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1 Y habló el SEÑOR a Moisés, diciendo:

2 Habla a los hijos de Israel, y diles: El hombre, o la mujer, cuando se apartare haciendo voto de Nazareo (apartado ), para dedicarse al SEÑOR,

3 se abstendrá de vino y de sidra; vinagre de vino, ni vinagre de sidra no beberá, ni beberá algún licor de uvas, ni tampoco comerá uvas frescas ni secas.

4 Todo el tiempo de su nazareato, de todo lo que se hace de vid de vino, desde los granillos hasta el hollejo, no comerá.

5 Todo el tiempo del voto de su nazareato no pasará navaja sobre su cabeza, hasta que sean cumplidos los días de su apartamiento al SEÑOR, santo será; dejará crecer las guedejas del cabello de su cabeza.

6 Todo el tiempo que se apartare al SEÑOR, no entrará a persona muerta.

7 Por su padre, ni por su madre, por su hermano, ni por su hermana, no se contaminará con ellos cuando murieren; porque consagración de su Dios tiene sobre su cabeza.

8 Todo el tiempo de su nazareato, será santo al SEÑOR.

9 Y si alguno muriere muy de repente junto a él, contaminará la cabeza de su nazareato; por tanto el día de su purificación raerá su cabeza; al séptimo día la raerá.

10 Y el día octavo traerá dos tórtolas o dos palominos al sacerdote, a la puerta del tabernáculo del testimonio;

11 y el sacerdote hará el uno en expiación, y el otro en holocausto; y lo expiará de lo que pecó sobre el muerto, y santificará su cabeza en aquel día.

12 Y consagrará al SEÑOR los días de su nazareato, y traerá un cordero de un año en expiación por la culpa; y los días primeros serán anulados, por cuanto fue contaminado su nazareato.

13 Esta es, pues, la ley del Nazareo; el día que se cumpliere el tiempo de su nazareato: Vendrá a la puerta del tabernáculo del testimonio;

14 y ofrecerá su ofrenda al SEÑOR, un cordero de un año sin tacha en holocausto, y una cordera de un año sin tacha en expiación, y un carnero sin tacha en sacrificio de paz;

15 además un canastillo de panes cenceños, tortas de flor de harina amasadas con aceite, y hojaldres cenceñas untadas con aceite, y su presente, y sus libaciones.

16 Y el sacerdote lo ofrecerá delante del SEÑOR, y hará su expiación y su holocausto;

17 y ofrecerá el carnero en sacrificio de paz al SEÑOR, con el canastillo de los panes cenceños; ofrecerá asimismo el sacerdote su presente, y sus libaciones.

18 Entonces el Nazareo raerá a la puerta del tabernáculo del testimonio la cabeza de su nazareato, y tomará los cabellos de la cabeza de su nazareato, y los pondrá sobre el fuego que está debajo del sacrificio de la paz.

19 Después tomará el sacerdote la espaldilla cocida del carnero, y una torta sin levadura del canastillo, y una hojaldre sin levadura, y las pondrá sobre las manos del Nazareo, Después que fuere raído su nazareato;

20 y el sacerdote mecerá aquello, ofrenda mecida delante del SEÑOR; lo cual será cosa santa del sacerdote, a más del pecho mecido y de la espaldilla de la apartada; y después beberá vino el Nazareo.

21 Esta es la ley del Nazareo que hiciere voto de su ofrenda al SEÑOR por su nazareato, a más de lo que sus recursos le permitieren; según el voto que hiciere, así hará, conforme a la ley de su nazareato.

22 Y el SEÑOR habló a Moisés, diciendo:

23 Habla a Aarón y a sus hijos, y diles: Así bendeciréis a los hijos de Israel, diciéndoles:

24 el SEÑOR te bendiga, y te guarde;

25 el SEÑOR haga resplandecer su rostro sobre ti, y tenga de ti misericordia;

26 el SEÑOR alce a ti su rostro, y ponga en ti paz.

27 Y pondrán mi nombre sobre los hijos de Israel, y yo los bendeciré.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 4580

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4580. 'Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He talked to him, a stone pillar' means the holiness of truth within that Divine state. This is clear from the meaning of 'a pillar' as the holiness of truth, dealt with below, and from the meaning of 'in the place where He talked to him' as within that state, dealt with just above in 4578.

First, let something be said about the origin of erecting pillars in those times, of pouring out drink-offerings onto them, and of pouring wine onto them.

[2] The pillars which were erected in ancient times were set up to serve either as a sign, or as a witness, or for worship. Those set up for worship used to be anointed with oil and were thereby made holy; and in these places, people also held their worship - in temples, in groves, under trees in forests, and in other places. This practice of erecting pillars owed its representative nature to the fact that in most ancient times stones were set up on the boundaries between families of nations, to stop them crossing those boundaries to do one another any harm, as with the pillar set up by Laban and Jacob, Genesis 31:51. Not crossing them to do harm was the law of nations among those people. And because those stones were on the boundaries, whenever the most ancient people saw them as boundary stones they thought of the truths which exist in the ultimate degree of order; for those people saw in every object on earth the spiritual or celestial reality to which it corresponded. Their descendants however, who saw less of what was spiritual and celestial within the same objects and more of what was worldly, began to regard these in a holy way merely because they were objects venerated from of old. At length those descendants of the most ancient people who lived immediately before the Flood, and who no longer saw anything spiritual or celestial in earthly and worldly things as objects, began to make the actual stones holy, pouring out drink-offerings onto them and anointing them with oil. These were now called pillars and were used for worship. The position remained the same after the Flood - in the Ancient Church which was a representative Church - though with this difference, that pillars served these people as a means enabling them to offer internal worship. For infants and children were taught by parents what those pillars represented, and in this way they were led to know holy objects and to have an affection for the things which these represented. This explains why the ancients had pillars for worship in their temples, groves, and forests, also on hills and mountains.

[3] But once the internal existence of worship had perished completely in the Ancient Church and people began to regard external objects as being holy and Divine and in so doing began to worship those objects in an idolatrous manner, they erected pillars to particular deities. And because the descendants of Jacob were very inclined towards idolatrous practices, they were forbidden to erect pillars or have groves. They were not even allowed to offer any worship on mountains or hillsides, but were required to meet in one particular place - where the Ark was, and later on where the Temple stood, thus in Jerusalem. Otherwise each family would have had its own external objects and idols which it would have worshipped, and so no representative of the Church could have been established among that nation. See what has been shown already about pillars in 3727.

From all this one may see how the erecting of pillars originated, and what they were signs of, and that when they were used for worship, holy truth was represented by them, for which reason the expression 'a stone pillar' is also used, 'stone' meaning truth in the ultimate degree of order, 1298, 3720, 3769, 3771, 3773, 3789, 3798. It should be recognized in addition that holiness is a particular attribute of Divine Truth, for Divine Good exists within the Lord, while Divine Truth proceeds from that Good, 3704, 4577, and is called holiness.

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