Verses 1-3 And this is the word^a which you shall do to them to sanctify them to serve Me in the priestly office: Take one young bull, a son of the herd, and two rams without defect^b, and unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil; of fine wheat flour you shall make them. And you shall put them in one basket and bring^c them in the basket, and the young bull and the two rams.

'And this is the word which you shall do to them' means a law of order. 'To sanctify them' means the representation of the Lord's Divine Human. 'To serve Me in the priestly office' means to represent all the work of salvation carried out by Him. 'Take one young bull, a son of the herd' means purification of the natural or external man. 'And two rams without defect' means purification of the spiritual or internal man. 'And unleavened bread' means purification of what is celestial in the inmost part of a person. 'And unleavened cakes mixed with oil' means purification of the mid-celestial. 'And unleavened wafers anointed with oil' means what is celestial in the external man. 'Of fine wheat flour you shall make them' means truth which springs from Divine Good, [of which those celestial kinds of good consist.] 'And you shall put them in one basket' means the level of the senses, containing them. 'And bring them in the basket' means the resulting presence of them all. 'And the young bull and the two rams' means the natural or external level of a person, and the spiritual or internal level of him, which must be purified.

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