagração e cozerás a sua carne em lugar santo.

32 E Arão e seus filhos comerão a carne do carneiro, e o pão que está no cesto, à porta da tenda da revelação;

33 e comerão as coisas com que for feita expiação, para consagrá-los, e para santificá-los; mas delas o estranho nào comerá, porque são santas.

34 E se sobejar alguma coisa da carne da consagração, ou do pão, até pela manhã, o que sobejar queimarás no fogo; não se comerá, porque é santo.

35 Assim, pois, farás a Arão e a seus filhos conforme tudo o que te hei ordenado; por sete dias os sagrarás.

36 Também cada dia oferecerás para expiação o novilho de sacrifício pelo pecado; e purificarás o altar, fazendo expiação por ele; e o ungirás para santificá-lo.

37 Sete dias farás expiação pelo altar, e o santificarás; e o altar será santíssimo; tudo o que tocar o altar será santo.

38 Isto, pois, é o que oferecerás sobre o altar: dois cordeiros de um ano cada dia continuamente.

39 Um cordeiro oferecerás pela manhã, e o outro cordeiro oferecerás à tardinha;

40 com um cordeiro a décima parte de uma efa de flor de farinha, misturada com a quarta parte de um him de azeite batido, e para libação a quarta parte de um him de vinho.

41 E o outro cordeiro oferecerás à tardinha, e com ele farás oferta de cereais como com a oferta da manhã, e conforme a sua oferta de libação, por cheiro suave; oferta queimada é ao Senhor.

42 Este será o holocausto contínuo por vossas gerações, à porta da tenda da revelação, perante o Senhor, onde vos encontrarei, para falar contigo ali.

43 E ali virei aos filhos de Israel; e a tenda será santificada pela minha glória;

44 santificarei a tenda da revelação e o altar; também santificarei a Arão e seus filhos, para que me administrem o sacerdócio.

45 Habitarei no meio dos filhos de Israel, e serei o seu Deus;

46 e eles saberão que eu sou o Senhor seu Deus, que os tirei da terra do Egito, para habitar no meio deles; eu sou o Senhor seu Deus.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 10110

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10110. 'To fill their hand' means in order to receive Divine Truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'filling the hand' as representing the Lord in respect of Divine Truth in the heavens, and the transmission and the reception of that Truth there, dealt with in 10076. The implications of this statement - that 'they shall eat the holy things containing what has been expiated, to fill their hand' means the making of good their own by those who have been purified from evils and consequent falsities in order to receive Divine Truth - are as follows:

[2] The first thing of all to be made a person's own is good, followed in stages by truth. The reason why this should be so is that good is the ground and truth the seed. So in a similar way good adopts truth and joins it to itself, because it loves truth like a parent. For a heavenly conjugial relationship exists between good and truth, and good is what constitutes a person's life, since good belongs to the will and a person's will is the actual person. But truth does not constitute a person's life except insofar as it originates in good. Because truth belongs to the understanding, and the understanding without the will is not the actual person, it is merely the doorway to the person; for the understanding is the doorway through which things pass into the will.

[3] A person may be compared to a house with a large number of rooms leading one into the next. People who have truths solely in their understanding are not in any room in the house but merely in the court outside. So far however as truth passes through the understanding into the will it passes into the rooms and lives in the house. A person is also compared in the Word to a house, and truth confined to the understanding is compared to the court. But truth which has also been made part of the will and becomes good there is compared to a room that is lived in and to the actual bedchamber.

[4] The fact that good is the first thing of all to come from the Lord and be made a person's own is clear from his infancy and early childhood. At this time, as is well known, the good of innocence, the good of love towards parents and nursemaid, and the good of charity towards companions of his own age exist with him. This good flows from the Lord into young children to serve in the next stage of life as the first requirement for the presence of the Lord's life with a person, and so to serve as the groundwork for receiving truths. That good with the person is also preserved as he grows up, unless he himself destroys it by a life of evil and consequent belief in what is false. When the word 'good' is used charity towards the neighbour and love to the Lord should be understood; for everything that is a manifestation of love and charity is good.

Good occupies the first place and truth the second with those who are being regenerated, though the appearance is other than this, see 3325, 3494, 3539, 3548, 3556, 3563, 3570, 4925, 4926, 4928, 4930, 6256, 6269, 6272, 6273.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 3570

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3570. 'And he brought it to him, and he ate' means first of all a conjunction of good, 'and he brought him wine, and he drank' means followed by a conjunction of truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'eating' as being joined and being made one's own as regards good, dealt with just above in 3568; from the meaning of 'wine' as truth deriving from good, dealt with in 1071, 1798; and from the meaning of 'drinking' as being joined and being made one's own as regards truth, 3168. The implications of this - that the good of the rational, represented by Isaac, first of all joins good to itself, then it joins truth to itself, which it does through the natural, represented by Jacob - are as follows: While the natural dwells in that state when good occupies the external position and truth the internal one, dealt with above in 3539, 3548, 3556, 3563, many things are allowed to come in which are not good but which are nevertheless useful - such things as serve as means towards good in their own order. But the good of the rational does not join to itself and make its own anything from that source apart from that which is suited to its own good, for it receives no other kind of good. Whatever is unsuited it rejects. All else in the natural it leaves behind to serve as the means for allowing in and introducing further things suited to itself.

[2] It is the rational that exists within the internal man. What goes on there is unknown to the natural since it is above its range of discernment. Consequently anyone who leads a merely natural life cannot know anything whatever about those things that are going on with him in his internal man, that is, in his rational. The Lord re-arranges those things without a person's being at all conscious of it. Consequently he knows nothing at all about how he is regenerated; indeed he is scarcely aware of his being regenerated. If he does wish to know however let him merely pay attention to his ultimate intentions, which are rarely disclosed to anyone. If those intentions are directed towards good, that is to say, if he considers the neighbour and the Lord more than he does himself he is in a state of regeneration. But if his intentions are directed towards evil, that is to say, if he considers himself more than he does the neighbour and the Lord, let him realize that he is not in any state of regeneration.

[3] A person's ultimate aims and intentions in life determine where he is in the next life, aims which look towards what is good placing him among angels in heaven, aims which look towards what is evil placing him among devils in hell. A person's ultimate intentions are nothing else than his loves; for what a person loves he has as his end in view. And being his loves, his ultimate aims and intentions constitute his inmost life, see 1317, 1568, 1571, 1645, 1909, 3425, 3562, 3565. Aims present in a person which look towards what is good reside in his rational, and are called the rational as regards good or the good of the rational. Through those aims residing there, that is, by means of the good there, the Lord re-arranges all things that are in the natural; for the end in view is like the soul, and the natural like the body belonging to that soul. The nature of the soul determines that of the body which surrounds it, as does the nature of the rational as regards good determine that of the natural clothing it.

[4] It is well known that a person's soul begins in the mother's ovum, and is after that developed in her womb, and is there surrounded with a tiny body, which indeed is such that by means of it the soul is able to function properly in the world into which it is born. A similar situation exists when a person is born again, that is, when he is regenerated. The new soul which he acquires at that time is an end which has good in view. This end in view has its beginnings in the rational, where first of all it is so to speak in the ovum, and is after that developed so to speak in the womb. The tiny body with which that soul is surrounded is the natural, and the good there comes to be of such a nature that it acts in obedience to the soul's ends in view. The truths there are like fibres in the body, for it is from good that truths take shape, 3470. From this it is clear that a person's reformation is imaged by the formation of him in the womb. And if you are willing to believe it, it is also celestial good and spiritual truth from the Lord that are shaping him and at that time endowing him with power that enables him to receive that good and that truth gradually - and indeed in the manner and to the extent that he looks as a human being towards ends that are of heaven and not as an animal towards those that are of the world.

[5] The matter of the rational as regards good first of all joining the good, then the truth, to itself by means of the natural - meant by Jacob's bringing savoury food and bread to Isaac and his eating it, and bringing him wine and his drinking it - may also be illustrated by means of the duties the body performs for its soul. It is the soul that enables the body to desire food and it is also the soul that enables the body to savour it. Different kinds of food are introduced through the delight that goes with appetite and the delight that goes with taste, thus through external good; but not all of these pass into the life of the body. Rather, some kinds of food serve as solvents to digest food, some as neutralizers, some as openers of and others as introducers into vessels. But good types of food are selected and introduced into the bloodstream, and then become blood. And from the latter the soul joins to itself such things as are of use to it.

[6] A similar situation exists with the rational and the natural. Corresponding to the desire for food and to taste are the desire and the affection for knowing truth; and corresponding to different kinds of food are facts and cognitions, 1480. And because they so correspond a similar situation exists with them. The soul which is the good of the rational provides the desire for those things and is moved by them, so that the things which belong to knowledge and doctrine are introduced through the delight that belongs to desire, and through the good that belongs to affection. But not everything that is introduced is such that it becomes the good which nourishes life; instead some things serve as the means so to speak to digest and neutralize, some to open up and introduce. But goods which nourish life are applied by the soul, and so joined by the soul, to itself, and from these it forms truths for itself. From this it is evident how the rational re-arranges the natural so that the rational as the soul may be served by it, or what amounts to the same, so that the natural may serve the end in view, which is the soul, in developing itself so that it may be of use in the Lord's kingdom.

  
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