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1 Ja Issand rääkis Moosesega, öeldes:

2 'Räägi Iisraeli lastega ja ütle: Kui keegi kogemata patustab ja teeb mõne Issanda käsu vastu midagi, mida ei tohi teha, siis:

3 kui pattu teeb võitud preester, koormates rahvast süüga, siis ta peab patu pärast, mida ta on teinud, tooma ühe veatu noore härjavärsi Issandale patuohvriks.

4 Ta viigu härjavärss kogudusetelgi ukse juurde Issanda ette ja pangu oma käsi härjavärsi pea peale ning tapku härjavärss Issanda ees!

5 Ja võitud preester võtku härjavärsi veri ning viigu kogudusetelki!

6 Siis preester kastku oma sõrm verre ja tilgutagu verd Issanda ees seitse korda pühamu eesriide ees!

7 Ja preester määrigu verd Issanda ees kogudusetelgis oleva healõhnalise suitsutusohvri altari sarvedele ning valagu kõik härjavärsi veri põletusohvrialtari aluse kõrvale, mis on kogudusetelgi ukse juures!

8 Ja ta võtku ära kõik patuohvri härjavärsi rasv, sisikonda kattev rasv, kõik rasv, mis on sisikonna küljes,

9 mõlemad neerud ja rasv, mis on nende küljes nimmetel, ja maksarasv, mis ta eraldagu neerude juurest

10 samal viisil, nagu see eraldatakse tänuohvrihärjast; ja preester süüdaku see põlema põletusohvrialtaril!

11 Aga härjavärsi nahk ja kõik tema liha koos pea ja jalgadega, sisikond ja rupskid,

12 kogu ülejäänud härjavärss ta viigu väljapoole leeri ühte puhtasse paika, kuhu kallatakse tuhka, ja ta põletagu see tulega puude peal; seal, kuhu tuhk kallatakse, tuleb see põletada!

13 Ja kui kogu Iisraeli kogudus eksib, aga nõnda, et koguduse silma eest jääb varjatuks, et nad on teinud mõne Issanda käsu vastu midagi, mida ei tohi teha, ja saavad süüdlasteks,

14 ja patt, mida nad on teinud, saab ometi teatavaks, siis kogudus toogu üks noor härjavärss patuohvriks ja viigu see kogudusetelgi ette!

15 Koguduse vanemad pangu oma käed härjavärsi pea peale Issanda ees ja härjavärss tapetagu Issanda ees!

16 Ja võitud preester viigu härjavärsi veri kogudusetelki!

17 Preester kastku oma sõrm verre ja tilgutagu seitse korda Issanda ees, eesriide ees!

18 Ja ta määrigu verd altari sarvedele, mis on Issanda ees kogudusetelgis, aga kõik ülejäänud veri ta valagu põletusohvrialtari alusele, mis on kogudusetelgi ukse ees!

19 Ja ta eraldagu sellest kõik rasv ning süüdaku altaril põlema

20 ja talitagu härjavärsiga nõnda, nagu ta talitas patuohvri härjavärsiga; ta talitagu sellega selsamal viisil! Kui preester nõnda on neile lepitust toimetanud, siis antakse neile andeks.

21 Ta viigu härjavärss väljapoole leeri ja põletagu see ära, nõnda nagu ta põletas eelmise härjavärsi; see on koguduse patuohver!

22 Kui üks vürst patustab ja kogemata teeb Issanda, oma Jumala mõne käsu vastu midagi, mida ei tohi teha, ja saab süüdlaseks,

23 aga temale tehakse teatavaks ta patt, mida ta on teinud, siis ta viigu oma ohvrianniks üks veatu sikk!

24 Ta pangu oma käsi siku pea peale ja tapku see selles paigas, kus Issanda ees põletusohvrit tapetakse; see on patuohver!

25 Preester võtku sõrmega patuohvri verd ja määrigu põletusohvri altari sarvedele, aga ülejäänud veri ta valagu põletusohvri altari aluse kõrvale!

26 Ja ta süüdaku kõik selle rasv altaril põlema, nõnda nagu tänuohvri rasv; kui preester on tema ees lepitust teinud ta patu pärast, siis antakse temale andeks!

27 Kui keegi maa rahva seast kogemata patustab, tehes mõne Issanda käsu vastu midagi, mida ei tohi teha, ja saab süüdlaseks,

28 aga temale saab teatavaks ta patt, mida ta on teinud, siis ta toogu ohvrianniks üks veatu kits, emane loom, oma patu pärast, mida ta on teinud,

29 ja pangu oma käsi patuohvri pea peale ning tapku patuohver põletusohvri paigas!

30 Preester võtku sõrmega verd ja määrigu põletusohvri altari sarvedele, aga kõik ülejäänud veri ta valagu altari aluse kõrvale!

31 Ja ta võtku ära kõik rasv, nõnda nagu võetakse rasv tänuohvrist, ja preester süüdaku see altaril põlema meeldivaks lõhnaks Issandale! Kui preester nõnda on tema eest lepitust teinud, siis antakse temale andeks.

32 Aga kui ta toob oma patuohvrianniks lambatalle, siis ta toogu veatu emane loom

33 ja pangu oma käsi patuohvri pea peale ning tapku see patuohvriks paigas, kus põletusohvrit tapetakse!

34 Preester võtku sõrmega patuohvri verd ja määrigu põletusohvrialtari sarvedele, aga kõik ülejäänud veri ta valagu altari aluse kõrvale!

35 Ja ta võtku ära kõik selle rasv, nõnda nagu võetakse tänuohvri lambatalle rasv, ja preester süüdaku see altaril põlema Issanda tuleohvrite peal! Kui preester temale ta patu pärast, mida ta on teinud, on lepitust teinud, siis antakse temale andeks.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #9938

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9938. 'Which the children of Israel shall sanctify, even in all their gifts of holy things' means acts of worship representative of removal from sins. This is clear from the meaning of 'gifts' - or presents, which among the Israelite and Jewish nation were primarily burnt offerings, sacrifices, and minchahs - as the inner realities of acts of worship; for those realities were represented by these acts. The inner realities of worship are the fruits of love and faith; they are therefore pardonings of sins, that is, removals from them, since faith and love are the means by which the Lord moves sins away. For in the measure that the good of love and faith comes in, or what amounts to the same thing, heaven comes in, sins are removed, that is, hell is removed - the hell within the person as well as the hell outside him. From this it is evident what should be understood by the gifts which they made holy, that is, offered. The gifts were called holy, and giving or offering them was called sanctifying them, because they represented holy realities. For they were offered to expiate people, thus to remove them from their sins, which is accomplished by means of faith in and love to the Lord received from the Lord.

[2] Gifts and presents were said to be made to Jehovah, though Jehovah, that is, the Lord, is not the receiver of gifts or presents, but the giver of them, freely to everyone. Even so, His will is that they should come from a person as though they did so from that person himself, provided the person acknowledges that they do not actually come from him but from the Lord. For the Lord imparts a desire to do good because he loves it, and a desire to speak the truth because he believes it. The actual desire flows in from the Lord, yet appears to be inherent in the person and so to flow from the person. For whatever a person does out of love and desire for it, he does from his life, love being what composes anyone's life. From this it is evident that the things that are called gifts and presents made to the Lord by a person are essentially gifts and presents made to a person by the Lord, and that they are called gifts and presents on account of what they appear to be. All who are wise at heart recognize this appearance, but not so the simple. Yet their gifts and presents are acceptable, so far as they are made in ignorance that has innocence within it. Innocence is the good of love to God, and dwells within ignorance, especially with the wise at heart. Those who are wise at heart know, indeed perceive, that nothing whatever of the wisdom within themselves originates in themselves, but that the all of wisdom is attributable to the Lord, that is, the all of the good of love and the all of the truth of faith are attributable to Him, and that for this reason even with the wise innocence dwells in ignorance. From this it is evident that the acknowledgement of this matter, and especially the perception of it, constitutes the innocence of wisdom.

[3] The gifts offered in the Jewish Church, which were primarily burnt offerings, sacrifices, and minchahs, were also spoken of as offerings made for the expiations of sins; for they were offered for the sake of being pardoned from sins, that is, being removed from them. Those who belonged to that Church also thought that sins were pardoned, indeed completely taken away, by means of these offerings; for it is said of people who have offered them that they will be pardoned, see Leviticus 4:26, 31, 35; 5:6, 10, 13, 16, 18; 6:7; 9:7; 15:15, 30. But they were unaware of the fact that their gifts represented more internal things, thus the kinds of things that are done by a person from love and faith received from the Lord; that these are what expiate, that is, remove sins; and that when they have been removed they appear to have been completely removed or banished, as has been shown above in the present paragraph and the one before it. The worship of that nation was representative, and so was external devoid of anything internal; and it was by means of this worship that heaven was joined to mankind, in those times, see the places referred to in 9320 (end), 9380.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #9320

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9320. 'For you shall utterly destroy them' means that evils must be completely removed. This is clear from the meaning of 'destroying' - when it has reference to evils and falsities, meant by the nations of the land of Canaan and their gods - as removing. The reason why 'destroying' means removing is that those governed by goodness and truth never destroy those ruled by evil and falsity, but merely move them away. This they do because good, not evil, governs their actions, and good comes from the Lord, who never destroys anyone. Those ruled by evil however and consequently by falsity try to destroy, and so far as they can they do destroy those governed by good. This they do because evil rules their actions. But since, when they try to do so, they make their attack on good which comes from the Lord, thus on what is of God, they destroy themselves, that is, they hurl themselves into damnation and into hell. Such is the law of order. And why it is such, see 4299, 7643, 7679, 7710, 7926, 7989, 8137, 8146, 8265, 8945, 8946.

[2] The reason why the Israelites and Jews were to destroy the nations of the land of Canaan was that they themselves represented spiritual and heavenly realities, while the nations represented hellish and devilish things, which can never exist together with those realities since they are opposites. The reason why they were allowed to destroy the nations was that no Church existed among them, only a representative of the Church, so that the Lord was not present among them either except through things of a representative nature, 4307. For they were interested in outward forms but not their inner substances, that is, in the worship that represented goodness and truth but not goodness and truth themselves. People like this are allowed to destroy, kill, and consign to slaughter and complete destruction. But people who are interested in outward forms and at the same time in their inner substance are not allowed to do those things, since their actions must be governed by good, and good comes from the Lord.

[3] The fact that the Jews and Israelites were such is declared explicitly by Moses,

Do not say in your heart, when Jehovah your God has thrust out the nations before you, Because of my righteousness Jehovah has brought me in to possess this land. It is not because of your righteousness and because of the uprightness of your heart; for you are a stiff-necked people. Deuteronomy 9:4-6.

And elsewhere,

They are a nation from whom counsel has perished, nor is there intelligence in them. From the vine of Sodom comes their vine, and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison, they have clusters of bitterness. The poison of snakes (draco) is their wine, and the cruel poison of asps. Is not this hidden away with Me, sealed up in My treasuries? Deuteronomy 32:28, 32-34.

'The vine' in the internal sense means the Church, 1069, 5113, 6375, 6376, 9277; 'grapes' and 'clusters' mean the internal forms and the external forms of that Church's good, 1071, 5117, 6378; and 'wine' means that Church's internal truth, 1071, 1798, 6377. From this one may see what is meant by the assertions that their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah, that their grapes are grapes of poison and clusters of bitterness, and that their wine is the poison of snakes and the cruel poison of asps. The fact that all this was known to Jehovah, that is, to the Lord, is meant by the remarks about its being hidden away with Him and sealed up in His treasuries.

[4] In John,

Jesus said to the Jews, You are from your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth. John 8:44.

This is why they are called a wicked and adulterous generation, Matthew 12:39, as well as a brood of vipers, Matthew 3:7; 12:34; 23:33; Luke 3:7. That they were like this is also described by the Lord in His parables in Matthew 21:33-45; Mark 12:1-9; Luke 14:16-24; 20:9ff.

Regarding that nation, that it was the worst nation; that in their worship they were interested in outward forms but not their inner substance; that no Church existed among them, only a representative of the Church; but that nevertheless they were able to represent the internal realities of the Church, see 3398, 3479, 3480, 3732 (end), 3881 (end), 4208, 4281, 4288-4290, 4293, 4307, 4314, 4316, 4317, 4429, 4433, 4444, 4500, 4503, 4680, 4815, 4818, 4820, 4825, 4832, 4837, 4844, 4847, 4865, 4868, 4874, 4899, 4903, 4911-4913, 5057, 5998, 6304, 6832, 6877, 7048, 7051, 7248, 7401, 7439, 8301, 8588, 8788, 8806, 8814, 8819, 8871, 8882, 9284.

  
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