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1 Еще сдјлай жертвенникъ для приношенія куреній; изъ дерева акаціи сдјлай его.

2 Длина ему локоть, и ширина ему локоть; онъ долженъ быть четыреугольный; а вышина ему два локтя; изъ него должны выходитъ роги его.

3 Обложи его чистымъ золотомъ, верхъ его, и бока его кругомъ, и роги его; и сдјлай къ нему золотой вјнецъ вокругъ.

4 Подъ вјнцемъ его, на двухъ углахъ его сдјлай два кольца изъ золота. Такъ сдјлай съ двухъ сторонъ его; и будутъ оныя влагалищемъ для шестовъ, чтобы носить его на нихъ.

5 Шесты сдјлай изъ дерева акаціи, и обложи ихъ золотомъ.

6 И поставь его предъ завјсою, которая предъ ковчегомъ откровенія противъ очистилища находящагося надъ откровеніемъ, гдј я буду открываться тебј.

7 И будетъ курить на немъ Ааронъ благовоннымъ куреніемъ каждое утро; тогда какъ онъ поправляетъ лампады, будетъ курить имъ.

8 По вечерамъ также, когда Ааронъ зажигаетъ лампады, онъ будетъ курить имъ. Это всегдашнее куреніе предъ Іеговою, въ роды ваши.

9 Не приносите на немъ куренія чуждаго, ни всесожженія, ни приношенія хлјбнаго. и возліянія не возливайте на него.

10 Только однажды въ годъ долженъ Ааронъ совершать очищеніе надъ рогами его; кровію жертвы очистительной отъ грјха онъ будетъ очищать его однажды въ годъ, въ роды ваши. Это великая святыня у Іеговы.

11 И говорилъ Іегова Моисею и сказалъ:

12 когда будешь дјлать перепись сыновъ Израилевыхъ при исчисленіи ихъ, то каждый дастъ окупъ за душу свою Іеговј, при исчисленіи ихъ, и не будетъ между ими язвы, при исчисленіи ихъ.

13 Всякій поступающій въ перепись долженъ дать половину сикля, противъ сикля святилища; въ сиклј двадцать геръ: полсикля приношеніе Іеговј.

14 Всякой поступающій въ перепись, отъ двадцати лјтъ и выше, дастъ приношеніе Іеговј.

15 Богатый дастъ не больше, и бјдный дастъ не меньше, какъ полсикля, принося приношеніе Іеговј, для окупа душъ вашихъ.

16 И возми серебро окупа отъ сыновъ Израилевыхъ, и употребляй оное на дјло скиніи собранія: и будетъ сіе въ память сыновъ Израилевыхъ предъ Іеговою, для искупленія душъ ихъ.

17 Еще говоридъ Іегова Моисею, и сказалъ:

18 сдјлай умывальницу мјдную для омовенія, и основаніе ей мјдное, и поставь ее между скиніею собранія и между жертвенникомъ, и налей въ нее воды.

19 И пусть Ааронъ и сыны его омываютъ изъ нея руки свои и ноги свои.

20 Когда имъ войдти въ скинію собранія; пусть они омываются водою, чтобъ имъ не умереть; или когда приступать имъ къ жертвеннику для служенія, для куренія огнепалимыми жертвами Іеговј,

21 пусть они омываютъ руки свои и ноги, чтобы не умереть. Сіе будетъ для нихъ вјчнымъ постановленіемъ для него, и для потомковъ его, въ роды ихъ.

22 Еще говорилъ Іегова Моисею, и сказалъ:

23 ты же возми себј первјйшихъ благовонныхъ веществъ: смирны самоточной пять сотъ сиклей, и корицы благовонной половину противъ того, двјсти пятьдесятъ; и трости благовонной двјсти пятьдесятъ,

24 и касіи пять сотъ сиклей, противъ сикля святилища, и елея гинъ.

25 И сдјлай изъ сего мўро для священнаго помазанія, масть составленную, искусствомъ составляюшаго масти. Это будетъ мўро для священнаго помазанія.

26 И помажь мнј скинію собранія, и ковчегъ откровенія,

27 и столъ и всј принадлежности его, и свјтильникъ и всј принадлежиости его, и жертвенникъ куренія,

28 и жертвенникъ всесожженія, и всј сосуды его, и умывальницу и основаніе ея.

29 И освяти ихъ, и будутъ святыня великая: все прикасающееся къ нимъ будетъ свято.

30 Помажь также Аарона и сыновъ его и посвяти ихъ, чтобы они были священниками Мнј.

31 А сынамъ Израилевымъ скажи: это будетъ у меня мўро священнаго помазанія въ роды ваши.

32 Тјла какого-либо человјка не мазать имъ; и по составу его не дјлайте другаго подобнаго. Оно святыня; святынею да будетъ для васъ.

33 Кто составитъ подобное ему, или кто помажетъ имъ посторонняго: тотъ истребится изъ народа своего.

34 Еще сказалъ Іегова Моисею: возми себј благовонныхъ веществъ: стакти, ониха, и халвана душистаго, и чистаго ливана, всего по ровну.

35 Изъ нихъ искусствомъ составляющаго масти, сдјлай курительный составъ, съ солью, чистый, святый;

36 и растолкп его мелко, и возлагай его предъ откровеніемъ въ скиніи собранія, гдј Я буду открываться тебј: это будетъ у васъ святыня великая.

37 Куренія сдјланнаго по сему составу не дјлайте себј: да будетъ оно у тебя свято для Іеговы.

38 Кто сдјлаетъ подобное ему, чтобы курить имъ, истребится изъ народа своего.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9992

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9992. 'And unleavened bread' means purification of what is celestial in the inmost part of a person. This is clear from the meaning of 'bread' as that which is celestial, dealt with in 2165, 2177, 3478, 9545; and from the meaning of what is 'unleavened' as what has been purified, dealt with below. The inmost part of a person is meant because what is celestial consists in the good of love, and the good of love is inmost. There are three degrees in a person that follow one another in order; and these three are called celestial, spiritual, and natural. The celestial degree is the good of love to the Lord, the spiritual is the good of charity towards the neighbour, and the natural descending from this is the good of faith, which, since it descends from the spiritual, is called spiritual-natural. The situation with a person resembles that in the heavens. The inmost heaven, also called the third heaven, is where the celestial degree is situated; the second or middle heaven is where the spiritual degree does so; and the first or lowest heaven is where the natural descending from the spiritual, or the spiritual-natural degree, does so. The reason why the situation with a person resembles that in the heavens is that a person in whom good is present is heaven in the smallest form it takes, see the places referred to in 9279. The celestial heaven or kingdom and the division of this too into three will be spoken of in what follows next where cakes and wafers made from fine wheat flour are the subject.

[2] 'Unleavened' means what has been purified because 'yeast' means falsity arising from evil, 2342, 7906, so that 'unleavened' or made without yeast means pure or free from that falsity. 'Yeast' means falsity arising from evil because such falsity defiles good, and truth as well, and also because it gives rise to conflict; for when that falsity gets near good, agitation occurs, and when it gets near truth, a collision takes place. All this explains why a minchah consisting of unleavened bread was included in burnt offerings and sacrifices. Therefore it was decreed that every minchah which they brought to Jehovah should be made without yeast, Leviticus 2:11; that they should not sacrifice the blood of a sacrifice with anything made with yeast, Exodus 23:18; and that during the feast of Passover they should not eat anything made with yeast, and that anyone eating it should be cut off from Israel, Exodus 12:15, 18-20. The reason why anyone who ate anything made with yeast during the feast of Passover should be cut off from Israel was that the feast of Passover was a sign of deliverance from damnation, and in particular of deliverance from falsities arising from evil, accomplished with those who allow themselves to be regenerated by the Lord, see 7093, 9286-9292. This also explains why it was called the feast of unleavened bread.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 2342

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2342. 'And he baked unleavened bread' means purification. This is clear from the meaning of 'unleavened' or without yeast. In the Word 'bread' means in general every celestial and spiritual food, and so in general everything celestial and spiritual, see 276, 680, 1798, 2165, 2177. The need for the latter to be free of all impurities or unholiness was represented by 'unleavened bread'; for 'yeast' means the evil and falsity by means of which celestial and spiritual things are rendered impure and profane. On account of this representation those who belonged to the representative Church were forbidden in sacrifices to offer any bread or minchah other than bread without yeast, that is, unleavened, as is clear in Moses,

Every minchah which you bring to Jehovah shall be made without yeast. Leviticus 2:11. In the same author,

You shall not sacrifice the blood of My sacrifice with that made with yeast. Exodus 23:18; 34:25.

[2] They were also forbidden therefore to eat any other bread during the seven days of the Passover than bread without yeast, that is, which was unleavened. This prohibition occurs in the following verses in Moses,

For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even on the first day you shall remove yeast from your houses, for anyone eating that made with yeast, that soul shall be cut off from Israel, from the first day until the seventh. In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month, in the evening. For seven days no yeast shall be found in your houses, for anyone eating that made with yeast, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether a settler or one born in the land. Exodus 12:15, 19-20.

The same prohibition appears in other places as well, such as Exodus 13:6-7; 23:15; 34:18; Deuteronomy 16:3-4. Consequently the Passover is called the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Leviticus 23:6; Numbers 28:16-17; Matthew 26:17; Luke 22:1, 7.

[3] That the Passover represented the glorification of the Lord and so the conjunction of the Divine with the human race will in the Lord's Divine mercy be shown elsewhere. And because the conjunction of the Lord with the human race is effected by means of love and charity, and by means of the faith deriving from these, celestial and spiritual things were represented by the unleavened bread which they were to eat each day during the Passover. Consequently to prevent the defilement of those things by anything unholy they were strictly forbidden to eat anything made with yeast, so strictly that any who did so were to be cut off; for those who profane celestial and spiritual things inevitably perish. Anyone may see that but for this arcanum within it that observance, together with so harsh a penalty, would never have been introduced.

[4] Everything that was commanded in that Church represented some arcanum, even the actual cooking, as with every instruction which the children of Israel carried out when they were leaving Egypt, namely that they were to eat that night flesh roasted by fire, and unleavened bread on bitter herbs; they were not to eat it raw or cooked in water; the head had to be on its legs; they were to let none of it remain until the morning; they were to burn what was left over with fire, Exodus 12:8-10. Every detail of these instructions was representative - eating it at night; flesh roasted by fire; unleavened bread on bitter herbs; the head on the legs; not raw; not cooked in water; not leaving any until the morning; and burning what was left with fire. But the arcana represented are in no way apparent unless they are disclosed by means of the internal sense. That sense alone shows that all these details are Divine.

[5] Something similar was done in the ritual for the taking of a Nazirite vow. The priest was to take the cooked shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and he was to place them on the palms of the Nazirite after he had shaved his consecrated head, Numbers 6:19. Anyone who does not know that a Nazirite represented the celestial man himself does not know either that every detail of these instructions embodies celestial things, and so arcana, which are not apparent in the letter, namely the instructions to take the cooked shoulder of a ram, an unleavened cake, an unleavened wafer, and to shave off his hair. This also shows what kind of opinion regarding the Word can be gained by people who do not believe in the existence of an internal sense, for without the internal sense such details are of no consequence at all. But when the ceremonial or ritualistic element has been stripped away everything becomes Divine and holy. Everything else has a deeper meaning, as does 'unleavened bread' which means the holiness of love, or what is most holy, as it is also called in Moses,

The unleavened bread that was left over was to be eaten by Aaron and his sons in a holy place, for it was most holy. Leviticus 6:16-17.

'Unleavened bread' therefore means pure love, and 'the baking of that which is unleavened' purification.

  
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