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Levítico 15

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1 Y HABLO Jehová á Moisés y á Aarón, diciendo:

2 Hablad á los hijos de Israel, y decidles: Cualquier varón, cuando su simiente manare de su carne, será inmundo.

3 Y esta será su inmundicia en su flujo; sea que su carne destiló por causa de su flujo, ó que su carne se obstruyó á causa de su flujo, él será inmundo.

4 Toda cama en que se acostare el que tuviere flujo, será inmunda; y toda cosa sobre que se sentare, inmunda será.

5 Y cualquiera que tocare á su cama, lavará sus vestidos; lavaráse también á sí mismo con agua, y será inmundo hasta la tarde.

6 Y el que se sentare sobre aquello en que se hubiere sentado el que tiene flujo, lavará sus vestidos, se lavará también á sí mismo con agua, y será inmundo hasta la tarde.

7 Asimismo el que tocare la carne del que tiene flujo, lavará sus vestidos, y á sí mismo se lavará con agua, y será inmundo hasta la tarde.

8 Y si el que tiene flujo escupiere sobre el limpio, éste lavará sus vestidos, y después de haberse lavado con agua, será inmundo hasta la tarde.

9 Y toda aparejo sobre que cabalgare el que tuviere flujo, será inmundo.

10 Y cualquiera que tocare cualquiera cosa que haya estado debajo de él, será inmundo hasta la tarde; y el que la llevare, lavará sus vestidos, y después de lavarse con agua, será inmundo hasta la tarde.

11 Y todo aquel á quien tocare el que tiene flujo, y no lavare con agua sus manos, lavará sus vestidos, y á sí mismo se lavará con agua, y será inmundo hasta la tarde.

12 Y la vasija de barro en que tocare el que tiene flujo, será quebrada; y toda vasija de madera será lavada con agua.

13 Y cuando se hubiere limpiado de su flujo el que tiene flujo, se ha de contar siete días desde su purificación, y lavará sus vestidos, y lavará su carne en aguas vivas, y será limpio.

14 Y el octavo día tomará dos tórtolas, ó dos palominos, y vendrá delante de Jehová á la puerta del tabernáculo del testimonio, y los dará al sacerdote:

15 Y harálos el sacerdote, el uno ofrenda por el pecado, y el otro holocausto: y le purificará el sacerdote de su flujo delante de Jehová.

16 Y el hombre, cuando de él saliere derramamiento de semen, lavará en aguas toda su carne, y será inmundo hasta la tarde.

17 Y toda vestimenta, ó toda piel sobre la cual hubiere el derramamiento del semen, lavaráse con agua, y será inmunda hasta la tarde.

18 Y la mujer con quien el varón tuviera ayuntamiento de semen, ambos se lavarán con agua, y serán inmundos hasta la tarde.

19 Y cuando la mujer tuviere flujo de sangre, y su flujo fuere en su carne, siete días estará apartada; y cualquiera que tocare en ella, será inmundo hasta la tarde.

20 Y todo aquello sobre que ella se acostare mientras su separación, será inmundo: también todo aquello sobre que se sentare, será inmundo.

21 Y cualquiera que tocare á su cama, lavará sus vestidos, y después de lavarse con agua, será inmundo hasta la tarde.

22 También cualquiera que tocare cualquier mueble sobre que ella se hubiere sentado, lavará sus vestidos; lavaráse luego á sí mismo con agua, y será inmundo hasta la tarde.

23 Y si estuviere sobre la cama, ó sobre la silla en que ella se hubiere sentado, el que tocare en ella será inmundo hasta la tarde.

24 Y si alguno durmiere con ella, y su menstruo fuere sobre él, será inmundo por siete días; y toda cama sobre que durmiere, será inmunda.

25 Y la mujer, cuando siguiere el flujo de su sangre por muchos días fuera del tiempo de su costumbre, ó cuando tuviere flujo de sangre más de su costumbre; todo el tiempo del flujo de su inmundicia, será inmunda como en los días de su costumbre.

26 Toda cama en que durmiere todo el tiempo de su flujo, le será como la cama de su costumbre; y todo mueble sobre que se sentare, será inmundo, como la inmundicia de su costumbre.

27 Cualquiera que tocare en esas cosas será inmundo; y lavará sus vestidos, y á sí mismo se lavará con agua, y será inmundo hasta la tarde.

28 Y cuando fuere libre de su flujo, se ha de contar siete días, y después será limpia.

29 Y el octavo día tomará consigo dos tórtolas, ó dos palominos, y los traerá al sacerdote, á la puerta del tabernáculo del testimonio:

30 Y el sacerdote hará el uno ofrenda por el pecado, y el otro holocausto; y la purificará el sacerdote delante de Jehová del flujo de su inmundicia.

31 Así apartaréis los hijos de Israel de sus inmundicias, á fin de que no mueran por sus inmundicias, ensuciando mi tabernáculo que está entre ellos.

32 Esta es la ley del que tiene flujo, y del que sale derramamiento de semen, viniendo á ser inmundo á causa de ello;

33 Y de la que padece su costumbre, y acerca del que tuviere flujo, sea varón ó hembra, y del hombre que durmiere con mujer inmunda.

   

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9506. 'And you shall make a mercy-seat from pure gold' means the hearing and reception of all things that belong to worship arising from the good of love. This is clear from the meaning of 'the mercy-seat' as the cleansing from evils or forgiveness of sins, consequently the hearing and reception of all things that belong to worship, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'gold' as the good of love, dealt with in 113, 1551, 1552, 5658, 6914. The truth that 'the mercy-seat' means the cleansing from evils and forgiveness of sins is clear from those places in the Word where propitiation or expiation is referred to. 1 The reason why the hearing and reception of all things belonging to worship is also meant is that only those who have made propitiation or expiation, that is, been cleansed from evils, are heard by the Lord and have their worship accepted by Him; it does not happen with those who are steeped in evils, that is, have not made expiation or propitiation. Therefore also Aaron was not allowed to approach the mercy-seat until he had been cleansed and had made propitiation for himself and the people.

[2] The truth that 'the mercy-seat' consequently means the hearing and reception of all things that belong to worship is also clear from the consideration that Jehovah spoke to Moses over the mercy-seat between the cherubs. The reason why worship arising from the good of love is that which is received is that no one is allowed to enter heaven and so approach the Lord other than a person who is governed by good, that is to say, by the good of love to the Lord and the good of charity towards the neighbour, see 8516, 8539, 8722, 8772, 9139, 9227, 9230, 9274; no one else is heard nor can anyone else's worship be received. This also explains why there were cherubs over the mercy-seat; for watchfulness and providence are meant by 'the cherubs', guarding against access to the Lord except through the good of love, that is, guarding against entrance into heaven by any apart from those who are governed by good, and also guarding against those in hell gaining access to the inhabitants of heaven and doing them harm. All this shows what was meant by the presence of the mercy-seat over the ark and by that of the cherubs over the mercy-seat, and by the fact that the mercy-seat and the cherubs too were made from pure gold; for 'gold' means the good of love, and 'the ark' heaven where the Lord is.

[3] The truth that 'the mercy-seat' means the cleansing from evils, and so the forgiveness of sins, is clear from places in the Word where 'propitiation' or 'expiation' 2 is referred to, as in David,

O Jehovah, expiate our sins for Your name's sake. Psalms 79:9.

In the same author,

He, being merciful, has expiated iniquity. Psalms 78:38.

In the same author,

You will expiate me with hyssop and I shall become clean; You will wash me and I shall be made whiter than snow. Psalms 51:7.

In Isaiah,

Evil will come upon you, which you will not know how to ward off; calamity will befall you, which you will not be able to expiate. Isaiah 47:11.

And in Moses,

Sing, O nations, the people of Him who will avenge the blood of His servants, and will expiate His land, His people. Deuteronomy 32:43.

[4] Expiations were effected by means of sacrifices; and it says that when they were offered the priest would expiate him from sin, and he would be pardoned, 3 Leviticus 4:26, 31, 35; 5:6, 10, 13, 16, 18; 6:7; 9:7; 15:15, 30. Expiation was also effected by 'silver', Exodus 30:16; Psalms 49:7. Hence also the day of expiations 4 before the feast of tabernacles, Leviticus 23:27-32. But it should be recognized that none of those expiations constituted a real cleansing from evils or forgiveness of sins; it only represented it. For every religious observance among the Israelite and Jewish nation was merely representative of the Lord, His kingdom and Church, and such realities as belong to heaven and the Church. How representations brought such realities to angels' awareness in heaven, see 9229.

[5] Since the cleansing from evils and forgiveness of sins was meant by 'the mercy-seat', the hearing and reception of all things that belonged to worship was also meant; for one who has been cleansed from evils is heard and his worship is received. This was represented by Jehovah's speaking above the mercy-seat to Moses and His commanding what the children of Israel should do, as is clear from verse 22 of the present chapter, where it says,

And I will meet with you there, and I will speak to you from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubs which are over the ark of the Testimony, [declaring] everything that I shall command you for the children of Israel.

The like occurs elsewhere,

Whenever Moses spoke to Jehovah he heard the voice speaking from above the mercy-seat that was over the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubs. Numbers 7:89.

The fact that a person was heard and his worship was received when he had been cleansed from evils was represented by Aaron's not going into the holy place within the veil before the mercy-seat unless he had first made expiation for himself and the people, by ceremonial washing, sacrifices, incense, and blood, as stated in Leviticus 16:2-16, which concludes,

In this way he shall expiate the holy place from the uncleannesses of the children of Israel, and from their transgressions in regard of all their sins.

It also says in verse 2 that Jehovah would appear at the mercy-seat 'in the cloud', meaning in Divine Truth adjusted to people's ability to receive and understand it, such as the Word is in the sense of the letter, 4060, 4391, 5922, 6343 (end), 6752, 8106, 8443, 8781.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. The Latin word propitiatorium rendered the mercy-seat may be translated more literally as the place of propitiation.

2. The Hebrew verb behind expiate, used in an uncommon way in the following quotations, means cover over. The Latin verb generally means atone for or purify what is defiled.

3. i.e. the priest shall make atonement for the person's sin, and the person will stand forgiven

4. Generally known as the day of atonement

  
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