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2 Mosebok 30

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1 Så skal du gjøre et alter til å brenne røkelse på; av akasietre skal du gjøre det.

2 Det skal være en alen langt og en alen bredt, firkantet, og to alen høit; hornene på det skal være i ett med det.

3 Du skal klæ det med rent gull både ovenpå og på sidene rundt omkring og på hornene; og du skal gjøre en gullkrans på det rundt omkring.

4 Og du skal gjøre to gullringer til det og sette dem nedenfor kransen, på begge sider av det; du skal sette to på hver side; de skal være til å stikke stenger i, så alteret kan bæres på dem.

5 Stengene skal du gjøre av akasietre og klæ dem med gull.

6 Og du skal sette alteret foran forhenget som henger foran vidnesbyrdets ark, foran nådestolen som er ovenover vidnesbyrdet, hvor jeg vil komme sammen med dig.

7 Og Aron skal brenne velluktende røkelse på det; hver morgen når han steller lampene, skal han brenne den.

8 Og når han setter lampene op mellem de to aftenstunder, skal han også brenne den; det skal være et stadig røkoffer for Herrens åsyn hos eders efterkommere.

9 I skal ikke ofre fremmed røkelse på alteret, heller ikke brennoffer eller matoffer; og I skal ikke helle ut drikkoffer på det.

10 Én gang om året skal Aron gjøre soning for dets horn; med blodet av sonings-syndofferet skal han én gang om året gjøre soning for det, slekt efter slekt; det er høihellig for Herren.

11 Og Herren talte til Moses og sa:

12 Når du holder manntall over Israels barn, da skal alle de som kommer med i manntallet, gi Herren løsepenger for sitt liv når de telles, så det ikke skal komme nogen ulykke over dem fordi de telles.

13 Dette skal enhver gi som kommer med i manntallet: en halv sekel efter helligdommens vekt - sekelen er tyve gera - denne halve sekel er en gave til Herren.

14 Enhver som kommer med i manntallet fra tyveårsalderen og opover, skal gi denne gave til Herren.

15 Den rike skal ikke gi mere og den fattige ikke mindre enn en halv sekel når I gir gaven til Herren som løsepenger for eders liv.

16 Og du skal ta imot løsepengene av Israels barn og bruke dem til arbeidet ved sammenkomstens telt, så det kan være til å minne om Israels barn for Herrens åsyn, til løsepenger for eders liv.

17 Og Herren talte til Moses og sa:

18 Du skal gjøre et kar av kobber med fotstykke av kobber til å tvette sig i; og du skal sette det mellem sammenkomstens telt og alteret og ha vann i det.

19 Og Aron og hans sønner skal tvette sine hender og sine føtter i det.

20 Når de går inn i sammenkomstens telt, skal de tvette sig med vann forat de ikke skal ; likeså når de treder frem til alteret for å gjøre tjeneste og brenne ildoffer for Herren.

21 De skal tvette sine hender og sine føtter forat de ikke skal ; dette skal være en evig lov for dem, for ham og hans ætt, slekt efter slekt.

22 Og Herren talte til Moses og sa:

23 Ta dig krydderier av ypperste slag, av den edleste myrra fem hundre sekel og av krydder-kanel halvt så meget, to hundre og femti sekel, og av krydder-kalmus to hundre og femti sekel

24 og av kassia fem hundre sekel efter helligdommens vekt og en hin olivenolje.

25 Av det skal du lage en hellig salvings-olje, en kryddersalve, slik som det gjøres av dem som lager salver; en hellig salvings-olje skal det være,

26 og med den skal du salve sammenkomstens telt og vidnesbyrdets ark

27 og bordet med alt som dertil hører, og lysestaken med det som hører til den, og røkoffer-alteret

28 og brennoffer-alteret med alt som dertil hører, og karet med sitt fotstykke.

29 Og du skal hellige dem, så de blir høihellige; hver den som rører ved dem, skal være hellig.

30 Og du skal salve Aron og hans sønner, og du skal hellige dem til å tjene mig som prester.

31 Og du skal tale til Israels barn og si: Dette skal være min hellige salvings-olje hos eder, slekt efter slekt.

32 På et annet menneskes legeme må den ikke komme, og I skal ikke lage nogen annen olje således blandet som den; hellig er den, hellig skal den være for eder.

33 Den som lager maken til denne kryddersalve, eller som bruker den på en uinnvidd, han skal utryddes av sitt folk.

34 Og Herren sa til Moses: Ta dig røkelses-krydderier, stakte og sjønegl og galban - disse tre slags krydderier - og ren virak; det skal være like meget av hvert.

35 Av det skal du gjøre røkelse, en krydderblanding slik som det gjøres av dem som lager salve, saltet, ren, hellig.

36 Og du skal støte noget av det smått og legge det foran vidnesbyrdet i sammenkomstens telt, hvor jeg vil komme sammen med dig; høihellig skal det være for eder.

37 Og ingen annen røkelse skal I lage eder således blandet som denne; hellig for Herren skal den være dig.

38 Den som lager maken til den for å røke med, han skal utryddes av sitt folk.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #2187

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2187. 'And they ate' means communication in this manner. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'eating' as being communicated, and also being joined together, as is also evident from the Word. The injunction that Aaron, and his sons the Levites, and also the people were to eat the consecrated elements of the sacrifices in a holy place meant nothing other than the communication, conjunction, and making one's own, as stated above in 2177, at the point where Leviticus 6:16-17, is referred to. For it was celestial and spiritual food that was meant by the consecrated elements, and thus making that food their own by eating those elements. These consecrated elements were those parts of the sacrifices which were not burned on the altar but were eaten either by the priests or by the people who brought the offering, as becomes clear from very many places where the sacrifices are the subject. The consecrated elements that were to be eaten by the priests are referred to in Exodus 29:32-33; Leviticus 6:16, 26; 7:6, 15-16, 18; 8:31; 10:12-13; Numbers 18:9-11; and those to be eaten by the people, in Leviticus 19:5-6; Deuteronomy 12:27; 27:7; and elsewhere. And that those who were unclean were not to eat of them is referred to in Leviticus 7:19-21; 22:4-7. These ritual feasts took place in a holy place near the altar, either at the gate or in the court outside the tent. And they meant nothing else than the communication, conjunction, and making of celestial goods one's own, for those feasts represented celestial food. For what celestial food is, see 56-58, 680, 681, 1480, 1695. And all those consecrated elements were called 'bread', for the meaning of which see above in 2165. Something similar was represented by Aaron and his sons eating the loaves of the presence, or the shewbread, in a holy place, Leviticus 24:9.

[2] The reason for the law given to the Nazirite that during the days of his Naziriteship he was forbidden to eat anything that is produced from the grape - from which wine is made - from pips even to skin, Numbers 6:4, is that the Nazirite represented the celestial man, and the celestial man is such as is not willing even to mention spiritual things, see Volume One, in 202, 337, 880 (end), 1647. And because 'wine' and 'the grape', and also whatever came from the grape, meant that which is spiritual, the Nazirite was therefore forbidden to eat of them, that is, to have any communication with spiritual things, to join himself to them, or to make them his own.

[3] Something similar is meant by 'eating' 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. Why do you spend money on that which is not bread, and your labour on that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to Me and eat what is good, and your soul will delight itself in fatness. Isaiah 55:1-2.

And also what is said in John,

To him who conquers I will grant to eat from the tree of life which is in the middle of the Paradise of God. Revelation 2:7.

'The tree of life' is the celestial itself, and in the highest sense it is the Lord Himself since He is the source of everything celestial, that is, of all love and charity. Thus 'eating from the tree of life' is the same as feeding on the Lord; and 'feeding on the Lord' is being endowed with love and charity, thus with those things that belong to heavenly life, as the Lord Himself declares in John,

I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread he will live for ever. He who feeds on Me will live through Me. John 6:51, 57. But they said, This is a hard saying. Jesus said however, The words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life. John 6:60, 63.

From this it is evident what is meant by 'eating' in the Holy Supper, Matthew 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-23; Luke 22:19-20 - having communication, being joined together, and making one's own.

[4] From this it is also plain what is meant by the Lord's statement that

Many will come from the east and from the west and will recline with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Matthew 8:11.

The Lord did not mean that they were going to feast with these three in the kingdom of God but that they were to enjoy the celestial goods meant by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. That is to say, they were to enjoy the inmost celestial goods of love, meant by -Abraham'; also a lower type of goods, which are intermediate, as those are which belong to the rational, meant by 'Isaac'; and a still lower type of goods which are celestial-natural, such as occur in the first heaven, meant by 'Jacob'. These are the things which constitute the internal sense of these words. That such things are meant by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, see 1893, and wherever else they are the subject. For whether one speaks of enjoying those celestial things, or whether one speaks of enjoying the Lord, whom they represent, it amounts to the same since the Lord is the source of all those things, and the Lord is their All in all.

  
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Leviticus 8

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1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

2 "Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread;

3 and assemble all the congregation at the door of the Tent of Meeting."

4 Moses did as Yahweh commanded him; and the congregation was assembled at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

5 Moses said to the congregation, "This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded to be done."

6 Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.

7 He put the coat on him, tied the sash on him, clothed him with the robe, put the ephod on him, and he tied the skillfully woven band of the ephod on him, and fastened it to him with it.

8 He placed the breastplate on him; and in the breastplate he put the Urim and the Thummim.

9 He set the turban on his head; and on the turban, in front, he set the golden plate, the holy crown; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

10 Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them.

11 He sprinkled it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the basin and its base, to sanctify them.

12 He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.

13 Moses brought Aaron's sons, and clothed them with coats, and tied sashes on them, and put headbands on them; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

14 He brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering.

15 He killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it.

16 He took all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat; and Moses burned it on the altar.

17 But the bull, and its skin, and its flesh, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

18 He presented the ram of the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

19 He killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar.

20 He cut the ram into its pieces; and Moses burned the head, and the pieces, and the fat.

21 He washed the innards and the legs with water; and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

22 He presented the other ram, the ram of consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

23 He killed it; and Moses took some of its blood, and put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.

24 He brought Aaron's sons; and Moses put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar.

25 He took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right thigh;

26 and out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before Yahweh, he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat, and on the right thigh.

27 He put all these in Aaron's hands and in his sons' hands, and waved them for a wave offering before Yahweh.

28 Moses took them from their hands, and burned them on the altar on the burnt offering. They were a consecration for a pleasant aroma. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

29 Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It was Moses' portion of the ram of consecration, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

30 Moses took some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons' garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.

31 Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, "Boil the flesh at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying, 'Aaron and his sons shall eat it.'

32 What remains of the flesh and of the bread you shall burn with fire.

33 You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting seven days, until the days of your consecration are fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven days.

34 What has been done this day, so Yahweh has commanded to do, to make atonement for you.

35 You shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days, and keep Yahweh's command, that you don't die: for so I am commanded."

36 Aaron and his sons did all the things which Yahweh commanded by Moses.