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1 Ja Herra sanoi Aaronille: sinä ja sinun poikas, ja sinun isäs huone sinun kanssas, kantakaat pyhän viat: ja sinä ja sinun poikas sinun kanssas, kantakaat pappeutenne viat.

2 Mutta veljes isäs Levin suvusta ota kanssas, heidän pitää pysymän sinun tykönäs ja palveleman sinua: mutta sinä ja poikas sinun kanssas, palvelkaat todistuksen majassa.

3 Ja he ottakaan vaarin sinun vartioistas, ja koko majan vartiosta: älkööt kuitenkaan lähestykö pyhän astioita ja alttaria, ettei sekä he ja te kuolisi.

4 Mutta heidän pitää pysymän sinun tykönäs ottamassa vaarin seurakunnan majan vartioista kaikessa majan palveluksessa, eikä yhdenkään muukalaisen pidä teitä lähestymän.

5 Niin ottakaat siis vaari pyhän vartiosta ja alttarin vartiosta, ettei enää vihan julmuus Israelin lasten päälle tulisi.

6 Ja katso, minä otin teidän veljenne Leviläiset Israelin lasten seasta, ja annoin teille lahjaksi, jotka ovat Herran omat, ja pitää palveleman seurakunnan majan palveluksessa.

7 Mutta sinä ja poikas sinun kanssas ottakaat pappeudestanne vaari, ja palvelkaat kaikissa alttarin asioissa ja sisällisellä puolella esirippua: sillä pappeutenne annan minä teille viran lahjaksi. Jos joku muukalainen lähestyy siihen, sen pitää kuoleman.

8 Ja Herra sanoi Aaronille: katso, minä annoin sinun haltuus minun ylennysuhrini vartion: kaikki mitä Israelin lapset pyhittävät, annoin minä sinulle ja pojilles, lahjaksi, ijankaikkiseksi oikeudeksi.

9 Nämät sinä saat siitä kaikkein pyhimmästä, tuliuhrista: kaikki heidän lahjansa, ynnä kaiken heidän ruokauhrinsa, ja kaiken heidän syntiuhrinsa, ja myös kaiken heidän vikauhrinsa kanssa, mitkä he sinulle antavat, se on sinulle ja sinun pojilles kaikkein pyhin.

10 Ja kaikkein pyhimmällä sialla pitää sinun sen syömän. Kaikki miehenpuoli syökään sitä: sen pitää oleman sinulle pyhä.

11 Minä annoin myös sinulle ja sinun pojilles ja tyttärilles sinun kanssas heidän lahjansa ylennysuhrin, kaikissa Israelin lasten häälytysuhreissa, ijankaikkiseksi oikeudeksi. Jokainen puhdas sinun huoneessas syökään sitä.

12 Kaikkein parhaan öljyn ja kaikkein parhaan vierteen, ja jyvät ja niiden uutisen, jotka he antavat Herralle, annoin minä sinulle.

13 Ensimäinen hedelmä kaikesta kuin heidän maallansa kasvaa, jonka he antavat Herralle, pitää oleman sinun. Jokainen puhdas sinun huoneessas syökään sitä.

14 Kaikki valallisella lupauksella eroitettu Israelissa olkaan sinun.

15 Kaikki mikä äitinsä kohdun avaa, kaiken lihan seassa, jotka he kantavat Herralle, olis se ihmisistä elikkä eläimistä, pitää oleman sinun. Kuitenkin, ettäs ihmisten esikoiset annat kaiketikin lunastettaa, ja myös saastaisten eläinten esikoiset annat lunastettaa.

16 Ja kuukautisena pitää heidän sen lunastaman, ja annettakaan lunastettaa sinun arvios jälkeen rahalla, viidellä siklillä, pyhän siklin jälkeen, joka maksaa kaksikymmentä geraa.

17 Mutta esikoisia karjasta, taikka lampaista, taikka vuohista, ei sinun pidä antaman lunastettaa; sillä ne ovat pyhät: heidän verensä pitää sinun priiskottaman alttarille, ja lihavuutensa pitää sinun polttaman makian hajun tuleksi Herralle.

18 Ja heidän lihansa pitää oleman sinun, niinkuin häälytysrinta ja oikia lapa sinun ovat.

19 Kaikki ylennysuhrit, jotka ovat pyhitetyt, jotka Israelin lapset ylentävät Herralle, annoin minä sinulle ja pojilles, ja tyttärilles sinun kanssas ijankaikkiseksi oikeudeksi. Se on katoomatoin ijankaikkinen liitto Herran edessä sinulle ja sinun siemenelles sinun kanssas.

20 Ja Herra sanoi Aaronille: ei sinulle pidä perintöä oleman heidän maallansa eikä osaa heidän seassansa; sillä minä olen sinun osas ja sinun perintös Israelin lasten seassa.

21 Mutta Levin lapsille, katso, minä annoin kaikki kymmenykset perinnöksi Israelissa, heidän virkansa edestä, jolla he palvelusta seurakunnan majassa tekevät.

22 Niin ettei tästälähin Israelin lasten pidä lähestymän seurakunnan majaa, syntiä saattamaan päällensä, ja kuolemaan;

23 Vaan Leviläisten pitää ottaman vaarin seurakunnan majan palveluksesta, ja heidän pitää kantaman syntinsä; se on ijankaikkinen oikeus teidän sukukunnissanne, ja ei pidä heidän perimistä saaman Israelin lasten seassa.

24 Sillä Israelin lasten kymmenykset, jotka he antavat ylennykseksi Herralle, annoin minä Leviläisille perinnöksi; sentähden sanoin minä heille: ettei heillä Israelin lasten seassa pidä perintöä oleman.

25 Ja Herra puhui Mosekselle, sanoen:

26 Puhu Leviläisille ja sano heille: koska te otatte kymmenykset Israelin lapsilta, jotka minä teille annoin heiltä, teidän perinnöksenne, niin tehkäät Herralle siitä ylennysuhriksi aina kymmenysten kymmenykset.

27 Ja teidän ylennysuhrinne pitää luettaman teille, niinkuin te antasitte jyviä riihestä ja nestettä kuurnasta.

28 Niin antakaat myös Herralle ylennysuhriksi kaikista teidän kymmenyksistänne, joita te Israelin lapsilta otatte, niin että te Herran ylennysuhrin niistä annatte papille Aaronille.

29 Kaikista teille annetuista antakaat Herralle kaikkinaiset ylennysuhrit, kaikista parhaista, pyhitettävän osan.

30 Ja sano heille: koska te parhaan siitä ylennätte, niin luettakaan se Leviläisille niinkuin tulo riihestä ja viinakuurnasta.

31 Ja syökäät siitä kaikissa paikoissa, te ja teidän huoneenne, sillä se on teidän palkkanne teidän palveluksestanne seurakunnan majassa,

32 Niin ettette synnillä raskauta teitänne, koska te sen parhaan ylennätte, ja ettekä saastuta niitä, mitkä Israelin lapset pyhittäneet ovat, ettette kuolisi.

   


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17. The firstborn from the dead. This symbolically means, and which is Divine good itself.

No one as yet knows what it is to be firstborn from the dead. Moreover, the ancients debated what it symbolized. They knew that the firstborn symbolized the first or primary constituent from which sprung everything having to do with the church. Many also believed that it was truth in doctrine and faith, but a few thought it was truth in act and deed, which constitutes goodness of life. We will see that the latter is the first and primary constituent of the church, and therefore that, properly speaking, it is what is meant by the firstborn.

First, however, we must say something about the opinion of those who believed that truth in doctrine and faith is the first and primary constituent of the church, thus the firstborn. They believed this because truth is learned first, and because the church is a church in consequence of its truth, though not before the truth is lived. Prior to that it exists only in the thought and memory of the intellect, and not in any action of the will; and truth that is not truth in act or deed has no life in it. It is merely like a tree abounding in branches and leaves without any fruit, or like knowledge without any useful application. Or it is like a foundation upon which a house is being built for people to live in. These things are first in time, but they are not first in end, and those which are first in end are primary. For first in end is the living in the house, while the first in time is the foundation. The first in end, too, is useful application, while the first in time is knowledge. Likewise, when a tree is planted, the first in end is its fruit, while first in time are its branches and leaves.

[2] The same is the case with the intellect, which is formed first in a person, but to the end that the person may put into practice what he sees with the intellect. Otherwise the intellect is like a preacher who teaches rightly but lives an evil life.

Every truth, furthermore, is sown in the inner self and takes root in the outer one. Consequently, unless the truth that is sown takes root in the outer self, which it does by being put into practice, it becomes like a tree placed not in the ground but on top of it, which in the radiating heat of the sun immediately wilts.

This root is something a person takes with him after death if he has put truths into practice, but not the person who has known and acknowledged them in faith only.

Now, because many of the ancients made what is first in time first in end or primary, therefore they said that something firstborn symbolized truth in the church in doctrine and faith, unaware that it is the firstborn apparently, but not actually.

[3] Those, however, who made truth in doctrine and faith primary, were all condemned, because not a bit of practice or deed, or of life, was found in that truth. Cain, who was the firstborn of Adam and Eve, was condemned for that reason. That he symbolizes truth in doctrine and faith may be seen in Angelic Wisdom Regarding Divine Providence 242.

For the same reason too, Reuben, who was the firstborn of Jacob, was condemned by his father (Genesis 49:3-4), and the birthright was taken from him (1 Chronicles 5:1). In the spiritual sense Reuben means truth in doctrine and faith, as we will see hereafter.

The firstborn of Egypt were all struck down, having been condemned, and in the spiritual sense they mean nothing else than truth in doctrine and faith apart from goodness of life - truth which in itself is lifeless.

The goats mentioned in Daniel and Matthew 1 mean no others than people who possess a faith apart from life, as discussed in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding Faith, nos. 61-68.

Around the time of the Last Judgment, people who possessed a faith apart from life were rejected and condemned, as may be seen in A Continuation Concerning the Last Judgment 16[1]ff.

[4] It can be seen from these few considerations that the firstborn of the church is not truth in doctrine and faith, but truth in practice or deed, which constitutes goodness of life. For the church does not exist in a person until truth becomes a matter of life, and when truth becomes a matter of life, it is then goodness. That is because the thought of the intellect and memory do not flow into the will and through the will into practice. Rather the will flows into the thought and memory of the intellect and acts. Moreover, whatever issues from the will through the intellect does so from affection, which is a matter of love, through thought, which is a matter of the intellect. And it is all called good and enters into the life. Therefore the Lord says that he who does the truth does it in God (John 3:21).

[5] Since John represented goodness of life, and Peter the truth of faith (see no. 5 above), therefore John is said to have reclined at the Lord's breast and followed Jesus, and not Peter (John 21:18-23). The Lord also said of John that John would remain till He came (John 21:22-23), thus to the present day, which is the day of the Lord's coming. Consequently the Lord is now teaching goodness of life for people who will be constituents of His New Church, which is the New Jerusalem.

In sum, the firstborn is that which truth first produces from good, thus what the intellect produces from the will, because truth has to do with the intellect, and good with the will. This first element is primary, because it is like a seed from which everything else springs.

[6] As for the Lord, He is the "firstborn from the dead" because in respect to His humanity He is truth itself united to Divine good, from whom all people live, who in themselves are dead.

The like is meant in Psalms,

I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. (Psalms 89:27)

This is said of the Lord's humanity.

So it is that Israel is called the firstborn (Exodus 4:22-23). "Israel" means truth in practice, "Jacob" truth in doctrine; and because no church is formed in consequence of the latter alone, therefore Jacob was named Israel. (In the highest sense, however, Israel means the Lord.)

[7] Because of this representation of the firstborn, all the firstborn of people and animals were consecrated to Jehovah (Exodus 13:2, 12; 22:28-29).

Because of this representation of the firstborn, in the Israelite church the Levites were taken in place of all the firstborn, and it is said that they therefore belonged to Jehovah (Numbers 3:12-13, 40-46; 18:15-18). For Levi symbolizes truth in practice, which constitutes goodness of life, and therefore his descendants were given the priesthood, on which subject more later.

For the same reason, too, the firstborn was given a double portion of the inheritance, and he is called the beginning of strength (Deuteronomy 21:15-17).

[8] The firstborn symbolizes the primary constituent of the church because natural births in the Word symbolize spiritual births, and what first produces them in a person is then meant by his firstborn. For the church does not exist in him until the doctrinal truth conceived in the inner self is given birth in the outer self.

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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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1 Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Yahweh spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.

2 These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office.

4 Nadab and Abihu died before Yahweh, when they offered strange fire before Yahweh, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the presence of Aaron their father.

5 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

6 "Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.

7 They shall keep his requirements, and the requirements of the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.

8 They shall keep all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and the obligations of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.

9 You shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons. They are wholly given to him on the behalf of the children of Israel.

10 You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death."

11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

12 "Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine:

13 for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made holy to me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and animal. They shall be mine. I am Yahweh."

14 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,

15 "Count the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families. You shall count every male from a month old and upward."

16 Moses numbered them according to the word of Yahweh, as he was commanded.

17 These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.

18 These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.

19 The sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, and Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

20 The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.

21 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites: these are the families of the Gershonites.

22 Those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those who were numbered of them were seven thousand five hundred.

23 The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.

24 The prince of the fathers' house of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.

25 The duty of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting shall be the tabernacle, and the Tent, its covering, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,

26 and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and around the altar, and its cords for all of its service.

27 Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.

28 According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary.

29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the south side of the tabernacle.

30 The prince of the fathers' house of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.

31 Their duty shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all its service.

32 Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the Levites, with the oversight of those who keep the requirements of the sanctuary.

33 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites. These are the families of Merari.

34 Those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred.

35 The prince of the fathers' house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They shall encamp on the north side of the tabernacle.

36 The appointed duty of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service,

37 the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords.

38 Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary for the duty of the children of Israel. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

39 All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of Yahweh, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.

40 Yahweh said to Moses, "Number all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.

41 You shall take the Levites for me (I am Yahweh) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the livestock of the children of Israel."

42 Moses numbered, as Yahweh commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.

43 All the firstborn males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those who were numbered of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.

44 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

45 "Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am Yahweh.

46 For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, who exceed the number of the Levites,

47 you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; after the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs):

48 and you shall give the money, with which the remainder of them is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons."

49 Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites;

50 from the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:

51 and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.