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1 Въ осьмой день призвалъ Моисей Аарона, и сыновъ его, и старјйшинъ Израилевыхъ,

2 и сказалъ Аарону: возьми себј изъ воловъ тельца въ жертву за грјхъ и овна во всесожженіе, обоихъ безъ порока, и представь предъ лице Господне.

3 И сынамъ Израилевымъ скажи: возьмите изъ стада козъ козла въ жертву за грјхъ, и тельца, и агнца - однолјтнихъ, безъ порока, во всесожженіе,

4 и вола и овна въ жертву благодарственную, чтобы совершить жертвоприношеніе предъ лицемъ Господнимъ, и приношеніе хлјбное, облитое елеемъ; ибо сегодня Господь явится вамъ.

5 И принесли то, что приказалъ Моисей, предъ скинію собранія, и пришло все общество и стало предъ лицемъ Господнимъ.

6 И сказалъ Моисей: вотъ что повелјлъ Господь сдјлать, и тогда явится вамъ слава Господня.

7 И сказалъ Моисей Аарону: приступи къ жертвеннику и соверши жертву твою о грјхј, и всесожженіе твое, и очисти себя и народъ, и сдјлай приношеніе отъ народа и очисти ихъ такъ, какъ повелјлъ Господь.

8 И приступилъ Ааронъ къ жертвеннику, и закололъ тельца, который отъ него, - за грјхъ.

9 Сыны Аарона поднесли ему кровь, онъ омочилъ перстъ свой въ кровь, и возложилъ на роги жертвенника, а остальную кровь вылилъ у основанія жертвенника.

10 А тукъ, и почки, и перепонку съ печени отъ жертвы за грјхъ воскурилъ на жертвенникј, такъ, какъ повелјлъ Господь Моисею;

11 мясо же и кожу сжегъ на огнј внј стана.

12 Потомъ закололъ всесожженіе, сыны Аарона поднесли ему кровь; онъ покропилъ ею на жертвенникъ со всјхъ сторонъ.

13 И принесли ему всесожженіе въ кускахъ и голову, и онъ сжегъ на жертвенникј,

14 а внутренности и ноги омылъ и сжегъ со всесожженіемъ на жертвенникј.

15 Потомъ принесъ приношеніе отъ народа, и взялъ отъ народа козла за грјхъ, и закололъ его и принесъ въ жертву за грјхъ, какъ прежде.

16 И принесъ всесожженіе и совершилъ его по обряду.

17 И принесъ приношеніе хлјбное, и наполнилъ имъ руки свои, и сжегъ на жертвенникј сверхъ утренняго всесожженія.

18 Потомъ закололъ вола и овна, которые отъ народа, въ жертву благодарственную; сыны Аарона поднесли ему кровь, онъ покропилъ ею на жертвенникъ со всјхъ сторонъ.

19 Поднесли также тукъ изъ вола и овна, и курдюкъ, тут покрывающій внутренности, почки, и перепонку съ печени,

20 и положили туки на груди, и онъ воскурилъ туки на жертвенникј.

21 А груди и правое плечо принесъ Ааронъ, потрясая предъ лицемъ Господнимъ, такъ, какъ приказалъ Моисей.

22 И поднялъ Ааронъ руки свои, обратясь къ народу, и благословилъ его, и сошелъ, совершивъ жертву за грјхъ, всесожженіе и жертву благодарственную.

23 И вошли Моисей и Ааронъ въ скинію собранія, и вышли, и благословили народъ. Тогда явилась слава Господня всему народу:

24 огнь исшелъ отъ Господа, и сжегъ на жертвенникј всесожженіе и туки. Весь народъ видјлъ сіе, и воскликнули отъ радости, и пали на лица свои.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 242

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242. The second living creature like a calf. This symbolizes the Divine truth of the Word in respect to its affection.

Beasts of the earth symbolize various natural affections. They are also embodiments of them. And a calf symbolizes an affection for knowing. This affection is represented by a calf in the spiritual world, and in the Word it is consequently also symbolized by a calf, as in Hosea,

...we repay (to Jehovah) the calves of our lips. (Hosea 14:2)

"Calves of the lips" are confessions from an affection for truth.

In Malachi:

To you who fear My name the sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in its wings... that you may grow fat like fattened calves. (Malachi 4:2)

A comparison is made with fattened calves because they symbolize people who are filled with concepts of truth and goodness owing to an affection for knowing them.

In the book of Psalms:

The voice of Jehovah... makes (the cedars of Lebanon) dance like a calf... (Psalms 29:5, 6)

The cedars of Lebanon symbolize concepts of truth. That is why the passage says that the voice of Jehovah makes them dance like a calf. The voice of Jehovah is Divine truth, in the process here of affecting.

[2] Since the Egyptians loved knowledge, they therefore made themselves calves as a sign of their affection for it. But after they began to worship the calves as deities, then calves in the Word symbolized affections for knowing falsities, as in Jeremiah 46:20-21). Therefore we are told in Hosea:

...they have made for themselves a molten image... of their silver... Sacrificing a human being, they kiss the calves. (Hosea 13:2)

To make for oneself a molten image of silver means, symbolically, to falsify truth. To sacrifice a human being means, symbolically, to destroy wisdom. And to kiss calves means, symbolically, to accept falsities out of an affection for them.

In Isaiah:

There the calf will feed; there it will lie down and consume its branches. (Isaiah 27:10)

The same is symbolically meant by the calf in Jeremiah 34:18-20.

[3] Since all Divine worship springs from affections for truth and goodness and so for concepts of them, therefore the sacrifices in which the worship of the church primarily consisted among the children of Israel used various animals, such as lambs, she-goats, kids, sheep, he-goats, calves, and oxen; and calves were used because they symbolized an affection for knowing truths and goods, which is the first natural affection. This affection was symbolically meant by the sacrifices of calves in Exodus 29:11-12, 1 1 Samuel 1:25; 16:2, 1 Kings 18:23-26, 33.

The second living creature looked like a calf because the Divine truth of the Word, which it symbolizes, affects hearts, and so teaches and instills.

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1. Prima editio: 29.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.