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Levítico 5

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1 Y cuando alguna persona pecare, por haber sido llamado a testificar, y él fuere testigo que vio, o supo, si no lo denunciare, él llevará su pecado.

2 Asimismo la persona que hubiere tocado en cualquiera cosa inmunda, sea cuerpo muerto de bestia inmunda, o cuerpo muerto de animal inmundo, o cuerpo muerto de serpiente inmunda, bien que no lo supiere, será inmunda y habrá pecado.

3 O si tocare a hombre inmundo en cualquiera inmundicia suya de que es inmundo, y no lo echare de ver; si después llegare a saberlo, habrá pecado.

4 También la persona que jurare, pronunciando con sus labios hacer mal o bien, en cualesquiera cosas que el hombre profiere con juramento, y él no lo supiere; si después lo entiende, será culpado en una de estas cosas .

5 Y será que cuando pecare en alguna de estas cosas, confesará aquello en que pecó:

6 Y traerá su expiación al SEÑOR por su pecado que ha cometido, una hembra de los rebaños, una cordera o una cabra por expiación; y el sacerdote lo reconciliará de su pecado.

7 Y si no le alcanzare para un cordero, traerá en expiación por su pecado que cometió, dos tórtolas o dos palominos al SEÑOR; el uno para expiación, y el otro para holocausto.

8 Y los traerá al sacerdote, el cual ofrecerá primero el que es por expiación, y desunirá su cabeza de su cuello, mas no la apartará del todo;

9 y rociará de la sangre de la expiación sobre la pared del altar; y lo que sobrare de la sangre lo exprimirá al cimiento del altar; y esto será expiación.

10 Y del otro hará holocausto conforme a la ordenanza; y así lo reconciliará el sacerdote de su pecado que cometió, y tendrá perdón.

11 Mas si su posibilidad no alcanzare para dos tórtolas, o dos palominos, el que pecó traerá por su ofrenda la décima parte de un efa de flor de harina por expiación. No pondrá sobre ella aceite, ni sobre ella pondrá incienso, porque es expiación.

12 La traerá, pues , al sacerdote, y el sacerdote tomará de ella su puño lleno, en memoria suya, y hará perfume sobre el altar sobre las otras ofrendas encendidas al SEÑOR; y esto será expiación.

13 Y así lo reconciliará el sacerdote en expiación por él de su pecado que cometió en alguna de estas cosas, y tendrá perdón; y el sobrante será del sacerdote, como el presente.

14 Habló más el SEÑOR a Moisés, diciendo:

15 Cuando alguna persona hiciere prevaricación, y pecare por yerro en las cosas santificadas al SEÑOR, traerá por su expiación al SEÑOR, un carnero sin tacha de los rebaños, conforme a tu estimación, de dos siclos de plata del siclo del santuario, por el pecado.

16 Y lo que hubiere pecado del santuario, pagará, y añadirá a ello el quinto, y lo dará al sacerdote; y el sacerdote lo reconciliará con el carnero de la expiación, y tendrá perdón.

17 Finalmente, si una persona pecare, e hiciere alguna de todas aquellas cosas que por mandamiento del SEÑOR no se han de hacer, sin hacerlo a sabiendas, es culpable, y llevará su pecado.

18 Traerá, pues, al sacerdote por expiación, según tú lo estimes, un carnero sin tacha de los rebaños; y el sacerdote lo reconciliará de su yerro que cometió por ignorancia, y tendrá perdón.

19 Pecado es, y ciertamente pecó contra el SEÑOR.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 10041

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10041. Verses 15-18. And thou shalt take one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram. And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take its blood, and sprinkle it upon the altar round about. And thou shalt cut the ram into its pieces, and shalt wash its intestines, and its legs, and put them upon its pieces, and upon its head. And thou shalt burn with the whole ram upon the altar; this is a burnt-offering unto Jehovah; an odor of rest, an offering made by fire unto Jehovah is this. “And thou shalt take one ram,” signifies the good of innocence in the internal man; “and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands,” signifies the communication of power; “upon the head of the ram,” signifies with the whole; “and thou shalt slay the ram,” signifies preparation for the purification of the internal man; “and thou shalt take its blood,” signifies Divine truth; “and sprinkle it upon the altar round about,” signifies conjunction with Divine good; “and thou shalt cut the ram into its pieces,” signifies that the interior things are to be set in order in a distinct manner; “and shalt wash its intestines,” signifies the purification of the lowest things; “and its legs,” signifies the purification of the exterior things of the natural man; “and put them upon its pieces, and upon its head,” signifies the setting in order of exterior things under internal and inmost ones; “and thou shalt burn with the whole ram upon the altar,” signifies the internal of the Lord’s Divine Human united to the Divine good of His Divine love, which was in Himself; “this is a burnt-offering unto Jehovah,” signifies the glorification of the Lord’s Human; “an odor of rest,” signifies perceptivity of peace; “an offering made by fire to Jehovah is this,” signifies all from the Divine love.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 1343

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1343. That “Eber” was a nation called, from Eber as its father, the Hebrew nation, and that thereby is signified the worship in general of the Second Ancient Church, is evident from those historical parts of the Word wherein it is spoken of. From that nation, because the new worship commenced there, all were called Hebrews who had a similar worship. Their worship was of the kind that was afterwards restored among the descendants of Jacob; and its chief characteristic consisted in their calling their God “Jehovah,” and in their having sacrifices. The Most Ancient Church with unanimity acknowledged the Lord, and called Him Jehovah, as is evident from the first chapters of Genesis, and elsewhere in the Word. The Ancient Church, that is, the church after the flood, also acknowledged the Lord, and called Him Jehovah, especially those who had internal worship, and were called “sons of Shem.” The others, who were in external worship, also acknowledged Jehovah, and worshiped Him. But when internal worship became external, and still more when it became idolatrous, and when each nation began to have its own god whom it worshiped, the Hebrew nation retained the name Jehovah, and called their God Jehovah; and hereby were distinguished from the other nations.

[2] Together with their external worship, the descendants of Jacob in Egypt lost this also-that they called their God Jehovah; nay, Moses himself did so; and therefore they were instructed first of all that Jehovah was the God of the Hebrews, and the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob; as may be seen from these words in Moses:

Jehovah said unto Moses, Thou shalt come in, thou and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, Jehovah the God of the Hebrews hath met with us; and now let us go, we pray thee, a three days’ journey into the wilderness, and we will sacrifice to Jehovah our God (Exodus 3:18). Again:

Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah, that I should hearken unto His voice to let Israel go? I know not Jehovah, and moreover I will not let Israel go. And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us; let us go, we pray thee, a three days’ journey into the wilderness, and we will sacrifice to Jehovah our God (Exodus 5:2-3).

[3] That together with the worship the descendants of Jacob in Egypt lost also the name of Jehovah, may be seen from these words in Moses:

Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the sons of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you, and they shall say to me, What is His name? what shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses, I AM WHO I AM. And He said, Thus shalt thou say unto the sons of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the sons of Israel, Jehovah the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you; this is My name to eternity (Exodus 3:13-15).

[4] From these words it is evident that even Moses did not know Jehovah; and that they were distinguished from others by the name of Jehovah the God of the Hebrews. Hence in other places also Jehovah is called the God of the Hebrews:

Thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Jehovah the God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee (Exodus 7:16).

Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith Jehovah the God of the Hebrews (Exodus 9:1, 13).

And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah the God of the Hebrews (Exodus 10:3).

And in Jonah:

I am a Hebrew; and I fear Jehovah the God of the heavens (Jonah 1:9).

And also in Samuel:

The Philistines heard the voice of the shouting, and said, What meaneth the voice of this great shouting in the camp of the Hebrews? And they knew that the ark of Jehovah was come into the camp. And the Philistines said, Woe unto us! Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these august gods? These are the gods that smote the Egyptians with all manner of plagues in the wilderness. Be like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews (1 Samuel 4:6, 8-9).

Here also it is evident that the nations were distinguished by the gods on whose name they called, and the Hebrew nation by Jehovah.

[5] That the second essential of the worship of the Hebrew nation consisted in sacrifices, is also evident from passages cited above (Exodus 3:18; 5:2-3); as well as from the fact that the Egyptians abominated the Hebrew nation on account of this worship, as is evident from these words in Moses:

Moses said, It is not right so to do, for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Jehovah our God; lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us? (Exodus 8:26).

For this reason the Egyptians so abominated the Hebrew nation that they would not eat bread with them (Genesis 43:32). It is also evident from all this that the posterity of Jacob was not the only Hebrew nation, but all who had such worship; and therefore in Joseph’s time the land of Canaan was called the land of the Hebrews:

Joseph said, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews (Genesis 40:15).

[6] That there were sacrifices among the idolaters in the land of Canaan, may be seen from many passages, for they sacrificed to their gods-to the Baals and others; and moreover Balaam, who was from Syria where Eber dwelt and whence the Hebrew nation came, not only offered sacrifices before the descendants of Jacob came into the land of Canaan, but also called Jehovah his God. That Balaam was from Syria, whence came the Hebrew nation, see Numbers 23:7; that he offered sacrifices, Numbers 22:39-40; 23:1-3, 14, 29; that he called Jehovah his God, Numbers 22:18, and throughout the chapter. What is said of Noah (Genesis 8:20), that he offered burnt-offerings to Jehovah, is not true history, but is history so made up, because by burnt-offerings there is signified the holy of worship, as may there be seen. From all this it is now evident what is signified by “Ber,” or by the Hebrew nation.

  
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