9373. Come up unto Jehovah. That this signifies conjunction with the Lord, is evident from the signification of “coming up,” as being to be raised toward interior things (see n. 3084, 4539, 4969, 5406, 5817, 6007), consequently also to be conjoined (n. 8760). That it denotes conjunction with the Lord, is because by “Jehovah” in the Word is meant the the Lord, (n. 1343, 1736, 1793, 2004, 2005, 2018, 2025, 2921, 3023, 3035, 5663, 6280, 6303, 6905, 8274, 8864, 9315). A secret which also lies hidden in the internal sense of these words, is that the sons of Jacob, over whom Moses was the head, were not called and chosen; but they themselves insisted that Divine worship should be instituted among them (according to wh at has been said in n. 4290, 4293); and therefore it is here said, “and He said unto Moses, Come up unto Jehovah,” as if not Jehovah, but another, had said that he should come up. For the same reason in what follows it is said that “the people should not go up” (verse 2); and that “Jehovah sent not His hand unto the sons of Israel who were set apart” (verse 11); and that “the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the sons of Israel” (verse 17); and lastly that Moses, being called the seventh day, “entered into the midst of the cloud.” For by “the cloud” is meant the Word in the letter (n. 5922, 6343, 6752, 6832, 8106, 8443, 8781); and with the sons of Jacob the Word was separated from its internal sense, because they were in external worship without internal, as can be clearly seen from the fact that now, as before, they said, “all the words which Jehovah hath spoken we will do” (verse 3); and yet scarcely forty days afterward they worshiped a golden calf instead of Jehovah; which shows that this was hidden in their hearts while they were saying with their lips that they would serve Jehovah alone. But nevertheless those who are meant by “the called and the chosen” are those who are in internal worship, and who from internal worship are in external; that is, those who are in love to and faith in the Lord, and from this in love toward the neighbor.
Arcana Coelestia #7891
7891. And there shall be to you in the first day a holy convocation. That this signifies that in the beginning all shall be together, is evident from the signification of “the first day,” as being the beginning, namely, of liberation from those who have infested, and thus from damnation; and from the signification of “a holy convocation,” as being that all shall be together. Convocations took place in order that the whole assemblage of Israel might be together, and might thus represent heaven; for they were then all distinguished into tribes, and the tribes into families, and the families into houses. (That heaven along with the societies there was represented by the tribes, the families, and the houses of the sons of Israel, see n. 7836.) Therefore those convocations were called holy, and took place at every feast (Leviticus 23:27, 36; Numbers 28:26; 29:1, 7, 12). From this the feasts themselves were called “holy convocations,” for it was commanded that all the males should be present at them. That the feasts were called “holy convocations” is evident in Moses:
These are the set feasts of Jehovah, which ye shall call holy convocations, to offer a fire-offering unto Jehovah (Leviticus 23:37).
That at such times all males were to be present, in the same:
Three times in a year shall every male of thine appear together before Jehovah thy God, in the place which He shall choose; in the feast of unleavened things, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles (Deuteronomy 16:16).
Numbers 29
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"'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.
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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;
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and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the ram,
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and one tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs;
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and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you;
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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.
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"'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;
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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;
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and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the one ram,
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a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs:
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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.
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"'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:
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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;
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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,
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and a tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen lambs;
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and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it.
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"'On the second day [you shall offer] twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish;
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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;
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and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and their drink offerings.
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"'On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish;
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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;
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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.
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"'On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish;
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their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
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and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it.
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"'On the fifth day nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish;
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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;
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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.
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"'On the sixth day eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish;
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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;
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and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offerings of it.
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"'On the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish;
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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;
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and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it.
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"'On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly: you shall do no servile work;
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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;
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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:
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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.
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"'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.'"
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Moses told the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses.
