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Levítico 27

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1 Y HABLO Jehová á Moisés, diciendo:

2 Habla á los hijos de Israel, y diles: Cuando alguno hiciere especial voto á Jehová, según la estimación de las personas que se hayan de redimir, así será tu estimación:

3 En cuanto al varón de veinte años hasta sesenta, tu estimación será cincuenta siclos de plata, según el siclo del santuario.

4 Y si fuere hembra, la estimación será treinta siclos.

5 Y si fuere de cinco años hasta veinte, tu estimación será respecto al varón veinte siclos, y á la hembra diez siclos.

6 Y si fuere de un mes hasta cinco años, tu estimación será en orden al varón, cinco siclos de plata; y por la hembra será tu estimación tres siclos de plata.

7 Mas si fuere de sesenta años arriba, por el varón tu estimación será quince siclos, y por la hembra diez siclos.

8 Pero si fuere más pobre que tu estimación, entonces comparecerá ante el sacerdote, y el sacerdote le pondrá tasa: conforme á la facultad del votante le impondrá tasa el sacerdote.

9 Y si fuere animal de que se ofrece ofrenda á Jehová, todo lo que se diere de el á Jehová será santo.

10 No será mudado ni trocado, bueno por malo, ni malo por bueno; y si se permutare un animal por otro, él y el dado por él en cambio serán sagrados.

11 Y si fuere algún animal inmundo, de que no se ofrece ofrenda á Jehová, entonces el animal será puesto delante del sacerdote:

12 Y el sacerdote lo apreciará, sea bueno ó sea malo; conforme á la estimación del sacerdote, así será.

13 Y si lo hubieren de redimir, añadirán su quinto sobre tu valuación.

14 Y cuando alguno santificare su casa consagrándola á Jehová, la apreciará el sacerdote, sea buena ó sea mala: según la apreciare el sacerdote, así quedará.

15 Mas si el santificante redimiere su casa, añadirá á tu valuación el quinto del dinero de ella, y será suya.

16 Y si alguno santificare de la tierra de su posesión á Jehová, tu estimación será conforme á su sembradura: un omer de sembradura de cebada se apreciará en cincuenta siclos de plata.

17 Y si santificare su tierra desde el año del jubileo, conforme á tu estimación quedará.

18 Mas si después del jubileo santificare su tierra, entonces el sacerdote hará la cuenta del dinero conforme á los años que quedaren hasta el año del jubileo, y se rebajará de tu estimación.

19 Y si el que santificó la tierra quisiere redimirla, añadirá á tu estimación el quinto del dinero de ella, y quedaráse para él.

20 Mas si él no redimiere la tierra, y la tierra se vendiere á otro, no la redimirá más;

21 Sino que cuando saliere en el jubileo, la tierra será santa á Jehová, como tierra consagrada: la posesión de ella será del sacerdote.

22 Y si santificare alguno á Jehová la tierra que él compró, que no era de la tierra de su herencia,

23 Entonces el sacerdote calculará con él la suma de tu estimación hasta el año del jubileo, y aquel día dará tu señalado precio, cosa consagrada á Jehová.

24 En el año del jubileo, volverá la tierra á aquél de quien él la compró, cuya es la herencia de la tierra.

25 Y todo lo que apreciares será conforme al siclo del santuario: el siclo tiene veinte óbolos.

26 Empero el primogénito de los animales, que por la primogenitura es de Jehová, nadie lo santificará; sea buey ú oveja, de Jehová es.

27 Mas si fuere de los animales inmundos, lo redimirán conforme á tu estimación, y añadirán sobre ella su quinto: y si no lo redimieren, se venderá conforme á tu estimación.

28 Pero ninguna cosa consagrada, que alguno hubiere santificado á Jehová de todo lo que tuviere, de hombres y animales, y de las tierras de su posesión, no se venderá, ni se redimirá: todo lo consagrado será cosa santísima á Jehová.

29 Cualquier anatema (cosa consagrada) de hombres que se consagrare no será redimido: indefectiblemente ha de ser muerto.

30 Y todas las décimas de la tierra, así de la simiente de la tierra como del fruto de los árboles, de Jehová son: es cosa consagrada á Jehová.

31 Y si alguno quisiere redimir algo de sus décimas, añadirá su quinto á ello.

32 Y toda décima de vacas ó de ovejas, de todo lo que pasa bajo la vara, la décima será consagrada á Jehová.

33 No mirará si es bueno ó malo, ni lo trocará: y si lo trocare, ello y su trueque serán cosas sagradas; no se redimirá.

34 Estos son los mandamientos que ordenó Jehová á Moisés, para los hijos de Israel, en el monte de Sinaí.

   

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2280. Peradventure twenty shall be found there. That this signifies if there be not anything of combat, but still there be good, is evident from the signification of “twenty.” As all the numbers that are mentioned in the Word signify actual things, and states (as before said and shown in many places, see n. 2252), so also does “twenty;” and what it signifies can be seen from its derivation, namely, from twice ten. “Ten” in the Word, as also “tenths,” signify remains, by which is meant everything good and true that the Lord insinuates into man from infancy even to the end of his life, and which are treated of in the following verse. Twice ten, or double tenths, that is, twenty, signify the same, but in a higher degree, namely, good.

[2] Goods of three kinds are signified by remains, namely, the goods of infancy, the goods of ignorance, and the goods of intelligence. The goods of infancy are those which are insinuated into man from his very birth up to the age in which he is beginning to be instructed and to know something. The goods of ignorance are what are insinuated when he is being instructed and is beginning to know something. The goods of intelligence are what are insinuated when he is able to reflect upon what is good and what is true. The good of infancy exists from the man’s infancy up to the tenth year of his age; the good of ignorance, from this age up to his twentieth year. From this year the man begins to become rational, and to have the faculty of reflecting upon good and truth, and to procure for himself the good of intelligence.

[3] The good of ignorance is that which is signified by “twenty,” because those who are in the good of ignorance do not come into any temptation for no one is tempted before he is able to reflect, and in his own way to perceive the nature of good and truth. Those who have received goods by means of temptations have been treated of in the two immediately preceding verses; those who have not been in temptations, and yet have good, are now treated of in this verse.

[4] As those who have this good, which is called the good of ignorance, are signified by “twenty,” all those who went forth from Egypt were reckoned from “a son of twenty years” and upward; or as it is expressed, “everyone going forth into the army,” by whom are meant those who were no longer in the good of ignorance, concerning whom we read in Numbers (1:20, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 38, 40, 42 (Numbers 1:42), 45; 26:4); and also that all those who were more than twenty years old died in the wilderness (32:10-11), because evil could be imputed to them, and they represented those who yield in temptations; as well as that the valuing made of a male, from “a son of five years” to “a son of twenty years” was “twenty shekels” (Leviticus 17:5); and another valuing from “a son of twenty years” old to one of sixty was fifty shekels (verse 3).

[5] As regards the before-mentioned goods, namely those of infancy, of ignorance, and of intelligence, the case is this. The good of intelligence is the best, for this is of wisdom the good which precedes it, namely that of ignorance, is indeed good, but as there is but little of intelligence in it, it cannot be called the good of wisdom; and as for the good of infancy, it is indeed good in itself, but still it is less good than the other two; for as yet there is not any truth of intelligence adjoined to it, and thus it has not become any good of wisdom, but it is only a plane for being able to become so; for it is the knowledges of good and truth that cause a man to be wise as a man. Infancy itself, by which is signified innocence, does not belong to infancy, but to wisdom; as can be better seen from what will be said about little children in the other life, at the end of this chapter.

[6] By “twenty,” in this verse, as has been said, there is signified no other good than the good of ignorance which good is not only declared to be with those who are under their twentieth year, as already said, but also with all who are in the good of charity and at the same time in ignorance of truth, as are those within the church who are in the good of charity, but from whatever cause, do not know what the truth of faith is; as is the case with very many of those who think devoutly about God and kindly about the neighbor; and as is also the case with all outside the church, who are called Gentiles, and who in like manner live in the good of charity. Both the latter and the former, although not in the truths of faith, yet being in good, are in the faculty of receiving the truths of faith in the other life equally as are little children; for their understanding has not as yet been tainted with principles of falsity, nor their will so confirmed in a life of evil, because they are ignorant of its being falsity and evil; and the life of charity is attended with this: that the falsity and evil of ignorance may be easily bent to truth and good. Not so is it with those who have confirmed themselves in things contrary to the truth, and at the same time have lived a life in things contrary to good.

[7] In other cases by “two tenths” in the Word is signified good both celestial and spiritual, good celestial and thence spiritual by the two tenths of which every loaf of the showbread or bread of faces was prepared (Leviticus 24:5), and spiritual good by the two tenths of the meat-offering with the sacrifice of the ram (Numbers 15:6; 28:12, 20, 28; 29:3, 9, 14), concerning which, of the Lord’s Divine mercy elsewhere.

  
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