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2 Mosebok 19

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1 På den dag då den tredje månaden ingick efter Israels barns uttåg ur Egyptens land kommo de in i Sinais öken.

2 Ty de bröto upp från Refidim och kommo så till Sinais öken och lägrade sig i öknen; Israel lägrade sig där mitt emot berget.

3 Och Mose steg upp till Gud; då ropade HERREN till honom uppifrån berget och sade: »Så skall du säga till Jakobs hus, så skall du förkunna för Israels barn:

4 'I haven själva sett vad jag har gjort med egyptierna, och huru jag har burit eder på örnvingar och fört eder till mig.

5 Om I nu hören min röst och hållen mitt förbund, så skolen I vara min egendom framför alla andra folk, ty hela jorden är min;

6 Och I skolen vara mig ett rike av präster och ett heligt folk.' Detta är vad du skall tala till Israels barn.

7 När Mose kom tillbaka, sammankallade han de äldste i folket och förelade dem allt detta som HERREN hade bjudit honom.

8 svarade allt folket med en mun och sade: »Allt vad HERREN har talat vilja vi göra.» Och Mose gick tillbaka till HERREN med folkets svar.

9 Och HERREN sade till Mose: »Se, jag skall komma till dig i en tjock molnsky, för att folket skall höra, när jag talar med dig, och så tro på dig evärdligen.» Och Mose framförde folkets svar till HERREN.

10 Då sade HERREN till Mose: »Gå till folket, och helga dem i dag och i morgon, och I åt dem två sina kläder.

11 Och må de hålla sig redo till i övermorgon; ty i övermorgon skall HERREN stiga nedSinai berg inför allt folkets ögon.

12 Och du skall märka ut en gräns för folket runt omkring och säga: 'Tagen eder till vara för att stiga upp på berget eller komma vid dess fot. Var och en som kommer vid berget skall straffas med döden;

13 men ingen hand må komma vid honom, utan han skall stenas eller skjutas ihjäl. Evad det är djur eller människa, skall en sådan mista livet.' När jubelhornet ljuder med utdragen ton, då må de stiga upp på berget.»

14 Och Mose steg ned från berget till folket och helgade folket, och de tvådde sina kläder.

15 Och han sade till folket: »Hållen eder redo till i övermorgon; ingen komme vid en kvinna

16 tredje dagen, när det hade blivit morgon, begynte det dundra och blixtra, och en tung molnsky kom över berget, och ett mycket starkt basunljud hördes; och allt folket i lägret bävade.

17 Men Mose förde folket ut ur lägret, Gud till mötes; och de ställde sig nedanför berget.

18 Och hela Sinai berg höljdes i rök, vid det att HERREN kom ned därpå i eld; och en rök steg upp därifrån, lik röken från en smältugn, och hela berget bävade storligen.

19 Och basunljudet blev allt starkare och starkare. Mose talade, och Gud svarade honom med hög röst.

20 Och HERREN steg nedSinai berg, på toppen av berget, och HERREN kallade Mose upp till bergets topp; då steg Mose ditupp.

21 Och HERREN sade till Mose: »Stig ned och varna folket, så att de icke tränga sig fram för att se HERREN, ty då skola många av dem falla.

22 Jämväl prästerna, som få nalkas HERREN, skola helga sig, för att HERREN icke må låta dem drabbas av fördärv.»

23 Men Mose svarade HERREN: »Folket kan icke stiga upp på Sinai berg, ty du har själv varnat oss och sagt att jag skulle märka ut en gräns omkring berget och helga det.»

24 Då sade HERREN till honom: »Gå ditned, och kom sedan åter upp och hav Aron med dig. Men prästerna och folket må icke tränga sig fram för att stiga upp till HERREN på det att han icke må låta dem drabbas av fördärv.»

25 Och Mose steg ned till folket och sade dem detta.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 8770

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8770. 'And you will be for Me a kingdom of priests' means that at that time the good of truth will be [with them]. This is clear from the meaning of 'a kingdom of priests' here as spiritual good, which is the good of truth, that is, the good that a member of the spiritual Church is brought to by means of truth. The reason why 'a kingdom of priests' means this good is that these words are addressed to the house of Jacob and the children of Israel, who represent the spiritual Church, external and internal - the house of Jacob representing the external Church, and the children of Israel the internal Church, 8762. Also 'a kingdom' means truth, 1672, 2547, 4691, while 'priests' means good, since the Lord's Priesthood, which was represented by priests, means Divine Good, and the Lord's Kingship, which was represented by kings, means Divine Truth, 1728, 2015 (end), 3670, 6148.

[2] In the representative Church among the descendants of Jacob there was first a kingdom ruled by judges, after that a kingdom ruled by priests, and finally a kingdom ruled by kings. The kingdom ruled by judges represented Divine Truth emanating from Divine Good, whereas the kingdom ruled by priests, who were also judges, represented Divine Good from which Divine Truth emanates, and the kingdom ruled by kings represented Divine Truth without Divine Good. But when the office of king also had some of the priestly functions attached to it, kings then also represented Divine Truth containing good in the measure that priestly functions were linked to the office of king.

[3] All this was brought about in the Jewish Church to the end that the states of heaven might thereby be represented. For in heaven there are two kingdoms, one being called the celestial kingdom, and the other being called the spiritual kingdom. The celestial kingdom is what is called the Lord's Priesthood, and the spiritual kingdom is what is called His Kingship. In the latter Divine Truth reigns, in the former Divine Good. And since the representation of the celestial kingdom began to perish when the people asked for a king, therefore - to ensure that something representing the Lord's kingdom in the heavens might nevertheless continue to exist - the Jews were separated from the Israelites. The Jewish kingdom then represented the Lord's celestial kingdom, and the Israelite kingdom His spiritual kingdom.

[4] If people know these things they are able to know why the changes in forms of government took place one after another among the descendants of Jacob. They are also able to know why, when the people asked for a king, they were told by Jehovah through Samuel that in doing so they rejected Jehovah so that He should not reign over them, 1 Samuel 8:7, and why they were told then about 'the right of the king', 1 Samuel 8:11 and following verses, which describes Divine Truth without Divine Good. If people know the things mentioned above they can also know why some priestly functions were conferred on David, and also why after Solomon's time the kingdom was divided into two, into the Jewish kingdom and the Israelite kingdom. Regarding the two kingdoms in heaven, see 3635, 3883-3896, 4112, 4113, 4138.

  
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Numbers 18

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1 Yahweh said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your fathers' house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

2 Your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you: but you and your sons with you shall be before the tent of the testimony.

3 They shall keep your commands, and the duty of all the Tent: only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they, nor you.

4 They shall be joined to you, and keep the responsibility of the Tent of Meeting, for all the service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not come near to you.

5 "You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary, and the duty of the altar; that there be wrath no more on the children of Israel.

6 I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are a gift, given to Yahweh, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting.

7 You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and you shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death."

8 Yahweh spoke to Aaron, "I, behold, I have given you the command of my wave offerings, even all the holy things of the children of Israel; to you have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever.

9 This shall be yours of the most holy things, [reserved] from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons.

10 You shall eat of it like the most holy things. Every male shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you.

11 "This is yours, too: the wave offering of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the children of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a portion forever. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.

12 "All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to Yahweh, to you have I given them.

13 The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to Yahweh, shall be yours; everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.

14 "Everything devoted in Israel shall be yours.

15 Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal shall be yours: nevertheless you shall surely redeem the firstborn of man, and you shall redeem the firstborn of unclean animals.

16 You shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of money, after the shekel of the sanctuary (the same is twenty gerahs).

17 "But you shall not redeem the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat. They are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

18 Their flesh shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours.

19 All the wave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to Yahweh, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever: it is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to your seed with you."

20 Yahweh said to Aaron, "You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.

21 "To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the Tent of Meeting.

22 Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.

23 But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations; and among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

24 For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a wave offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance: therefore I have said to them, 'Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.'"

25 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

26 "Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, 'When you take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a wave offering of it for Yahweh, a tithe of the tithe.

27 Your wave offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.

28 Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to Yahweh of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and of it you shall give Yahweh's wave offering to Aaron the priest.

29 Out of all your gifts you shall offer every wave offering of Yahweh, of all its best, even the holy part of it out of it.'

30 "Therefore you shall tell them, 'When you heave its best from it, then it shall be reckoned to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the winepress.

31 You shall eat it in every place, you and your households: for it is your reward in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting.

32 You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it its best: and you shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that you not die.'"