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Exodus 38

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1 Ja ta tegi akaatsiapuust põletusohvrialtari, viis küünart pika ja viis küünart laia, neljanurgelise ja kolm küünart kõrge.

2 Ta tegi selle neljale nurgale sarved; sarved olid sellega ühest tükist; ja ta kardas selle vasega.

3 Ta tegi kõik altari riistad, tuhanõud, labidad, piserdusnõud, hargid ja sütepannid; kõik selle riistad ta tegi vasest.

4 Ta tegi altarile võrestiku, võrgukujulise töö vasest, ääre alla, altpoolt vaadates poole altarini.

5 Ta valas neli rõngast vaskvõrestiku neljale nurgale kangide asemeiks.

6 Ta tegi akaatsiapuust kandekangid ja kardas need vasega.

7 Ta pistis kandekangid rõngastesse altari külgedel; ta tegi selle laudadest õõnsakujulisena.

8 Ja ta tegi vaskpesemisnõu ja selle vaskjala nende teenistuses olevate naiste peeglitest, kes teenisid kogudusetelgi ukse juures.

9 Ja ta tegi õue: lõunapoolses küljes, keskpäeva pool, oli õuel sada küünart korrutatud linasest lõimest eesriideid,

10 nende kakskümmend sammast ja kakskümmend vaskjalga; sammaste haagid ja põrgad olid hõbedast.

11 Nõndasamuti oli põhjapoolses küljes sada küünart eesriideid, nende kakskümmend sammast ja kakskümmend vaskjalga; sammaste haagid ja põrgad olid hõbedast.

12 Läänepoolses küljes oli viiskümmend küünart eesriideid, nende kümme sammast ja kümme jalga; sammaste haagid ja põrgad olid hõbedast.

13 Idapoolses küljes, päikesetõusu pool, oli viiskümmend küünart eesriideid:

14 ühel pool oli viisteist küünart eesriideid, nende kolm sammast ja kolm jalga,

15 samuti oli teisel pool; ühel ja teisel pool õueväravat oli võrdselt viisteist küünart eesriideid, nende kolm sammast ja kolm jalga.

16 Kõik eesriided ümber õue olid korrutatud linasest lõimest.

17 Sammaste jalad olid vasest, sammaste haagid ja põrgad hõbedast, nende nupud hõbedaga karratud; kõigil õue sammastel olid hõbepõrgad.

18 Õuevärava kate oli kirjatud töö sinisest, purpurpunasest ja helepunasest lõngast ning korrutatud linasest lõimest, kakskümmend küünart pikk, laiusele vastavalt viis küünart kõrge, nagu muud õue eesriided.

19 Nende neli sammast ja neli jalga olid vasest, nende haagid hõbedast, nende nuppude kard ja põrgad samuti hõbedast.

20 Kõik elamu ja ümber oleva õue vaiad olid vasest.

21 See on elamu, tunnistuselamu kulude arvestus, mis tehti Moosese käsul; selle tegid leviidid preester Aaroni poja Iitamari juhatusel:

22 Betsaleel, Huuri poja Uuri poeg Juuda suguharust on valmistanud kõik, milleks Issand oli Moosesele käsu andnud,

23 ja koos temaga Oholiab, Ahisamaki poeg Daani suguharust, kui sepp ning osav kuduja ja kangakirjaja sinist, purpurpunast ja helepunast lõnga ning linast lõime kasutades.

24 Kõike kulda, mis oli kõigutusohvri kuld, mida tööks tarvitati kõigi pühamu tööde juures, oli kakskümmend üheksa talenti ja seitsesada kolmkümmend seeklit püha seekli järgi.

25 Ja hõbedat neilt, kes koguduse hulgast olid ära loetud, oli sada talenti ja tuhat seitsesada seitsekümmend viis seeklit püha seekli järgi,

26 üks beka pea kohta, see on pool seeklit püha seekli järgi kõigilt, kes astusid äraloetute hulka, kahekümneaastased ja üle selle, kuuesaja kolme tuhande viiesaja viiekümnelt.

27 See sada talenti hõbedat oli pühamu jalgade ja eesriide jalgade valamiseks, sada talenti sajaks jalaks, talent iga jala jaoks.

28 Aga sellest tuhande seitsmesaja seitsmekümne viiest seeklist tegi ta sammastele haagid, kardas nende nupud ja valmistas põrgad.

29 Kõigutusohvri vaske oli seitsekümmend talenti ja kaks tuhat nelisada seeklit.

30 Sellest tehti kogudusetelgi ukse jalad, vaskaltar ja selle küljes olev vaskvõrestik, kõik altari riistad,

31 ümberringi oleva õue jalad, õuevärava jalad, kõik telgi vaiad ja kõik ümberringi oleva õue vaiad.

   

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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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