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3 Mosebok 7

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1 Och detta är lagen om skuldoffret: Det är högheligt.

2 På samma plats där man slaktar brännoffersdjuret skall man slakta skuldoffersdjuret. Och man skall stänka dess blodaltaret runt omkring.

3 Och allt dess fett skall man offra, svansen och det fett som omsluter inälvorna,

4 och båda njurarna med det fett som sitter på dem invid länderna, så ock leverfettet, vilket man skall frånskilja invid njurarna.

5 Och prästen skall förbränna det på altaret till ett eldsoffer åt HERREN. Det är ett skuldoffer.

6 Allt mankön bland prästernaäta det; på en helig plats skall det ätas; det är högheligt.

7 Vad som gäller om syndoffret skall ock gälla om skuldoffret; samma lag skall gälla för dem båda. Den präst som bringar försoning därmed, honom skall det tillhöra.

8 Och när en präst bär fram brännoffer for någon, skall huden av det framburna brännoffersdjuret tillhöra den prästen.

9 Och ett spisoffer som är bakat i ugn, eller som är tillrett i panna eller på plåt, skall alltid tillfalla den präst som bär fram det.

10 Men ett spisoffer som är begjutet med olja, eller som frambäres torrt, skall alltid tillfalla Arons söner gemensamt, den ene likaväl som den andre.

11 Och detta är lagen om tackoffret, när ett sådant bäres fram åt HERREN:

12 Om någon vill bära fram ett sådant till lovoffer, så skall han, förutom det till lovoffret hörande slaktdjuret, bära fram osyrade kakor, begjutna med olja, och osyrade tunnkakor, smorda med olja, och fint mjöl, hopknådat, i form av kakor, begjutna med olja.

13 Jämte kakor av syrat bröd skall han bära fram detta sitt offer, förutom det slaktdjur som hör till det tackoffer han bär fram såsom lov offer.

14 Av detta offer skall han bära fram en kaka av vart slag, såsom en gärd åt HERREN; den präst som stänker tackoffrets blod på altaret, honom skall den tillhöra.

15 Och köttet av det slaktdjur, som hör till det tackoffer som bäres fram såsom lovoffer, skall ätas samma dag det har offrats; intet därav må lämnas kvar till följande morgon.

16 Om däremot det slaktoffer som någon vill bära fram år ett löftesoffer eller ett frivilligt offer, så skall offerdjuret likaledes ätas samma dag det har offrats; dock må det som har blivit över därav ätas den följande dagen.

17 Bliver ändå något över av offerköttet, skall detta på tredje dagen brännas upp i eld.

18 Om någon på tredje dagen äter av tackoffersköttet, så bliver offret icke välbehagligt; honom som har burit fram det skall det då icke räknas till godo, det skall anses såsom en vederstygglighet. Den som äter därav kommer att bära på missgärning.

19 Ej heller må det kött ätas, som har kommit vid något orent, utan det skall brännas upp i eld. För övrigt må köttet ätas av var och en som är ren.

20 Men den som äter kött av HERRENS tackoffer, medan orenhet låder vid honom, han skall utrotas ur sin släkt.

21 Och om någon har kommit vid något orent -- vare sig en människas orenhet, eller ett orent djur, eller vilken oren styggelse det vara må -- och han likväl äter kött av HERRENS tackoffer, så skall han utrotas ur sin släkt.

22 Och HERREN talade till Mose och sade:

23 Tala till Israels barn och säg: Intet fett av fäkreatur, får eller getter skolen I äta.

24 Fettet av ett självdött eller ihjälrivet djur må eljest användas till alla slags behov, men äta det skolen I icke.

25 Ty var och en som äter fettet av något djur varav man bär fram eldsoffer åt HERREN, vem det vara må som äter därav, han skall utrotas ur sin släkt.

26 Och intet blod skolen I förtära varken av fåglar eller av boskap, var I än ären bosatta.

27 Var och en som förtär något blod, han skall utrotas ur sin släkt.

28 Och HERREN talade till Mose och sade:

29 Tala till Israels barn och säg: Den som vill offra ett tackoffer åt HERREN, han skall av detta sitt tackoffer bära fram åt HERREN den vederbörliga offergåvan.

30 Med egna händer skall han bära fram HERRENS eldsoffer; fettet jämte bringan skall han bära fram, bringan till att viftas såsom ett viftoffer inför HERRENS ansikte.

31 Och prästen skall förbränna fettet på altaret, men bringan skall tillhöra Aron och hans söner.

32 Också det högra lårstycket skolen I giva åt prästen, såsom en gärd av edra tackoffer.

33 Den bland Arons söner, som offrar tackoffrets blod och fettet, han skall hava det högra lårstycket till sin del.

34 Ty av Israels barns tackoffer tager jag viftoffersbringan och offergärdslåret och giver dem åt prästen Aron och åt hans söner till en evärdlig rätt av Israels barn.

35 Detta är Arons och hans söners ämbetslott av HERRENS eldsoffer, den lott som gavs dem den dag de fördes fram till att bliva HERRENS präster

36 vilken lott, efter HERRENS befallning på den dag då han smorde dem, skulle givas dem av Israels barn, till en evärdlig rätt, släkte efter släkte.

37 Detta är lagen om brännoffret, spisoffret, syndoffret, skuldoffret, handfyllningsoffret och tackoffret,

38 vilken HERRENSinai berg gav Mose, på den dag då han bjöd Israels barn att de skulle offra sina offer åt HERREN, i Sinais öken.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9393

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9393. 'And Moses took half of the blood' means Divine Truth which has become a matter of life and of worship. This is clear from the meaning of 'the blood' as Divine Truth emanating from the Lord, dealt with in 4735, 6978, 7317, 7326, 7850, 9127. The reason why it is Divine Truth which has become a matter of life and of worship is that it was the blood which Moses sprinkled over the people, verse 8, and this blood means Divine Truth which a person has accepted, thus that which has become a matter of life and of worship; for that Truth is said to have been accepted by a person which becomes a matter of life and so of worship. And it becomes a matter of life and worship when the person has an affection for it or loves it, or what amounts to the same thing, when he wills it, and - in willing it, and so in loving and having an affection for it - does it. Till then it is indeed present with him in his memory, and is at times called forth from there and comes before his inward sight or understanding, from where it passes back into his memory. However, as long as God's truth goes no deeper than this, though it resides with the person it has not been implanted in his life and will; for a person's life consists in his will. Therefore when truth is called forth from the memory into the understanding, then passes from the understanding into the will, and goes out from the will into action, that truth becomes part of the person's life and is called good. All this shows what is meant by Divine Truth which has become a matter of life. The situation is the same with truth which becomes part of worship. Worship springing from truth which does no more than cling in the memory and make its appearance from there in the understanding is not worship. But worship springing from truth that goes out from the will, and so from affection and love, is worship. In the Word this worship is called worship of the heart, but the other, worship of the lips alone.

[2] It has indeed been shown already in the places referred to above that 'blood' means Divine Truth emanating from the Lord. Nevertheless since the majority belonging to the Church at the present day take the blood in the Holy Supper to mean nothing other than the Lord's blood that was shed on the Cross, and in a more general sense His whole Passion of the Cross, let something further be stated briefly to show that blood is not what is meant there but Divine Truth emanating from the Lord. The reason why this is unknown within the Church is that nothing whatever is known at the present day about correspondences, nor consequently about the internal sense of the Word, the sense understood by angels when someone in the world reads the Word.

[3] It becomes clear from many places in the Word that 'blood' does not mean blood but God's truth, and plainly so from the following in Ezekiel,

Say to every bird of the air and to every wild animal of the field, Assemble and come, gather yourselves from all around to My sacrifice which I am sacrificing for you, so that you may eat flesh and drink blood. You will eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth. You will eat fat till you are glutted, and drink blood till you are drunk, from My sacrifice which I will sacrifice for you. You will be glutted at My table with horse and chariot, and with every man of war. Thus will I set My glory among the nations. Ezekiel 39:17-21.

It is plainly evident that 'blood' is not used here to mean blood, for it says that they were going to drink the blood of the princes of the earth, and the blood from the sacrifice, till they were drunk, when yet drinking blood, especially the blood of princes, is something abominable and was forbidden to the children of Israel on pain of death, Leviticus 3:17; 7:26; Leviticus 17:1-end; Deuteronomy 12:16-25; 15:23. It also says that they were going to be glutted with horse, chariot, and every man of war. Anyone therefore who does not know that 'blood' means Divine Truth, 'princes' leading truths, 'sacrifice' the things that belong to worship, 'horse' the understanding of truth, 'chariot' doctrinal teachings, and 'man of war' truth engaged in conflict against falsity is bound to be bemused by each of the words used in this passage.

[4] His response would be the same to the Lord's words in John,

Jesus said, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you will have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise Him up at the last day. My flesh is truly food, and My blood is truly drink. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. John 6:53-56.

But see what has been shown already regarding these words, in 4735, 6978, 7317, 7326, 7850, 9127. The fact that flesh corresponds to good, as does bread, and that blood corresponds to truth, as does wine, has been told me very many times from heaven. I have likewise been told that angels understand the Word solely according to correspondences, and that as a result of this mankind is joined by means of the Word to heaven, and through heaven to the Lord.

[5] And in like manner I have been told that the Holy Supper was established by the Lord to be the means by which all things of heaven, that is, all things which are the Lord's, might be joined to members of the Church. For in the Holy Supper the flesh or bread is the Divine Good of the Lord's Divine Love towards the whole human race, and a person's love in return to the Lord, while the blood or wine is the Divine Truth emanating from the Divine Good of the Lord's Divine Love, and in turn the person's acceptance of it. In heaven, furthermore, eating and drinking those gifts implies making them one's own and joining them together. But see what has been shown already regarding these matters in 2165, 2177, 3464, 4211, 4217, 4581, 4735, 5915, 6789, 7850, 9323.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 3464

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3464. 'And pointed out to him the reasons for the well which they had dug; and they said to him, We have found water' means interior truths obtained by means of these. This is clear from the meaning of 'a well' as the Word, dealt with in 3424, and from the meaning of 'water' as truths, dealt with in 2702, that is to say, truths drawn from the Word. 'Pointing out to him the reasons for the well which they had dug' accordingly means concerning the Word, the source of matters of doctrine; 'and they said to him, We have found water' means that it is in these, that is to say, in matters of doctrine, that interior truths reside; for as stated above, all matters of doctrine drawn from the literal sense of the Word include interior truths within them. For the literal sense of the Word is like a well with water in it, in that every single thing in the Word holds within itself the internal sense, which resides also in matters of doctrine drawn from the Word.

[2] The situation with matters of doctrine drawn from the literal sense of the Word is that when anyone possesses them and at the same time lives according to them a correspondence exists within himself. For the angels who reside with him are alive to the interior truths when he is alive to the exterior; and in this way he has communication with heaven by means of matters of doctrine, though this is conditioned by how good a life he leads. For example, when at the Holy Supper this person in simplicity thinks about the Lord from the words 'This is My body' and 'This is My blood' the angels residing with him have in mind love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbour; for love to the Lord corresponds to the Lord's body and to the bread, while charity towards the neighbour corresponds to His blood and to the wine, 1798, 2165, 2177, 2187. This being the nature of the correspondence, there flows from heaven by way of the angels into that holiness present with the person at that time an affection which he receives according to the good within his life.

[3] Actually angels dwell with every person in the affection that belongs to his life, and so in the affection for the matters of doctrine according to which he lives, but never in the matters of doctrine with which his life is at variance. If his life is at variance with them, as it is if his affection is to gain position and wealth for himself by means of matters of doctrine, the angels in that case depart and spirits from hell dwell in that affection. These either instill their confirmations into him that favour self and the world - thus a false persuasion, which is such that he does not care at all whether a thing is true or false, provided people's attention is drawn to himself - or they take away all faith, in which case the doctrine on that person's lips is merely a sound prompted and fashioned by the fire of those loves.

  
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