7889. 'That soul shall be cut off from Israel' means that he will be separated from those belonging to the spiritual Church, and that he will be damned. This is clear from the meaning of 'being cut off' as being separated and also as being damned; and from the representation of 'the children of Israel' as those belonging to the spiritual Church, dealt with often. The reason why anyone who has falsity in his good will be separated and will be damned is that falsity - meant by 'anything made with yeast' - within good renders that good such that it cannot help receiving evil from the hells that inflict damnation. For when [those belonging to the spiritual Church] are to be delivered from the ones who have molested them, damnation will enter in from every side; and those who are governed by genuine good, which is good devoid of falsity, will pass unharmed through the midst of the damnation, see above in 7878.

7878. 'And pass you by' means that it - damnation from the hells - will stay away from there. This is clear from the meaning of 'passing by', when used in reference to damnation, as staying away from there. Also the sphere of damnation which flows out of the hells stays away from those guided by truth and governed by good from the Lord. Damnation enters in among those steeped in evil and falsity, since a state receptive of that sphere exists there, but not among those guided and governed by truth and good; for those things are opposites, one of which stays away from the other. All that has been decreed so far about the Passover lamb, about the cooking and eating of it, and also about putting some of its blood onto doorposts and lintel, is connected with this declaration that the destroyer will pass their houses by, meaning in the internal sense that they will be free from all damnation. To this end, that damnation might stay away from them, they had been made ready. The process of being made ready is what is described in the internal sense by the statutes regarding the Passover lamb.