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1 Y llamó el SEÑOR a Moisés, y habló con él desde el tabernáculo del testimonio, diciendo:

2 Habla a los hijos de Israel, y diles: Cuando alguno de entre vosotros ofreciere ofrenda al SEÑOR de animales, de ganado vacuno u ovejuno haréis vuestra ofrenda.

3 Si su ofrenda fuere holocausto vacuno, macho sin defecto lo ofrecerá; de su voluntad lo ofrecerá a la puerta del tabernáculo del testimonio delante del SEÑOR.

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

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

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

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

8 Luego los sacerdotes, hijos de Aarón, pondrán las piezas, la cabeza y el redaño, en orden 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 perfume de todo sobre el altar; y esto será holocausto, ofrenda encendida de olor muy aceptable al SEÑOR.

10 Y si su ofrenda fuere holocausto ovejuno, de los corderos, o de las cabras, macho sin defecto lo ofrecerá.

11 Y ha de degollarlo al lado del altar, al aquilón delante del SEÑOR; 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 pondrá en orden 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 hará de ello perfume sobre el altar; y esto será holocausto, ofrenda encendida de olor muy aceptable al SEÑOR.

14 Y si el holocausto se hubiere de ofrecer al SEÑOR de aves, presentará su ofrenda de tórtolas, o de palominos.

15 Y el sacerdote la ofrecerá sobre el altar, y le quitará la cabeza, y hará perfume sobre el altar; y su sangre será exprimida sobre la pared del altar.

16 Y le quitará 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 hará de ella perfume sobre el altar, sobre la leña que está sobre el fuego; y esto será holocausto, ofrenda encendida de olor muy aceptable al SEÑOR.

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Arcana Coelestia # 1823

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1823. 'Take a three year old heifer, and a three year old she-goat, and a three year old ram' means things that are the representatives of the celestial things of the Church. This is clear from the meaning of these same animals in sacrifices. Nobody in his right mind can believe that the various animals that used to be sacrificed meant nothing but sacrifices, or that an ox and a young bull or a calf had the same meaning as a sheep, kid, and she-goat, and these the same as a lamb, and that a turtle dove and fledgling pigeons had similar meanings; for in fact each creature had its own specific meaning. This becomes quite clear from the fact that under no circumstances was one kind of animal offered instead of another, and from the fact that it was explicitly stated which creatures were to be used in the daily burnt-offerings and sacrifices, and which on the sabbath and at festivals; which creatures were to be used in free-will, votive, and communion offerings; which ones were to be used in expiations of guilt and sin; and which in purifications. This would never have been the case if some specific thing had not been represented and meant by each animal.

[2] But as to the specific meaning of each kind, this would take too long to explain here. Here it is enough if one knows that celestial things are meant by the animals and spiritual things by the birds, and that some specific celestial or spiritual thing is meant by each kind of animal or bird. The Church itself, and everything to do with the Jewish Church, was representative of such things as constitute the Lord's kingdom, where nothing but that which is celestial or spiritual exists, that is, nothing but that which belongs to love and faith, as also becomes quite clear from the meaning of clean and useful beasts, dealt with in 45, 46, 142, 143, 246, 714, 715, 776. And because in the Most Ancient Churches beasts meant celestial goods, in the Church existing at a later time when purely external, though representative, worship was highly esteemed and approved of, those beasts became representatives.

[3] Because the state of the Church is the subject here and because the nature of its state in the future is foretold, Abram was shown the same visually by means of similar representatives, exactly as recorded here. Yet quite apart from this, such things are nevertheless meant in the internal sense, as anyone may know and contemplate. For what would have been the need to take a three year old heifer, a three year old she-goat, a three year old ram, a turtle dove and a fledgling, and to divide them in two parts and to lay them out so, unless each single thing had carried a spiritual meaning? But what these details mean becomes clear from what follows below.

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