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Ezekijel 45

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1 Kad budete zemlju ždrijebom dijelili u baštinu, prinesite kao prinos pridržan Jahvi jedan sveti dio zemlje, dugačak dvadeset i pet tisuća lakata, širok deset tisuća; to neka bude sveto područje uzduž i poprijeko.

2 Od toga neka bude za Svetište četvorina od pet stotina lakata i čistina od deset lakata uokolo.

3 Od toga područja izmjeri u dužinu dvadeset i pet tisuća lakata, a u širinu deset tisuća: tu neka bude Svetište - Svetinja nad svetinjama.

4 Taj sveti dio zemlje pripada svećenicima koji služe u Svetištu i koji pristupaju k Jahvi da mu služe: tu neka im bude mjesto za kuće; i to neka je sveto mjesto koje pripada Svetištu.

5 Dvadeset i pet tisuća u dužinu i deset tisuća u širinu neka bude levitima koji služe Domu: neka ondje sagrade gradove u kojima će stanovati.

6 Za posjed gradu dodijelite pet tisuća lakata u širinu i dvadeset i pet tisuća lakata u dužinu usporedo sa svetim područjem: to će pripadati svemu domu Izraelovu.

7 Knezu pripada dio s obje strane svetoga područja i gradskoga posjeda - duž svetoga područja i duž gradskoga posjeda - od zapadne strane prema zapadu i od istočne strane prema istoku, a dužina neka bude jednaka svakom tom dijelu, od zapadne do istočne granice.

8 To neka bude njegova zemlja, posjed u Izraelu, da knezovi više ne tlače narod moj i da zemlju dadu domu Izraelovu po plemenima.'

9 Ovako govori Jahve Gospod: 'Dosta je, knezovi Izraelovi! Okanite se nasilja i pljačke i vršite zakon i pravdu; izbavite narod moj od svojih tražbina - riječ je Jahve Gospoda.

10 Mjerite pravom mjerom: pravom efom i pravim batom.

11 Efa i bat neka jednako hvataju: bat neka iznosi desetinu homera i efa desetinu homera - neka im mjera bude prema homeru.

12 Šekel neka bude dvadeset gera; mina neka vam bude dvadeset šekela, dvadeset i pet šekela i petnaest šekela.

13 Ovo je prinos koji ćete prinositi: šestinu efe od svakoga homera pšenice i šestinu efe od svakoga homera ječma.

14 A za ulje ova je uredba: desetina bata od svakoga kora - deset bata jedan je kor.

15 Od svakoga stada od dvije stotine ovaca sa sočnih izraelskih pašnjaka po jednu ovcu za žrtvu prinosnicu, paljenicu i pričesnicu - vama za pomirenje - riječ je Jahve Gospoda.

16 Sav narod zemlje duguje ovaj prinos knezu Izraelovu.

17 A knez je dužan davati žrtve paljenice, prinosnice i ljevanice za svetkovine i za mlađake, za subote i blagdane doma Izraelova: on neka se postara za okajnicu, za pomirnicu, prinosnicu, paljenicu i pričesnicu za pomirenje doma Izraelova.'

18 Ovako govori Jahve Gospod: 'Prvoga mjeseca, prvoga dana u mjesecu, uzmi june bez mane i okaj njime Svetište.

19 Svećenik neka uzme krvi te žrtve okajnice i neka njome pomaže dovratnike Doma i sva četiri ugla pojasa žrtveničkoga i dovratnike vrata unutrašnjega predvorja.

20 Tako neka učini i sedmoga dana istoga mjeseca za svakoga koji je sagriješio iz slabosti i neznanja. Tako ćete dovršiti pomirenje Doma.

21 Prvoga mjeseca, četrnaestoga dana u mjesecu, svetkujte Pashu, sedmodnevni blagdan, kad se blaguju beskvasni hljebovi.

22 Toga dana neka knez za se i za sav puk zemlje prinese june za okajnicu.

23 Sedam dana blagdana neka prinosi za paljenicu Jahvi Sedam junčića i Sedam ovnova bez mane - svaki dan tih Sedam dana - i svaki dan jarca kao okajnicu.

24 A kao prinosnicu neka prinese efu po svakom juncu i efu po ovnu i hin ulja na svaku efu.

25 Sedmoga mjeseca, petnaestoga dana u mjesecu, neka o blagdanu isto toliko prinosi sedam dana: isto toliko okajnica, paljenica, prinosnica i ulja.'

   

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3104. 'Half a shekel in weight' means the amount needed for the introduction. This is clear from the meaning of 'a shekel', 'half a shekel', and 'weight'. 'A shekel' means the price or valuation of good and truth, and 'half a shekel' a defined amount of it, see 2959. 'Weight' means the state of something as regards good, as will be seen [below]. From these considerations it is evident that 'half a shekel in weight' means and embodies the amount as regards the good which 'a gold nose-jewel' is used to mean - that amount being the quantity of it that was needed for the introduction, as is plain from what comes before and after this point in the story.

[2] That 'weight' is the state of something as regards good is evident from the following places in the Word:

In Ezekiel where the prophet was told to eat food each day twenty shekels in weight, and to drink water in measure the sixth of a hin,

For, behold, I am breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem, so that they may eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and drink water by measure and with dismay; that they may be in want of bread and water. Ezekiel 4:10-11, 16-17.

This refers to the vastation of good and truth, which is represented by 'the prophet'. A state of good when vastated is meant by their having to eat food and bread 'by weight', and a state of truth when vastated by their having to drink water 'by measure' - 'bread' meaning that which is celestial, and so good, see 276, 680, 2165, 2177, and 'water' that which is spiritual, and so truth, 739, 2702, 3058. From this it is evident that 'weight' is used in reference to good, and 'measure' to truth.

[3] In the same prophet,

You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. Ezekiel 45:10 and following verses.

This refers to the holy land, by which the Lord's kingdom in heaven is meant, as may be recognized from every detail at this point in this prophet, where what are required are not balances, an ephah, and a bath that are just but the goods and truths meant by those weights and measures.

In Isaiah,

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand and weighed the heavens in [His] palm, and gathered the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in a balance, and the hills in the scales? Isaiah 40:12.

'Weighing the mountains in a balance and the hills in the scares' stands for the truth that the Lord is the source of the heavenly things of love and charity, and that He alone orders the states of these things. For 'the mountains' and 'the hills' referred to in connection with those weights mean the heavenly things of love, see 795, 796, 1430, 2722.

[4] In Daniel,

The writing on the wall of Belshazzar's palace was, Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. This is the interpretation: Mene, God has numbered your kingdom and brought it to an end; Tekel, you have been weighed in the scales and have been found wanting; Peres, your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians. Daniel 5:25-28.

Here 'mene' or 'He has numbered' has reference to truth, but 'tekel' or 'weighed in the scales' to good. Described in the internal sense is the time when the age is drawing to a close.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.