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1 Y JEHOVA habló á Moisés, diciendo:

2 Habla á los hijos de Israel, y diles: Cuando hubiereis entrado en la tierra de vuestras habitaciones, que yo os doy,

3 E hiciereis ofrenda encendida á Jehová, holocausto, ó sacrificio, por especial voto, ó de vuestra voluntad, ó para hacer en vuestras solemnidades olor suave á Jehová, de vacas ó de ovejas;

4 Entonces el que ofreciere su ofrenda á Jehová, traerá por presente una décima de un epha de flor de harina, amasada con la cuarta parte de un hin de aceite;

5 Y de vino para la libación ofrecerás la cuarta parte de un hin, además del holocausto ó del sacrificio, por cada un cordero.

6 Y por cada carnero harás presente de dos décimas de flor de harina, amasada con el tercio de un hin de aceite:

7 Y de vino para la libación ofrecerás el tercio de un hin, en olor suave á Jehová.

8 Y cuando ofreciereis novillo en holocausto ó sacrificio, por especial voto, ó de paces á Jehová,

9 Ofrecerás con el novillo un presente de tres décimas de flor de harina, amasada con la mitad de un hin de aceite:

10 Y de vino para la libación ofrecerás la mitad de un hin, en ofrenda encendida de olor suave á Jehová.

11 Así se hará con cada un buey, ó carnero, ó cordero, lo mismo de ovejas que de cabras.

12 Conforme al número así haréis con cada uno según el número de ellos.

13 Todo natural hará estas cosas así, para ofrecer ofrenda encendida de olor suave á Jehová.

14 Y cuando habitare con vosotros extranjero, ó cualquiera que estuviere entre vosotros por vuestras edades, si hiciere ofrenda encendida de olor suave á Jehová, como vosotros hiciereis, así hará él.

15 Un mismo estatuto tendréis, vosotros de la congregación y el extranjero que con vosotros mora; estatuto que será perpetuo por vuestras edades: como vosotros, así será el peregrino delante de Jehová.

16 Una misma ley y un mismo derecho tendréis, vosotros y el peregrino que con vosotros mora.

17 Y habló Jehová á Moisés, diciendo:

18 Habla á los hijos de Israel, y diles: Cuando hubiereis entrado en la tierra á la cual yo os llevo,

19 Será que cuando comenzareis á comer el pan de la tierra, ofreceréis ofrenda á Jehová.

20 De lo primero que amasareis, ofreceréis una torta en ofrenda; como la ofrenda de la era, así la ofreceréis.

21 De las primicias de vuestras masas daréis á Jehová ofrenda por vuestras generaciones.

22 Y cuando errareis, y no hiciereis todos estos mandamientos que Jehová ha dicho á Moisés,

23 Todas las cosas que Jehová os ha mandado por la mano de Moisés, desde el día que Jehová lo mandó, y en adelante por vuestras edades,

24 Será que, si el pecado fué hecho por yerro con ignorancia de la congregación, toda la congregación ofrecerá un novillo por holocausto, en olor suave á Jehová, con su presente y su libación, conforme á la ley; y un macho cabrío en expiación.

25 Y el sacerdote hará expiación por toda la congregación de los hijos de Israel; y les será perdonado, porque yerro es: y ellos traerán sus ofrendas, ofrenda encendida á Jehová, y sus expiaciones delante de Jehová, por sus yerros:

26 Y será perdonado á toda la congregación de los hijos de Israel, y al extranjero que peregrina entre ellos, por cuanto es yerro de todo el pueblo.

27 Y si una persona pecare por yerro, ofrecerá una cabra de un año por expiación.

28 Y el sacerdote hará expiación por la persona que habrá pecado por yerro, cuando pecare por yerro delante de Jehová, la reconciliará, y le será perdonado.

29 El natural entre los hijos de Israel, y el peregrino que habitare entre ellos, una misma ley tendréis para el que hiciere algo por yerro.

30 Mas la persona que hiciere algo con altiva mano, así el natural como el extranjero, á Jehová injurió; y la tal persona será cortada de en medio de su pueblo.

31 Por cuanto tuvo en poco la palabra de Jehová, y dió por nulo su mandamiento, enteramente será cortada la tal persona: su iniquidad será sobre ella.

32 Y estando los hijos de Israel en el desierto, hallaron un hombre que recogía leña en día de sábado.

33 Y los que le hallaron recogiendo leña trajéronle á Moisés y á Aarón, y á toda la congregación:

34 Y pusiéronlo en la cárcel, por que no estaba declarado qué le habían de hacer.

35 Y Jehová dijo á Moisés: Irremisiblemente muera aquel hombre; apedréelo con piedras toda la congregación fuera del campo.

36 Entonces lo sacó la congregación fuera del campo, y apedreáronlo con piedras, y murió; como Jehová mandó á Moisés.

37 Y Jehová habló á Moisés, diciendo:

38 Habla á los hijos de Israel, y diles que se hagan pezuelos (franjas) en los remates de sus vestidos, por sus generaciones; y pongan en cada pezuelo de los remates un cordón de cárdeno:

39 Y serviros ha de pezuelo, para que cuando lo viereis, os acordéis de todos los mandamientos de Jehová, para ponerlos por obra; y no miréis en pos de vuestro corazón y de vuestros ojos, en pos de los cuales fornicáis:

40 Para que os acordéis, y hagáis todos mis mandamientos, y seáis santos á vuestro Dios.

41 Yo Jehová vuestro Dios, que os saqué de la tierra de Egipto, para ser vuestro Dios: Yo Jehová vuestro Dios.

   

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10038. 'You shall burn with fire outside the camp' means that those things must be banished to hell and be consumed by the evils of self-love. This is clear from the meaning of 'burning with fire' as consuming by means of the evils of self-love, for 'burning' means consuming or devouring and 'fire' the evil of self-love (for these meanings of 'burning' and 'fire', see 1297, 5071, 5215, 6314, 6832, 7324, 7575, 9141, 9434); and from the meaning of 'the camp' as heaven and the Church, and in the contrary sense the place where heaven and the Church do not exist, thus where hell exists, dealt with below. The reason why 'being burned with fire' means being consumed by the evils of self-love is that that love consumes every good or truth of faith. Scarcely anyone at the present day knows that self-love does this, nor consequently that this love constitutes hell with a person and that it is what should be understood by hell-fire.

[2] There are two fires of life that exist with a person; one is self-love, the other is love to God. Those in whom self-love predominates cannot be governed by love to God, for those loves are opposites. They are opposites because self-love gives rise to all evils, which are contempt for others in comparison with self, enmity towards those who do not treat oneself favourably, and in the end to hatred, vengeance, brutality, and cruelty; and these evils act in total opposition to Divine influx, consequently annihilate truths and forms of the good of faith and charity, these being the things that flow in from the Lord. Anybody who stops to reflect may know that everyone's love is the fire of his life - for without love there is no life, and the character of the love determines that of the life - and therefore that self-love gives rise to evils of every kind, doing so in the measure that he has only himself in view, that is, self-love reigns in him. The worst kind of self-love is the love of dominion over others for selfish reasons, that is, the love of possessing dominion solely for the sake of position and gain. Those in whom that love predominates may, it is true, make profession of faith and charity, but they do so with their lips, not with their heart; indeed the worst among them look on the things that belong to faith and charity, thus the holy things of the Church, as means to their own ends. But self-love and all the different types of it, also the evils that gush out of it, and the condition of the selfish in the next life, must in the Lord's Divine mercy be stated in detail somewhere else. They have been referred to here to enable people to know what 'being burned with fire outside the camp' means.

[3] The fact that 'the camp' where the children of Israel were encamped represented heaven and the Church, and therefore that 'outside the camp' represented the place where heaven and the Church did not exist, thus where hell was, becomes clear from those places in the Word which mention the camp and the encampment of the children of Israel in the wilderness, such as the following in Moses,

The children of Israel shall camp, [every] man by his own camp, and [every] man by his own standard, according to their armies. And the Levites shall camp around the dwelling-place of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel. Numbers 1:52-53; 2:2.

In addition, Numbers 2:1-end says that the tribes of Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun encamped to the east; the tribes of Reuben, Simeon, and Gad to the south; the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin to the west; and the tribes of Dan, Asher, and Naphtali to the north. But the Levites were in the middle of their camps. The like applied when they set out on their journeys, Numbers 2:17; 10:1-end. The reason why their encampments were arranged in that kind of order was so that they might represent heaven and the Church, 9320 (end). Moreover the tribes according to which the children of Israel set up their camps represented all the forms of good and all the truths in their entirety that belonged to heaven and the Church, 3858, 3926, 3939, 4060, 6335, 6337, 6397, 6640, 7836, 7891, 7996, 7997. This explains why it says that Jehovah dwells in the middle of the camps, Numbers 5:3, and that He walks in the middle of them and they will therefore be holy, Deuteronomy 23:14, and why, in the prophecy uttered by Balaam, when he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes, he said, How good are your tabernacles, O Jacob, and your dwelling-places, O Israel! Numbers 24:2-3, 5.

[4] Since heaven and the Church was represented by the camp it follows that 'outside the camp' meant the place where neither heaven nor the Church existed, thus where hell was. That is why everyone who was unclean and also anyone who was guilty was sent out there, as may be recognized from the following,

You shall send out of the camp everyone who is leprous, and everyone suffering a discharge, and everyone unclean on account of a soul 1 . Whether they are male or female 2 you shall send them outside the camp, so that they may not defile the camps, in the middle of which Jehovah dwells. Numbers 5:2-3; Leviticus 13:45-46.

A man who is not clean by reason of an accident in the night shall go outside the camp and not come into the middle of the camp. When he has washed himself with water and the sun has set he shall enter the camp. There shall be a space for you outside the camp where you may go out, and you shall cover your excrement by means of a spade 3 , since Jehovah walks in the middle of the camp. Therefore the camp shall be holy. Deuteronomy 23:10-14.

And the stoning of people was done outside the camp, Leviticus 24:14; Numbers 15:35-36.

From all this it is now clear that 'you shall burn with fire the flesh, skin, and dung of the young bull, outside the camp' means that evils, meant by these things, must be banished to hell.

[5] The same thing as was represented by the camp and the area outside it was also represented by the land of Canaan and the lands around it after that land had been divided up as inheritances among the children of Israel. This is why in the Word 'the land of Canaan' or simply 'the land' means heaven and the Church, and 'the children of Israel' those who are in heaven and the Church. For the meaning of 'the land' as heaven and the Church, see the places referred to in 9325; and for that of 'the children of Israel' as those who are there, 9340.

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1. i.e. unclean through contact with a dead body

2. literally, From male even to female

3. literally, peg or nail

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.