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Numbers 29

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1 "'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing of trumpets to you.

2 You shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;

3 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the ram,

4 and one tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs;

5 and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you;

6 besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and the meal offering of it, and the continual burnt offering and the meal offering of it, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

7 "'On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; and you shall afflict your souls: you shall do no kind of work;

8 but you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old; they shall be to you without blemish;

9 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the one ram,

10 a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs:

11 one male goat for a sin offering; besides the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and their drink offerings.

12 "'On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work, and you shall keep a feast to Yahweh seven days:

13 and you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh; thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish;

14 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for every bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenth parts for each ram of the two rams,

15 and a tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen lambs;

16 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it.

17 "'On the second day [you shall offer] twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish;

18 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

19 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and their drink offerings.

20 "'On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish;

21 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

22 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it.

23 "'On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish;

24 their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

25 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it.

26 "'On the fifth day nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish;

27 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

28 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it.

29 "'On the sixth day eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish;

30 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

31 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offerings of it.

32 "'On the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish;

33 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

34 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it.

35 "'On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly: you shall do no servile work;

36 but you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;

37 their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance:

38 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it.

39 "'You shall offer these to Yahweh in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meal offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.'"

40 Moses told the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses.

   

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Explanation of Numbers 29

Napsal(a) Henry MacLagan

Verses 1-6. There is revelation from the Lord by Divine Truth, following the implantation of truth in good, and worship thence, which is described.

Verses 7-11. Also there is complete purification from evil accompanied by a similar state of worship.

Verses 12-40. And this is succeeded by the third general stale of the regeneration of man, which is the implantation of good, the appropriate worship in which state is described.

Verses 12-16. But this involves a description of the successive states of regeneration, showing first the opposition of the natural man to the spiritual, and worship in that state.

Verses 17-19. Secondly, the decrease of this opposition, when truths are full and efficient.

Verses 20-22. Thirdly, its greater decrease when this fullness and efficiency affect the external as well as the internal man.

Verses 23-25. Fourthly, its continued decrease when truths are implanted in good.

Verses 26-28. Fifthly, that the decrease is greater still when the external as well as the internal man is thus affected.

Verses 29—31. Sixthly, a further decrease of the opposition of the natural man takes place when good is implanted there.

Verses 32-34. Seventhly, that it ceases altogether when good is implanted in the external as well as the internal man there,

Verses 35-40. And eighthly, that a new and perfect state succeeds in which there is a complete arrangement of truths and a full appropriation of good to eternity.

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Arcana Coelestia # 4570

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4570. 'But indeed Israel will be your name' means the nature of the internal natural, or the nature of the spiritual aspect of it, represented by 'Israel'; 'and He called his name Israel' means the internal Natural or the celestial-spiritual aspect of the Natural. This is clear from the meaning of 'name' as the essential nature, dealt with just above in 4568, and from the meaning of 'Israel' as the internal aspect of the Lord's natural and also the celestial-spiritual aspect of the Natural. No one can know why Jacob was called Israel unless he knows what the internal natural is and what the external natural is, and in addition what the celestial-spiritual aspect of the natural is. These matters have in actual fact been explained already, when Jacob was named Israel by the angel; but because they are the kind of things about which people know little, if anything, they need to be explained again.

[2] Two quite distinct and separate degrees exist in man - the rational and the natural. The rational constitutes the internal man and the natural the external; but the natural, like the rational also, has an external aspect of its own and an internal one. The external aspect of the natural is composed of the physical senses and of the impressions received from the world through these senses immediately. By means of his sensory impressions a person is in touch with things belonging to the world and to the body; and people who are confined solely to this natural are called sensory-minded because their thought goes scarcely at all beyond sensory experience. But the internal part of the natural is made up of ideas inferred - by the use of analysis and analogies - from what is in the external, even though it draws on and derives its ideas from sensory impressions. So the natural is in touch through the senses with things belonging to the world and to the body, and through ideas, arrived at by the use of analogy and analysis, with the rational, thus with things belonging to the spiritual world. Such is the composition of the natural. There is another part that exists between and has links with both of them - with the external aspect and with the internal - and so is in touch through the external with things in the natural world, and through the internal with those in the spiritual world. This external natural is represented specifically by 'Jacob', and the internal natural by 'Israel'. The situation is similar with the rational; that is to say, there is an external aspect and an internal, and a further one between the two. But this, in the Lord's Divine mercy, is to be discussed where Joseph is the subject, for 'Joseph' represents the external aspect of the rational.

[3] What the celestial-spiritual is however has been stated several times already - that essentially the celestial is good and the spiritual truth, so that the celestial-spiritual is that which is good resulting from truth. Now because the Lord's Church is both external and internal, and internal features of the Church had to be represented by the descendants of Jacob through things of an external nature, Jacob could not therefore be called Jacob any longer, but was called Israel - see what has been introduced already about these matters in 4286, 4292. Further to this it should be recognized that the terms celestial and spiritual are used both of the rational and of the natural. Celestial is used when people receive good, and spiritual when they receive truth from the Lord; for the good which flows from the Lord into heaven is called celestial, and the truth is called spiritual. In the highest sense the naming of Jacob as Israel means that the Lord progressed towards more interior aspects and made the Natural within Him Divine, both the external aspect of it and the internal. For in the highest sense that which is represented is the Natural itself.

  
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