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民数记 7

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1 摩西立完了帐幕,就把帐幕用抹了,使他成圣,又把其中的器具和,并上的器具,都抹了,使他成圣

2 当天,以色列的众首领,就是各族的族长,都来奉献。他们是各支派的首领,管理那些被数的人。

3 他们把自己的供物送到耶和华面前,就是辆篷子车和十只公牛。每两个首领奉献辆车,每首领奉献只牛。他们把这些奉到帐幕前。

4 耶和华晓谕摩西

5 你要收下这些,好作会幕的使用,都要照利未所办的事交他们。

6 於是摩西收了车和牛,交利未人,

7 把两辆车,只牛,照革顺子孙所办的事交他们,

8 又把辆车,只牛,照米拉利子孙所办的事交他们;他们都在祭司亚伦的儿子以他玛

9 但车与牛都没有交哥辖子孙;因为他们办的是所的事,在头上抬物。

10 的日子,首领都来行奉献的礼,众首领就在前献供物。

11 耶和华摩西:众首领为行奉献的礼,要每个首领来献供物。

12 头一日献供物的是犹大支派的亚米拿达的儿子拿顺。

13 他的供物是:盘子,重三十舍客勒碗,重七十舍客勒是按所的平,也盛满了调的细面作素祭;

14 盂,重舍客勒,盛满了香;

15 只公牛犊,只公绵岁的公羊羔作燔祭;

16 只公山羊作赎祭;

17 两只公牛,五只公绵,五只公山,五只一岁的公羊羔作平安祭。这是亚米拿达儿子拿顺的供物。

18 第二日来献的是以萨迦子孙的首领、苏押的儿子拿坦业。

19 他献为供物的是:盘子,重三十舍客勒碗,重七十舍客勒是按所的平,也盛满了调的细面作素祭;

20 盂,重舍客勒,盛满了香;

21 只公牛犊,只公绵岁的公羊羔作燔祭;

22 只公山羊作赎祭;

23 两只公牛,五只公绵,五只公山,五只一岁的公羊羔作平安祭。这是苏押儿子拿坦业的供物。

24 第三日来献的是西布伦子孙的首领、希伦的儿子以利押。

25 他的供物是:盘子,重三十舍客勒碗,重七十舍客勒是按所的平,也盛满了调的细面作素祭;

26 盂,重舍客勒,盛满了香;

27 只公牛犊,只公绵岁的公羊羔作燔祭;

28 只公山羊作赎祭;

29 两只公牛,五只公绵,五只公山,五只一岁的公羊羔作平安祭。这是希伦儿子以利押的供物。

30 第四日来献的是流便子孙的首领、示丢珥的儿子以利蓿。

31 他的供物是:盘子,重三十舍客勒碗,重七十舍客勒是按所的平,也盛满了调的细面作素祭;

32 盂,重舍客勒,盛满了香;

33 只公牛犊,只公绵岁的公羊羔作燔祭;

34 只公山羊作赎祭;

35 两只公牛,五只公绵,五只公山,五只一岁的公羊羔作平安祭。这是示丢珥的儿子以利蓿的供物。

36 第五日来献的是西缅子孙的首领、苏利沙代的儿子示路蔑。

37 他的供物是:盘子,重三十舍客勒碗,重七十舍客勒是按所的平,也盛满了调的细面作素祭;

38 盂,重舍客勒,盛满了香;

39 只公牛犊,只公绵岁的公羊羔作燔祭;

40 只公山羊作赎祭;

41 两只公牛,五只公绵,五只公山,五只一岁的公羊羔作平安祭。这是苏利沙代儿子示路蔑的供物。

42 第六日来献的是迦得子孙的首领、丢珥的儿子以利雅萨。

43 他的供物是:盘子,重三十舍客勒碗,重七十舍客勒是按所的平,也盛满了调的细面作素祭;

44 盂,重舍客勒,盛满了香;

45 只公牛犊,只公绵岁的公羊羔作燔祭;

46 只公山羊作赎祭;

47 两只公牛,五只公绵,五只公山,五只一岁的公羊羔作平安祭。这是丢珥的儿子以利雅萨的供物。

48 第七日来献的是以法莲子孙的首领、亚米忽的儿子以利沙玛。

49 他的供物是:盘子,重三十舍客勒碗,重七十舍客勒是按所的平,也盛满了调的细面作素祭;

50 盂,重舍客勒,盛满了香;

51 只公牛犊,只公绵岁的公羊羔作燔祭;

52 只公山羊作赎祭;

53 两只公牛,五只公绵,五只公山,五只一岁的公羊羔作平安祭。这是亚米忽儿子以利沙玛的供物。

54 第八日来献的是玛拿西子孙的首领、比大蓿的儿子迦玛列。

55 他的供物是:盘子,重三十舍客勒碗,重七十舍客勒是按所的平,也盛满了调的细面作素祭;

56 盂,重舍客勒,盛满了香;

57 只公牛犊,只公绵岁的公羊羔作燔祭;

58 只公山羊作赎祭;

59 两只公牛,五只公绵,五只公山,五只一岁的公羊羔作平安祭。这是比大蓿儿子迦玛列的供物。

60 第九日来献的是便雅悯子孙的首领、基多尼的儿子亚比但。

61 他的供物是:盘子,重三十舍客勒碗,重七十舍客勒是按所的平,也盛满了调的细面作素祭;

62 盂,重舍客勒,盛满了香;

63 只公牛犊,只公绵岁的公羊羔作燔祭;

64 只公山羊作赎祭;

65 两只公牛,五只公绵,五只公山,五只一岁的公羊羔作平安祭。这是基多尼儿子亚比但的供物。

66 第十日来献的是但子孙的首领、亚米沙代的儿子亚希以谢。

67 他的供物是:盘子,重三十舍客勒碗,重七十舍客勒是按所的平,也盛满了调的细面作素祭;

68 盂,重舍客勒,盛满了香;

69 只公牛犊,只公绵岁的公羊羔作燔祭;

70 只公山羊作赎祭;

71 两只公牛,五只公绵,五只公山,五只一岁的公羊羔作平安祭。这是亚米沙代儿子亚希以谢的供物。

72 第十一日来献的是亚设子孙的首领、俄兰的儿子帕结。

73 他的供物是:盘子,重三十舍客勒碗,重七十舍客勒是按所的平,也盛满了调的细面作素祭;

74 盂,重舍客勒,盛满了香;

75 只公牛犊,只公绵岁的公羊羔作燔祭;

76 只公山羊作赎祭;

77 两只公牛,五只公绵,五只公山,五只一岁的公羊羔作平安祭。这是俄兰儿子帕结的供物。

78 第十二日来献的是拿弗他利子孙的首领、以南儿子亚希拉。

79 他的供物是:盘子,重三十舍客勒碗,重七十舍客勒是按所的平,也盛满了调的细面作素祭;

80 盂,重舍客勒,盛满了香;

81 只公牛犊,只公绵岁的公羊羔作燔祭;

82 只公山羊作赎祭;

83 两只公牛,五只公绵,五只公山,五只一岁的公羊羔作平安祭。这是以南儿子亚希拉的供物。

84 的日子,以色列的众首领为行献之礼所献的是:盘子十二个,碗十二个,盂十二个;

85 每盘子重三十舍客勒,每碗重七十舍客勒切器皿的子,按所的平,共有二舍客勒

86 二个盂盛满了香,按所的平,每盂重舍客勒,所有的子共一二十舍客勒

87 作燔祭的,共有公牛十二只,公羊十二只,一岁的公羊羔十二只,并同献的素祭作赎祭的公山羊十二只;

88 作平安祭的,共有公牛二十只,公绵六十只,公山六十只,一岁的公羊六十只。这就是用,为行奉献之礼所献的。

89 摩西会幕要与耶和华说话的时候,见法柜的施恩座以上、基路伯中间有与他说话声音,就是耶和华与他说话

   

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2959. 'The land [is worth] four hundred shekels of silver' means the price of redemption by means of truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'four hundred shekels', dealt with below, and from the meaning of 'silver' as truth, dealt with in 1551, 2048, 2937. The reason 'four hundred shekels' means the price of redemption is that 'four hundred' means vastation and 'a shekel' price. What vastation is, see 2455 (end), 2682, 2694, 2699, 2702, 2704, where it is shown that there are two types of vastation. The first takes place when the Church altogether ceases to exist, that is, when there is no longer any charity or faith. At that point the Church is said to be vastated or laid waste. The second takes place when those who belong to the Church are reduced to a state of ignorance and also of temptation, for the reason that the evils and falsities residing with them are to be set apart and so to speak dissipated. Those who emerge from this vastation are those who are specifically called the redeemed, for at that point they are taught the goods and truths of faith, and are reformed and regenerated by the Lord, as shown in the paragraphs quoted. Now since the number four hundred, when used to specify a period of time - such as four hundred years - means the duration and also the state of vastation, so that same number, when used to specify the number of shekels, means the price of redemption; and when the word 'silver' is mentioned together with this number, the price of redemption by means of truth is meant.

[2] That 'four hundred years' means the duration and the state of vastation becomes clear also from what Abraham was told,

Jehovah said to Abraham, 1 Know for sure that your seed will be strangers in a land not theirs. And they will serve them, and these will afflict them for four hundred years. Genesis 15:13.

There it may be seen that 'four hundred years' is used to mean the duration of the stay of the children of Israel in Egypt. Yet it is not the duration of their stay in Egypt that is meant but something that is not evident to anyone except from the internal sense. This becomes clear from the fact that the duration of the stay of the children of Israel in Egypt was no more than half the stated period, as becomes quite clear from the descendants of Jacob down to Moses. For the facts are that Levi was descended from Jacob, Kohath from Levi, Amram from Kohath, and Aaron and Moses from Amram, Exodus 6:16-20; Levi and his son Kohath went down to Egypt together with Jacob, Genesis 46:11; and Moses came two generations later, and was eighty years old when he spoke to Pharaoh, Exodus 7:7. These facts show that the period of time from Jacob's entry into Egypt until his sons' departure from that land was approximately two hundred and fifteen years.

[3] That 'four hundred' is used in the Word to mean something other than its numerical value in the historical sense is clearer still from its being said that

The length of time that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years, and at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, it happened on that same day, that all the armies of Jehovah went out of the land of Egypt. Exodus 12:40-41.

The duration of the stay of the children of Israel in that land was in fact only half that number of years; but it was from Abraham's entry into Egypt that the four hundred and thirty years were measured. Consequently what is said at this point in Exodus is for the sake of the internal sense Lying within those words. In the internal sense the sojourn of the sons of Jacob in Egypt represents and means the vastation of the Church, the state and duration of which are described by the number four hundred and thirty years. Thirty describes the state of vastation of the sons of Jacob as being no vastation at all, for they were such as could not be reformed through any state of vastation (for the meaning of the number thirty, see 2276); and 'four hundred years' represents the general state of vastation of those who belonged to the Church.

[4] Those therefore who come out of that vastation are referred to as the redeemed, as is also evident from the words addressed to Moses,

Therefore say to the children of Israel, I am Jehovah, and I will bring you out from beneath the burdens of Egypt, and I will rescue you from their slavery, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgements. Exodus 6:6.

And elsewhere,

Jehovah has brought you out by means of a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of slaves, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Deuteronomy 7:8; 13:5.

And elsewhere,

You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, but Jehovah your God redeemed you. Deuteronomy 15:15; 24:18.

In Samuel,

Your people whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt. 2 Samuel 7:23.

Since those who emerge from the state of vastation are referred to as the redeemed, 'four hundred shekels' therefore means the price of redemption.

[5] As regards 'a shekel' meaning the price or valuation, this is clear from the following places in the Word: In Moses,

All your valuations shall be according to the shekel of holiness. Leviticus 27:25.

And elsewhere,

If a soul commits a trespass and has sinned inadvertently in the holy things of Jehovah, he shall bring his guilt offering to Jehovah, a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to your valuation in silver shekels, according to the shekel of holiness. Leviticus 5:15.

From this it is evident that 'a shekel' means the price or valuation. It is called 'the shekel of holiness' because the price or valuation has regard to truth and good from the Lord - truth and good from the Lord being, within the Church, holiness itself. Consequently it is called 'the shekel of holiness' many times elsewhere, as in Exodus 30:24; Leviticus 27:3; Numbers 3:47, 50; 7:13, 19, 25, 31, 37, 43, 49, 55, 61, 67, 73; 18:16.

[6] That 'a shekel' is the price of what is holy is quite evident in Ezekiel when the holy land and the holy city are the subject. There the shekel is referred to as follows,

The shekel there shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh (pound). Ezekiel 45:12.

Anyone may see that here 'shekel', 'pound', and the numbers mentioned mean holy things, that is, good and truth, for the holy land and the holy city or new Jerusalem, which are the subject there, mean nothing else than the Lord's kingdom where neither shekel, nor gerahs, nor pound, nor the numbering of them occurs. But the number itself, from the meaning it has in the internal sense, determines the valuation or price of good and truth.

[7] In Moses it is said that every man (vir) should give a ransom for his soul, so that there would be no plague. He had to give half a shekel, according to the shekel of holiness, a shekel being twenty gerahs. Half a shekel was to be the thruma (offering) to Jehovah, Exodus 30:12-13. Here ten gerahs, which make half a shekel, are remnants which are received from the Lord. Remnants are goods and truths stored away with a person - such remnants, being meant by 'ten', see 576, 1738, 1906, 2284. That remnants are goods and truths from the Lord that are stored away with a person, see 1906, 2284. Consequently they are also called 'the thruma (or offering) to Jehovah', and it is said that by means of this a soul will be redeemed. The reason it is stated several times that a shekel was twenty gerahs, as in these verses from Exodus, and also in Leviticus 27:25; Numbers 3:47; 18:16; and elsewhere, is that the shekel of twenty gerahs means the valuation of the good preserved in remnants - twenty meaning the good preserved in remnants, see 2280. Also therefore a shekel was a weight according to which the price of both gold and silver was determined, Genesis 24:22; Exodus 38:24; Ezekiel 4:10; 45:12 - the price of gold because 'gold' means good, 113, 1551, 1552, and the price of silver because 'silver' means truth, 1551, 2048. From this it is now evident that 'the land [is worth] four hundred shekels of silver' means the price of redemption by means of truth. The reason it is called 'the land' is that the spiritual Church is the subject, which is reformed and regenerated by means of truth received from the Lord, 2954. That 'the land' means the Church, see 662, 1066, 1068, 1262, 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118 (end).

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