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Levítico 9

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1 Y fue en el día octavo, que Moisés llamó a Aarón y a sus hijos, y a los ancianos de Israel;

2 y dijo a Aarón: Toma un becerro para expiación, y un carnero para holocausto, sin defecto, y ofrécelos delante del SEÑOR.

3 Y a los hijos de Israel hablarás, diciendo: Tomad un macho cabrío para expiación, y un becerro y un cordero de un año, sin tacha, para holocausto;

4 asimismo un buey y un carnero para sacrificio de paz, que inmoléis delante del SEÑOR; y un presente amasado en aceite; porque el SEÑOR se aparecerá hoy a vosotros.

5 Y llevaron lo que mandó Moisés delante del tabernáculo del testimonio, y vino toda la congregación, y se pusieron delante del SEÑOR.

6 Entonces Moisés dijo: Esto es lo que mandó el SEÑOR que hagáis, y la gloria del SEÑOR se os aparecerá.

7 Y dijo Moisés a Aarón: Llégate al altar, y haz tu expiación, y tu holocausto, y haz la reconciliación por ti y por el pueblo; haz también la ofrenda del pueblo, y haz la reconciliación por ellos; como ha mandado el SEÑOR.

8 Entonces se acercó Aarón al altar; y degolló su becerro de la expiación que era por él.

9 Y los hijos de Aarón le trajeron la sangre; y él mojó su dedo en la sangre, y puso sobre los cuernos del altar, y derramó la demás sangre al cimiento del altar;

10 Y el sebo y riñones y redaño del hígado, de la expiación, hizo perfume, como el SEÑOR lo había mandado a Moisés.

11 Mas la carne y el cuero los quemó en fuego fuera del real.

12 Degolló asimismo el holocausto, y los hijos de Aarón le presentaron la sangre, la cual roció él alrededor sobre el altar.

13 Después le presentaron el holocausto, por sus piezas, y la cabeza; y él hizo perfume sobre el altar.

14 Luego lavó los intestinos y las piernas, y los quemó con el holocausto sobre el altar.

15 Ofreció también la ofrenda del pueblo, y tomó el macho cabrío de la expiación, que era del pueblo, y lo degolló, y lo ofreció por expiación como el primero.

16 Y ofreció el holocausto, e hizo según la ordenanza.

17 Ofreció asimismo el presente, y llenó de él su mano, e hizo perfume sobre el altar, además del holocausto de la mañana.

18 Degolló también el buey y el carnero que era del pueblo en sacrificio de paz; y los hijos de Aarón le presentaron la sangre (la cual roció él sobre el altar alrededor),

19 y los sebos del buey; y del carnero, la cola con lo que cubre las entrañas, y los riñones, y el redaño del hígado;

20 y pusieron los sebos sobre los pechos, y él quemó los sebos sobre el altar.

21 Pero los pechos, con la espaldilla derecha, los meció Aarón con mecimiento delante del SEÑOR; como el SEÑOR lo había mandado a Moisés.

22 Después alzó Aarón sus manos hacia el pueblo y los bendijo; y descendió de hacer la expiación, y el holocausto, y el sacrificio de la paz.

23 Y entraron Moisés y Aarón en el tabernáculo del testimonio; y salieron, y bendijeron al pueblo; y la gloria del SEÑOR se apareció a todo el pueblo.

24 Y salió un fuego de delante del SEÑOR, el cual consumió el holocausto y los sebos sobre el altar; y viéndolo todo el pueblo, alabaron, y cayeron sobre sus rostros.

   

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9938. Which the sons of Israel shall sanctify in respect to all the gifts of their holy things. That this signifies acts of worship representative of removal from sins, is evident from the signification of “gifts” or “offerings,” which among the Israelitish and Jewish nation were chiefly burnt-offerings, sacrifices, and meat-offerings, as being the interior things of worship, for these were what they represented. The interior things of worship are those which are of love and faith, and from this forgivenesses of sins, that is, removals from them, because sins are removed through faith and love from the Lord. For insofar as the good of love and of faith enters, or what is the same thing, so far as heaven enters, so far sins are removed, that is, so far hell is removed, both that which is within man, and that which is without him. From this it is evident what is meant by “the gifts which they sanctified,” that is, offered. The gifts were called “holy,” and presenting or offering them was called “sanctifying” them, because they represented holy things; for they were offered for expiations, thus for removals from sins, which are effected through faith and love to the Lord from the Lord.

[2] They were called “gifts and offerings made to Jehovah,” although Jehovah, that is, the Lord, does not accept any gifts or offerings, but gives to everyone freely. Nevertheless He wills that these things should come from man as from himself, provided he acknowledges that they are not from himself, but from the Lord. For the Lord imparts the affection of doing good from love, and the affection of speaking truth from faith; but the affection itself flows in from the Lord, and it appears as if it were in the man, thus from the man; for whatever a man does from the affection which is of love, he does from his life, because love is the life of everyone. From this it is evident that what are called “gifts and offerings made to the Lord” by man are in their essence gifts and offerings made to man by the Lord; and their being called “gifts and offerings” is from the appearance. All who are wise in heart see this appearance; but not so the simple; and yet the gifts and offerings of the latter are grateful, insofar as they are offered from ignorance in which is innocence. Innocence is the good of love to God, and dwells in ignorance, especially with the wise in heart; for they who are wise in heart know and perceive that there is nothing of wisdom in themselves from themselves; but that everything of wisdom is from the Lord, that is, everything of the good of love, and everything of the truth of faith; thus that even with the wise innocence dwells in ignorance. From this it is evident that the acknowledgment of this fact, and especially the perception of it, is the innocence of wisdom.

[3] The gifts that were offered in the Jewish Church, and which were chiefly burnt-offerings, sacrifices, and meat-offerings, were also called “expiations from sins,” because they were offered for the sake of the forgivenesses of them, that is, removals from them. Those who belonged to that church also believed that their sins were accordingly forgiven; nay, that they were entirely taken away; for it is said that after they had offered these things they would be “forgiven” (see Leviticus 4:26, 31, 35; 5:6, 10, 1 5:13, 16, 18; 9:7, 15, 15:15, 30 (Leviticus 9:18)). But they did not know that these offerings represented interior things, thus such things as are done by man from the love and faith that are from the Lord; and that these are the things which expiate, that is, remove sins, and that after they have been removed they appear as if they were quite removed or taken away, as has been shown above in this and in the preceding articles. For that nation was in representative worship, thus in external worship without internal, by means of which there was at that time a conjunction of heaven with man. (See the places cited in n. 9320, 9380)

  
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