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Exodus 28

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1 Du skal lade din Broder Aron og hans Sønner tillige med ham træde frem af Israeliternes Midte og komme hen til dig, for at de kan gøre Præstetjeneste for mig, Aron og Arons Sønner, Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar og Itamar.

2 Og du skal tilvirke din Broder Aron hellige Klæder til Ære og Pryd,

3 og du skal byde alle kunstforstandige Mænd, hvem jeg har fyldt med Kunstfærdigheds Ånd, at tilvirke Aron Klæder, for at han kan helliges til at gøre Præstetjeneste for mig.

4 Klæderne, som de skal tilvirke, er følgende: Brystskjold, Efod, Kåbe, Kjortel af mønstret Stof, Hovedklæde og Bælte. De skal tilvirke din Broder Aron og hans Sønner hellige Klæder, for at de kan gøre Præstetjeneste for mig,

5 og dertil skal de bruge Guldtråd, violet og rødt Purpurgarn, Karmoisinrødt Garn og Byssus.

6 Efoden skal du tilvirke af Guldtråd, violet og rødt Purpurgarn, karmoisinrødt Garn og tvundet Byssus i Kunstvævning.

7 Den skal have to Skulderstykker, der skal være til at hæfte på; den skal hæftes sammen ved begge Hjørner.

8 Og dens Bælte, som skal bruges, når den tages på, skal være af samme Arbejde og i eet med den; det skal være af Guldtråd, violet og rødt Purpurgarn, karmoisinrødt Garn og tvundet Byssus.

9 Så skal du tage de to Sjohamsten og gravere Israels Sønners Navne i dem,

10 seks af Navnene på den ene Sten og de andre seks på den anden efter Aldersfølge;

11 med Stenskærerarbejde, som ved Gravering af Signeter, skal du indgravere Israels Sønners Navne i de 14 Sten, og du skal indfatte dem i Guldfletværk.

12 Disse to Sten skal du fæste på Efodens Skulderstykker, for at Stenene kan bringe Israels Sønner i Minde, og Aron skal bære deres Navne for HE ENs Åsyn på sine Skuldre for at bringe dem i Minde.

13 Og du skal tilvirke Fletværk af Guld

14 og to Kæder af purt Guld; du skal lave dem i snoet Arbejde, som når man snor eb, og sætte disse snoede Kæder på Fletværket.

15 Fremdeles skal du tilvirke etskendelsens Brystskjold i Kunstvævning på samme Måde som Efoden; af Guldtråd, violet og rødt Purpurgarn, karmoisinrødt Garn og tvundet Byssus skal du lave det;

16 det skal være firkantet og lægges dobbelt, et Spand langt og et Spand bredt,

17 Og du skal udstyre det med en Besætning af Sten, fire ækker Sten: Karneol, Topas og Smaragd i den første ække,

18 ubin, Safir og Jaspis i den anden,

19 Hyacint, Agat og Ametyst i den tredje,

20 Krysolit, Sjoham og Onyks i den fjerde; og de skal omgives med Guldfletværk i deres Indfatninger.

21 Der skal være tolv Sten, svarende til Israels Sønners Navne, en for hvert Navn; det skal være graveret Arbejde som Signeter, således at hver Sten bærer Navnet på en af de tolv Stammer.

22 Til Brystskjoldet skal du lave snoede Kæder af purt Guld, snoet Arbejde, som når man snor eb.

23 Til Brystskjoldet skal du lave to Guldringe og sætte disse to inge på Brystskjoldets øverste Hjørner,

24 og de to Guldsnore skal du knytte i de to inge på Brystskjoldets Hjørner;

25 Snorenes anden Ende skal du anbringe i det Fletværker og fæste dem på Forsiden af Efodens Skulderstykke.

26 Og du skal lave to andre Guldringe og sætte dem på Brystskjoldets to andre Hjørner på den indre, mod Efoden vendende and.

27 Og du skal lave endnu to Guldringe og fæste dem på Efodens to Skulderstykker forneden på Forsiden, hvor den er hæftet sammen med Skulderstykkerne, oven over Efodens Bælte;

28 og man skal med ingene binde Brystskjoldet fast til Efodens inge ved Hjælp af en violet Purpursnor, så at det kommer til at sidde oven over Efodens Bælte og ikke løsner sig fra Efoden.

29 Aron skal således stedse bære Israels Sønners Navne på etskendelsens Brystskjold på sit Hjerte, når han går ind i Helligdommen, for at bringe dem i Minde for HE ENs Åsyn.

30 Og i etskendelsens Brystskjold skal du lægge Urim og Tummim, så at Aron.bærer dem på sit Hjerte, når han går ind for HE ENs Åsyn, og Aron skal stedse bære Israeliternes etskendelse på sit Hjerte for HE ENs Åsyn.

31 Fremdeles skal du tilvirke Kåben, som hører til Efoden, helt og holdent af violet Purpur.

32 Midt på skal den have en Halsåbning ligesom Halsåbningen på en Panserskjorte, omgivet af en Linning i vævet Arbejde, for at den ikke skal rives itu;

33 og langs dens nedeste Kant skal du sy Granatæbler af violet og rødt Purpurgarn og karmoisinrødt Garn og mellem dem Guldbjælder hele Vejen rundt,

34 så at Guldbjælder og Granatæbler skifter hele Vejen rundt langs Kåbens nederste Kant.

35 Aron skal bære den, når han gør Tjeneste, så at det kan høres, når han går ind i Helligdommen for HE ENs Åsyn, og når han går ud derfra, at han ikke skal ,

36 Fremdeles skal du lave en Pandeplade af purt Guld, og i den skal du gravere, som når man graverer Signeter: "Helliget HE EN."

37 Den skal du fastgøre med en violet Purpursnor, og den skal sidde på Hovedklædet, foran på Hovedklædet skal den sidde.

38 Aron skal bære den på sin Pande, for at han kan tage de Synder på sig, som klæder ved de hellige Gaver, Israeliterne frembærer, ved alle de hellige Gaver, de bringer; og Aron skal stedse have den på sin Pande for at vinde dem HE ENs Velbehag.

39 Kjortelen skal du væve i mønstret Vævning af Byssus. Og du skal tilvirke et Hovedklæde af Byssus og et Bælte i broget Vævning.

40 Også til Arons Sønner skal du tilvirke Kjortler, og du skal tilvirke Bælter til dem og Huer til Ære og Pryd.

41 Og du skal iføre din Broder Aron og hans Sønner dem, og du skal salve dem, indsætte dem og hellige dem til at gøre Præstetjeneste for mig.

42 Tillige skal du tilvirke Linnedbenklæder til dem til at skjule deres Blusel, og de skal nå fra Hoften ned på Lårene.

43 Dem skal Aron og hans Sønner bære, når de går ind i Åbenbaringsteltet eller træder frem til Alteret for at gøre Tjeneste i Helligdommen, at de ikke skal pådrage sig Skyld og lide Døden. En evig gyldig Anordning skal det være for ham og hans Afkom efter ham.

   


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9874. 'Enclosed in gold shall they be in their settings' means that all of them in general and each in particular must emanate from the good belonging to the love that is received from the Lord and shown to the Lord. This is clear from the meaning of 'gold' as the good of love, dealt with in 113, 1551, 1552, 5658, 6914, 6917, 8932, 9490, 9510; and from the meaning of 'being enclosed in it in their settings' as emanating from that good. For every single stone was surrounded by and so enclosed in gold, and since 'gold' means the good of love what is enclosed means that which exists or emanates from that good. The like is meant in verse 11 of the present chapter by the sockets of gold which surrounded the two shoham stones placed on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod.

[2] The implications of all this are that the breastplate and its twelve stones represented every good and truth in the heavens and so represented all heaven, as shown above. Moreover not only the heavens but also every community in the heavens, indeed each angel within a community, is surrounded by a Divine sphere, which consists of Divine Good and Truth emanating from the Lord, see where this is dealt with in 9490-9492, 9498, 9499, 9534. And since the good and truth of this sphere is received by the angels, so also every single thing present with them emanates from there; for each angel is heaven in the smallest form it takes. The actual good emanating from the Lord is what the gold around the stones and enclosing them represents.

[3] The truth that this good is the good of love that is received from the Lord and shown to the Lord may be recognized from the consideration that all good belongs to love, for what a person loves he calls good and also feels to be such. From this it is evident that heavenly good is the good of love to the Lord, for this love is what joins angel and man to the Lord; through this love they are brought to Him and enjoy all the good of heaven. It is well known in the Church that this good comes from the Lord, for the teaching of the Church is that all good originates in God and none at all in oneself. From this it is evident that the good of love shown to the Lord must come from the Lord, and that good from any other source is not good.

  
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8932. 'You shall not make [to be] with Me gods of silver and gods of gold' means that they are to avoid completely things which to outward appearances look like truths and forms of good but inwardly are falsities and evils. This is clear from the meaning of 'making gods' as worshipping, since someone who makes gods for himself does so in order to worship them; from the meaning of 'silver' as truth, and therefore in the contrary sense as falsity, and from the meaning of 'gold' as good, and therefore in the contrary sense as evil, both dealt with in 113, 1551, 1552, 2954, 5658, 6914, 6917, 7999. The reason why these are things which to outward appearances look like truths and forms of good, but inwardly are falsities and evils, is that the words 'making them with Me', that is, with Jehovah God, are used. Actual Divine Truth and Goodness reside on an inner level; they reside on an outer level as well, but then they are embodied in types or representative images. For the outward things composing a type or image stand for and represent inner realities. Outward things are falsities and evils when, separated from inner realities, they are held to be holy and are worshipped; and yet they still look like truths and forms of good because they represent those realities. These things are meant by 'making [to be] with Jehovah God gods of silver and gods of gold'.

[2] This commandment follows immediately after the Ten Commandments because the Israelite and Jewish people were the sort that held outward things separated from inward realities to be holy and worshipped them as being altogether Divine, 3479, 3769, 4281, 4293, 4307, 4314, 4316, 4433, 4680, 4825, 4832, 4844, 4847, 4865, 4903, 6304, 6832, 8814, 8819. To gain more definite knowledge of what those things are which look to outward appearances like truths and forms of good but inwardly are falsities and evils, and what those things are like, take as examples all the ritual practices of the Jewish Church, such as sacrifices, burning incense, washings, and many other practices. Outwardly they were truths and forms of good, not in themselves but because they were types or images that stood for and represented inward truths and forms of good, which are aspects of love to the Lord and faith in Him. When the outward objects belonging to such practices were held to be holy, and especially when they were worshipped, as they were by the Jews and Israelites when they became idolaters and used them in the worship of strange gods, they no longer had any connection with the truths and forms of good which they stood for and represented, because inwardly they were falsities and evils.

[3] The situation was the same with all other things that were types or representative images of heavenly and Divine realities among that people. For as soon as outward things which represented inner realities were used in the worship of other gods they became idols worshipped by them or 'gods of silver and gold which they made [to be] with Jehovah God'. For then those things looked to outward appearances like truths and forms of good, but inwardly they were falsities and evils.

[4] In general 'gods of silver and gold' are all the falsities and derivative evils in worship which are made to look like truth and good through wrong usages and misinterpretations of the Word, and at the same time through reasonings that are the product of self-intelligence. Such things are meant by 'gods of silver and gold' in the following places: In Isaiah,

On that day a person will cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold which they made for themselves to bow down to, to the moles and bats, to go into the clefts 1 of the rocks and into the fissures of the crags. Isaiah 2:20-21.

'Moles and bats' stands for those who are in darkness, that is, are steeped in falsities and derivative evils.

[5] In the same prophet,

On that day a man will cast aside his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your hands have made for you - a sin. Isaiah 31:7.

'Which your hands have made' stands for things which are the product of self-intelligence. In the same prophet,

The craftsman casts a graven image, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts silver chains for it. Isaiah 40:19.

'Graven images' are things which are products of the proprium or self, 8869. 'Overlaying with gold' stands for making things look to outward appearances like forms of good, 'casting silver chains' stands for making them seem to hang together as if linked to one another with truths, good being meant by 'gold' and truth by 'silver', see the paragraphs referred to above.

[6] Similarly in Jeremiah,

The customs 2 of the nations are vanity. Since indeed one cuts out wood from the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, he decorates it with silver and gold; they make it firm with pegs and hammers, so that it is not unsteady. Jeremiah 10:3-4.

In Hosea,

The Ephraimites sin more and more, and make for themselves a molten image from silver, idols by their own intelligence, completely the work of craftsmen. Hosea 13:2.

'Ephraim' stands for the Church's understanding, 5354, 6222, 6234, 6238, 6267; 'a molten image made from silver' stands for falsity that looks like truth, which is why it says 'by their own intelligence'; and 'completely the work of craftsmen' stands for the fact that it is all brought about through reasonings which are a product of the proprium or self.

[7] In Habakkuk,

Woe to him who says to a piece of wood, Awake! or to a dumb stone, Wake up, this will teach! Behold, this is bound in gold and silver, but there is no spirit in the midst of it. Habakkuk 2:19.

'A piece of wood' stands for evil, 'a stone' for falsity. 'Bound in gold and silver' stands for applications used to give the appearance of what is good and true. In Daniel,

Belshazzar said, when he had properly tasted the wine, that they were to bring the vessels of gold and silver which his father Nebuchadnezzar had brought from the temple that [had been] in Jerusalem, in order that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them. And they would drink wine, and praise the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone. Daniel 5:2-4, 23.

'The vessels of gold and silver from the temple of Jerusalem' represented the forms of good and the truths which belonged to the Church and to the Lord's kingdom; 'drinking wine from them' meant desecrating them by means of evils and falsities, which are 'the gods of gold and silver'.

[8] In David,

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands They have a mouth, but they do not speak; they have eyes but do not see. Psalms 115:4-5; 135:15-16.

'Silver and gold, which are idols' stands for falsities and evils; 'the work of human hands' stands for the fact that they are the product of self-intelligence. In Moses,

You shall burn the graven images of the gods of the nations with fire; you shall not covet the silver and the gold that are on them, so that you take them to yourself; for it is an abomination to Jehovah your God. Therefore you shall not bring an abomination into your house, lest you become 3 an accursed thing like it; you shall utterly abhor it. Deuteronomy 7:25-26.

'Silver and gold on graven images' stands for falsities and evils which are worshipped as truths and forms of good because they have been made to look like these.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. Reading scissuras (clefts) for fissuras (fissures)

2. literally, statutes

3. Reading fias (you become) for fiat (it becomes)

  
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