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1 Depois disse o Senhor a Moisés:

2 Fala aos filhos de Israel e díze-lhes: Quando entrardes na terra da vossa habitação, que eu vos hei de dar,

3 e ao Senhor fizerdes, do gado eu do rebanho, oferta queimada, holocausto ou sacrifício, para cumprir um voto, ou como oferta voluntária, para fazer nas vossos festas fixas um cheiro suave ao Senhor,

4 Então aquele que fizer a sua oferta, fará ao Senhor uma oferta de cereais de um décimo de efa de flor de farinha, misturada com a quarta parte de um him de azeite;

5 e de vinho para a oferta de libação prepararás a quarta parte de um him para o holocausto, ou para o sacrifício, para cada cordeiro;

6 e para cada carneiro prepararás como oferta de cereais, dois décimos de efa de flor de farinha, misturada com a terça parte de um him de azeite;

7 e de vinho para a oferta de libação oferecerás a terça parte de um him em cheiro suave ao Senhor.

8 Também, quando preparares novilho para holocausto ou sacrifício, para cumprir um voto, ou um sacrifício de ofertas pacíficas ao Senhor,

9 com o novilho oferecerás uma oferta de cereais de três décimos de efa, de flor de farinha, misturada com a metade de um him de azeite;

10 e de vinho para a oferta de libação oferecerás a metade de um him como oferta queimada em cheiro suave ao Senhor.

11 Assim se fará com cada novilho, ou carneiro, ou com cada um dos cordeiros ou dos cabritos.

12 Segundo o número que oferecerdes, assim fareis com cada um deles.

13 Todo natural assim fará estas coisas, ao oferecer oferta queimada em cheiro suave ao Senhor.

14 Também se peregrinar convosco algum estrangeiro, ou quem quer que estiver entre vos nas vossas gerações, e ele oferecer uma oferta queimada de cheiro suave ao Senhor, como vós fizerdes, assim fará ele.

15 Quanto à assembléia, haverá um mesmo estatuto para vós e para o estrangeiro que peregrinar convosco, estatuto perpétuo nas vossas gerações; como vós, assim será o peregrino perante o Senhor.

16 Uma mesma lei e uma mesma ordenança haverá para vós e para o estrangeiro que peregrinar convosco.

17 Disse mais o Senhor a Moisés:

18 Fala aos filhos de Israel, e dize-lhes: Depois de terdes entrado na terra em que vos hei de introduzir,

19 será que, ao comerdes do pão da terra, oferecereis ao Senhor uma oferta alçada.

20 Das primícias da vossa massa oferecereis um bolo em oferta alçada; como a oferta alçada da eira, assim o oferecereis.

21 Das primícias das vossas massas dareis ao Senhor oferta alçada durante as vossas gerações.

22 Igualmente, quando vierdes a errar, e não observardes todos esses mandamentos, que o Senhor tem falado a Moisés,

23 sim, tudo quanto o Senhor vos tem ordenado por intermédio do Moisés, desde o dia em que o Senhor começou a dar os seus mandamentos, e daí em diante pelas vossas gerações,

24 será que, quando se fizer alguma coisa sem querer, e isso for encoberto aos olhos da congregação, toda a congregação oferecerá um novilho para holocausto em cheiro suave ao Senhor, juntamente com a oferta de cereais do mesmo e a sua oferta de libação, segundo a ordenança, e um bode como sacrifício pelo pecado.

25 E o sacerdote fará expiação por toda a congregação dos filhos de Israel, e eles serão perdoados; porquanto foi erro, e trouxeram a sua oferta, oferta queimada ao Senhor, e o seu sacrifício pelo pecado perante o Senhor, por causa do seu erro.

26 Será, pois, perdoada toda a congregação dos filhos de Israel, bem como o estrangeiro que peregrinar entre eles; porquanto sem querer errou o povo todo.

27 E, se uma só pessoa pecar sem querer, oferecerá uma cabra de um ano como sacrifício pelo pecado.

28 E o sacerdote fará perante o Senhor expiação pela alma que peca, quando pecar sem querer; e, feita a expiação por ela, será perdoada.

29 Haverá uma mesma lei para aquele que pecar sem querer, tanto para o natural entre os filhos de Israel, como para o estrangeiro que peregrinar entre eles.

30 Mas a pessoa que fizer alguma coisa temerariamente, quer seja natural, quer estrangeira, blasfema ao Senhor; tal pessoa será extirpada do meio do seu povo,

31 por haver desprezado a palavra do Senhor, e quebrado o seu mandamento; essa alma certamente será extirpada, e sobre ela recairá a sua iniqüidade.

32 Estando, pois, os filhos de Israel no deserto, acharam um homem apanhando lenha no dia de sábado.

33 E os que o acharam apanhando lenha trouxeram-no a Moisés e a Arão, e a toda a congregação.

34 E o meteram em prisão, porquanto ainda não estava declarado o que se lhe devia fazer.

35 Então disse o Senhor a Moisés: certamente será morto o homem; toda a congregação o apedrejará fora do arraial.

36 Levaram-no, pois, para fora do arraial, e o apedrejaram, de modo que ele morreu; como o Senhor ordenara a Moisés.

37 Disse mais o Senhor a Moisés:

38 Fala aos filhos de Israel, e dize-lhes que façam para si franjas nas bordas das suas vestes, pelas suas gerações; e que ponham nas franjas das bordas um cordão azul.

39 Tê-lo-eis nas franjas, para que o vejais, e vos lembreis de todos os mandamentos do Senhor, e os observeis; e para que não vos deixeis arrastar à infidelidade pelo vosso coração ou pela vossa vista, como antes o fazíeis;

40 para que vos lembreis de todos os meus mandamentos, e os observeis, e sejais santos para com o vosso Deus.

41 Eu sou o senhor vosso Deus, que vos tirei da terra do Egito para ser o vosso Deus. Eu sou o senhor vosso Deus.

   

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1071. That 'he drank wine' means that he wished to probe into matters of faith is clear from the meaning of 'wine'. 'A vineyard' or 'a vine', as has been shown, is the spiritual Church, or member of the spiritual Church. The grape, clusters, and bunches are its fruit, and these mean charity and what belongs to charity. Wine however means faith deriving from charity, and all things that belong to faith. Thus 'grape means the celestial aspect of that Church, and 'wine' the spiritual. The celestial, as often stated already, comprises the will, while the spiritual comprises the understanding. That 'he drank of the wine' means that he wished to probe into matters of faith, and to do so indeed by means of reasonings, is clear from the reason given why 'he was drunk', that is, sank into errors. Indeed the member of this Church did not possess any perception at all as the member of the Most Ancient Church had done. Instead he had to acquire knowledge of what good and truth were by learning about them from doctrinal matters concerning faith which had been gathered together and preserved from the perception that had existed in the Most Ancient Church. And these matters of doctrine constituted the Word of the Ancient Church. As with the Word, doctrinal matters concerning faith were in many instances such that, without perception, they could not be believed; for spiritual and celestial things infinitely transcend human comprehension, and this is why reasoning enters in. But the person who refuses to believe those things until he comprehends them is never able to believe, as often shown already. See what appears in 128, 130, 195, 196, 215, 232, 233.

[2] That 'grapes in the Word means charity and what belongs to charity, and that 'wine' means both faith deriving from charity and also matters of faith, becomes clear from the following places: In Isaiah,

My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. 1 He looked for it to yield grapes, and it yielded wild grapes. Isaiah 5:1-2, 4.

Here 'grapes' stands for charity and the fruits of charity. In Jeremiah,

I will surely gather them, says Jehovah; there will be no grapes on the vine nor figs on the fig tree. Jer, 8:13.

'Vine' stands for the spiritual Church, 'grapes' for charity. In Hosea,

Like grapes in the wilderness I found Israel, like the first fruit on the fig tree, in the beginning, I saw your fathers. Hosea 9:10.

'Israel' stands for the Ancient Church, 'grape' for the fact that they were endowed with charity. These words are used in the contrary sense when 'Israel' stands for the sons of Jacob. In Micah,

There was no cluster to eat; my soul desired the first fruit. The holy man has perished from the earth, and there is none upright among men. Micah 7:1-2.

'Cluster' stands for charity or that which is holy, 'first fruit' for faith or that which is upright.

[3] In Isaiah,

Thus said Jehovah, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it. Isaiah 65:8.

'Cluster' stands for charity, 'new wine' for goods that stem from charity, and truths deriving from these. In Moses,

He washes his clothing in wine, and His garment in the blood of grapes. Genesis 49:11.

This is a prophecy concerning the Lord. 'Wine' stands for that which is spiritual deriving from what is celestial, 'blood of grapes' for the celestial in respect to spiritual Churches. So 'grapes' stands for charity itself, 'wine' for faith itself. In John,

The angel said, Put in your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the earth, for its grapes have ripened. Revelation 14:18.

This refers to the last times when there is no faith, that is, when there is no charity. For no faith exists other than that which inheres in charity, and in essence is charity itself. Consequently when it is said that there is no longer any faith, as in the last times, it means that there is no charity.

[4] As 'grapes' means charity, so 'wine' means faith deriving from charity, for wine is obtained from grapes. In addition to these and previous quotations concerning the vineyard and the vine, the following also make the point clear: In Isaiah,

Gladness and exaltation have been taken away from Carmel, and in the vineyards there is no singing, no joyful noise. No treader treads out wine in the presses; I have made the hedad 2 to cease. Isaiah 16:10.

This stands for the fact that the spiritual Church, meant by 'Carmel', has been vastated, 'none treading wine in the presses' for the fact that no longer are there any people who possess faith. In the same prophet,

The inhabitants of the earth will be scorched and few men left. The new wine will mourn, the vine will languish; they will not drink wine with singing, strong drink will be bitter to those drinking it; there will be an outcry in the streets over wine. Isaiah 24:6-7, 9, 11.

The vastated spiritual Church being the subject, 'wine' stands for truths of faith that are considered valueless. In Jeremiah,

They will say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they faint like one who has been run through in the streets of the city. Lamentations 2:12.

'Where is corn and wine?' means, Where is love and faith? 'Streets of the city' means truths here, as elsewhere in the Word. 'Those who have been run through in them' means that they do not know what the truths of faith are.

[5] In Amos,

I will bring again the captivity of My people Israel, and they will build the ruined cities and inhabit them. And they will plant vineyards and drink their wine. Amos 9:14.

This refers to the spiritual Church, meant by Israel, to which 'planting vineyards and drinking wine' is attributed when it becomes a Church such as derives faith from charity. In Zephaniah,

They will build houses but not inhabit them, and they will plant vineyards but not drink their wine. Zephaniah 1:13; Amos 5:11.

Here 'vineyard' and 'wine' stand for the contrary situation when the spiritual Church has been vastated. In Zechariah,

They will be like a mighty man of Ephraim, and their heart will rejoice as from wine, and their sons will see it and rejoice. Zechariah 10:7.

This refers to the house of Judah, that it would be such by virtue of the goods and truths of faith. In John the command not to do harm to oil and wine, Revelation 6:6, stands for doing no harm to what is celestial and spiritual, that is, to things of love and faith.

[6] In the Jewish Church, since 'wine' meant faith in the Lord, the libation of wine in the sacrifices also represented faith, as in Numbers 15:1-15; 28:11-15, 18-end; Numbers 29:7-end; Leviticus 23:12-13; Exodus 29:40. Hence the following is said in Hosea,

Threshing-floor and winepress will not feed them, and new wine will be deceptive in her. They will not dwell in Jehovah's land, but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and in Assyria they will eat what is unclean: They will not pour libations of wine to Jehovah, they will not be pleasing to Him. Hosea 9:1-4.

This refers to Israel, or the spiritual Church, and to those people in it who pervert and defile holy things and the truths of faith by wishing to probe into them by means of knowledge and reasonings. 'Egypt' is knowledge, 'Assyria' reasoning, and 'Ephraim' one who engages in reasoning.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, on a horn of a son of oil

2. A Hebrew word which is a shout of exaltation.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.