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4 Mózes 28

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1 És szóla az Úr Mózesnek, mondván:

2 Parancsold meg Izráel fiainak, és mondd meg nékik: Ügyeljetek, hogy az én áldozatomat, kenyeremet kedves illatú tûzáldozatul a maga idejében áldozzátok nékem.

3 És mondd meg nékik: Ez a tûzáldozat, a melyet áldozzatok az Úrnak: egy esztendõs, ép bárányokat, naponként kettõt, szüntelen való egészen égõáldozatul.

4 Egyik bárányt reggel készítsd el, a másik bárányt pedig estennen készítsd el.

5 És egy efa lánglisztnek tizedrészét ételáldozatul, megelegyítve egy hin sajtolt olajnak negyedrészével.

6 [Ez] a szüntelen való egészen égõáldozat, a mely Sinai hegyen szereztetett kedves illatú tûzáldozatul az Úrnak.

7 Annak italáldozatja pedig egy hinnek negyedrésze egy-egy bárányhoz. A szenthelyen adj italáldozatot, jó borból az Úrnak.

8 A másik bárányt készítsd el estennen, a reggeli ételáldozat és annak italáldozatja szerint készítsd el azt, jóillatú tûzáldozatul az Úrnak.

9 Szombatnapon pedig áldozz két ép bárányt, esztendõsöket, és két tized [efa] lisztlángot olajjal elegyített ételáldozatul, annak italáldozatjával egybe.

10 Ez a szombati egészen égõáldozat szombatonként, a szüntelen való egészen égõáldozaton és annak italáldozatján kivül.

11 A ti hónapjaitok kezdetén is áldozzatok az Úrnak egészen égõáldozatul két fiatal tulkot, egy kost, és hét egyesztendõs, ép bárányt.

12 És egy-egy tulok mellé olajjal elegyített három tized efa lánglisztet ételáldozatul, egy-egy kos mellé pedig olajjal elegyített két tized efa lánglisztet ételáldozatul.

13 És egy-egy bárány mellé egy-egy tized efa lisztlángot olajjal elegyítve ételáldozatul; égõáldozat ez, kedves illatú tûzáldozat ez az Úrnak.

14 Az azokhoz való italáldozat pedig legyen fél hin bor egy tulok mellé, egy harmad hin egy kos mellé, és egy negyed hin egy bárány mellé. Ez a hónapos egészen égõáldozat [minden] hónap [kezdetén], az esztendõnek hónapjai szerint.

15 És egy kecskebakot is készítsetek el bûnért való áldozatul az Úrnak, a szüntelen való egészen égõáldozaton kívül, annak italáldozatával egyben.

16 Az elsõ hónapban pedig, a hónapnak tizennegyedik napján az Úrnak páskhája van.

17 És e hónapnak tizenötödik napján is ünnep van; hét napon át kovásztalan kenyeret egyetek.

18 Elsõ napon legyen szent gyülekezés; semmi robota munkát ne végezzetek,

19 Hanem tûzáldozatul egészen égõáldozatot vigyetek az Úrnak: két fiatal tulkot, egy kost, egy esztendõs bárányt hetet, a melyek épek legyenek.

20 És azoknak ételáldozata olajjal elegyített lisztláng legyen; három tizedrész [efát] tegyetek egy tulok mellé, és két tizedrészt egy kos mellé.

21 Egy-Egy bárány mellé Egy-Egy tizedrészt tegyetek, a hét bárány szerint.

22 És bûnért való áldozatul egy bakot, hogy engesztelés legyen értetek.

23 A reggeli egészen égõáldozaton kívül, (a mely szüntelen való égõáldozat) készítsétek el ezeket.

24 Ezek szerint készítsetek naponként hét napon át kenyeret, kedves illatú tûzáldozatul az Úrnak; a szüntelen való egészen égõáldozaton kívül készíttessék az, annak italáldozatjával egyben.

25 A hetedik napon is legyen néktek szent gyülekezésetek; semmi robota munkát ne végezzetek.

26 A zsengék napján is, a mikor új ételáldozatot visztek az Úrnak a ti hetes ünnepeteken: szent gyülekezésetek legyen néktek; semmi robota munkát ne végezzetek.

27 Hanem vigyetek kedves illatul egészen égõáldozatot az Úrnak: két fiatal tulkot, egy kost, és esztendõs bárányt hetet.

28 És azokhoz való ételáldozatul olajjal elegyített háromtized [efa] lisztlángot egy tulok mellé, két tizedet egy kos mellé.

29 Egy-Egy bárány mellé Egy-Egy tizedrészt, a hét bárány szerint.

30 Egy kecskebakot is, hogy engesztelés legyen értetek.

31 A szüntelen való egészen égõáldozaton és annak ételáldozatján kivül készítsétek [ezeket:] épek legyenek, azoknak italáldozatjokkal egyben.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #2342

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2342. 'And he baked unleavened bread' means purification. This is clear from the meaning of 'unleavened' or without yeast. In the Word 'bread' means in general every celestial and spiritual food, and so in general everything celestial and spiritual, see 276, 680, 1798, 2165, 2177. The need for the latter to be free of all impurities or unholiness was represented by 'unleavened bread'; for 'yeast' means the evil and falsity by means of which celestial and spiritual things are rendered impure and profane. On account of this representation those who belonged to the representative Church were forbidden in sacrifices to offer any bread or minchah other than bread without yeast, that is, unleavened, as is clear in Moses,

Every minchah which you bring to Jehovah shall be made without yeast. Leviticus 2:11. In the same author,

You shall not sacrifice the blood of My sacrifice with that made with yeast. Exodus 23:18; 34:25.

[2] They were also forbidden therefore to eat any other bread during the seven days of the Passover than bread without yeast, that is, which was unleavened. This prohibition occurs in the following verses in Moses,

For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even on the first day you shall remove yeast from your houses, for anyone eating that made with yeast, that soul shall be cut off from Israel, from the first day until the seventh. In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month, in the evening. For seven days no yeast shall be found in your houses, for anyone eating that made with yeast, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether a settler or one born in the land. Exodus 12:15, 19-20.

The same prohibition appears in other places as well, such as Exodus 13:6-7; 23:15; 34:18; Deuteronomy 16:3-4. Consequently the Passover is called the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Leviticus 23:6; Numbers 28:16-17; Matthew 26:17; Luke 22:1, 7.

[3] That the Passover represented the glorification of the Lord and so the conjunction of the Divine with the human race will in the Lord's Divine mercy be shown elsewhere. And because the conjunction of the Lord with the human race is effected by means of love and charity, and by means of the faith deriving from these, celestial and spiritual things were represented by the unleavened bread which they were to eat each day during the Passover. Consequently to prevent the defilement of those things by anything unholy they were strictly forbidden to eat anything made with yeast, so strictly that any who did so were to be cut off; for those who profane celestial and spiritual things inevitably perish. Anyone may see that but for this arcanum within it that observance, together with so harsh a penalty, would never have been introduced.

[4] Everything that was commanded in that Church represented some arcanum, even the actual cooking, as with every instruction which the children of Israel carried out when they were leaving Egypt, namely that they were to eat that night flesh roasted by fire, and unleavened bread on bitter herbs; they were not to eat it raw or cooked in water; the head had to be on its legs; they were to let none of it remain until the morning; they were to burn what was left over with fire, Exodus 12:8-10. Every detail of these instructions was representative - eating it at night; flesh roasted by fire; unleavened bread on bitter herbs; the head on the legs; not raw; not cooked in water; not leaving any until the morning; and burning what was left with fire. But the arcana represented are in no way apparent unless they are disclosed by means of the internal sense. That sense alone shows that all these details are Divine.

[5] Something similar was done in the ritual for the taking of a Nazirite vow. The priest was to take the cooked shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and he was to place them on the palms of the Nazirite after he had shaved his consecrated head, Numbers 6:19. Anyone who does not know that a Nazirite represented the celestial man himself does not know either that every detail of these instructions embodies celestial things, and so arcana, which are not apparent in the letter, namely the instructions to take the cooked shoulder of a ram, an unleavened cake, an unleavened wafer, and to shave off his hair. This also shows what kind of opinion regarding the Word can be gained by people who do not believe in the existence of an internal sense, for without the internal sense such details are of no consequence at all. But when the ceremonial or ritualistic element has been stripped away everything becomes Divine and holy. Everything else has a deeper meaning, as does 'unleavened bread' which means the holiness of love, or what is most holy, as it is also called in Moses,

The unleavened bread that was left over was to be eaten by Aaron and his sons in a holy place, for it was most holy. Leviticus 6:16-17.

'Unleavened bread' therefore means pure love, and 'the baking of that which is unleavened' purification.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #680

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680. The fact that goods and truths are man's real food may be clear to anyone, for the person who is deprived of them has no life within himself, and is a dead man. The food on which the soul of the person feeds who is dead in this sense consists of the delights arising from evils, and of the pleasures gained from falsities. These are the food of death. These delights and pleasures also derive from bodily, worldly, and natural things, which have no life at all within them. Furthermore such a person does not know what spiritual and celestial food is. Every time 'food' or 'bread' is mentioned in the Word he assumes that food for the body is meant. In the words of the Lord's Prayer, 'Give us our daily bread', for example, he thinks purely of nourishment for the body. There are some whose ideas do extend further and who assert that this petition includes all other physical requirements, such as clothing, money, and so on. Indeed they will argue fiercely that no other kind of food is meant, even though they clearly see that the petitions coming before and after it entail purely celestial and spiritual things, and refer to the Lord's kingdom, and possibly know as well that the Lord's Word is celestial and spiritual.

[2] From this and other similar considerations it becomes sufficiently clear just how bodily-minded the man of today is, and that like the Jews, he is unwilling to accept anything stated in the Word except in a very crude and materialistic way. The Lord Himself clearly teaches what His Word means by 'food' and 'bread': He speaks of food in John as follows,

Jesus said, Do not labour for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man gives you. John 6:27.

And of bread He says in the same gospel,

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat of it and not die. I am the living Bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this Bread he will live for ever. John 6:49-51, 58.

Even today there are people who, like those who first heard these words, declare,

This is a hard saying; who can listen to it? And some drew back and no longer walked with Him. John 6:60, 66.

To those people the Lord said,

The words which I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life. John 6:63.

[3] It is similar with water, in that it means the spiritual things of faith: He speaks of water in John as follows,

Jesus said, Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, but he who drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up into eternal life. John 4:13-14.

Even today there are people like the woman to whom the Lord spoke at the spring, who replied,

Sir, give me this water that I may not thirst nor come here to draw. John 4:15.

[4] In the Word 'food' means nothing other than spiritual and celestial food, which is faith in the Lord and love. This is clear from many places in the Word, as in Jeremiah,

The enemy has stretched out his hand over all the desirable things of Jerusalem, because she saw the nations come into her sanctuary, concerning whom You did command, They shall not enter your congregation. All the people groan as they search for bread. They have given their desirable things for food to restore the soul. Lamentations 1:10-11.

Here no other bread or food is meant than spiritual, for the subject is the sanctuary. In the same author,

I called to my lovers, they deceived me. My priests and my elders breathed their last in the city, for they sought food for themselves to refresh their soul. Lamentations 1:19.

Here the meaning is similar. In David,

They all look to You to give them their food in due season. You givest to them - they gather it up. You openest Your hand - they are satisfied with good. Psalms 104:27-28.

This in like manner stands for spiritual and celestial food.

[5] In Isaiah,

Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters, and he who has no money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Isaiah 55:1.

Here 'wine and milk' stands for spiritual and celestial drink. In the same prophet,

A virgin is conceiving and bearing a son, and you will call His name Immanuel. Butter and honey will He eat that He may know to refuse the evil and choose the good. It will be that because of the abundance of milk they produce he will eat butter, for butter and honey will everyone eat that is left in the midst of the land. Isaiah 7:14-15, 22.

Here 'eating honey and butter' means that which is celestial-spiritual, and 'those who are left' stands for remnants, which are referred to in Malachi as well,

Bring all the tithes 1 to the storehouse that there may be food in My house. Malachi 3:10.

'Tithes' 1 stands for remnants. Further concerning the meaning of 'food', see 56-58, 276.

Fusnotat:

1. or tenths

  
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