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1 И сказалъ Господь Аарону: ты и сыны твои и домъ отца твоего понесете на себј грјхъ за неисправность во святилищј; и ты и сыны твои съ тобою понесете на себј грјхъ за неисправность въ священствј своемъ.

2 И братьевъ твоихъ колјно Левіино, племя отца твоего, возьми себј, пусть они будутъ при тебј и служатъ тебј; а ты и сыны твои будете при скиніи откровенія.

3 Пусть они соблюдаютъ, что должно соблюдать для тебя и для всей скиніи, только, чтобъ не приступали къ сосудамъ святилища и къ жертвеннику, чтобъ не умереть и имъ и вамъ.

4 Пусть они будутъ при тебј и соблюдаютъ, что должно соблюдать при скиніи собранія касательно всякихъ работъ при скиніи; а посторонній не долженъ приближаться къ вамъ.

5 И имјйте такимј образомъ въ соблюденіи святилище и жертвенникъ, дабы не было впредь гнјва на сыновъ Израилевыхъ.

6 И6о братьевъ вашихъ левитовъ Я взялъ отъ сыновъ Израилевыхъ; вамъ въ даръ даны они отъ Господа, дабы отправляли работы при скиніи собранія.

7 А ты и сыны твои съ тобою соблюдайте должностъ священства вашего во всемъ, что касается до жертвенника, и до того, что отправляется внутри за завјсою, и служите; вамъ въ даръ даю Я священство, служеніе ваше, и если приступитъ кто посторонній, преданъ будетъ смерти.

8 И говорилъ Господь Аарону: вотъ Я поручаю тебј наблюдать за возношеніями Мнј приносимыми; изъ всего посвящаемаго сынами Израилевыми даю часть тебј и сынамъ твоимъ въ вјчный участокъ.

9 Вотъ что принадлежитъ тебј изъ великихъ святынь съ огня: все приносимое ими во всякое приношеніе хлјбное и во всякую жертву за грјхи ихъ, и во всякую жертву повинности, что они принесутъ Мнј это великая святыня тебј и сынамъ твоимъ.

10 На святјйшемъ мјстј јшьте сіе, всј мужескаго пола могутъ јсть. Это святынею да будетъ для тебя.

11 И вотъ что принадлежитъ тебј изъ возношеній ихъ: все, приносимое сынами Израилевыми, чрезъ потрясаніе, даю тебј и сынамъ твоимъ, и дочерямъ твоимъ съ тобою, въ вјчный участокъ. Всякій чистый въ дому твоемъ можетъ јсть сіе.

12 Все лучшее изъ елея и все лучшее изъ винограда и хлјба, начатки ихъ, которые они даютъ Господу, тебј отдаю.

13 Всј первыя произведенія земли ихъ, которыя они принесутъ Господу, тебј принадлежатъ. Всякій чистый въ дому твоемъ можетъ јсть сіе.

14 Все, заклятое въ землј Израилевой, тебј принадлежитъ.

15 Все, разверзающее ложесна у всякой плоти, которую приносятъ Господу, изъ людей и изъ скота, тебј принадлежитъ. Только за первенца человјческаго возьми выкупъ, и за первородное изъ скота нечистаго возьми выкупъ.

16 А выкупъ за нихъ: начиная отъ одного мјсяца по оцјнкј твоей бери выкупъ пять сиклей серебра противъ сикля святилища, который въ двадцать геръ.

17 Только за первородное изъ воловъ, и за первородное изъ овецъ, и за первородное изъ козъ не бери выкупа: они святыня; кровію ихъ окропляй жертвенникъ, и тукъ ихъ сожигай въ огнепалимую жертву, въ благоуханіе успокоенія Господу.

18 Мясо же ихъ тебј принадлежитъ, такъ какъ грудь потрясанія и правое плечо тебј принадлежатъ.

19 Всј возносимыя святыни, которыя возносятъ сыны Израилевы Господу, отдаю тебј и сынамъ твоимъ и дочерямъ твоимъ съ тобою въ вјчный участокъ. Это вјчный завјтъ соли у Господа, данный тебј и сјмени твоему съ тобою.

20 И сказалъ Господь Аарону: въ землј ихъ не будешь имјть удјла и части не будетъ тебј между ними. Я часть твоя и удјлъ твой среди сыновъ Израилевыхъ.

21 А сынамъ Левіи, вотъ Я даю въ удјлъ десятину изъ всего, что у Израиля, за работы ихъ, за то, что они отправляютъ работы въ скиніи собранія.

22 Сыны Израилевы не должны впередъ приступать къ скиніи собранія, чтобъ не понести грјха и не умереть, [ (Numbers 19:23) Пусть левиты исправляютъ работы въ скиніи собранія, и несутъ на себј грјхъ ихъ. Это постановленіе вјчное въ роды ваши; среди сыновъ Израилевыхъ не получатъ они удјла. ] [ (Numbers 19:24) Поелику десятину сыновъ Израилевыхъ, которую они приносятъ въ возношеніе Господу, Я отдаю левитамъ въ удјлъ, потому и сказалъ Я имъ: между сынами Израилевыми они не получатъ удјла. ] [ (Numbers 19:25) И говорилъ Господь Моисею, и сказалъ: ] [ (Numbers 19:26) объяви левитамъ и скажи имъ: когда вы будете брать отъ сыновъ Израилевыхъ десятину, которую Я даю вамъ отъ нихъ въ удјлъ: то возносите изъ ней возношеніе Господу, десятину изъ десятины. ] [ (Numbers 19:27) И вмјнено будетъ вамъ сіе возношеніе ваше, какъ бы хлјбъ съ гумна и какъ бы приношеніе изъ точила. ] [ (Numbers 19:28) Такимъ образомъ и вы будете возносить возношеніе Господу изъ всјхъ десятинъ вашихъ, которыя будете брать отъ сыновъ Израилевыхъ, и будете давать изъ нихъ возношеніе Господу для Аарона священника. ] [ (Numbers 19:29) Изъ всего даемаго вамъ возносите возношеніе Господу и изъ всего лучшаго святыню для Него. ] [ (Numbers 19:30) И скажи имъ: когда вы принесете изъ сего лучшее, то сіе вмјнено будетъ левитамъ, какъ бы получаемое съ гумна, и получаемое отъ точила. ] [ (Numbers 19:31) Вы можете јсть сіе на всякомъ мјстј, вы и семейства ваши; ибо это вамъ плата за работы ваши въ скиніи собранія. ] [ (Numbers 19:32) Тогда не понесете за сіе грјха, когда принесете лучшее изъ сего; и посвящаемаго сынами Израилевыми не оскверните, и не умрете. ]

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 7917

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7917. 'And slaughter the Passover' means preparation for the Lord's presence, and consequent deliverance. This is clear from the meaning of 'slaughtering' as preparation, as above in 7843; and from the meaning of 'the Passover' as the Lord's presence, and the deliverance of those belonging to the spiritual Church.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 2039

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2039. 'Every male [among you] is to be circumcised' means purity. This is clear from the representation and consequently the meaning of 'circumcising' in the internal sense. Circumcision or cutting off the foreskin meant nothing else than the removal and rejection of those elements which stand in the way of and defile heavenly love, namely evil desires, especially those of self-love, and falsities resulting from those desires. The reason why this is the meaning is that the genital organs of both sexes represent heavenly love. There are three kinds of love which constitute the heavenly things of the Lord's kingdom - conjugial love, the love of infants, and social or mutual love. Conjugial love is the chief love of all because it has within it the end of serving the greatest use, namely the propagating of the human race, and therefore of the Lord's kingdom for which it is the seminary. Next to conjugial love, and deriving from it, comes the love of infants, and after that social or mutual love. Whatever covers over, obstructs, and defiles those loves is meant by the foreskin, the cutting away of which, or circumcision, therefore became representative. Indeed to the extent evil desires and resulting falsities are removed, a person is purified and heavenly love can show itself. How contrary self-love is to heavenly love, and how filthy, has been stated and shown in 760, 1307, 1308, 1321, 1594, 2045, 2057. From these considerations it is plain that circumcision in the internal sense means purity.

[2] That circumcision is no more than the sign of a covenant or of conjunction becomes quite clear from the fact that circumcising the foreskin counts for absolutely nothing if unaccompanied by circumcision of the heart; and that purification from those filthy loves is what circumcision of the heart means is quite evident from the following places in the Word: In Moses,

Jehovah God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, so that you will love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live. Deuteronomy 30:6.

From these words it is clear that 'circumcising the heart' means being purified from filthy loves in order that Jehovah God or the Lord may be loved with all the heart and all the soul.

[3] In Jeremiah,

Break up your fallow ground, and do not sow among thorns. Circumcise yourselves to Jehovah, and remove the foreskin of your heart, O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Jeremiah 4:3-4.

'Circumcising oneself to Jehovah and removing the foreskin of the heart' is nothing other than removing such things as stand in the way of heavenly love. From this it is also clear that circumcision of the heart is something more interior that is meant by circumcision of the foreskin. In Moses,

You shall circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and you shall be stiff-necked no longer. [Jehovah] executes judgement for the orphan and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him bread and clothing. Deuteronomy 10:16, 18.

Here also it is plain that 'circumcising the foreskin of the heart' means being purified from the evils that accompany filthy loves and from resulting falsities. The heavenly things of love are described as charitable works, namely 'executing judgement for the orphan and widow', and 'loving the sojourner to give him bread and clothing'.

[4] In Jeremiah,

Behold, the days are coming in which I will visit every one circumcised in the foreskin - Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners [of their hair] cut and who dwell in the wilderness, for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart. Jeremiah 9:25-26.

This too shows that circumcision was a sign meaning purification. Although they are called 'circumcised in the foreskin', these nations - the Jews included along with the rest - are considered to be 'uncircumcised nations', and Israel to be 'uncircumcised in heart'. In Moses,

If at that time their uncircumcised heart is humbled. Leviticus 26:41.

Here the meaning is similar.

[5] That the foreskin and being uncircumcised means that which is unclean is clear in Isaiah,

Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion, put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city, for there will no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean. Isaiah 52:1.

'Zion' is used to mean the celestial Church and 'Jerusalem' the spiritual Church into which the uncircumcised, which means the unclean, will not enter.

[6] That circumcision is 'a sign of the covenant' or token of conjunction is quite clear from the fact that the same was represented by the requirement to circumcise the fruits of trees also, spoken of in Moses as follows,

When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food you shall circumcise its foreskin, its fruit. For three years it shall be to you uncircumcised; it shall not be eaten. And in the fourth all its fruit shall be holy. to the praises of Jehovah. Leviticus 19:23-24.

'Fruit' similarly represents and means charity, as becomes clear from many places in the Word. Their 'foreskin' accordingly means the uncleanness that obstructs and pollutes charity.

[7] Here is a marvel: When angels in heaven conceive the idea of purification from natural things that are filthy, something akin to circumcision is represented very speedily in the world of spirits, for in the world of spirits angelic ideas come over as representatives. In the Jewish Church there were some representative religious ceremonies which had those same origins and there were others which did not. The spirits with whom that swift circumcision was represented in the world of spirits were people who wished to be allowed into heaven, but before they were allowed in this representation took place. This explains why Joshua was commanded to circumcise the people after they had crossed the Jordan and were about to enter the land of Canaan. The people's entry into the land of Canaan represented nothing else than the admission into heaven of those who have had faith.

[8] This is why circumcision was commanded a second time, described in Joshua as follows,

Jehovah said to Joshua, Make swords of flint for yourself; circumcise the children of Israel a second time. And Joshua made swords of flint for himself, and circumcised the children of Israel on the hill of foreskins. And Jehovah said to Joshua, This day I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you. And he called the name of that place Gilgal (rolling away). Joshua 5:2-3, 9.

'Swords of flint' means the truths which they were to be provided with to enable them to correct and cut back filthy loves, for without cognitions of truth no purification is possible. That 'stone' or 'flirt' means truths has been shown already, in 643, 1298, and that 'a sword' has reference to truths by which evils may be corrected is clear from the Word.

  
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