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| 1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, |
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| 2 Command the children of Israel that they bring unto thee pure beaten olive oil for the light, to light the lamp continually. |
Pure oil olive – Type of the holy Spirit. T116
Beaten for the light – Representing the spirit of truth. T116
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| 3 Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, shall Aaron dress it from evening to morning before Jehovah continually: it is an everlasting statute throughout your generations. |
Without the vail – Passing the second veil represents death of the human body. T22
Shall Aaron – Type of The Christ. T38
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| 4 Upon the pure candlestick shall he arrange the lamps before Jehovah continually. |
Pure candlestick – Type of the Church as a whole. T16
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| 5 And thou shalt take fine wheaten flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof; each cake shall be of two tenths. |
Twelve cakes – Representing the truth, the Word of God. T16, T115
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| 6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six in a row, upon the pure table before Jehovah.
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| 7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row; and it shall be a bread of remembrance, an offering by fire to Jehovah. |
Frankincense – Representing praise, heart adoration. R3703:4
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| 8 Every sabbath day he shall arrange it before Jehovah continually, on the part of the children of Israel: it is an everlasting covenant. |
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| 9 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy unto him of Jehovah's offerings by fire: it is an everlasting statute. |
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| 10 And the son of an Israelitish woman--but withal the son of an Egyptian, --went out among the children of Israel; and this son of the Israelitess and a man of Israel strove together in the camp; |
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| 11 and the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. And his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. |
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| 12 And they confined him, that they might decide at the mouth of Jehovah. |
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| 13 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, |
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| 14 Lead the reviler outside the camp; and all that heard him shall lay their hands upon his head, and the whole assembly shall stone him. |
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| 15 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Every one when he revileth his God shall bear his sin. |
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| 16 And he that blasphemeth the name of Jehovah shall certainly be put to death; all the assembly shall certainly stone him; as well the stranger as he that is home-born, when he blasphemeth the Name, shall be put to death. |
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| 17 And if any one smiteth any man mortally, he shall certainly be put to death. |
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| 18 And he that smiteth a beast mortally shall make it good, life for life. |
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| 19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour, 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 done to him. |
Eye for eye – It was very necessary that these lessons of just retribution for sin should be deeply impressed upon the people of Israel. R5645:2; OV21:4
But we are not to apply this principle in our dealings with fellow men. It is not the time now for us to judge and discipline the world. R5644:5
The death of angels and archangels could never take away sin because of the divine arrangement of a life for a life, a man for a man. R3174:5
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| 21 He that smiteth a beast mortally shall make it good; and he that smiteth a man mortally shall be put to death. |
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| 22 Ye shall have one law: as the stranger, so the home-born; for I am Jehovah your God. |
One manner of law – In its regard for the rights and interests of foreigners and enemies the Mosaic Law was 32 centuries ahead of its time. HG535:3; A50
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| 23 And Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they led the reviler outside the camp and stoned him with stones. And the children of Israel did as Jehovah had commanded Moses. |
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