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1 Estas, pois, eram as gerações de Arão e de Moisés, no dia em que o Senhor falou com Moisés no monte Sinai.

2 Os nomes dos filhos de Arão são estes: o primogênito, Nadabe; depois Abiú, Eleazar e Itamar.

3 São esses os nomes dos filhos de Arão, dos sacerdotes que foram ungidos, a quem ele consagrou para administrarem o sacerdocio.

4 Mas Nadabe e Abiú morreram perante o Senhor, quando ofereceram fogo estranho perante o Senhor no deserto de Sinai, e não tiveram filhos; porém Eleazar e Itamar administraram o sacerdócio diante de Arão, seu pai.

5 Então disse o Senhor a Moisés:

6 Faze chegar a tribo de Levi, e põe-nos diante de Arão, o sacerdote, para que o sirvam;

7 eles cumprirão o que é devido a ele e a toda a congregação, diante da tenda da revelação, fazendo o serviço do tabernáculo;

8 cuidarão de todos os móveis da tenda da revelação, e zelarão pelo cumprimento dos deveres dos filhos de Israel, fazendo o serviço do tabernáculo.

9 Darás, pois, os levitas a Arão e a seus filhos; de todo lhes são dados da parte dos filhos de Israel.

10 Mas a Arão e a seus filhos ordenarás que desempenhem o seu sacerdócio; e o estranho que se chegar será morto.

11 Disse mais o senhor a Moisés:

12 Eu, eu mesmo tenho tomado os levitas do meio dos filhos de Israel, em lugar de todo primogênito, que abre a madre, entre os filhos de Israel; e os levitas serão meus,

13 porque todos os primogênitos são meus. No dia em que feri a todos os primogênitos na terra do Egito, santifiquei para mim todos os primogênitos em Israel, tanto dos homens como dos animais; meus serão. Eu sou o Senhor.

14 Disse mais o Senhor a Moisés no deserto de Sinai:

15 Conta os filhos de Levi, segundo as casas de seus pais, pelas suas famílias; contarás todo homem da idade de um mês, para cima.

16 E Moisés os contou conforme o mandado do Senhor, como lhe fora ordenado.

17 Estes, pois, foram os filhos de Levi, pelos seus nomes: Gérson, Coate e Merári.

18 E estes são os nomes dos filhos de Gérson pelas suas famílias: Líbni e Simei.

19 E os filhos de Coate, pelas suas famílias: Anrão, Izar, Hebrom e Uziel.

20 E os filhos de Merári, pelas suas familias: Mali e Musi. São essas as famílias dos levitas, segundo as casas de seus pais.

21 De Gérson era a familia dos libnitas e a família dos simeítas. São estas as famílias dos gersonitas.

22 Os que deles foram contados, segundo o número de todos os homens da idade de um mês para cima, sim, os que deles foram c contados eram sete mil e quinhentos.

23 As famílias dos gersonitas acampar-se-ão atrás do tabernáculo, ao ocidente.

24 E o prícipe da casa paterna dos gersonitas será Eliasafe, filho de Lael.

25 E os filhos de Gérson terão a seu cargo na tenda da revelação o tabernáculo e a tenda, a sua coberta e o reposteiro da porta da tenda da revelação,

26 e as cortinas do átrio, e o reposteiro da porta do átrio, que está junto ao tabernáculo e junto ao altar, em redor, como também as suas cordas para todo o seu serviço.

27 De Coate era a familia dos anramitas, e a familia dos izaritas, e a familia dos hebronitas, e a família dos uzielitas; são estas as famílias dos coatitas.

28 Segundo o número de todos os homens da idade de um mês para cima, eram oito mil e seiscentos os que tinham a seu cargo o santuário.

29 As famílias dos filhos de Coate acampar-se-ão ao lado do tabernáculo para a banda do sul.

30 E o príncipe da casa paterna das familias dos coatitas será Elizafã, filho de Uziel.

31 Eles terão a seu cargo a arca e a mesa, o candelabro, os altares e os utensílios do santuário com que ministram, e o reposteiro com todo o seu serviço.

32 E o príncipe dos príncipes de Levi será Eleazar, filho de Arão, o sacerdote; ele terá a superintendência dos que têm a seu cargo o santuário.

33 De Merári era a família dos malitas e a família dos musitas; são estas as famílias de Merári.

34 Os que deles foram contados, segundo o número de todos os homens de um mês para cima, eram seis mil e duzentos.

35 E o príncipe da casa paterna das famílias de Merári será Zuriel, filho de Abiail; eles se acamparão ao lado do tabernáculo, para a banda do norte.

36 Por designação os filhos de Merári terão a seu cargo as armações do tabernáculo e os seus travessões, as suas colunas e as suas bases, e todos os seus pertences, com todo o seu serviço,

37 e as colunas do átrio em redor e as suas bases, as suas estacas e as suas cordas.

38 Diante do tabernáculo, para a banda do oriente, diante da tenda da revelação, acampar-se-ão Moisés, e Arão com seus filhos, que terão a seu cargo o santuário, para zelarem pelo cumprimento dos deveres dos filhos de Israel; e o estranho que se chegar será morto.

39 Todos os que foram contados dos levitas, que Moisés e Arão contaram por mandado do Senhor, segundo as suas famílias, todos os homens de um mês para cima, eram vinte e dois mil.

40 Disse mais o Senhor a Moisés: Conta todos os primogênitos dos filhos de Israel, da idade de um mês para cima, e toma o número dos seus nomes.

41 E para mim tomarás os levitas (eu sou o Senhor) em lugar de todos os primogênitos dos filhos de Israel, e o gado dos levitas em lugar de todos os primogênitos entre o gado de Israel.

42 Moisés, pois, contou, como o Senhor lhe ordenara, todos os primogênitos entre os filhos de Israel.

43 E todos os primogênitos, pelo número dos nomes, da idade de um mês para cima, segundo os que foram contados deles, eram vinte e dois mil duzentos e setenta e três.

44 Disse ainda mais o Senhor a Moisés:

45 Toma os levitas em lugar de todos os primogênitos entre os filhos de Israel, e o gado dos levitas em lugar do gado deles; porquanto os levitas serão meus. Eu sou o Senhor.

46 Pela redenção dos duzentos e setenta e três primogênitos dos filhos de Israel, que excedem o número dos levitas,

47 receberás por cabeça cinco siclos; conforme o siclo do santuário os receberás (o siclo tem vinte jeiras),

48 e darás a Arão e a seus filhos o dinheiro da redenção dos que excedem o número entre eles.

49 Então Moisés recebeu o dinheiro da redenção dos que excederam o número dos que foram remidos pelos levitas;

50 dos primogênitos dos filhos de Israel recebeu o dinheiro, mil trezentos e sessenta e cinco siclos, segundo o siclo do santuário.

51 E Moisés deu o dinheiro da redenção a Arão e a seus filhos, conforme o Senhor lhe ordenara.

   

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10287. 'And he who puts any of it on a foreigner' means a joining together for those who do not acknowledge the Lord, and so who are subject to evils and to the falsities of evil. This is clear from the meaning of 'putting it on someone' - when the subject is Divine Truths, meant by the sweet-smelling ointment - as a joining together; and from the meaning of 'a foreigner' as those who do not belong to the Church, thus those who do not acknowledge the Lord, consequently who are subject to evils and falsities. Anyone who does not acknowledge the Lord does not belong to the Church; and anyone who rejects the Lord is subject to evils and falsities. For goodness and truth come from no other source than Him. The fact that such people are meant by 'foreigners' will be clear from the places in the Word which will follow below. But first something must be stated regarding the joining of Divine Truth among those who do not acknowledge the Lord. Such a joining together constitutes profanation, for profanation is a joining of Divine Truth to falsities arising from evil. The joining together that constitutes profanation is something which cannot happen with any at all except those who have first acknowledged the things which are the Church's, and especially the Lord, but subsequently reject them. For acknowledgement of the Church's truths and of the Lord leads to contact with the heavens, and consequently to an opening of a person's interiors towards heaven; and a subsequent rejection of them leads to a joining of the same truths to falsities arising from evil. For everything a person acknowledges remains implanted in him; nothing present with a person which has entered through acknowledgement is destroyed.

[2] The state of a person with whom profanation exists is one in which he is in contact with the heavens and at the same time with the hells, through truths with the heavens and through the falsities of evil with the hells. As a result of this, in the next life a tearing apart takes place with such people, which destroys the whole of their inner life. After the tearing apart they hardly look like human beings any longer; they look like bones that have been scorched and have little life in them. See what has been stated and shown previously regarding profanation in the following places,

Profaners are those who have first acknowledged God's truths but subsequently reject them, 1001, 1010, 1059, 2051, 3398, 4289, 4601, 6348, 6959, 6963, 6971, 8394.

People who have rejected them since early childhood, such as Jews and others, are not profaners, 593, 1001, 1010, 1059, 3398, 3489, 6963.

The Lord takes the greatest care to guard against the occurrence of profanation with a person, 301-303, 1327, 1328, 2426, 3398, 3402, 3489, 6595.

[3] But it should be realized that the genera of profanation are very many, and the species composing those genera are very many. For there are those who profane the Church's forms of good and those who profane its truths; there are those who profane greatly and those who profane slightly; there are those who profane on a more internal level and those who profane on increasingly external levels; there are those who profane through belief contrary to the Church's truths and forms of good, there are those who profane through the life they lead, and those who profane through their worship. Consequently there exist very many hells of profaners, which are distinct and separate from one another, in accord with their different kinds of profanation. The hells of those who profane good are behind one's back, whereas the hells of profanation of truth are underfoot and to the sides. They are deeper than the hells of all other evils and are rarely opened.

[4] Those who do not acknowledge the Lord and refuse to do so, whether they are outside the Church or inside it, thus those who are subject to evils and to the falsities of evil, are meant by 'foreigners'; and in the abstract sense, without reference to actual persons, evils and the falsities of evil are meant. This is clear from very many places in the Word. The reason for saying 'those who do not acknowledge the Lord, thus those who are subject to evils and the falsities of evil' is that people who do not acknowledge the Lord are inevitably subject to evils and the falsities of evil; for the Lord is the source of all good and of all the truth of good. Those therefore who reject the Lord are subject to evils and the falsities of evil, as accords with the Lord's words in John,

Unless you believe that I am, you will die in your sins. John 8:24.

[5] The fact that such people are meant by 'foreigners' is clear from the following places: In Isaiah,

Your land will be a lonely place, your cities have been burned with fire; foreigners will devour your ground before you, and it will be a lonely place, as if overturned by foreigners 1 . Isaiah 1:7.

Here land should not be understood by 'land', nor cities and ground by 'cities' and 'ground'. Instead the Church should be understood by 'land' and likewise by 'ground', and by 'cities' the Church's truths, called its doctrinal teachings, which are said to have been 'burned with fire' when they have been destroyed by the evils of self-love and love of the world. From this it is evident what is meant by 'foreigners will devour your ground', namely evils and the falsities of evil destroying the Church, and by 'your land will be a lonely place' and 'your cities have been burned with fire'.

'Land' or earth means the Church, see in the places referred to in 9325, and 'ground' likewise, 566, 1068.

'Cities' are the Church's doctrinal teachings, thus its truths, 2268, 2451, 2712, 2943, 3216, 4492, 4493.

'Fire' means the evil of self-love and love of the world, 1297, 1861, 2446, 5071, 5215, 6314, 6832, 7575, 9141.

[6] In Jeremiah,

Shame covered our faces when foreigners came against the sanctuaries of Jehovah's house. Jeremiah 51:51.

'Foreigners coming against the sanctuaries of Jehovah's house' are evils and the falsities of evil that go against the Church's truths and forms of good. The word 'foreigners' was used to mean members of the gentile nations who were slaves in the Jewish Church, and the gentile nations of that land also mean evil and falsities, 9320. In the same prophet,

You say, There is no hope, no; but I will love foreigners, and after them I will go. Jeremiah 2:25.

'Loving foreigners and going after them' means loving evils and the falsities of evil, and worshipping them.

[7] In Ezekiel,

I will bring a sword upon you, and will give you into the hand of foreigners. Ezekiel 11:8-9.

'Bringing a sword upon' means falsities arising from evil set in conflict against truths springing from good. 'Giving into the hand of foreigners' means to the end that they may believe and serve those falsities. For the meaning of 'a sword' as truth engaged in conflict against falsities, and in the contrary sense falsity engaged in conflict against truths, see 2799, 6353, 7102, 8294.

[8] In the same prophet,

You will die the deaths of the uncircumcised in the hand of foreigners. Ezekiel 28:10.

'The uncircumcised' are those who, for all the religious teachings they know, lead lives steeped in foul loves and the desires that go with them, 2049, 3412, 3413, 4462, 7045, 7225, the death they die being spiritual death. 'In the hand of foreigners' means subject to evils themselves and the falsities of evil.

[9] In the same prophet,

Jerusalem, an adulterous woman, takes foreigners instead of her husband. Ezekiel 16:32.

'Jerusalem, an adulterous woman' stands for the Church in which good has been adulterated; 'taking foreigners' stands for its acceptance, in life and doctrine, of evils and the falsities of evil. In Joel,

Jerusalem will be holy, and foreigners will not pass through her any longer. Joel 3:17.

Here also 'Jerusalem' stands for the Church, but one in which people acknowledge the Lord, lead good lives, and believe truths coming from the Lord. 'Foreigners will not pass through her any longer' means that evils and the falsities of evil coming from hell will not enter it.

[10] In David,

Foreigners have risen up against me, and violent ones have sought my soul. Psalms 54:3.

Here also 'foreigners' stands for evils and the falsities of evil, and 'violent ones' for these same evils and falsities acting violently against forms of good and truths. Those who see solely the literal sense of the Word take 'foreigners' to mean nothing more than those outside the Church who were rising up against David. But no ideas of actual persons enter the thinking of those in heaven, only the realities meant by them, 8343, 8985, 9007, so that they think not of people but things that are foreign or alien, that is, those which are alienated from the Church, thus evils and the falsities of evil which destroy the Church. And by 'David', against whom the foreigners were rising up, those in heaven understand the Lord, 1888, 9954.

[11] In Moses,

He forsook the God who made him, and despised the Rock of his salvation. They provoked Him to jealousy through foreign [gods]. Deuteronomy 32:15-16.

'Forsaking God' and 'despising the Rock of salvation' stand for rejecting the Lord, 'provoking through foreign [gods]' for doing so through evils and the falsities of evil, 'the Rock of salvation' being the Lord in respect of the truths of faith, see 8581. In addition to all this there are other places in which 'foreigners' stands for evils and falsities, such as Isaiah 25:2, 4-5; Jeremiah 30:8; Ezekiel 31:11-12.

[12] Since 'foreigners' meant those who are subject to evils and the falsities of evil, and consequently in the abstract sense meant evils and the falsities of evil, it was forbidden for a foreigner to eat that which was holy, Leviticus 22:10; no foreigner was permitted to come near and perform the priestly function or guard the sanctuary; and any who did come near was to be put to death, Numbers 1:51; 3:10, 38; 18:7;

[13] furthermore no incense was to be offered on foreign 2 fire, and because Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu did offer incense on it they were devoured by fire from heaven, Leviticus 10:1-2. For holy fire which was taken from the altar was a sign of love derived from God, whereas foreign fire was a sign of love coming from hell, and therefore also of evils and the desires that go with them, see 1297, 1861, 2446, 5071, 5215, 6314, 6832, 7575, 9141.

[14] Mention is also made in the Word of those who are foreign-born, a different word being used in the original language from that rendered 'foreigners', and by them falsities themselves are meant, as in Lamentations,

O Jehovah, look upon our shame. Our inheritance has been turned over to foreigners, and our houses to the foreign-born. Lamentations 5:1-2.

In Obadiah,

Foreigners led his strength 3 captive, and the foreign-born entered his gates and cast 4 lots for Jerusalem. Obad. verse 11.

'Casting lots for Jerusalem' stands for destroying the Church and scattering its truths.

[15] In Zephaniah,

I will punish 5 the princes and the king's sons, and all clothed with the clothing of him who is foreign-born. Zephaniah 1:8.

Those 'clothed with the clothing of him who is foreign-born' stand for people subject to falsities; for 'the princes' and 'the king's sons' who are to undergo punishment mean leading truths and in the contrary sense leading falsities. For this meaning of 'princes', see 1482, 2089, 5044, and for that of 'kings' as truths themselves and in the contrary sense falsities themselves, 2015, 2069, 3009, 4581, 4966, 5044, 5068, 6148, so that 'the king's sons' means things derived from those truths or falsities.

[16] In David,

Deliver me, and rescue me from the hands of the sons of him who is foreign-born, whose mouths speak vanity, and whose right hands are the right hands of falsehood. Psalms 144:7-8, 11.

'The sons of him who is foreign-born', it is plainly evident, means those subject to falsities, and so means falsities themselves, for it says, 'Whose mouths speak vanity, and whose right hands are right hands of falsehood', 'vanity' meaning false ideas composing doctrine, and 'falsehood' false ways of life, 9248.

  
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