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Levítico 5

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1 Y cuando alguna persona pecare, por haber sido llamado a testificar, y él fuere testigo que vio, o supo, si no lo denunciare, él llevará su pecado.

2 Asimismo la persona que hubiere tocado en cualquiera cosa inmunda, sea cuerpo muerto de bestia inmunda, o cuerpo muerto de animal inmundo, o cuerpo muerto de serpiente inmunda, bien que no lo supiere, será inmunda y habrá pecado.

3 O si tocare a hombre inmundo en cualquiera inmundicia suya de que es inmundo, y no lo echare de ver; si después llegare a saberlo, habrá pecado.

4 También la persona que jurare, pronunciando con sus labios hacer mal o bien, en cualesquiera cosas que el hombre profiere con juramento, y él no lo supiere; si después lo entiende, será culpado en una de estas cosas .

5 Y será que cuando pecare en alguna de estas cosas, confesará aquello en que pecó:

6 Y traerá su expiación al SEÑOR por su pecado que ha cometido, una hembra de los rebaños, una cordera o una cabra por expiación; y el sacerdote lo reconciliará de su pecado.

7 Y si no le alcanzare para un cordero, traerá en expiación por su pecado que cometió, dos tórtolas o dos palominos al SEÑOR; el uno para expiación, y el otro para holocausto.

8 Y los traerá al sacerdote, el cual ofrecerá primero el que es por expiación, y desunirá su cabeza de su cuello, mas no la apartará del todo;

9 y rociará de la sangre de la expiación sobre la pared del altar; y lo que sobrare de la sangre lo exprimirá al cimiento del altar; y esto será expiación.

10 Y del otro hará holocausto conforme a la ordenanza; y así lo reconciliará el sacerdote de su pecado que cometió, y tendrá perdón.

11 Mas si su posibilidad no alcanzare para dos tórtolas, o dos palominos, el que pecó traerá por su ofrenda la décima parte de un efa de flor de harina por expiación. No pondrá sobre ella aceite, ni sobre ella pondrá incienso, porque es expiación.

12 La traerá, pues , al sacerdote, y el sacerdote tomará de ella su puño lleno, en memoria suya, y hará perfume sobre el altar sobre las otras ofrendas encendidas al SEÑOR; y esto será expiación.

13 Y así lo reconciliará el sacerdote en expiación por él de su pecado que cometió en alguna de estas cosas, y tendrá perdón; y el sobrante será del sacerdote, como el presente.

14 Habló más el SEÑOR a Moisés, diciendo:

15 Cuando alguna persona hiciere prevaricación, y pecare por yerro en las cosas santificadas al SEÑOR, traerá por su expiación al SEÑOR, un carnero sin tacha de los rebaños, conforme a tu estimación, de dos siclos de plata del siclo del santuario, por el pecado.

16 Y lo que hubiere pecado del santuario, pagará, y añadirá a ello el quinto, y lo dará al sacerdote; y el sacerdote lo reconciliará con el carnero de la expiación, y tendrá perdón.

17 Finalmente, si una persona pecare, e hiciere alguna de todas aquellas cosas que por mandamiento del SEÑOR no se han de hacer, sin hacerlo a sabiendas, es culpable, y llevará su pecado.

18 Traerá, pues, al sacerdote por expiación, según tú lo estimes, un carnero sin tacha de los rebaños; y el sacerdote lo reconciliará de su yerro que cometió por ignorancia, y tendrá perdón.

19 Pecado es, y ciertamente pecó contra el SEÑOR.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #8680

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8680. 'And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God' means worship springing from the good of love and the truths of faith. This is clear from the meaning of 'a burnt offering and sacrifices' as representatives of celestial and spiritual realities that belong to internal worship, 'burnt offerings' being representative of celestial realities, that is, aspects of the good of love, and 'sacrifices' being representative of spiritual ones, that is, aspects of the truth of faith, dealt with in 922, 923, 1823, 2180, 2805, 2807, 2830, 3218, 3519, 6905. The representation of 'burnt offerings' as aspects of the good of love, and of 'sacrifices' as aspects of the truth of faith, is clear from their institution - from the requirement that in burnt offerings everything was to be burnt, both the flesh and the blood, but that in sacrifices the flesh was to be eaten, as may be seen in chapters 1-5 of Leviticus; Numbers 28; and in Deuteronomy, where the following words occur,

You are to present, your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of Jehovah your God; the blood of the sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of Jehovah your God, and the flesh you shall eat. Deuteronomy 12:27.

The reason why those two realities were represented by the burnt offerings and sacrifices is that burnt offerings and sacrifices represented all worship of God in general, 923, 6905; and worship of God in general is founded on love and faith. Without these it is not worship, only ritual such as is performed by the external man who has no internal and so no life within him.

  
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Exodus 18

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1 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how that Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.

2 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,

3 and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land".

4 The name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, "My father's God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh's sword."

5 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the Mountain of God.

6 He said to Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her."

7 Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent.

8 Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them.

9 Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yahweh had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.

10 Jethro said, "Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

11 Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them."

12 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all of the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.

13 It happened on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.

14 When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, "What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?"

15 Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

16 When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws."

17 Moses' father-in-law said to him, "The thing that you do is not good.

18 You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.

19 Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.

20 You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

21 Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

22 Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.

23 If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all of these people also will go to their place in peace."

24 So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.

25 Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

26 They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard causes to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

27 Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.