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1 Och Mose och de äldste i Israel bjödo folket och sade: »Hållen alla de bud som jag i dag giver eder.

2 Och när I kommen över Jordan, in i det land som HERREN, din Gud, vill giva dig, då skall du resa åt dig stora stenar och bestryka dem med kalk.

3 På dessa skall du, när du har gått över floden, skriva alla denna lags ord, för att du må komma in i det land som HERREN, din Gud, vill giva dig, ett land som flyter av mjölk och honung, såsom HERREN, dina fäders Gud, har lovat dig.

4 Och när I haven gått över Jordan, skolen I på berget Ebal resa dessa stenar om vilka jag i dag giver eder befallning; och du skall bestryka dem med kalk.

5 Och du skall där åt HERREN, din Gud, bygga ett altare, ett altare av stenar, vid vilka du icke skall komma med något järn.

6 Av ohuggna stenar skall du bygga HERRENS, din Guds, altare; och du skall på det offra brännoffer åt HERREN, din Gud.

7 Du skall där ock offra tackoffer och skall äta och glädja dig inför HERRENS, din Guds. ansikte.

8 Och du skall på stenarna skriva alla denna lags ord, klart och tydligt.»

9 Och Mose och de levitiska prästerna talade till hela Israel och sade: »Var stilla och hör, Israel! I dag har du blivit HERRENS, din Guds, folk.

10 Så skall du då höra HERRENS, din Gud röst och göra efter hans bud och stadgar, som jag i dag giver dig.»

11 Och Mose bjöd folket på den dagen och sade:

12 Dessa stammar skola stå och välsigna folket på berget Gerissim, när I haven gått över Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Juda. Isaskar, Josef och Benjamin.

13 Och dessa skola stå och uttala förbannelsen på berget Ebal: Ruben, Gad, Aser, Sebulon, Dan och Naftali.

14 Och leviterna skola taga till orda och skola med hög röst inför var man i Israel säga så:

15 Förbannad vare den man som gör ett beläte, skuret eller gjutet, en styggelse för HERREN, ett verk av en konstarbetares händer, och som sedan i hemlighet sätter upp det. Och allt folket skall svara och säga: »Amen.»

16 Förbannad vare den som visar förakt för sin fader eller sin moder. Och allt folket skall säga: »Amen.»

17 Förbannad vare den som flyttar sin nästas råmärke. Och allt folket skall säga: »Amen.»

18 Förbannad vare den som leder en blind vilse på vägen. Och allt folket skall säga: »Amen.»

19 Förbannad vare den som vränger rätten för främlingen, den faderlöse och änkan. Och allt folket skall säga: »Amen.»

20 Förbannad vare den som ligger hos sin faders hustru, ty han lyfter på sin faders täcke. Och allt folket skall säga: »Amen.»

21 Förbannad vare den som beblandar sig med något djur Och allt folket skall säga: »Amen.»

22 Förbannad vare den som ligger hos sin syster, sin faders dotter eller sin moders dotter. Och allt folket skall säga: »Amen.»

23 Förbannad vare den som ligger hos sin svärmoder. Och allt folket skall säga: »Amen.»

24 Förbannad vare den som lönnligen mördar sin nästa. Och allt folket skall säga: »Amen.»

25 Förbannad vare den som tager mutor för att slå ihjäl en oskyldig och utgjuta hans blod. Och allt folket skall säga: »Amen.»

26 Förbannad vare den som icke håller denna lags ord och icke gör efter dem. Och allt folket skall säga: »Amen.»

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 2187

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2187. 'And they ate' means communication in this manner. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'eating' as being communicated, and also being joined together, as is also evident from the Word. The injunction that Aaron, and his sons the Levites, and also the people were to eat the consecrated elements of the sacrifices in a holy place meant nothing other than the communication, conjunction, and making one's own, as stated above in 2177, at the point where Leviticus 6:16-17, is referred to. For it was celestial and spiritual food that was meant by the consecrated elements, and thus making that food their own by eating those elements. These consecrated elements were those parts of the sacrifices which were not burned on the altar but were eaten either by the priests or by the people who brought the offering, as becomes clear from very many places where the sacrifices are the subject. The consecrated elements that were to be eaten by the priests are referred to in Exodus 29:32-33; Leviticus 6:16, 26; 7:6, 15-16, 18; 8:31; 10:12-13; Numbers 18:9-11; and those to be eaten by the people, in Leviticus 19:5-6; Deuteronomy 12:27; 27:7; and elsewhere. And that those who were unclean were not to eat of them is referred to in Leviticus 7:19-21; 22:4-7. These ritual feasts took place in a holy place near the altar, either at the gate or in the court outside the tent. And they meant nothing else than the communication, conjunction, and making of celestial goods one's own, for those feasts represented celestial food. For what celestial food is, see 56-58, 680, 681, 1480, 1695. And all those consecrated elements were called 'bread', for the meaning of which see above in 2165. Something similar was represented by Aaron and his sons eating the loaves of the presence, or the shewbread, in a holy place, Leviticus 24:9.

[2] The reason for the law given to the Nazirite that during the days of his Naziriteship he was forbidden to eat anything that is produced from the grape - from which wine is made - from pips even to skin, Numbers 6:4, is that the Nazirite represented the celestial man, and the celestial man is such as is not willing even to mention spiritual things, see Volume One, in 202, 337, 880 (end), 1647. And because 'wine' and 'the grape', and also whatever came from the grape, meant that which is spiritual, the Nazirite was therefore forbidden to eat of them, that is, to have any communication with spiritual things, to join himself to them, or to make them his own.

[3] Something similar is meant by 'eating' in Isaiah,

Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters, and he who has no money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend money on that which is not bread, and your labour on that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to Me and eat what is good, and your soul will delight itself in fatness. Isaiah 55:1-2.

And also what is said in John,

To him who conquers I will grant to eat from the tree of life which is in the middle of the Paradise of God. Revelation 2:7.

'The tree of life' is the celestial itself, and in the highest sense it is the Lord Himself since He is the source of everything celestial, that is, of all love and charity. Thus 'eating from the tree of life' is the same as feeding on the Lord; and 'feeding on the Lord' is being endowed with love and charity, thus with those things that belong to heavenly life, as the Lord Himself declares in John,

I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread he will live for ever. He who feeds on Me will live through Me. John 6:51, 57. But they said, This is a hard saying. Jesus said however, The words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life. John 6:60, 63.

From this it is evident what is meant by 'eating' in the Holy Supper, Matthew 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-23; Luke 22:19-20 - having communication, being joined together, and making one's own.

[4] From this it is also plain what is meant by the Lord's statement that

Many will come from the east and from the west and will recline with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Matthew 8:11.

The Lord did not mean that they were going to feast with these three in the kingdom of God but that they were to enjoy the celestial goods meant by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. That is to say, they were to enjoy the inmost celestial goods of love, meant by -Abraham'; also a lower type of goods, which are intermediate, as those are which belong to the rational, meant by 'Isaac'; and a still lower type of goods which are celestial-natural, such as occur in the first heaven, meant by 'Jacob'. These are the things which constitute the internal sense of these words. That such things are meant by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, see 1893, and wherever else they are the subject. For whether one speaks of enjoying those celestial things, or whether one speaks of enjoying the Lord, whom they represent, it amounts to the same since the Lord is the source of all those things, and the Lord is their All in all.

  
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Genesis 18

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1 Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

2 He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,

3 and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don't go away from your servant.

4 Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

5 I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant." They said, "Very well, do as you have said."

6 Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly prepare three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."

7 Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.

8 He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

9 They asked him, "Where is Sarah, your wife?" He said, "See, in the tent."

10 He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

12 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"

13 Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'

14 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."

15 Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."

16 The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.

17 Yahweh said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do,

18 since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."

20 Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

21 I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know."

22 The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.

23 Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

24 What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?

25 Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"

26 Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake."

27 Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.

28 What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."

29 He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?" He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake."

30 He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?" He said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."

31 He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake."

32 He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."

33 Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

   

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