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Exodus 35

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1 Ja Mooses kogus kokku kogu Iisraeli laste koguduse ning ütles neile: 'Need on sõnad, mille järgi Issand on teid käskinud teha:

2 Kuus päeva tehtagu tööd, aga seitsmes päev olgu teile püha, täielik Issanda hingamispäev; kes siis iganes tööd teeb, seda karistatagu surmaga!

3 Ärge süüdake tuld hingamispäeval, kus te iganes elate!'

4 Ja Mooses rääkis kogu Iisraeli laste kogudusega, öeldes: 'Issand on käskinud ja öelnud nõnda:

5 Võtke sellest, mis teil on, Issandale tõstelõivu; igaüks, kes heast südamest tahab anda, toogu Issandale tõstelõivuks kulda, hõbedat ja vaske,

6 sinist, purpurpunast ja helepunast lõnga ning peent linast lõime, kitsekarvu,

7 punaseid jääranahku, merilehmanahku, akaatsiapuud,

8 valgustusõli, palsamit võideõliks, healõhnalisi suitsutusrohte,

9 karneoolikive ja ilustuskive õlarüü ja rinnakilbi jaoks.

10 Ja igaüks, kes teist on osav, tulgu ja tehku kõik, mida Issand on käskinud:

11 elamu, selle telk ja kate, haagid ja lauad, põiklatid, sambad ja jalad,

12 laegas ja selle kandekangid, lepituskaas ja kattev eesriie,

13 laud, selle kandekangid ja kõik selle riistad, ohvrileivad,

14 lambijalg valgustuseks ja selle riistad, lambid ja valgustusõli,

15 suitsutusaltar ja selle kandekangid, võideõli, healõhnalised suitsutusrohud, ukse kate elamu uksele,

16 põletusohvri altar ja vaskvõrk, mis kuulub selle juurde, selle kandekangid ja kõik riistad, pesemisnõu ja selle jalg,

17 õue eesriided, sambad ja jalad, õuevärava kate,

18 elamu vaiad, õue vaiad ja nende nöörid,

19 ametiriided pühamu teenistuseks, preester Aaroni pühad riided ja tema poegade preestriameti riided.'

20 Ja kogu Iisraeli laste kogudus läks ära Moosese juurest.

21 Siis nad tulid tagasi, igaüks, keda süda sundis, ja igaüks, kes hea meelega tahtis anda, tõi Issandale tõstelõivu kogudusetelgi ehitamiseks, kõige selle teenistuse ja pühade riiete jaoks.

22 Nad tulid, niihästi mehed kui naised, igaüks, kes heast südamest tahtis anda, ja tõid sõlgi, kõrvarõngaid, sõrmuseid ja keesid, igasugu kuldriistu, kõik, kes tõid Issandale kõigutusohvriks kulda.

23 Ja kõik, kellel leidus sinist, purpurpunast ja helepunast lõnga ning linast lõime, kitsekarvu, punaseid jääranahku ja merilehmanahku, tõid neid.

24 Igaüks, kes sai tõstelõivuks annetada hõbedat või vaske, tõi Issandale tõstelõivu; ja igaüks, kellel leidus akaatsiapuud, tõi seda kõigi tööde tarviduseks.

25 Ja kõik osavad naised ketrasid käsitsi ning tõid kedratud sinist, purpurpunast ja helepunast lõnga ning linast lõime.

26 Ja kõik naised, keda süda selleks sundis ja kes oskasid, ketrasid kitsekarvu.

27 Aga ülemad tõid karneoolikive ja ilustuskive õlarüü ja rinnakilbi jaoks,

28 palsamit, õli valgustuseks ning võideõliks ja healõhnaliseks suitsutusrohuks.

29 Kõik Iisraeli lapsed, mehed ja naised, keda süda sundis tooma kõige valmistamiseks, mida Issand oli Moosese läbi käskinud teha, tõid Issandale vabatahtliku ohvri.

30 Ja Mooses ütles Iisraeli lastele: 'Vaadake, Issand on nimepidi kutsunud Betsaleeli, Huuri poja Uuri poja Juuda suguharust,

31 ja on teda täitnud Jumala Vaimuga, tarkuse, mõistuse ja teadmistega ning igasugu tööoskusega,

32 et kujundada kunstipäraseid töid kullast, hõbedast ja vasest,

33 uurendada kive raamistuse jaoks ja nikerdada puud, tehes igasugu kunstipärast tööd.

34 Ta on temale ja Oholiabile, Ahisamaki pojale Daani suguharust, andnud oskuse teisi õpetada.

35 Ta on neid täitnud oskusega teha igasugu tööd, olgu sepa- või kuduja- või kangakirjajatöö sinisest, purpurpunasest ja helepunasest lõngast ning linasest lõimest, või olgu kangrutöö, teha kõiki töid ja olla leidlik kunstipärastes töödes.

   

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8990. 'And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl' means a representative sign of obedience. This is clear from the meaning of 'ear' as obedience, dealt with in 2542, 3869, 4551, 4652-4660; and from the meaning of 'piercing it with an awl' - that is to say, onto the door or onto the doorpost - as affixing, or at this point pledging forever, since it refers to obedience; and this is why the words follow, 'he shall serve him forever', that is, be obedient to him forever. From this it is evident that his master's piercing his ear with an awl, fixing it to the door or to the doorpost, is representative of obedience.

[2] The implications of all this may become clear from matters stated previously, where it has been shown that those imbued solely with truths and not with complementary good, that is, with faith and not with charity, are not free but slaves. Those whose actions spring from good or charity are free. They act from themselves; for actions that spring from good or charity spring from the heart, that is, from the will, and so from what is a person's own, since what exists in a person's will is his own and a deed springing from the will is said to go out of the heart. But those who are imbued solely with the truths of faith and not with the good of charity are slaves in comparison. They do not act from themselves since they have no good within themselves for actions to spring from; instead good is outside them, and they base their actions on it as often as they call it to mind. Those who stay like this through to the end of their lives remain permanently in this state after death. They cannot be brought to a state in which their actions spring from charitable affection, that is, from good; they can act only in obedience. In the Grand Man, which is heaven, they constitute those parts that serve more internal ones, like membranes and skins, 8977, 8980.

[3] All this shows what the situation is with faith alone, that is, with those who doctrinally place faith first and the good of charity second, indeed last. Those who place them in this order in the actual lives they lead are 'Hebrew slaves' in the representative sense; but those who place charity first, in the actual lives they lead, are free or 'the children of Israel' in the representative sense. From all this one may also conclude what the situation is with those who make salvation rest entirely on the truths of faith and not at all on the good of charity, that is to say, not at all on the actual life they lead. One may conclude that they cannot enter heaven; for good reigns in heaven, not truth without good, and truth is not truth, nor is faith faith, except with those imbued with good

[4] That his master's piercing his ear with an awl, fixing it to the door, is representative of obedience is also evident from the consideration that fixing his ear to the door means causing him to attend to the things commanded by his master who is in the room, that is, to hear him at all times and obey his instructions. At this point the things which good wills and commands are meant in the spiritual sense, for spiritual good is represented by the slave's master, 8981, 8986. Since 'the ear' means the hearing of obedience, there flows into human speech from an origin in the spiritual world the expression to tweak the ear, which stands for causing a person to pay attention and remember, and in like manner the expressions to hear and to hearken to someone, which stands for obeying him. For the inner meaning that very many words possess has sprung from correspondences from the spiritual world, as with expressions such as spiritual light and being enlightened by it which people use when speaking about matters of faith, and also spiritual fire and being animated by it when speaking about matters of love.

[5] The reason why piercing the ear was done with an awl was that 'an awl' has the same meaning as a pin or peg, namely affixing and joining onto, and in the spiritual sense pledging something. But an awl was a tool used by a servant, and therefore it served to represent the pledge of everlasting obedience by a slave. The meaning of 'a pin' or 'a peg' as affixing and joining onto is clear from the places where this object is mentioned, as in Isaiah 22:23; 33:20; 41:7; 54:2; Jeremiah 10:4; Exodus 27:19; 38:31; Numbers 3:37; 4:32.

  
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