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3 Mosebok 23

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1 Og Herren talte til Moses og sa:

2 Tal til Israels barn og si til dem: Dette er Herrens høitider - mine høitider - som I skal utrope som hellige sammenkomster:

3 I seks dager skal I arbeide; men på den syvende dag er det høihellig sabbat, en hellig sammenkomst; da skal I ikke gjøre noget arbeid; det er sabbat for Herren i alle eders hjem.

4 Dette er Herrens høitider, de hellige sammenkomster, som I skal utrope til deres fastsatte tider:

5 I den første måned, på den fjortende dag i måneden, mellem de to aftenstunder, er det påske for Herren.

6 Og på den femtende dag i samme måned er det de usyrede brøds høitid for Herren; i syv dager skal I ete usyret brød.

7 På den første dag skal I holde en hellig sammenkomst, I skal ikke gjøre nogen arbeidsgjerning.

8 I syv dager skal I ofre ildoffer for Herren; på den syvende dag skal det være en hellig sammenkomst, I skal ikke gjøre nogen arbeidsgjerning.

9 Og Herren talte til Moses og sa:

10 Tal til Israels barn og si til dem: Når I kommer inn i det land som jeg vil gi eder, og I høster dets grøde, da skal I komme til presten med det første kornbånd av eders høst.

11 Og han skal svinge kornbåndet for Herrens åsyn, forat Herren kan ha velbehag i eder; dagen efter sabbaten skal presten svinge det.

12 Og samme dag som I svinger kornbåndet, skal I ofre et årsgammelt lam uten lyte til brennoffer for Herren

13 og matofferet som hører til: to tiendedeler av en efa fint mel, blandet med olje, til ildoffer for Herren, til en velbehagelig duft, og drikkofferet som hører til: fjerdedelen av en hin vin.

14 Og I skal ikke ete brød eller ristet eller friskt korn før den dag - før I har båret frem offeret for eders Gud; det skal være en evig lov for eder, fra slekt til slekt, i alle eders hjem.

15 Fra dagen efter sabbaten, fra den dag I bærer frem svinge-kornbåndet, skal I telle fulle syv uker;

16 femti dager skal I telle til dagen efter den syvende sabbat, og da skal I bære frem for Herren et offer av den nye grøde:

17 Fra eders hjemsteder skal I komme med to svingebrød, som er laget av to tiendedeler av en efa fint mel og bakt med surdeig; de er en førstegrøde for Herren.

18 Og sammen med brødet skal I føre frem syv årsgamle lam uten lyte og en oksekalv og to værer - de skal være til brennoffer for Herren - og matofferet og drikkofferne som hører til; det er et ildoffer til velbehagelig duft for Herren.

19 Og I skal ofre en gjetebukk til syndoffer og to årsgamle lam til takkoffer.

20 Og presten skal svinge dem sammen med førstegrødens brød og to lam for Herrens åsyn; de skal være Herren helliget og tilhøre presten.

21 Og samme dag skal I la utrope at det skal holdes en hellig sammenkomst; I skal ikke gjøre nogen arbeidsgjerning; det skal være en evig lov for eder, fra slekt til slekt, hvor I så bor.

22 Og når I høster grøden i eders land, skal du ikke under din innhøsting skjære kornet helt ut til ytterste kant av din aker, og de aks som blir liggende efter innhøstingen, skal du ikke sanke op; du skal la dem være igjen til den fattige og den fremmede; jeg er Herren eders Gud.

23 Og Herren talte til Moses og sa:

24 Tal til Israels barn og si: I den syvende måned, på den første dag i måneden, skal I holde hviledag med basunklang til ihukommelse og en hellig sammenkomst.

25 Da skal I ikke gjøre nogen arbeidsgjerning, og I skal ofre ildoffer til Herren.

26 Og Herren talte til Moses og sa:

27 Men på den tiende dag i den samme syvende måned er det soningsdag; da skal I holde en hellig sammenkomst, og I skal faste og ofre ildoffer til Herren.

28 Den dag skal I ikke gjøre noget arbeid; for det er en sonings-dag; da skal det gjøres soning for eder for Herrens, eders Guds åsyn.

29 For enhver som ikke faster den dag, skal utryddes av sitt folk.

30 Og enhver som gjør noget arbeid den dag, han skal utryddes av sitt folk.

31 Intet arbeid må I gjøre den dag; det skal være en evig lov for eder, fra slekt til slekt, hvor I så bor.

32 En høihellig sabbat skal den være for eder, og I skal faste; på den niende dag i måneden om aftenen, fra den aften til den næste, skal I holde eders sabbatshvile.

33 Og Herren talte til Moses og sa:

34 Tal til Israels barn og si: På den femtende dag i denne samme syvende måned skal løvsalenes fest holdes for Herren, og den skal vare syv dager.

35 På den første dag skal det være en hellig sammenkomst; I skal ikke gjøre nogen arbeidsgjerning.

36 I syv dager skal I ofre ildoffer til Herren; på den åttende dag skal I holde en hellig sammenkomst og ofre ildoffer til Herren; det er en festsammenkomst; I skal ikke gjøre nogen arbeidsgjerning.

37 Dette er Herrens høitider; dem skal I utrope som hellige sammenkomster, og på dem skal I ofre Herren ildoffer, brennoffer og matoffer, slaktoffer og drikkoffer, hver dag det som hører dagen til,

38 foruten Herrens sabbater og foruten eders gaver og foruten alle eders lovede offer og foruten alle eders frivillige offer som I gir Herren.

39 Men på den femtende dag i den syvende måned, når I innsamler landets grøde, skal I holde Herrens fest, og den skal vare i syv dager; den første dag skal være hviledag, og den åttende dag skal være hviledag.

40 Og den første dag skal I ta frukter av fagre trær, palmegrener og kvister av løvrike trær og siljer som vokser ved bekkene; og I skal være glade for Herrens, eders Guds åsyn i syv dager.

41 Denne høitid skal I holde som en fest for Herren syv dager om året; det skal være en evig lov for eder, fra slekt til slekt; i den syvende måned skal I holde den.

42 I skal bo i løvhytter i syv dager, alle innfødte i Israel skal bo i løvhytter,

43 forat eders efterkommere skal vite at jeg lot Israels barn bo i løvhytter da jeg førte dem ut av Egyptens land; jeg er Herren eders Gud.

44 Og Moses kunngjorde Herrens høitider for Israels barn.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #7906

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Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

7906. 'No yeast shall be found in your houses' means no falsity whatever shall come near good. This is clear from the meaning of 'yeast' as falsity, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'house' as good, dealt with in 3652, 3720, 4982, 7833-7835. The meaning of 'yeast' as falsity becomes clear from the places where yeast and anything made with yeast, and also where unleavened and anything made without yeast are mentioned, such as in Matthew,

Jesus said, Look out for and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees. Then the disciples understood that He had not said that they should beware of the yeast used in bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. Matthew 16:6, 11.

Here 'yeast' plainly stands for false teaching. Because 'yeast' meant falsity it was forbidden to sacrifice the blood of the sacrifice with anything made with yeast, Exodus 23:18; 34:25. For 'the blood of the sacrifice' meant holy truth, thus truth pure and free from all falsity, 4735, 6978, 7317, 7326, 7846, 7850. It was also laid down that the minchah offered on the altar should not be baked with yeast in it, Leviticus 6:15-17, and that cakes and wafers also should be made without yeast, Leviticus 7:11-13.

[2] To go further with what 'made with yeast' and 'not made with yeast' refer to, it should be recognized that the purification of truth from falsity cannot ever come about in a person without so called fermentation, that is, without the conflict of falsity with truth and of truth with falsity. But after the conflict has taken place and truth has triumphed, the falsity falls away like dregs and the truth emerges purified. It is like wine that becomes clear after fermentation as the dregs sink to the bottom. That fermentation or conflict takes place especially when a person's state undergoes a change, that is to say, when his actions begin to spring from the good of charity, and not as previously from the truth of faith. For a person's state is not yet made pure while his actions spring from the truth of faith, but they have been made pure when they spring from the good of charity, since they now spring from his will. Previously they sprang merely from his understanding.

[3] Spiritual conflicts or temptations are fermentations in the spiritual sense, for during them falsities wish to link themselves to truths, but the truths reject them, eventually sending them to the bottom so to speak and in that way becoming refined. This is the sense in which to understand what the Lord teaches about 'yeast' in Matthew,

The kingdom of heaven is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until the whole was fermented by it. Matthew 13:33.

'Flour' is truth from which good is derived. Also in Hosea,

They are all committing adultery, like an oven heated by a baker; the raiser 1 ceases from kneading the dough until it has fermented. Hosea 7:4.

Since such conflicts, meant by 'fermentations', take place with a person in the state before he attains newness of life, as has been stated, it was also laid down that the new minchah, the bread of the wave-offering, that was to be brought at the feast of first fruits, should be baked with yeast; and that was to be the first fruits to Jehovah, Leviticus 23:16-17.

Imibhalo yaphansi:

1. Whether the raiser means the stirrer of the fire or the raiser of the dough is not clear.

  
Yiya esigabeni / 10837  
  

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

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Exodus 12

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1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

2 "This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.

3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, 'On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household;

4 and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.

5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:

6 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.

7 They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.

8 They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.

9 Don't eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.

10 You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.

11 This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh's Passover.

12 For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Yahweh.

13 The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.

14 This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.

15 "'Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

16 In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.

17 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.

18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.

19 Seven days shall there be no yeast found in your houses, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.

20 You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.'"

21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, "Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.

22 You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.

23 For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two doorposts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.

24 You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.

25 It shall happen when you have come to the land which Yahweh will give you, according as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.

26 It will happen, when your children ask you, 'What do you mean by this service?'

27 that you shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of Yahweh's Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.'" The people bowed their heads and worshiped.

28 The children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

29 It happened at midnight, that Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of livestock.

30 Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

31 He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, "Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said!

32 Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!"

33 The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, "We are all dead men."

34 The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.

35 The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.

36 Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They despoiled the Egyptians.

37 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children.

38 A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.

39 They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt; for it wasn't leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn't wait, neither had they prepared for themselves any food.

40 Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.

41 It happened at the end of four hundred thirty years, even the same day it happened, that all the armies of Yahweh went out from the land of Egypt.

42 It is a night to be much observed to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of Yahweh, to be much observed of all the children of Israel throughout their generations.

43 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it,

44 but every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.

45 A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.

46 In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry forth anything of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall you break a bone of it.

47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.

48 When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and will keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one who is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.

49 One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you."

50 All the children of Israel did so. As Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

51 It happened the same day, that Yahweh brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.