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Exodus 23:14-19 : The Three Annual Festivals

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14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.

15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)

16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.

17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.

18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.

19 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

From Swedenborg's Works

 

Arcana Coelestia #9291

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9291. 'At the appointed time of the month Abib' means from the beginning of a new state. This is clear from the meaning of 'the month Abib' as the beginning of a new state, dealt with in 8053.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

Commentary

 

Produce

  

'Produce' denotes fruit derived from the good of charity, and truth of faith.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 6108, 6155, Genesis 47:24)