17
Magiging palatuntunang palagi sa buong panahon ng inyong lahi, sa lahat ng inyong tahanan na hindi kayo kakain ng taba ni dugo man.
Levitico 3:17
Arcana Coelestia # 2166
2166. 'That you may refresh yourselves' means insofar as it is in keeping. This is not so clear from the proximate meaning of these words in the internal sense, though it is nevertheless clear from the whole train of thought. The subject here is Divine perception - that it might draw nearer to the perception possessed by the Lord's human as it was at that time, and that it might bring itself down nearer to His intellectual concepts, by taking on something natural, and also something heavenly or celestial to go with that something natural, insofar as it is in keeping, meant by 'refreshing oneself'. In the proximate sense 'refreshing oneself by means of bread' means being revived, and so enjoying what little of the celestial is in keeping.
Leviticus 24:5-9
5
"You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake.
6
You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before Yahweh.
7
You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
8
Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before Yahweh continually. It is on the behalf of the children of Israel an everlasting covenant.
9
It shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy to him of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire by a perpetual statute."
