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Mooseksen kirja 21

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1 Ja Herra sanoi Mosekselle: puhu papeille Aaronin pojille ja sano heille: papin ei pidä itsiänsä saastuttaman yhdessäkään kuolleessa kansastansa;

2 Vaan hänen suvussansa, joka on hänen lähimmäisensä: niinkuin hänen äitinsä, isänsä, poikansa, tyttärensä ja veljensä,

3 Ja sisarensa, joka neitsy on, joka hänen tykönänsä on, ja ei yhdenkään miehen emäntänä ollut ole: niissä mhtaa hän saastuttaa itsensä.

4 Ei hänen pidä saastuttaman itsiänsä, että hän on esimies kansassansa, ettei hän itsiänsä halventaisi.

5 Ei heidän pidä paljaaksi ajeleman päälakiansa, eli keritsemään partansa vieriä, eikä ihoonsa merkkejä leikkaaman.

6 Heidän pitää Jumalallensa pyhät oleman, ja ei häpäisemän Jumalansa nimeä; sillä he uhraavat Herran tuliuhria, Jumalansa leipää; sentähden pitää heidän oleman pyhät.

7 Ei heidän pidä naiman porttoa, eli muilta maattua, eli mieheltänsä hyljättyä ottaman; sillä hän on pyhä Jumalallensa.

8 Sentähden pitää sinun pyhittämän hänen, että hän uhraa sinun Jumalas leipää: hänen pitää oleman sinulle pyhän; sillä minä Herra olen pyhä, joka teidät pyhitän.

9 Jos papin tytär rupee salavuoteiseksi, se pitää tulessa poltettaman; sillä hän on häväissyt isänsä.

10 Joka ylimmäinen pappi on veljeinsä seassa, jonka pään päälle voidellusöljy vuodatettu, ja käsi täytetty on, että hän vaatteesen puetetaan: ei pidä sen paljastaman päätänsä, ja ei leikkaaman rikki vaatettansa.

11 Ja ei yhdenkään kuolleen tykö tuleman, ja ei saastuttaman itsiänsä isässänsä eli äidissänsä.

12 Ei hänen pidä lähtemän pyhästä, ettei hän saastuttaisi Jumalansa pyhää; sillä hänen Jumalansa voidellusöljyn kruunu on hänen päällänsä. Minä olen Herra.

13 Hänen pitää ottaman neitseen emännäksensä,

14 Ja ei leskeä, eli hyljättyä, eli maattua, taikka porttoa pidä hänen ottaman. Mutta neitosen omasta kansastansa pitää hänen ottaman emännäksensä,

15 Ettei hän saastuttaisi siementänsä kansansa seassa; sillä minä olen Herra, joka hänen pyhitän.

16 Ja Herra puhui Mosekselle, sanoen:

17 Puhu Aaronille ja sano: jos joku virhe on jossakussa sinun siemenessäs teidän suvussanne, ei pidä sen lähestymän uhraamaan Jumalansa leipää.

18 Sillä ei kenenkään, jossa joku virhe on, pidä käymän edes: jos hän on sokia, eli ontuva, vajava eli liiallinen jäsenistä,

19 Eli virheellinen jalasta eli kädestä,

20 Taikka ryhäselkä, eli pienukainen, eli karsoi, eli pisamainen, taikka rupinen, eli rivinoma rauhaisista:

21 Jos jossakin papin Aaronin siemenessä virhe on, ei sen pidä lähestymän uhraamaan Herran tuliuhria; sillä hänellä on virhe, sentähden ei pidä hänen lähestymän Jumalansa leipää uhraamaan.

22 Kuitenkin pitää hänen syömän Jumalansa leivästä, sekä siitä pyhästä, että kaikkein pyhimmästä.

23 Mutta ei hänen pidä kuitenkaan tuleman esiripun tykö, eikä lähestymän alttaria, että hänessä on virhe, ettei hän saastuttaisi minun pyhääni; sillä minä olen Herra, joka heidät pyhitän.

24 Ja Moses sanoi (nämät) Aaronille, ja hänen pojillensa, ja kaikille Israelin lapsille.

   


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Aaron

The Third Plague of Egypt, by William de Brailes, illustrates the flies, or gnats, rising from the dust.

This page from Walters manuscript W.106 depicts a scene from Exodus, in which God rained plagues upon Egypt. After plagues of blood and frogs, Pharaoh hardened his heart again and would not let the Israelites leave Egypt. God told Moses to tell Aaron to stretch forth his rod and strike the dust of the earth that it may become gnats throughout the land of Egypt. Here, Moses, horned (a sign of his encounter with divinity), carries the rod, while Aaron, wearing the miter of a priest, stands behind him. The gnats arise en masse out of the dust from which they were made and attack Pharaoh, seated and crowned, and his retinue.

Aaron was the brother of Moses. He symbolizes two things, at different stages of the story.

During the first part of the exodus, when he was Moses' spokesperson, Moses represents the Word as it truly is, as it is understood in heaven, while Aaron represents the Word in its external sense, as it is understood by people in the world. This is why Aaron talks for Moses, and the Lord says of him "he shall be as a mouth for you, and you shall be to him as God." (Exodus 4:16)

Later, after the Tabernacle was built and he was inaugurated as high priest (see Leviticus 8,9), Aaron represents the Lord as to the Divine Good, and Moses represents the Lord as to the Divine Truth.

In Exodus 28:1, Aaron signifies the conjunction of Divine Good with Divine Truth in the Divine Human of the Lord. (Arcana Coelestia 9806, 9936)

In Exodus 32:1, Aaron represents the external of the Word, of the church, and of worship, separate from the internal. (Arcana Coelestia 10397)

In Exodus 4:14, before he was initiated into the priesthood, Aaron represents the doctrine of good and truth. (Arcana Coelestia 6998)

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Exodus 32

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1 When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him."

2 Aaron said to them, "Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me."

3 All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

4 He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, "These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt."

5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, "Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yahweh."

6 They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

7 Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!

8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"

9 Yahweh said to Moses, "I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

10 Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation."

11 Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

12 Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.

13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.'"

14 Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.

15 Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.

16 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tables.

17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "There is the noise of war in the camp."

18 He said, "It isn't the voice of those who shout for victory, neither is it the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear."

19 It happened, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses' anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.

20 He took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.

21 Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?"

22 Aaron said, "Don't let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

23 For they said to me, 'Make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.'

24 I said to them, 'Whoever has any gold, let them take it off:' so they gave it to me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf."

25 When Moses saw that the people had broken loose, (for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies),

26 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Whoever is on Yahweh's side, come to me!" All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.

27 He said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.'"

28 The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

29 Moses said, "Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, yes, every man against his son, and against his brother; that he may bestow on you a blessing this day."

30 It happened on the next day, that Moses said to the people, "You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin."

31 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold.

32 Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin--and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written."

33 Yahweh said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.

34 Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin."

35 Yahweh struck the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.