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1 И сказал Господь Моисею, говоря:

2 объяви сынам Израилевым и скажи им о праздниках Господних, в которыедолжно созывать священные собрания. Вот праздники Мои:

3 шесть дней можно делать дела, а в седьмой день суббота покоя, священное собрание; никакого дела не делайте; это суббота Господня во всех жилищах ваших.

4 Вот праздники Господни, священные собрания, которые вы должны созывать в свое время:

5 в первый месяц, в четырнадцатый день месяца вечером Пасха Господня;

6 и в пятнадцатый день того же месяца праздник опресноков Господу; семь дней ешьте опресноки;

7 в первый день да будет у вас священное собрание; никакой работы не работайте;

8 и в течение семи дней приносите жертвы Господу; в седьмой деньтакже священное собрание; никакой работы не работайте.

9 И сказал Господь Моисею, говоря:

10 объяви сынам Израилевым и скажи им: когда придете в землю, которую Я даю вам, и будете жать на ней жатву, то принесите первый сноп жатвы вашей к священнику;

11 он вознесет этот сноп пред Господом, чтобы вам приобрести благоволение; на другой день праздника вознесет его священник;

12 и в день возношения снопа принесите во всесожжение Господу агнца однолетнего, без порока,

13 и с ним хлебного приношения две десятых части ефы пшеничной муки, смешанной с елеем, в жертву Господу, в приятное благоухание, и возлияния к нему четверть гина вина;

14 никакого нового хлеба, ни сушеных зерен, ни зерен сырых не ешьте до того дня, в который принесете приношения Богу вашему: это вечное постановление в роды ваши во всех жилищах ваших.

15 Отсчитайте себе от первого дня после праздника, от того дня, в которыйприносите сноп потрясания, семь полных недель,

16 до первого дня после седьмой недели отсчитайтепятьдесят дней, и тогда принесите новое хлебное приношение Господу:

17 от жилищ ваших приносите два хлеба возношения, которые должны состоять из двух десятых частей ефы пшеничной муки и должны быть испечены кислые, как первый плод Господу;

18 вместе с хлебами представьте семь агнцев без порока, однолетних, и из крупного скота одного тельца и двух овнов; да будет это во всесожжение Господу, и хлебное приношение и возлияние к ним, в жертву, в приятноеблагоухание Господу.

19 Приготовьте также из стада коз одного козла в жертву за грех и двух однолетних агнцев в жертву мирную.

20 священник должен принести это, потрясая пред Господом, вместе с потрясаемыми хлебами первого плода и с двумя агнцами, и это будет святынею Господу; священнику, который приносит, это принадлежит ;

21 и созывайте народ в сей день, священное собрание да будет у вас, никакой работы не работайте: это постановление вечное во всех жилищах ваших в роды ваши.

22 Когда будете жать жатву на земле вашей, не дожинай до края поля твоего, когда жнешь, и оставшегося от жатвы твоей не подбирай; бедному и пришельцу оставь это. Я Господь, Бог ваш.

23 И сказал Господь Моисею, говоря:

24 скажи сынам Израилевым: в седьмой месяц, в первый день месяца да будет у вас покой, праздник труб, священное собрание.

25 никакой работы не работайте и приносите жертву Господу.

26 И сказал Господь Моисею, говоря:

27 также в девятый день седьмого месяца сего, день очищения, да будет у вас священное собрание; смиряйте души ваши и приносите жертву Господу;

28 никакого дела не делайте в день сей, ибо это день очищения, дабы очистить вас пред лицем Господа, Бога вашего;

29 а всякая душа, которая не смирит себя в этот день, истребится из народа своего;

30 и если какая душа будет делать какое-нибудь дело в день сей, Я истреблю ту душу из народа ее;

31 никакого дела не делайте: это постановление вечное в роды ваши, во всех жилищахваших;

32 это для вас суббота покоя, и смиряйте души ваши, с вечера девятого дня месяца; от вечера до вечера празднуйте субботу вашу.

33 И сказал Господь Моисею, говоря:

34 скажи сынам Израилевым: с пятнадцатого дня того же седьмого месяца праздник кущей, семь дней Господу;

35 в первый день священное собрание, никакой работы не работайте;

36 в течение семи дней приносите жертву Господу; в восьмой день священное собрание да будет у вас, и приносите жертву Господу: это отдание праздника, никакой работы не работайте.

37 Вот праздники Господни, в которые должно созывать священные собрания, чтобы приносить в жертву Господу всесожжение, хлебное приношение, заколаемые жертвы ивозлияния, каждое в свой день,

38 кроме суббот Господних и кроме даров ваших, и кроме всех обетов ваших и кроме всего приносимого по усердию вашему,что вы даете Господу.

39 А в пятнадцатый день седьмого месяца, когда вы собираете произведения земли, празднуйте праздник Господень семь дней: в первый день покой и в восьмой день покой;

40 в первый день возьмите себе ветви красивых дерев, ветви пальмовые и ветви дерев широколиственных и верб речных, и веселитесь предГосподом Богом вашим семь дней;

41 и празднуйте этот праздник Господень семь дней в году: это постановление вечное в роды ваши; в седьмой месяц празднуйте его;

42 в кущах живите семь дней; всякий туземец Израильтянин должен жить в кущах,

43 чтобы знали роды ваши, что в кущах поселил Я сынов Израилевых,когда вывел их из земли Египетской. Я Господь, Бог ваш.

44 И объявил Моисей сынам Израилевым о праздниках Господних.

   

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1153. And fine flour and wheat signifies profaned worship from truths and goods that are from a spiritual origin. This is evident from the signification of "fine flour," as being truth from a spiritual origin (of which presently); also from the signification of "wheat," as being good from a spiritual origin (See n. 374, 375). These also signify worship because the meal offering was composed of them, which was offered with the sacrifices upon the altar the same as the wine and the oil; for the meal offerings were prepared with oil and the drink offerings with wine. And because of the crops of these they had rejoicings in festivals which were instituted to celebrate their harvests. "Fine flour" signifies truth from spiritual good because it is prepared from wheat, which signifies spiritual good, as truth comes from good.

[2] As this truth of the church was signified by "fine flour," it was prescribed what quantity of it should be used in the cakes that were called the meal offerings, which were offered with the sacrifices upon the altar (respecting which see Exodus 29; Leviticus 5 - Leviticus 7, 23; Numbers 18, 28, 29); also the quantity of fine flour in the show bread (Leviticus 23:17; 24:5); for it was commanded that the meal offering that was to be offered on the altar should be prepared from fine flour, and oil and frankincense poured thereon (Leviticus 2:1). Because of this signification of "fine flour," when Abraham talked with the three angels he said to Sarah his wife:

Hasten, knead three measures of flour, of fine flour, and make cakes (Genesis 18:6).

[3] "Fine flour" also signifies the truth of good from a spiritual origin in Ezekiel:

Thou didst eat fine flour, honey, and oil, whence thou didst become exceeding beautiful, and didst prosper even to a kingdom. My bread which I gave thee, fine flour, honey, and oil, with which I fed thee, thou didst offer before idols as an odor of rest (Ezekiel 16:13, 19).

This is said of Jerusalem, which signifies the church as to doctrine, and in that chapter is described what it had been in its beginning and what it became afterwards. "Fine flour and oil" signify truth and good from a spiritual origin, and "honey" good from a natural origin. "Thou didst become exceeding beautiful" signifies to be intelligent and wise; "to prosper even to a kingdom" signifies even to becoming a church, "kingdom" being the church; "to offer these to idols as an odor of rest" signifies the idolatrous worship into which the true worship of the church was afterwards changed.

[4] But "flour" from barley signifies truth from a natural origin, for "barley" signifies natural good, as "wheat" signifies spiritual good. Thus in Isaiah:

Take the millstone and grind flour, make thyself bare (Isaiah 47:2).

This is said of Babylon. "To take a millstone and grind flour" signifies to falsify the truths of the Word, and "to make oneself bare" signifies to adulterate the goods of the Word. In Hosea:

They sow the wind and they reap the whirlwind; he hath no standing corn, the blade shall yield no flour; and if perchance it do, strangers shall devour it (Hosea 8:7).

Here, too, "flour" signifies truth from a natural origin.

(Continuation respecting the Athanasian Faith)

[5] 5. The fifth law of the Divine providence is, That from sense and perception in himself man cannot know how good and truth flow in from the Lord, and how evil and falsity flow in from hell; nor can he see how the Divine providence operates in favor of good against evil; if he did he could not act from freedom according to reason as if from himself. It is sufficient for him to know and acknowledge this from the Word and from the doctrine of the church. This is what is meant by the Lord's words in John:

The wind bloweth where it willeth, and thou hearest the voice thereof, but knowest not whence it cometh or whither it goeth; so is everyone that is born of the spirit (John 3:8).

Also by these words in Mark:

The kingdom of God is like a man that casteth seed upon the earth and then sleepeth and riseth night and day; but the seed springeth up and groweth up when he knows it not, for the earth beareth fruit of herself, first the blade, then the ear, at length the full corn in the ear; and when the fruit is produced, he putteth in the sickle because the harvest is at hand (Mark 4:26, 29).

[6] Man does not perceive the operation of the Divine providence within him, because that would take away his freedom, and thus his ability to think as if of himself, and with it every delight of life; thus man would be like an automaton, in which there is no reciprocal, and by that, conjunction; also he would be a slave and not free. The Divine providence moves so secretly that scarcely a trace of it is seen, although it acts upon the most minute things of man's thought and will, which regard his eternal state, chiefly for the reason that the Lord continually wills to impress His love on man, and through it his wisdom, and thus create him into His image. Consequently the operation of the Lord is into man's love and from that into his understanding, and not the reverse. Love with its affections, which are manifold and innumerable, is perceived by man only by a most general feeling, and thus so slightly that there is scarcely anything of it; and yet that man may be reformed and saved he must be led from one affection of love into another according to their connection from order, a thing that no man and even no angel can at all comprehend.

[7] If a man should learn anything of these arcana, he could not be withheld from leading himself; and in this he would be continually led from heaven into hell, while the Lord's leading is continually from hell towards heaven. For from himself man constantly acts against order, while the Lord acts constantly according to order; for man, from the nature derived from his parents, is in the love of self and the love of the world, and consequently perceives from a feeling of delight everything belonging to those loves as good; nevertheless, those loves as ends must be removed; and this is done by the Lord in infinite ways, that appear like a labyrinth even before the angels of the third heaven.

[8] All this makes clear that man would find no help at all in knowing anything about this from sense or perception, but it would do him harm instead, and would destroy him forever. It is sufficient for man to know truths, and by means of truths to know what is good and what is evil, and to acknowledge the Lord and His Divine auspices in every least thing. Then so far as he knows truths, and by means of them what is good and evil, and does what is good as if from himself, so far the Lord leads him from love into wisdom, conjoining love to wisdom and wisdom to love, and making them to be one, because they are one in Himself. These ways by which the Lord leads man may be compared to the vessels through which the blood in man courses and circulates, also the fibers and their foldings within and without the viscera of the body, especially in the brain, through which the animal spirit flows and gives life.

[9] How all these things flow in and flow through, man knows nothing; and yet he lives if only he knows what he needs to do and does it. But the ways by which the Lord leads man are far more complicated and inexplicable, both those by which the Lord leads man through the societies of hell and away from them, and also those by which he leads him through the societies of heaven and interiorly into them. This, therefore, is what is meant by "the wind bloweth where it willeth, and thou knowest not whence it cometh and whither it goeth" (John 3:8), also by "the seed springeth up and groweth up, the man knoweth not how" (Mark 4:27). Moreover, of what consequence is it for a man to know how seed grows up, provided he knows how to plow and harrow the land, to sow the seed, and when he reaps his harvest to bless God?

  
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1 "This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest's office: take one young bull and two rams without blemish,

2 unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil: you shall make them of fine wheat flour.

3 You shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams.

4 You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.

5 You shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the coat, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, and clothe him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod;

6 and you shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy crown on the turban.

7 Then you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him.

8 You shall bring his sons, and put coats on them.

9 You shall clothe them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them: and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute: and you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.

10 "You shall bring the bull before the Tent of Meeting: and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.

11 You shall kill the bull before Yahweh, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

12 You shall take of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.

13 You shall take all the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar.

14 But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the camp: it is a sin offering.

15 "You shall also take the one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.

16 You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the altar.

17 You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.

18 You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

19 "You shall take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.

20 Then you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood around on the altar.

21 You shall take of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be made holy, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.

22 Also you shall take some of the ram's fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of consecration),

23 and one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Yahweh.

24 You shall put all of this in Aaron's hands, and in his sons' hands, and shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.

25 You shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar on the burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma before Yahweh: it is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

26 "You shall take the breast of Aaron's ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh: and it shall be your portion.

27 You shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the thigh of the wave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:

28 and it shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel; for it is a wave offering: and it shall be a wave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their wave offering to Yahweh.

29 "The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.

30 Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put them on, when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the holy place.

31 "You shall take the ram of consecration, and boil its flesh in a holy place.

32 Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

33 They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat of it, because they are holy.

34 If anything of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, remains to the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

35 "You shall do so to Aaron, and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. You shall consecrate them seven days.

36 Every day you shall offer the bull of sin offering for atonement: and you shall cleanse the altar, when you make atonement for it; and you shall anoint it, to sanctify it.

37 Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it: and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the altar shall be holy.

38 "Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually.

39 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you shall offer at evening:

40 and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.

41 The other lamb you shall offer at evening, and shall do to it according to the meal offering of the morning, and according to its drink offering, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

42 It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.

43 There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place shall be sanctified by my glory.

44 I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar: Aaron also and his sons I will sanctify, to minister to me in the priest's office.

45 I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.

46 They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: I am Yahweh their God.