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3 Mosebok第7章

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1 Og dette er loven om skyldofferet: Det er høihellig.

2 På det sted hvor brennofferet slaktes, skal skyldofferet slaktes, og dets blod skal sprenges rundt om på alteret.

3 Og alt fettet skal ofres, både halen og fettet som dekker innvollene,

4 og begge nyrene med det fett som er på dem, ved lendene, og den store leverlapp; den skal tas ut sammen med nyrene.

5 Og presten skal brenne det på alteret som ildoffer til Herren; det er et skyldoffer.

6 Alt mannkjønn blandt prestene kan ete det; på et hellig sted skal det etes; det er høihellig.

7 Med skyldofferet skal det være likesom med syndofferet; det gjelder én lov for begge; den prest som gjør soning med det, ham skal det tilhøre.

8 Når en prest ofrer brennoffer for nogen, så skal huden av det brennoffer han har ofret, tilhøre den samme prest.

9 Og ethvert matoffer som bakes i ovn, eller som stekes i panne eller på helle, skal tilhøre den prest som ofrer det.

10 Og ethvert matoffer som er blandet med olje, eller som er tørt, skal høre alle Arons sønner til, den ene som den andre.

11 Og dette er loven om takkofferet som ofres til Herren:

12 Dersom nogen ofrer det til lovprisning, så skal han foruten slaktofferet som bæres frem til lovprisning, ofre usyrede kaker med olje i og usyrede brødleiver smurt med olje, og fint mel knadd til kaker med olje i.

13 Dette er den offergave han skal bære frem foruten det slaktoffer som bæres frem til takk og lovprisning, og dessuten syrede kaker.

14 Av dette offer skal han bære frem én kake av hvert slag som gave til Herren; det skal tilhøre presten som sprenger takkofferets blod på alteret.

15 Kjøttet av et takkoffer som bæres frem til lovprisning, skal etes på den dag det ofres; intet av det skal bli liggende til om morgenen.

16 Dersom nogens slaktoffer er et lovet offer eller et frivillig offer, skal det etes på den dag det ofres; men det som levnes, kan etes den næste dag.

17 Men hvad som enda blir tilovers av slaktofferets kjøtt, skal på den tredje dag brennes op med ild.

18 Om nogen på den tredje dag eter av takkofferets kjøtt, da har Herren ikke velbehag i offeret; det skal ikke regnes den som ofret det, til gode, det skal være en vederstyggelighet, og den som eter av det, gjør en misgjerning som han kommer til å bøte for.

19 Kjøtt* som kommer nær noget urent, skal ikke etes, det skal brennes op med ild; ellers kan alle som er rene, ete av kjøttet. / {* nemlig av takkofferet.}

20 Men den som eter kjøtt av Herrens takkoffer mens det er noget urent på ham, han skal utryddes av sitt folk.

21 Og når nogen rører ved noget urent, enten det er et menneskes urenhet eller et urent dyr eller noget annet urent og vederstyggelig, og så eter av kjøttet av Herrens takkoffer, da skal han utryddes av sitt folk.

22 Og Herren talte til Moses og sa:

23 Tal til Israels barn og si: I skal ikke ete fett av okse eller får eller gjet.

24 Fettet av et selvdødt dyr eller av et sønderrevet dyr kan brukes til alle slags arbeid; men ete det må I ikke;

25 for hver den som eter fettet av noget dyr som det ofres ildoffer av til Herren, han skal utryddes av sitt folk.

26 Og blod skal I ikke ete, hverken av fugl eller fe, hvor I så bor.

27 Enhver som nogensinne eter blod, han skal utryddes av sitt folk.

28 Og Herren talte til Moses og sa:

29 Tal til Israels barn og si: Den som ofrer sitt takke-slaktoffer til Herren, han skal bære frem for Herren sin offergave av sitt takke-slaktoffer.

30 Med egne hender skal han bære frem Herrens ildoffer; både fettet og brystet skal han bære frem, og brystet skal svinges for Herrens åsyn.

31 Og presten skal brenne fettet på alteret; men brystet skal høre Aron og hans sønner til.

32 Og det høire lår skal I gi presten som gave av eders takkoffer.

33 Den av Arons sønner som ofrer takkoffer-blodet og fettet, han skal ha det høire lår som sin del;

34 for svinge-brystet og løfte-låret har jeg tatt fra Israels barn av deres takke-slaktoffer og gitt til Aron, presten, og til hans sønner som en evig rettighet de kan kreve av Israels barn.

35 Dette er Arons del og hans sønners del av Herrens ildoffer, som gis dem på den dag de føres frem for å tjene Herren som prester,

36 den del som Herren befalte skulde gis dem av Israels barn på den dag de salves, en evig rettighet, fra slekt til slekt.

37 Dette er loven om brennofferet, om matofferet og om syndofferet og om skyldofferet og om innvielsesofferet og om takkofferet,

38 den som Herren gav Moses på Sinai berg den dag han bød Israels barn å ofre Herren sine offer i Sinai ørken.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#10033

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10033. Since the present chapter deals with the sacrifice and the burnt offering through which Aaron and his sons were consecrated to the priestly office a little more will be stated regarding the blood and the fat. All the blood of a sacrifice or of a burnt offering had to be poured out at the altar and all the fat had to be burned on the altar, as the statutes and laws in Leviticus relating to burnt offerings and sacrifices make clear. The reason why this was done to the blood and fat was that the blood meant Divine Truth and the fat Divine Good. The fact that the blood meant Divine Truth is clear from what has been shown regarding 'blood' in 4735, 6378, 6978, 7317, 7326, 7850, 9127, 9393, and that the fat meant Divine Good is clear from what has been shown in 5943.

[2] That 'blood' means Divine Truth is perfectly clear in Ezekiel,

Gather yourselves from all around to My sacrifice which I am sacrificing for you, a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, so that you may eat flesh and drink blood. You will eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth. You will eat fat till you are glutted, and drink blood till you are drunk, from My sacrifice which I will sacrifice for you. You will be glutted at My table with horse, chariot, the mighty, and every man of war. Thus will I set My glory among the nations. Ezekiel 39:17-22.

Anyone can see that 'blood' is not used to mean blood here, for it states that they were going to drink the blood of the princes of the earth, doing so till they were drunk, and also that they were going to eat fat till they were glutted, and then that they would be glutted with horse and chariot. From these statements it is evident that 'blood' is used to mean something other than blood, 'the princes of the earth' to mean something other than princes of the earth, and also 'fat' as well as 'horse and chariot' something other than fat, or horse and chariot. What is meant however none can know except through the internal sense. This shows that 'blood' means Divine Truth, 'the princes of the earth' the Church's primary or leading truths, 'fat' Divine Good, 'horse' the internal sense of the Word, and 'chariot' actual doctrinal teachings derived from there.

'Blood' means Divine Truth; this is clear from the places referred to above.

'The princes of the earth' means primary truths, 5044.

'The earth' means the Church, 9325.

'Horse' means the internal sense of the Word, 2760-2762.

'Chariot' means doctrinal teachings, 5321, 8215.

[3] From all this it is now evident what the meaning is of the Lord's words in John,

Jesus said, Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood you will have no life in yourselves. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is truly food, and My blood is truly drink. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. John 6:53-56.

'Flesh' means Divine Good, see 3813, 7850, 9127; and 'the Son of Man' whose flesh they were to eat and blood they were to drink means the Lord in respect of Divine Truth emanating from Divine Good, 9807.

[4] But the fact that 'fat' means Divine Good is clear in Isaiah,

Jehovah will make for all peoples on this mountain a feast of fat things. Isaiah 25:6.

In the same prophet,

Attend [diligently] to Me and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. Isaiah 55:2.

And in Jeremiah,

I will fill the soul of the priests with fat, and My people will be satisfied with My goodness. Jeremiah 31:14.

From these quotations it becomes clear why all the fat of a sacrifice was burned on the altar and why all the blood was poured out at the side of it.

[5] Because blood and fat were signs of those Divine Entities the Israelite people were totally forbidden to eat fat or blood, as is clear in Moses,

[This shall be] a perpetual statute throughout your generations: You shall eat no fat and no blood. Leviticus 3:17.

In the same author,

You shall eat no fat, neither of ox, nor sheep, nor she-goat. Everyone who eats fat from a beast, from one that is offered as a fire-offering to Jehovah, that soul eating it will be cut off from his peoples. Leviticus 7:23, 25.

And again in the same author,

Whoever eats any blood, I will set My face against the soul eating blood and will cut him off from among his people. Leviticus 17:10-14; Deuteronomy 12:16, 23-25.

[6] The reason why eating blood and fat was so strictly forbidden was that eating them represented the profanation of Divine Truth and Divine Good. For the Israelite and Jewish nation was interested in outward forms but not their inner substance, so that in their faith and love there was no Divine Truth nor any Divine Good; and their worship was external devoid of these. This was because they were ruled by self-love and love of the world more than other nations; consequently they were steeped in evils gushing out of those loves, these evils being contempt for others, enmity, hatred, vengeance, brutality, and cruelty. This also was the reason why internal truths were not revealed to them, for if these had been revealed that nation would have inevitably profaned them. Such was the character of that nation, as may be seen in the places referred to in 9320(end), 9380. Therefore they would have represented profanation if they had eaten blood and fat; for whatever was established among them was representative of the interior things of the Church and heaven.

[7] From these considerations it is even more evident what the meaning is of the words in Ezekiel 39:17-22, dealt with above, stating that they would eat fat till they were glutted and drink blood, the blood of the princes of the earth, till they were drunk. That is to say, the meaning is that when inner virtues were opened up, those with whom these virtues existed, that is, faith in and love to the Lord, would have Divine Truth and Divine Good imparted to them as their own, as happened among gentile nations when the Lord came into the world. Therefore also those words go on to say, Thus will I set My glory among the nations, 'glory' meaning Divine Truth emanating from the Lord as it exists in heaven, 9429, and 'the nations' meaning all who are governed by good, 1259, 1260, 1416, 1849, 4574, 6005, 8771, 9256.

[8] This the Lord Himself corroborates, in His declaration that His flesh was truly food and His blood was truly drink, and whoever ate His flesh and drank His blood would abide in Him, and He in that person, John 6:55-56, and also in His institution of the Holy Supper, in which they were to eat His flesh and to drink His blood, Matthew 26:26-29, by which receiving Divine Good and Divine Truth from Him and making them their own was meant. Receiving Divine Good and Divine Truth from the Lord and making them their own is possible only with those who acknowledge the Lord's Divinity, for this is the first and most essential of all matters of belief within the Church. To no others can the way to heaven be opened, because the whole of heaven assents to that belief, and therefore Divine Truth emanating from the Lord's Divine Good, meant here by 'blood', cannot be imparted to them. Therefore let anyone who is within the Church beware of refusing to believe in the Lord and also His Divinity; for heaven is closed and hell opened to that refusal. For those people are separated from the Lord, and so are separated from heaven, where the Lord's Divinity is the All in all since it composes heaven. And when heaven has been closed, knowledge of the truths of faith derived from the Word and from the teachings of the Church indeed exists, but not a particle of faith that is real faith because real faith comes from above, that is, from the Lord by way of heaven.

[9] The Lord spoke in this manner, that is to say, He called the Divine Good emanating from Himself His flesh, and the Divine Truth emanating from His Divine Good His blood, because the Word, which sprang from Him, was His Divinity filling the whole of heaven. Such a Word must manifest itself through the use of correspondences, as a result of which it is representative and carries a spiritual meaning in every single part; for in this and no other way could it link members of the Church to angels in heaven. For when people in the world understand the Word according to its literal meaning angels understand it according to its inner meaning. Thus instead of the Lord's flesh they understand Divine Good, and instead of His blood they understand Divine Truth, both emanating from the Lord. As a consequence that which is holy flows in by way of the Word.

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