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Levítico 24

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1 Y habló el SEÑOR a Moisés, diciendo:

2 Manda a los hijos de Israel que te traigan aceite de olivas claro, molido, para la luminaria, para hacer arder las lámparas de continuo.

3 Fuera del velo del testimonio, en el tabernáculo del testimonio, las aderezará Aarón desde la tarde hasta la mañana delante del SEÑOR, de continuo; estatuto perpetuo por vuestras edades.

4 Sobre el candelero limpio pondrá siempre en orden las lámparas delante del SEÑOR.

5 Y tomarás flor de harina, y cocerás de ella doce tortas; cada torta será de dos décimas.

6 Y las pondrás en dos órdenes, seis en cada orden, sobre la mesa limpia delante del SEÑOR.

7 Pondrás también sobre cada orden incienso limpio, y servirá al pan por olor, y perfume al SEÑOR.

8 Cada día de sábado lo pondrá en orden delante del SEÑOR siempre; pacto sempiterno de los hijos de Israel.

9 Y será de Aarón y de sus hijos, los cuales lo comerán en el lugar santo; porque es cosa santísima para él, de las ofrendas encendidas al SEÑOR, por fuero perpetuo.

10 En aquella sazón el hijo de una mujer israelita, el cual era hijo de un hombre egipcio, salió entre los hijos de Israel; y el hijo de la israelita y un varón de Israel riñeron en el real.

11 Y el hijo de la mujer israelita pronunció el Nombre, y maldijo; entonces le llevaron a Moisés. Y su madre se llamaba Selomit, hija de Dibri, de la tribu de Dan.

12 Y lo pusieron en la cárcel, hasta que les fuese declarado por palabra del SEÑOR.

13 Entonces el SEÑOR habló a Moisés, diciendo:

14 Saca al blasfemo fuera del real, y todos los que le oyeron pongan sus manos sobre la cabeza de él, y apedréelo toda la congregación.

15 Y a los hijos de Israel hablarás, diciendo: Cualquier varón que dijere mal a su Dios, llevará su iniquidad.

16 Y el que pronunciare el Nombre del SEÑOR, morirá; toda la congregación lo apedreará; así el extranjero como el natural, si pronunciare el Nombre, que muera.

17 Asimismo el hombre que hiere de muerte a cualquiera persona, que sufra la muerte.

18 Y el que hiere a algún animal ha de restituirlo, animal por animal.

19 Y el que causare lesión en su prójimo, según hizo, así le sea hecho:

20 Rotura por rotura, ojo por ojo, diente por diente; según la lesión que habrá hecho a otro, tal se hará a él.

21 El que hiere algún animal, ha de restituirlo; mas el que hiere de muerte a un hombre, que muera.

22 Un mismo derecho tendréis; como el extranjero, así será el natural; porque yo soy el SEÑOR vuestro Dios.

23 Y habló Moisés a los hijos de Israel, y ellos sacaron al blasfemo fuera del real, y lo apedrearon con piedras. Y los hijos de Israel hicieron según que el SEÑOR había mandado a Moisés.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9938

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9938. 'Which the children of Israel shall sanctify, even in all their gifts of holy things' means acts of worship representative of removal from sins. This is clear from the meaning of 'gifts' - or presents, which among the Israelite and Jewish nation were primarily burnt offerings, sacrifices, and minchahs - as the inner realities of acts of worship; for those realities were represented by these acts. The inner realities of worship are the fruits of love and faith; they are therefore pardonings of sins, that is, removals from them, since faith and love are the means by which the Lord moves sins away. For in the measure that the good of love and faith comes in, or what amounts to the same thing, heaven comes in, sins are removed, that is, hell is removed - the hell within the person as well as the hell outside him. From this it is evident what should be understood by the gifts which they made holy, that is, offered. The gifts were called holy, and giving or offering them was called sanctifying them, because they represented holy realities. For they were offered to expiate people, thus to remove them from their sins, which is accomplished by means of faith in and love to the Lord received from the Lord.

[2] Gifts and presents were said to be made to Jehovah, though Jehovah, that is, the Lord, is not the receiver of gifts or presents, but the giver of them, freely to everyone. Even so, His will is that they should come from a person as though they did so from that person himself, provided the person acknowledges that they do not actually come from him but from the Lord. For the Lord imparts a desire to do good because he loves it, and a desire to speak the truth because he believes it. The actual desire flows in from the Lord, yet appears to be inherent in the person and so to flow from the person. For whatever a person does out of love and desire for it, he does from his life, love being what composes anyone's life. From this it is evident that the things that are called gifts and presents made to the Lord by a person are essentially gifts and presents made to a person by the Lord, and that they are called gifts and presents on account of what they appear to be. All who are wise at heart recognize this appearance, but not so the simple. Yet their gifts and presents are acceptable, so far as they are made in ignorance that has innocence within it. Innocence is the good of love to God, and dwells within ignorance, especially with the wise at heart. Those who are wise at heart know, indeed perceive, that nothing whatever of the wisdom within themselves originates in themselves, but that the all of wisdom is attributable to the Lord, that is, the all of the good of love and the all of the truth of faith are attributable to Him, and that for this reason even with the wise innocence dwells in ignorance. From this it is evident that the acknowledgement of this matter, and especially the perception of it, constitutes the innocence of wisdom.

[3] The gifts offered in the Jewish Church, which were primarily burnt offerings, sacrifices, and minchahs, were also spoken of as offerings made for the expiations of sins; for they were offered for the sake of being pardoned from sins, that is, being removed from them. Those who belonged to that Church also thought that sins were pardoned, indeed completely taken away, by means of these offerings; for it is said of people who have offered them that they will be pardoned, see Leviticus 4:26, 31, 35; 5:6, 10, 13, 16, 18; 6:7; 9:7; 15:15, 30. But they were unaware of the fact that their gifts represented more internal things, thus the kinds of things that are done by a person from love and faith received from the Lord; that these are what expiate, that is, remove sins; and that when they have been removed they appear to have been completely removed or banished, as has been shown above in the present paragraph and the one before it. The worship of that nation was representative, and so was external devoid of anything internal; and it was by means of this worship that heaven was joined to mankind, in those times, see the places referred to in 9320 (end), 9380.

  
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