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1 Ja Herra puhui Mosekselle; sanoen:

2 Sano myös Israelin lapsille: kuka ikänänsä Israelin lapsista, eli muukalaisista, joka Israelin lasten seassa asuu, siemenestänsä Molekille antaa, sen pitää totisesti kuoleman: maan kansan pitää häntä kivittämän kuoliaaksi.

3 Ja minä asetan minun kasvoni sitä ihmistä vastaan, ja hävitän hänen kansastansa, että hän Molekille siemenestänsä antanut ja minun pyhäni saastuttanut on, ja minun pyhää nimeäni häväissyt.

4 Ja jos maan kansa sitä ihmistä säästää, joka siemenestänsä Molekille antanut on, niin ettei he sitä surmaa,

5 Niin minä kuitenkin sitä ihmistä vastaan minun kasvoni asetan, ja hänen sukuansa vastaan, ja hävitän sen ja kaikki jotka hänen perässänsä Molekin kanssa huorin tehneet ovat, heidän kansastansa.

6 Jos joku sielu hänensä noitain ja tietäjäin tykö kääntää, huorin tekemään heidän kanssansa, niin minä kasvoni asetan sitä sielua vastaan, ja hävitän sen kansastansa.

7 Sentähden pyhittäkäät teitänne, ja olkaat pyhät; sillä minä olen Herra teidän Jumalanne.

8 Ja pitäkäät minun säätyni, ja tehkäät niitä; sillä minä olen Herra, joka teitä pyhitän.

9 Kuka ikänänsä isäänsä ja äitiänsä kiroo, sen pitää totisesti kuoleman, että hän isäänsä ja äitiänsä kironnut on: hänen verensä olkoon hänen päällänsä.

10 Joka huorin tekee jonkun miehen aviopuolison kanssa, se joka lähimmäisensä emännän kanssa huorin tekee, pitää totisesti kuoletettaman, sekä huorintekiä, että huora.

11 Jos joku isänsä emännän tykönä makaa, niin että hän isänsä hävyn paljastanut on, he molemmat pitää totisesti kuoleman: heidän verensä olkoon heidän päällänsä.

12 Jos joku miniänsä tykönä makaa, niin he molemmat pitää totisesti kuoleman; sillä he ovat kauhistuksen tehneet: heidän verensä olkoon heidän päällänsä.

13 Jos joku miehenpuolen kanssa makaa, niinkuin jonkun vaimon kanssa, he ovat kauhistuksen tehneet, heidän pitää molemmat totisesti kuoleman: heidän verensä olkoon heidän päällänsä.

14 Jos joku nai vaimon ja sen äidin, hän on kauhistuksen tehnyt: se pitää tulella poltettaman, ja ne ynnä molemmat, ettei yhtään kauhistusta olisi teidän seassanne.

15 Jos joku eläimen kanssa makaa, sen pitää totisesti kuoleman, ja se eläin pitää tapettaman.

16 Jos joku vaimo johonkuhun eläimeen ryhtyy, makaamaan sen kanssa, niin sinun pitää tappaman sekä vaimon, että eläimen; heidän pitää totisesti kuoleman: heidän verensä olkoon heidän päällänsä.

17 Jos joku sisarensa nai, isänsä eli äitinsä tyttären, ja hänen häpynsä näkee, ja se näkee hänen häpynsä, se on kauhistus: ne pitää hävitettämän sukunsa kansan edessä: sillä hän on sisarensa hävyn paljastanut, hänen pitää pahuutensa kantaman.

18 Jos joku mies jonkun vaimon tykönä makaa hänen sairautensa aikana, ja paljastaa hänen häpynsä, ja avaa hänen lähteensä, ja vaimo paljastaa verensä lähteen: ne molemmat pitää hävitettämän heidän kansastansa.

19 Sinun äitis sisaren häpyä ja sinun isäs sisaren häpyä ei sinun pidä paljastaman; sillä se on lähimmäisensä paljastanut, ja ne pitää pahuutensa kantaman.

20 Jos joku setänsä emännän kanssa makaa, hän on setänsä hävyn paljastanut: ne pitää rikoksensa kantaman. Lapsetonna heidän pitää kuoleman.

21 Jos joku veljensä emännän ottaa, se on häpiällinen työ: heidän pitää lapsetonna oleman, että hän on veljensä hävyn paljastanut.

22 Niin pitäkäät nyt kaikki minun säätyni, ja kaikki minun oikeuteni, ja tehkäät ne, ettei maa teitä oksentaisi, johon minä teidät vien asumaan.

23 Ja älkäät vaeltako pakanain säädyissä, jotka minä teidän edeltänne olen ajava ulos; sillä kaikkia näitä he ovat tehneet, ja minä olen kauhistunut heitä.

24 Mutta teille sanon minä: teidän pitää omistaman heidän maansa; sillä minä annan teille sen perimiseksi, sen maan, jossa rieskaa ja hunajaa vuotaa. Minä olen Herra teidän Jumalanne, joka olen teitä eroittanut muista kansoista.

25 Että teidän pitää myös eroittaman puhtaat eläimet saastaisista, ja saastaiset linnut puhtaista, ja ei saastuttaman teidän sielujanne eläimissä, linnuissa ja kaikissa, mitkä maalla matelevat, jotka minä teille eroittanut olen, että ne ovat saastaiset.

26 Sentähden pitää teidän oleman minulle pyhät, sillä minä Herra olen pyhä, ja olen teitä eroittanut muista kansoista, että teidän pitäis oleman minun omani.

27 Jos joku mies eli vaimo noidaksi eli tietäjäksi löydetään, ne pitää totisesti kuoleman, heidän pitää ne kivittämän, heidän verensä olkoon heidän päällänsä.

   


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Arcana Coelestia #9965

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Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

9965. 'That they may not bear iniquity and die' means the elimination of the whole of worship. This is clear from the meaning of 'bearing the iniquity', when the subject is the priestly office of Aaron and his sons, as a removal or shifting away of falsities and evils with those who are governed by good derived from the Lord, dealt with above in 9937. But when it speaks of them 'bearing iniquity and dying' the elimination of the whole of worship is meant, see 9928; for the representative worship died because nothing of it appeared any longer in heaven. The situation in all this may become clear from what has been stated and shown above in 9959-9961. They also died when they did not act in accordance with the statutes, 1 as is evident from Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu, who were devoured by fire from heaven when they did not take the fire of the altar to burn incense but foreign 2 fire, Leviticus 10:1-2ff. 'The fire of the altar' represented God's love, thus love from the Lord, whereas 'foreign fire' represented love from hell. The elimination of worship was meant by their burning incense with this fire and their consequent death. For the meaning of 'fire' as love, see 5215, 6832, 7324, 7575, 7852.

[2] Many places in the Word state that they would bear iniquity when they did not do things in accordance with the statutes, and by this was meant damnation because sins had not been removed. Not that they themselves were condemned on account of disobeying the statutes. Rather by doing so they eliminated representative worship and in so doing represented the damnation of those who remain in their sins. For none are condemned because they fail in their performance of outward religious observances, only because of evils in the heart, thus because of failing in such observances as a result of evil in the heart. This is what 'bearing iniquity' means in the following places: In Moses,

If a soul sins and acts against any of Jehovah's commandments regarding what ought not to be done, 3 though he does not know it, yet he will be guilty and will bear his iniquity. Leviticus 5:17-18.

Here the retention of evils and consequent damnation should not be understood literally by 'bearing iniquity', although that is the spiritual meaning; for it says 'though he does not know it', implying that what the person has done does not spring from evil in the heart.

[3] In the same author,

If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering is eaten at all on the third day, the one offering it will not be accepted. It is an abomination, and the soul that eats it will bear his iniquity, and will be cut off from his people. Leviticus 7:18; 19:7-8.

Here also 'bearing iniquity' means remaining in his sins and being as a result in a state of damnation. It does so not because the person ate some of his sacrifice on the third day, but because 'eating it on the third day' represented something abominable, namely an action leading to damnation. Thus 'bearing iniquity and being cut off from his people' represented the damnation of those who performed the abomination meant by that deed. Nevertheless there was no condemnation on account of his having eaten it, for interior evils that were represented are what condemn, not exterior actions in which those evils are not present.

[4] In the same author,

Every soul who eats a carcass 4 or that which has been torn, and does not wash his clothes and bathe his flesh shall bear his iniquity. Leviticus 17:15-16.

Since 'eating a carcass or that which has been torn' represented making evil or falsity one's own, the expression 'bearing iniquity' also has a representative meaning. In the same author,

If a man who is clean fails to keep the Passover, this soul shall be cut off from his people, because he did not bring the offering of Jehovah at its appointed time; he shall bear his sin. Numbers 9:13.

'The Passover' represented deliverance by the Lord from damnation, 7093 (end), 7867, 7995, 9286-9292; and 'the Passover supper' represented being joined to the Lord through the good of love, 7836, 7997, 8001. And since these things were represented it was decreed that anyone who did not keep the Passover should be cut off from his people and that he should bear his sin. The failure to keep it was not really so great a crime; rather it represented those who at heart refuse to accept the Lord and consequently deliverance from sins, and so who have no wish to be joined to Him through love. Thus it represented their damnation.

[5] In the same author,

The children of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting, or else they will bear iniquity and die. 5 Levites shall perform the work of the tent of meeting, and these shall bear the iniquity. Numbers 18:22-23.

The reason why the people would bear iniquity and die if they were to go near the tent of meeting to do the work there was that they would thereby eliminate the representative worship assigned to the function of the priests. The function of the priests or the priestly office represented the Lord's entire work of salvation, 9809; and this is why it says that the Levites, who also were priests, should bear the people's iniquity, by which expiation or atonement was meant, that is, removal from evils and falsities with those who are governed by good derived from the Lord alone, 9937. 'Bearing iniquity' means real damnation when this expression is used in reference to those who perform evil deeds because their heart is evil, such as those mentioned in Leviticus 20:17, 19-20; 24:15-16; Ezekiel 18:20; 23:49; and elsewhere.

Imibhalo yaphansi:

1. i.e. the laws of worship; see 8972.

2. i.e. unauthorized or profane

3. literally, and does one of [all] Jehovah's commandments [about] things which ought not to be done

4. i.e. an animal that had not been slaughtered but had died naturally

5. literally, to bear iniquity, dying

  
Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

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Arcana Coelestia #9506

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Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

9506. 'And you shall make a mercy-seat from pure gold' means the hearing and reception of all things that belong to worship arising from the good of love. This is clear from the meaning of 'the mercy-seat' as the cleansing from evils or forgiveness of sins, consequently the hearing and reception of all things that belong to worship, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'gold' as the good of love, dealt with in 113, 1551, 1552, 5658, 6914. The truth that 'the mercy-seat' means the cleansing from evils and forgiveness of sins is clear from those places in the Word where propitiation or expiation is referred to. 1 The reason why the hearing and reception of all things belonging to worship is also meant is that only those who have made propitiation or expiation, that is, been cleansed from evils, are heard by the Lord and have their worship accepted by Him; it does not happen with those who are steeped in evils, that is, have not made expiation or propitiation. Therefore also Aaron was not allowed to approach the mercy-seat until he had been cleansed and had made propitiation for himself and the people.

[2] The truth that 'the mercy-seat' consequently means the hearing and reception of all things that belong to worship is also clear from the consideration that Jehovah spoke to Moses over the mercy-seat between the cherubs. The reason why worship arising from the good of love is that which is received is that no one is allowed to enter heaven and so approach the Lord other than a person who is governed by good, that is to say, by the good of love to the Lord and the good of charity towards the neighbour, see 8516, 8539, 8722, 8772, 9139, 9227, 9230, 9274; no one else is heard nor can anyone else's worship be received. This also explains why there were cherubs over the mercy-seat; for watchfulness and providence are meant by 'the cherubs', guarding against access to the Lord except through the good of love, that is, guarding against entrance into heaven by any apart from those who are governed by good, and also guarding against those in hell gaining access to the inhabitants of heaven and doing them harm. All this shows what was meant by the presence of the mercy-seat over the ark and by that of the cherubs over the mercy-seat, and by the fact that the mercy-seat and the cherubs too were made from pure gold; for 'gold' means the good of love, and 'the ark' heaven where the Lord is.

[3] The truth that 'the mercy-seat' means the cleansing from evils, and so the forgiveness of sins, is clear from places in the Word where 'propitiation' or 'expiation' 2 is referred to, as in David,

O Jehovah, expiate our sins for Your name's sake. Psalms 79:9.

In the same author,

He, being merciful, has expiated iniquity. Psalms 78:38.

In the same author,

You will expiate me with hyssop and I shall become clean; You will wash me and I shall be made whiter than snow. Psalms 51:7.

In Isaiah,

Evil will come upon you, which you will not know how to ward off; calamity will befall you, which you will not be able to expiate. Isaiah 47:11.

And in Moses,

Sing, O nations, the people of Him who will avenge the blood of His servants, and will expiate His land, His people. Deuteronomy 32:43.

[4] Expiations were effected by means of sacrifices; and it says that when they were offered the priest would expiate him from sin, and he would be pardoned, 3 Leviticus 4:26, 31, 35; 5:6, 10, 13, 16, 18; 6:7; 9:7; 15:15, 30. Expiation was also effected by 'silver', Exodus 30:16; Psalms 49:7. Hence also the day of expiations 4 before the feast of tabernacles, Leviticus 23:27-32. But it should be recognized that none of those expiations constituted a real cleansing from evils or forgiveness of sins; it only represented it. For every religious observance among the Israelite and Jewish nation was merely representative of the Lord, His kingdom and Church, and such realities as belong to heaven and the Church. How representations brought such realities to angels' awareness in heaven, see 9229.

[5] Since the cleansing from evils and forgiveness of sins was meant by 'the mercy-seat', the hearing and reception of all things that belonged to worship was also meant; for one who has been cleansed from evils is heard and his worship is received. This was represented by Jehovah's speaking above the mercy-seat to Moses and His commanding what the children of Israel should do, as is clear from verse 22 of the present chapter, where it says,

And I will meet with you there, and I will speak to you from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubs which are over the ark of the Testimony, [declaring] everything that I shall command you for the children of Israel.

The like occurs elsewhere,

Whenever Moses spoke to Jehovah he heard the voice speaking from above the mercy-seat that was over the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubs. Numbers 7:89.

The fact that a person was heard and his worship was received when he had been cleansed from evils was represented by Aaron's not going into the holy place within the veil before the mercy-seat unless he had first made expiation for himself and the people, by ceremonial washing, sacrifices, incense, and blood, as stated in Leviticus 16:2-16, which concludes,

In this way he shall expiate the holy place from the uncleannesses of the children of Israel, and from their transgressions in regard of all their sins.

It also says in verse 2 that Jehovah would appear at the mercy-seat 'in the cloud', meaning in Divine Truth adjusted to people's ability to receive and understand it, such as the Word is in the sense of the letter, 4060, 4391, 5922, 6343 (end), 6752, 8106, 8443, 8781.

Imibhalo yaphansi:

1. The Latin word propitiatorium rendered the mercy-seat may be translated more literally as the place of propitiation.

2. The Hebrew verb behind expiate, used in an uncommon way in the following quotations, means cover over. The Latin verb generally means atone for or purify what is defiled.

3. i.e. the priest shall make atonement for the person's sin, and the person will stand forgiven

4. Generally known as the day of atonement

  
Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

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