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Leviticus 1

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1 And Jehovah called to Moses, and spoke to him from the Tabernacle of the congregation, saying,

2 Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, If any man of you offer an offering to Jehovah, you shall offer your offering from the beast, from the herd, and from the flock.

3 If his offering be a burnt·​·offering from the herd, let him offer a perfect male; he shall offer it for his own good·​·pleasure at the entrance of the Tabernacle of the congregation before Jehovah.

4 And he shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt·​·offering; and it shall be·​·well·​·pleasing for him to make·​·atonement on him.

5 And he shall slaughter the young of the herd before Jehovah; and the priests, the sons of Aaron, shall offer the blood, and sprinkle the blood all around on the altar that is by the entrance of the Tabernacle of the congregation.

6 And he shall strip·​·off the skin of the burnt·​·offering, and section it into her sections.

7 And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and arrange the wood upon the fire;

8 and the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall arrange the sections, with the head and the fat, on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar;

9 but its inward·​·parts and its legs shall he bathe in water; and the priest shall burn· it all ·as·​·incense on the altar, for a burnt·​·offering, a fire·​·offering, a restful smell to Jehovah.

10 And if his offering be from the flock, from the sheep*, or from the goats, for a burnt·​·offering, he shall offer it, a perfect male.

11 And he shall slaughter it on the flank* of the altar northward before Jehovah; and the priests, the sons of Aaron, shall sprinkle its blood all around upon the altar.

12 And he shall section it into its sections, and with its head and its fat; and the priest shall arrange them on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar:

13 but he shall bathe its inward·​·parts and its legs with water; and the priest shall offer it all, and burn· it ·as·​·incense on the altar; it is a burnt·​·offering, a fire·​·offering, a restful smell to Jehovah.

14 And if the burnt·​·offering for his offering to Jehovah be of fowls, then he shall offer his offering of turtledoves, or of young doves.

15 And the priest shall offer it to the altar, and wring·​·off its head, and burn· it ·for·​·incense on the altar; and its blood shall be pressed·​·out on the wall of the altar;

16 and he shall remove its crop with its feathers and cast it beside the altar eastward, to the place of the burnt fatness;

17 and he shall split* it with its wings, he shall not separate it; and the priest shall burn· it ·for·​·incense on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire: it is a burnt·​·offering, a fire·​·offering, a restful smell to Jehovah.


Thanks to the Kempton Project for the permission to use this New Church translation of the Word.

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The head is the part of us that is highest, which means in a representative sense that it is what is closest to the Lord. Because of this the head represents what is inmost in us, the thing at the center of our being. In most cases this means intelligence and wisdom, since most of us are in a state of life in which we are led by our thoughts and reason. In the case of the Lord, however, it often represents His perfect love. And in many cases the head is used to represent the whole person.

(Ссылки: Apocalypse Explained 577; Apocalypse Revealed 538, 823; Arcana Coelestia 7859, 9656, 10011)

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7859. 'Its head over its legs and over its middle' means from what is inmost to what is external. This is clear from the meaning of 'the head', when said to be 'over the head and middle', as what is inmost, for the head is on top, and what is on top is in the spiritual sense what is inmost, 2148, 3084, 4599, 5146 (for the meaning of 'the head' as the interiors and 'the body' as the exteriors, see 6436); from the meaning of 'the legs' as exteriors, for in relation to the head the legs are lower, and just as higher parts mean more internal ones, so lower parts mean more external ones; and from the meaning of 'the middle' as the parts that are lower still, as those of the belly and intestines are. The command that they were to roast the head over the legs and over the middle represented the necessity for interiors and exteriors to be combined, that is, to act as one. The interiors are what constitute the internal man, the exteriors what constitute the external man; or, the interiors are what constitute the spiritual man, while the exteriors are what constitute the natural man. These must be combined, that is, act as one, if a person is to have the Lord's kingdom within him. They are separated when the natural or external man acts differently from what the spiritual or internal man desires. These considerations go to prove what was meant by the regulation that the Passover lamb should be roasted with fire, the head over the legs and middle. 'The middle' is used to mean the even more external part of the natural, which is the level of the senses. Anyone may see that a Divine arcanum is present within these commands, for the Passover lamb was the most holy thing in that Church. But that holy arcanum is indiscernible except through a spiritual understanding, such as is presented here, of the subject matter involved and the words used.

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