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1 Y el SEÑOR habló a Moisés, diciendo:

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

3 e hiciereis ofrenda encendida al SEÑOR, holocausto, o sacrificio, para ofrecer voto, o de vuestra voluntad, o para hacer en vuestras solemnidades olor grato al SEÑOR, de vacas o de ovejas;

4 entonces el que ofreciere su ofrenda al SEÑOR, traerá por presente una décima de un efa 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 o del sacrificio, por cada 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 grato al SEÑOR.

8 Y cuando ofreciereis novillo en holocausto o sacrificio, para ofrecer voto, o sacrificio de paz al SEÑOR,

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 grato al SEÑOR.

11 Así se hará con cada buey, o carnero, o 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 grato al SEÑOR.

14 Y cuando habitare con vosotros extranjero, o cualquiera que estuviere entre vosotros por vuestras edades, si hiciere ofrenda encendida de olor grato al SEÑOR, como vosotros hiciereis, así hará él.

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

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

17 También habló el SEÑOR a Moisés, diciendo:

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

19 será que cuando comenzareis a comer del pan de la tierra, ofreceréis ofrenda al SEÑOR.

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 al SEÑOR ofrenda por vuestras generaciones.

22 Y cuando errareis, y no hiciereis todos estos mandamientos que el SEÑOR ha dicho a Moisés,

23 todas las cosas que el SEÑOR os ha mandado por la mano de Moisés, desde el día que el SEÑOR mandó a Moisés , y en adelante por vuestras edades,

24 será que, si el pecado fue hecho por yerro con ignorancia de la congregación, toda la congregación ofrecerá un novillo en holocausto, en olor grato al SEÑOR, con su presente y su libación, conforme a la ley; y un macho cabrío en expiación.

25 Y reconciliará el sacerdote a toda la congregación de los hijos de Israel; y les será perdonado, porque yerro es; y ellos traerán sus ofrendas, ofrenda encendida al SEÑOR, y sus expiaciones delante del SEÑOR, por sus yerros.

26 Y será perdonado a toda la congregación de los hijos de Israel, y al extranjero que mora 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 reconciliará a la persona que habrá pecado por yerro, cuando pecare por yerro delante del SEÑOR, la reconciliará, y le será perdonado.

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

30 Mas la persona que hiciere algo a conciencia, así el natural como el extranjero, al SEÑOR injurió; y la tal persona será cortada de en medio de su pueblo.

31 Por cuanto tuvo en poco la palabra del SEÑOR, y dio por nulo su mandamiento, enteramente será cortada esa 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 lo trajeron a Moisés y a Aarón, y a toda la congregación;

34 y lo pusieron en la cárcel, porque no estaba declarado qué se le habían de hacer.

35 Y el SEÑOR dijo a Moisés: Irremisiblemente muera aquel hombre; apedréelo con piedras toda la congregación fuera del campamento.

36 Entonces la congregación lo sacó fuera del campamento, y lo apedrearon con piedras, y murió; como el SEÑOR mandó a Moisés.

37 Y el SEÑOR habló a Moisés, diciendo:

38 Habla a 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 del vestido un cordón de cárdeno.

39 Y os servirá de pezuelo, para que cuando lo viereis, os acordéis de todos los mandamientos del SEÑOR, 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 a vuestro Dios.

41 Yo el SEÑOR vuestro Dios, que os saqué de la tierra de Egipto, para ser vuestro Dios. Yo soy el SEÑOR vuestro Dios.

   

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Korah was a man of the tribe of Levi, who together with Dathan and Abiram, led an insurrection against Moses and Aaron. Apparently their insurrection was prompted by their being out in the wilderness with no place to go. This happened after the Children of Israel had approached the land of Canaan from the south and had sent out spies to scout the land. Ten of the twelve spies said the land was too strong for them, that there were giants there. Moses then told the whole congregation they would all have to spend forty years in the wilderness until all that generation had died. In this story, Moses and Aaron represent the Lord. When Korah and his fellow rebels murmured against them and took fire from the altar and burned incense with it, they represented the profanation of mixing what is good (the fire from the altar) with what is evil (rebelling against Moses). The three rebel leaders and their followers were separated from the congregation and were swallowed up by a pit that opened in the earth. In our lives, evils need to be separated, too, and gotten rid of.

(Odkazy: The Apocalypse Explained 324 [6])

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4748. 'And their camels carrying spices, and resin' and stacte' means interior natural truths. This is clear from the general meaning of 'camels' as things belonging to the natural man which serve the spiritual, and from their specific meaning as general facts within the natural man, dealt with in 3048, 3071, 3114, 3143, 3145, 4156; and from the meaning of 'spices, resin, and stacte' as interior natural truths joined to the good there, which are dealt with below. Among the ancients, sweet smelling and fragrant substances were used in their sacred worship; from these substances they obtained their frankincense and incense, similar substances being mixed with oil for their anointings. But no one today knows why those fragrances were used, for the reason that no knowledge at all exists of the fact that all aspects of the worship of the ancients had their origin in the spiritual and celestial things existing in heaven, or that those aspects of it corresponded to these. Mankind has been removing itself so far from spiritual and celestial things, immersing itself in natural, worldly, and bodily ones, that it lives in obscurity, many people having a negative attitude of mind to the existence of anything spiritual or celestial.

[2] The reason frankincense and incense were used among the ancients in sacred acts of worship is that 'odour' corresponds to perception, and 'a fragrant odour' - like that of the aromas which various kinds of spices have - to a pleasing and acceptable perception, as is the perception of truth derived from good, or of faith from charity. Indeed the correspondence of one to the other is such that, as often as it pleases the Lord, actual perceptions in the next life are converted into odours. Regarding these, see what has already been told from experience in 925, 1514, 1517-1519, 3577, 4624-4634. What specifically is meant here by 'spices, resin, and stacte' may be seen from other places where these three are mentioned. In general they mean interior truths within the natural, but those truths which are derived from the good there; for truths do not on their own constitute the natural, but good does by means of truths. Consequently variations exist, conditioned by what the truth joined to the good is like and therefore by what the good is like, since the particular nature of the good depends on what the truths are like.

[3] 'Gilead' means exterior good like that belonging to the senses, called pleasure, 4117, 4124, while 'Egypt' in the good sense means facts, which are the external truths of the natural man that correspond to, that is, are in accord with, that good, 1462. Therefore the reference to Ishmaelites from Gilead bringing down those aromatic commodities on camels to Egypt means bringing their own interior truths, based on their own facts, to the facts meant by 'Egypt', which matters are dealt with below. Interior truths are conclusions based on exterior truths, that is, on facts; for the facts belonging to the natural man are the means that enable conclusions to be drawn about interior truths and thereby to identify them, just as a person identifies another's state of mind in his facial expressions and in the twinkling of light in his eyes, as well as in his tone of voice and his gestures.

[4] Because such truths are the means by which a person's natural is made more perfect and also receives correction, healing is therefore associated with spices of this kind - with resin, for example, in Jeremiah,

Is there no balsamic resin in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why has not the healing of the daughter of my people arisen? Jeremiah 8:22.

In the same prophet,

Go up to Gilead to take resin, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you have multiplied medicaments; there is no healing for you. Jeremiah 46:11.

In the same prophet,

Suddenly Babel has fallen and been broken; wail over her! Take resin for her pain; perhaps she will be healed. Jeremiah 51:8.

[5] Wares similar to this mean spiritual things, as is quite evident in John,

The merchants of the earth will weep and will mourn over Babel, that nobody buys their wares any longer, wares of gold and silver, and precious stones, and pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel made of most precious wood, and bronze, and iron, and marble, and cinnamon, and incense, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and draught-cattle, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and the bodies and souls of people. Revelation 18:11-13.

These wares would never have been listed in this specific manner if each and all had not meant the kinds of things that exist in the Lord's kingdom and in His Church. Otherwise they would have been words that had no real meaning. It is well known that 'Babel' means those who turn all worship of the Lord into worship of themselves, so that profanity exists inwardly while outwardly they are doing what is holy. This being so, 'their wares' means the things which, for the sake of worship of themselves, they themselves have invented enthusiastically and skillfully, as well as doctrinal teachings and ideas of good and truth from the Word which they have twisted to suit themselves. Thus the individual wares mentioned in these verses mean specific features of their invention, 'cinnamon, incense, ointment, and frankincense' meaning truths that are derived from good, but with those people perverted truths and falsities that are the products of evil.

[6] Something similar may be seen in what is recorded in Ezekiel regarding the wares of Tyre,

Judah and the land of Israel, they were your traders. Wheat of minnith and pannag, and honey, and oil, and resin, they exchanged for your trading. Ezekiel 27:17.

Here also 'resin' means truth derived from good. To one who has no belief in the internal sense of the Word all these expressions will be mere words and so vessels with nothing in them, when in fact they hold Divine, celestial, and spiritual things within them.

  
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