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Exodus 39

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1 Ja kootud riided pühamu teenistuseks tehti sinisest, purpurpunasest ja helepunasest lõngast; samuti tehti Aaronile pühad riided, nagu Issand Moosest oli käskinud.

2 Õlarüü tehti kuldsest, sinisest, purpurpunasest ja helepunasest lõngast ning korrutatud linasest lõimest.

3 Kuldplaadid taoti õhukeseks ja lõigati kiududeks, et neid kunstipäraselt kududa sinise, purpurpunase ja helepunase lõnga ning linase lõime sekka.

4 Õlarüüle tehti ühendatud õlatükid, mõlemast otsast seotud.

5 Kunstipärane kinnitusvöö selle küljes oli sellega ühest tükist ja samasugune töö kuldsest, sinisest, purpurpunasest ja helepunasest lõngast ning korrutatud linasest lõimest, nagu Issand Moosest oli käskinud.

6 Siis ümbritseti kuldäärisega karneoolikivid, millesse olid pitsatitaoliselt uurendatud Iisraeli poegade nimed.

7 Need asetati õlarüü õlatükkidele kui mälestuskivid Iisraeli poegadele, nagu Issand Moosest oli käskinud.

8 Rinnakilp tehti kunstipäraselt kootuna, nagu oli tehtud õlarüügi, kuldsest, sinisest, purpurpunasest ja helepunasest lõngast ning korrutatud linasest lõimest.

9 See oli neljanurgeline; rinnakilp oli tehtud kahekordsena, vaksapikkune ja vaksalaiune kahekordselt.

10 See kaeti nelja rea kalliskividega: rubiin, topaas, smaragd ridamisi esimeses reas;

11 teises reas: türkiis, safiir, jaspis;

12 kolmandas reas: hüatsint, ahhaat, ametüst;

13 neljandas reas: krüsoliit, karneool, nefriit; kuldäärisest ümbritsetuna olid need oma asemeis.

14 Kivid olid vastavalt Iisraeli poegade nimedele nende kaheteistkümne nimega, igal pitsatitaoliselt uurendatud nimi vastavalt kaheteistkümnele suguharule.

15 Rinnakilbile tehti puhtast kullast nööritaoliselt keerutatud ketid.

16 Siis tehti kaks kuldäärist ja kaks kuldrõngast; need mõlemad rõngad kinnitati rinnakilbi kahe nurga külge.

17 Ja need kaks kuldnööri pandi mõlemasse rõngasse rinnakilbi nurkadel.

18 Mõlema nööri mõlemad otsad kinnitati mõlema äärise külge ja need kinnitati õlatükkidele õlarüü esiküljes.

19 Siis tehti kaks kuldrõngast ja need pandi rinnakilbi kahte nurka, selle ääre külge, mis on seespool vastu õlarüüd.

20 Siis tehti veel kaks kuldrõngast ja need kinnitati õlarüü mõlema õlatüki külge, selle esikülje allosasse, ühenduskohale ülespoole õlarüü vööd.

21 Rõngastega rinnakilp seoti sinise nööriga õlarüü rõngaste külge, nõnda et see oli ülalpool õlarüü vööd, ja et rinnakilp ei saanud lahti tulla õlarüü küljest, nagu Issand Moosest oli käskinud.

22 Õlarüü ülekuub tehti üleni sinisest lõngast kootuna.

23 Ülekuue pea avaus oli nagu raudrüü avaus: avause ümber oli äär, et see ei rebeneks.

24 Ülekuue palistuse külge tehti granaatõunad sinisest, purpurpunasest ja helepunasest korrutatud lõngast.

25 Siis tehti puhtast kullast kellukesed ja need kinnitati granaatõunte vahele ümber ülekuue palistuse, granaatõunte vahele:

26 kelluke ja granaatõun, kelluke ja granaatõun ümber teenistusülekuue palistuse, nagu Issand Moosest oli käskinud.

27 Aaronile ja tema poegadele tehti kootud linased särgid,

28 linasest riidest peakate ja linasest riidest mähitavad peamähised, linased korrutatud lõngast püksid,

29 ja korrutatud linasest, sinisest, purpurpunasest ja helepunasest lõngast kunstipäraselt tehtud vöö, nagu Issand Moosest oli käskinud.

30 Puhtast kullast tehti laubaehe, püha kroon, ja selle peale kirjutati pitsatiuurenduse sarnaselt kiri: 'Issandale pühitsetud.'

31 Selle külge kinnitati sinine nöör, millega see seoti üles peakatte külge, nagu Issand Moosest oli käskinud.

32 Nõnda valmis kogu töö: elamu, kogudusetelk. Iisraeli lapsed tegid kõik. Nõnda nagu Issand Moosest oli käskinud, nõnda nad tegid.

33 Siis nad tõid Moosese juurde elamu, telgi ja kõik selle riistad, haagid, lauad, põiklatid, sambad ja jalad,

34 katte punastest jääranahkadest, katte merilehmanahkadest, katva eesriide,

35 tunnistuslaeka ja selle kangid, lepituskaane,

36 laua kõigi selle riistadega, ohvrileivad,

37 puhtast kullast lambijala lampidega lampide reastuses, ja kõik selle riistad, valgustusõli,

38 kuldaltari, võideõli, healõhnalisi suitsutusrohte, telgi ukse katte,

39 vaskaltari ja vaskvõrestiku selle küljes, selle kangid ja kõik riistad, pesemisnõu ja selle jala,

40 õue eesriided, selle sambad ja jalad, õuevärava katte, selle nöörid ja vaiad, kõik riistad kogudusetelgi teenistuseks,

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

42 Täpselt, nagu Issand Moosest oli käskinud, nõnda olid Iisraeli lapsed teinud kõik selle töö.

43 Ja Mooses vaatas kõike seda tööd ja näe, nad olid selle teinud, nagu Issand oli käskinud. Nad olid just nõnda teinud. Ja Mooses õnnistas neid.

   

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Numbrid 8:2

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2 'Räägi Aaroniga ja ütle temale: Kui sa lambid üles sead, siis need seitse lampi valgustagu lambijala esist!'

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716. 'Sevens of each' means that they are holy. This is clear from what has been stated already in 84-87 about the seventh day or sabbath. That is to say, the Lord is the Seventh Day and from Him derives every celestial Church or man, and indeed, the celestial itself which, because it is the Lord's alone, is most holy. Consequently seven in the Word means holy; indeed in the internal sense, as here, absolutely nothing is obtained from the number itself. For people who possess the internal sense, as angels and angelic spirits do, have no concept at all of what a number is, and so do not know what seven is. Therefore the idea that they were to take seven pairs of all the clean beasts, or that the ratio of the good to the evil was to be seven to two, is not at all the meaning here. Rather it is this: Things of the will with which this member of the Church was supplied were the goods which are holy, through which, as stated already, he was capable of being regenerated.

[2] That 'seven' means that which is holy, or things that are holy, becomes clear from the rituals in the representative Church, where the number seven occurs time and again, for example, being sprinkled seven times with blood and oil, as in Leviticus,

Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the Tabernacle and everything that was in it and made them holy. And he sprinkled some of it over the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels to make them holy. Leviticus 8:10-11.

Here 'seven times' would be utterly devoid of meaning if that which is holy was not being represented in this way. 'Oil' there means the holiness of love. And elsewhere in Leviticus, when Aaron entered the Holy Place,

He shall take some of the blood of the young bull, and shall sprinkle it with his finger over the face 1 of the mercy-seat towards the east, and he shall sprinkle the face 1 of the mercy-seat seven times with some of the blood with his finger.

Similarly with the altar,

He shall sprinkle over it some of the blood with his finger seven times, and shall cleanse it, and make it holy. Leviticus 16:14, 19.

Here every single detail means the Lord Himself, and therefore the holiness of love - that is to say, 'the blood' and also 'the mercy-seat', 'the altar' too, 'the east in which direction the blood was to be sprinkled', and so 'seven' as well, all mean the Lord.

[3] In sacrifices it is similar, about which the following is said in Leviticus,

If a soul has sinned inadvertently, and if the anointed priest has sinned, thus making the people guilty, he shall slaughter the young bull in Jehovah's presence. And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times in Jehovah's presence towards the veil of the Holy Place. Leviticus 4:2-4, 6.

Here similarly 'seven' means that which is holy, for the subject is atonement, and therefore the Lord, since atonement is the Lord's alone. Similar instructions were also given concerning the cleansing of leprosy, about which the following is said in Leviticus,

[Taking some] of the bird's blood, the cedar-wood, the double-dyed scarlet, and the hyssop, the priest shall sprinkle over the one who is to be cleansed from leprosy seven times, and shall cleanse him. In a similar way some of the oil which is in his left palm, seven times in Jehovah's presence. In a similar way in a house where there is leprosy, [he shall take some] of the cedar-wood, and the hyssop, and the double-dyed scarlet, and shall sprinkle some of the bird's blood seven times. Leviticus 14:6-7, 27, 51.

Anyone may see that here cedar-wood, double-dyed scarlet, hyssop, oil, and blood of a bird, and so the number seven, would be utterly meaningless if things that are holy were not being represented by them. If you take away from them holy things, what is left is something dead, or something unholy and idolatrous. When however they do mean holy things the worship they contain in that case is a Divine worship which is internal and simply represented by things that are external. The Jews however were incapable of knowing what these meant; and neither does anyone today know what cedar-wood, hyssop, double-dyed scarlet, and the bird all mean. Yet if only they had been willing to think that these did embody holy things which they did not actually know, and so had worshipped the Lord - who was the Messiah to come who would heal them from their leprosy, that is, from profaning what is holy - they could have been saved. For people who do think and believe in this manner straightaway receive instruction in the next life, if they desire it, as to what every single detail represented.

[4] Similarly where 'the red heifer' is the subject it is said that the priest was to take some of its blood on his finger, and sprinkle some of its blood towards the face 1 of the tent of meeting seven times, Numbers 19:4. Because 'the seventh day' or sabbath meant the Lord, and from Him meant the celestial man and the celestial itself, the seventh day in the Jewish Church was the holiest of all its religious observances. For this reason there was a sabbath year 2 every seventh year, Leviticus 25:4. Also a jubilee was to be proclaimed after seven sabbaths of years, that is, after seven times seven years, Leviticus 25:8-9. In the highest sense the number seven means the Lord, and from this the holiness of love. This becomes clear also from the golden lampstand with its seven lamps, mentioned in Exodus 25:31-33, 37; 37:17-19, 23; Numbers 8:2-3; Zechariah 4:2. And in John it is spoken of as follows,

Seven golden lampstands; in the midst of the seven lampstands one like the Son of Man. Revelation 1:12-13.

Here it is absolutely clear that 'a lampstand with seven lamps' means the Lord, and that 'the lamps' are the holy things of love, which comprise celestial things, which also is why there were seven of them.

[5] In the same author,

From the throne there were coming forth seven fiery torches burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God. Revelation 4:5.

Here 'the seven torches which came forth from the Lord's throne' are seven lamps. The same applies to the number seven when it occurs in the Prophets, as in Isaiah,

The light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, on the day when Jehovah will bind up the hurt of His people. Isaiah 30:26.

Here 'sevenfold light as the light of seven days' does not at all mean sevenfold but the holiness of love meant by the sun. See also what has been stated and shown already at Genesis 4:15 concerning the number seven. From these quotations it is also quite clear that all numbers used in the Word never have a numerical value [in the internal sense], as has also been shown already at Genesis 6:3.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, the faces

2. literally, sabbath of a sabbath

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