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1 Y LLAMO Jehová á Moisés, y habló con él desde el tabernáculo del testimonio, diciendo:

2 Habla á los hijos de Israel, y diles: Cuando alguno de entre vosotros ofreciere ofrenda á Jehová, de ganado vacuno ú ovejuno haréis vuestra ofrenda.

3 Si su ofrenda fuere holocausto de vacas, macho sin tacha lo ofrecerá: de su voluntad lo ofrecerá á la puerta del tabernáculo del testimonio delante de Jehová.

4 Y pondrá su mano sobre la cabeza del holocausto; y él lo aceptará para expiarle.

5 Entonces degollará el becerro en la presencia de Jehová; y los sacerdotes, hijos de Aarón, ofrecerán la sangre, y la rociarán alrededor sobre el altar, el cual está á la puerta del tabernáculo del testimonio.

6 Y desollará el holocausto, y lo dividirá en sus piezas.

7 Y los hijos de Aarón sacerdote pondrán fuego sobre el altar, y compondrán la leña sobre el fuego.

8 Luego los sacerdotes, hijos de Aarón, acomodarán las piezas, la cabeza y el redaño, sobre la leña que está sobre el fuego, que habrá encima del altar:

9 Y lavará con agua sus intestinos y sus piernas: y el sacerdote hará arder todo sobre el altar: holocausto es, ofrenda encendida de olor suave á Jehová.

10 Y si su ofrenda para holocausto fuere de ovejas, de los corderos, ó de las cabras, macho sin defecto lo ofrecerá.

11 Y ha de degollarlo al lado septentrional del altar delante de Jehová: y los sacerdotes, hijos de Aarón, rociarán su sangre sobre el altar alrededor.

12 Y lo dividirá en sus piezas, con su cabeza y su redaño; y el sacerdote las acomodará sobre la leña que está sobre el fuego, que habrá encima del altar;

13 Y lavará sus entrañas y sus piernas con agua; y el sacerdote lo ofrecerá todo, y harálo arder sobre el altar; holocausto es, ofrenda encendida de olor suave á Jehová.

14 Y si el holocausto se hubiere de ofrecer á Jehová de aves, presentará su ofrenda de tórtolas, ó de palominos.

15 Y el sacerdote la ofrecerá sobre el altar, y ha de quitarle la cabeza, y hará que arda en el altar; y su sangre será exprimida sobre la pared del altar.

16 Y le ha de quitar el buche y las plumas, lo cual echará junto al altar, hacia el oriente, en el lugar de las cenizas.

17 Y la henderá por sus alas, mas no la dividirá en dos: y el sacerdote la hará arder sobre el altar, sobre la leña que estará en el fuego; holocausto es, ofrenda encendida de olor suave á Jehová.

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Arcana Coelestia # 870

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870. That 'a dove' means the truths and goods of faith residing with a person who is to be regenerated is clear from the meaning of 'a dove' in the Word, especially from the dove that alighted on Jesus when He was baptized, as mentioned in Matthew,

When Jesus was baptized He went up immediately out of the water, and behold, the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on Himself. Matthew 3:16-17; and in John 1:32, Luke 3:21-22; Mark 1:10-11.

Here 'a dove' meant nothing else than the holiness of faith, and the 'baptism' itself meant regeneration. It also meant therefore the truth and good of faith residing with the new Church that was to arise, which truth and good people receive through being regenerated by the Lord.

[2] Similar things were represented and embodied in the young doves or the turtle doves - mentioned in Leviticus 1:14-end; 5:7-10; 12:6; 14:21-22; 15:14-15, 29-30; Numbers 6:10-11; Luke 2:22-24 - which they used to offer as sacrifices and as burnt offerings in the Jewish Church, as becomes clear from each of the references just given. Anyone may grasp that they had such a meaning merely from the fact that they could not have been anything else than things of a representative nature. Otherwise they would be pointless, and in no sense Divine, for the external side of the Church is lifeless, but is made alive by the internal, as is the internal by the Lord.

[3] That 'a dove' in general means the intellectual concepts of faith is also clear in the Prophets, as in Hosea,

Ephraim will be like a stupid dove with no heart; they called Egypt, they went away to Assyria. Hosea 7:11.

In the same prophet, speaking of Ephraim,

They will tremble like a bird out of Egypt and a dove from the land of Assyria. Hosea 11:11.

Here 'Ephraim' stands for one who has intelligence, 'Egypt' for him who has knowledge, 'Assyria' for him who is rational, and 'a dove' stands for what belongs to the intellectual concepts of faith, the subject there being the regeneration of the spiritual Church. In David,

O Jehovah, deliver not the soul of [Your] turtle dove to the wild animal. Psalms 74:19.

'Wild animal' stands for people without any charity, 'the soul of a turtle dove' for the life of faith. See what has been stated and shown already in 40, 776, about birds meaning intellectual things. Harmless, beautiful, clean, and useful birds in particular mean intellectual truths and goods; but harmful, ugly, unclean, and useless ones, such as the raven, which is here used as the opposite of the dove, mean their opposites, namely falsities.

  
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