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| 1 And Yahweh spake unto Moses, saying: |
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| 2 Command the sons of Israel, That they bring unto thee pure oil olive, beaten, for giving light,–to cause the lamp to burn up continually. |
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| 3 Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, shall Aaron order it, from evening until morning, before Yahweh, continually,–a statute age-abiding, to your generations. |
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| 4 Upon the pure lampstand, shall he order the lamps,–before Yahweh, continually. |
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| 5 And thou shalt take fine meal, and bake it, in twelve cakes,–of two-tenths, shall each cake be. |
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| 6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six in a row,–upon the pure table, before Yahweh. |
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| 7 And thou shalt put, upon each row, pure frankincense,–so shall it belong unto the bread as a memorial, an altar-flame unto Yahweh. |
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| 8 Sabbath day by sabbath day, shall he order it, before Yahweh, continually,–from the sons of Israel, as an age-abiding covenant: |
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| 9 so shall it be for Aaron and for his sons, and they shall eat it, in a holy place,–for, most holy, shall it be unto him, from among the altar-flames of Yahweh, a statute age-abiding. |
It – The shewbread from the Holy.
Aaron's and his sons – The truth of God's word is the nutrition for Christ (Aaron) as well as for the church (his sons).
They shall eat it – Eat, consume and gain the nutritional value of the shewbread, the word of God.
In the holy place – The word place is NOT in italics. This indicates the Priests eat the shewbread in the Court. (see T13 footnote)
At first this may seem strange but a little reflection makes things clear. The court pictures the condition of justification. The church (priests) never loose their justification. Thus they still have access to the court. This is also where the Levites (tentatively justified believers) are shown. The symbolic picture is that of the Church (priests) eating (discussing, presenting and working out their understanding of the truth) the shewbread in the presence of the Levites (justivied believers).
The Levites do not gain any nutritional value from watching the Priests eat, just as the justified believers to not get spiritual nutrition for their new creatures by listening to the discussions of the Church. Why not? Because they have no new creature to nourish!
What do they get? They get some understanding of what is in the Holy (some information about spiritual things) by listening to the Church discuss those things.
This is exactly what happens in our meetings. There are spirit-begotten new creatures in Christ and there are justified (but not spirit-begotten) believers. The justified are learning of Holy things from the spirit-begotten ones. |
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| 10 And forth went the son of a woman of Israel–he, being the son of a man of Egypt–in the midst of the sons of Israel; |
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| 11 and the son of the woman of Israel, and a man of Israel, reviled one another in the camp. And the son of the Israelitish woman uttered contemptuously the Name, and reviled. So they brought him in unto Moses,–now, the name of his mother, was Shelomith, daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan; |
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| 12 and they put him in ward,–that a clear answer might be given to them, at the mouth of Yahweh. |
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| 13 Then spake Yahweh unto Moses, saying: |
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| 14 Bring forth him that reviled, unto the out-side of the camp, then shall all that heard [him] lean their hands upon his head,–and all the assembly shall stone him. |
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| 15 And, unto the sons of Israel, shalt thou speak, saying,–What man soever curseth his God, shall bear his sin. |
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| 16 And, he that contemptuously uttereth the name of Yahweh, shall be, surely put to death, all the assembly shall, surely stone, him,–as the sojourner, so the home-born, when he contemptuously uttereth the Name, he shall be put to death. |
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| 17 And, when, any man, by smiting taketh the life of any human being, he shall be surely put to death. |
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| 18 And, he that by smiting taketh away the life of a beast, shall make it good,–life for life. |
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| 19 And, when, any man, inflicteth a blemish upon his neighbour, as he hath done, so, shall it be done to him: |
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| 20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, as he inflicteth a blemish upon a human being, so, shall one be inflicted upon him. |
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| 21 And, he that killeth a beast, shall make it good,–and, he that killeth a human being, shall be put to death. |
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| 22 One rule, shall ye have, as the sojourner, so the home-born, shall be,–For, I–Yahweh, am your God. |
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| 23 So then Moses spake unto the sons of Israel, and they took forth the reviler, unto the outside of the camp, and stoned him with stones. Thus, the sons of Israel, did, as Yahweh commanded Moses. |
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