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| 1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, |
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| 2 Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually. |
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| 3 Without the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting shall Aaron keep it in order from evening to morning before Jehovah continually: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations. |
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| 4 He shall keep in order the lamps upon the pure lampstand before Jehovah continually. |
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| 5 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake. |
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| 6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before Jehovah. |
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| 7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto Jehovah. |
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| 8 Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before Jehovah continually; it is on the behalf of the children of Israel, an everlasting covenant. |
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| 9 And it shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire by a perpetual statute. |
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. |
| 10 And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp: |
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| 11 and the son of the Israelitish woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him unto Moses. And his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. |
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| 12 And they put him in ward, that it might be declared unto them at the mouth of Jehovah. |
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| 13 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, |
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| 14 Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him. |
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| 15 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin. |
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| 16 And he that blasphemeth the name of Jehovah, he shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the sojourner, as the home-born, when he blasphemeth the name of Jehovah, shall be put to death. |
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| 17 And he that smiteth any soul of a man mortally shall surely be put to death. |
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| 18 And he that smiteth the soul of a beast shall make it good, soul for soul. |
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| 19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbor; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him:
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| 20 breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be rendered unto him. |
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| 21 And he that killeth a beast shall make it good: and he that killeth a man shall be put to death. |
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| 22 Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the sojourner, as for the home-born: for I am Jehovah your God. |
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| 23 And Moses spake to the children of Israel; and they brought forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. And the children of Israel did as Jehovah commanded Moses. |
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