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1 "Ja kutsu eteesi israelilaisten joukosta veljesi Aaron poikineen, että he pappeina palvelisivat minua, Aaron ja hänen poikansa Naadab ja Abihu, Eleasar ja Iitamar.

2 Ja teetä veljellesi Aaronille pyhät vaatteet, kunniaksi ja kaunistukseksi.

3 Ja puhuttele kaikkia taidollisia miehiä, jotka minä olen täyttänyt taidollisuuden hengellä, että he tekevät vaatteet Aaronille, jotta hänet pyhitettäisiin pappina palvelemaan minua.

4 Ja nämä ovat ne vaatteet, jotka heidän on tehtävä: rintakilpi, kasukka, viitta, ruutuinen ihokas, käärelakki ja vyö. Ja he tehkööt sinun veljellesi Aaronille ja hänen pojilleen pyhät vaatteet, että he pappeina palvelisivat minua.

5 Ja he ottakoot tätä varten kultaa sekä punasinisiä, purppuranpunaisia ja helakanpunaisia lankoja ja valkoisia pellavalankoja.

6 Kasukan he tehkööt kullasta sekä punasinisistä, purppuranpunaisista ja helakanpunaisista langoista ja kerratuista valkoisista pellavalangoista, taidokkaasti kutomalla.

7 Siinä olkoon kaksi yhdistettävää olkakappaletta, ja se kiinnitettäköön niihin molemmista päistään.

8 Ja vyö, jolla kasukka kiinnitetään, olkoon tehty samalla tavalla ja samasta kappaleesta kuin se: kullasta sekä punasinisistä, purppuranpunaisista ja helakanpunaisista langoista ja kerratuista valkoisista pellavalangoista.

9 Ota sitten kaksi onyks-kiveä ja kaiverra niihin Israelin poikien nimet,

10 kuusi heidän nimeään toiseen kiveen ja toiset kuusi nimeä toiseen kiveen siinä järjestyksessä, kuin he ovat syntyneet.

11 Niinkuin taidokkaasti hiotaan kiveä, kaiverretaan sinettisormuksia, niin kaiverra Israelin poikien nimet niihin kahteen kiveen. Ja kehystettäköön ne kultapalmikoimilla.

12 Ja pane molemmat kivet kasukan olkakappaleihin kiviksi, jotka johdattavat muistoon israelilaiset; näin Aaron kantakoon heidän nimiänsä molemmilla olkapäillään Herran kasvojen edessä, että heitä muistettaisiin.

13 Ja tee kultapalmikoimia

14 ja kahdet käädyt puhtaasta kullasta; tee ne punomalla, niinkuin punonnaista tehdään, ja kiinnitä punotut käädyt palmikoimiin.

15 Ja jumalanvastausten rintakilpi tee taidokkaasti kutomalla; tee sekin samalla tavalla, kuin kasukka on tehty: tee se kullasta sekä punasinisistä, purppuranpunaisista ja helakanpunaisista langoista ja kerratuista valkoisista pellavalangoista.

16 Se olkoon neliskulmainen ja taskun muotoon tehty, vaaksan pituinen ja vaaksan levyinen.

17 Ja kiinnitä sen pintaan kiviä yliyltään, neljään riviin: ensimmäiseen riviin karneoli, topaasi ja smaragdi;

18 toiseen riviin rubiini, safiiri ja jaspis;

19 kolmanteen riviin hyasintti, akaatti ja ametisti;

20 ja neljänteen riviin krysoliitti, onyks ja berylli. Kultapalmikoimilla kehystettyinä kiinnitettäköön ne paikoilleen.

21 Kiviä olkoon Israelin poikain nimien mukaan kaksitoista, yksi kutakin nimeä kohti; kussakin kivessä olkoon yksi kahdentoista sukukunnan nimistä, kaiverrettuna samalla tavalla, kuin kaiverretaan sinettisormuksia.

22 Ja tee rintakilpeen puhtaasta kullasta käädyt, punotut, niinkuin punonnaista tehdään.

23 Ja tee rintakilpeen kaksi kultarengasta ja kiinnitä molemmat renkaat rintakilven kahteen yläkulmaan.

24 Ja kiinnitä ne molemmat kultapunonnaiset kahteen renkaaseen rintakilven yläkulmiin.

25 Ja kiinnitä molempien punonnaisten toiset kaksi päätä kahteen palmikoimaan ja kiinnitä nämä kasukan olkakappaleihin, sen etupuolelle.

26 Ja tee vielä kaksi kultarengasta ja pane ne rintakilven molempiin alakulmiin, sen sisäpuoliseen, kasukkaa vasten olevaan reunaan.

27 Ja tee vieläkin kaksi kultarengasta ja kiinnitä ne kasukan molempiin olkakappaleihin, niiden alareunaan, etupuolelle, sauman kohdalle, kasukan vyön yläpuolelle.

28 Ja rintakilpi solmittakoon renkaistaan punasinisellä nauhalla kasukan renkaisiin, niin että se on kasukan vyön yläpuolella; näin rintakilpi ei irtaudu kasukasta.

29 Ja niin Aaron kantakoon jumalanvastausten rintakilvessä sydämensä päällä, astuessaan pyhäkköön, Israelin poikain nimet, että heidät alati johdatettaisiin muistoon Herran edessä.

30 Ja pane jumalanvastausten rintakilpeen uurim ja tummim, niin että ne ovat Aaronin sydämen päällä, hänen astuessaan Herran eteen. Ja niin kantakoon Aaron Jumalan vastaukset israelilaisille sydämensä päällä aina Herran edessä ollessaan.

31 Kasukan viitta tee kokonaan punasinisistä langoista;

32 ja sen keskellä olkoon pääntie, ja tämä pääntie ympäröitäköön kudotulla päärmeellä niinkuin haarniskan aukko, ettei se repeäisi.

33 Ja tee sen helmaan granaattiomenia punasinisistä, purppuranpunaisista ja helakanpunaisista langoista, ja kiinnitä ne helmaan ympärinsä ja niiden väliin kultatiukuja yltympäri,

34 vuorotellen kultatiuku ja granaattiomena, viitan helmaan ympärinsä.

35 Ja Aaron pitäköön sen yllään toimittaessaan virkaansa, niin että kuuluu, kun hän menee pyhäkköön Herran eteen ja tulee sieltä ulos, ettei hän kuolisi.

36 Tee myös otsakoriste puhtaasta kullasta ja kaiverra siihen, niinkuin sinettisormusta kaiverretaan, sanat: 'Herralle pyhitetty'.

37 Ja sido se punasinisellä nauhalla, niin että se on kiinni käärelakissa; etupuolella käärelakkia se olkoon.

38 Ja se olkoon Aaronin otsalla, niin että Aaron kantaa kaiken sen, mitä israelilaiset rikkovat uhratessaan pyhiä uhrejansa ja antaessaan pyhiä lahjojansa; ja se olkoon alati hänen otsallaan, että Herran mielisuosio tulisi heidän osaksensa.

39 Kudo myös ruutuinen ihokas valkoisista pellavalangoista, ja tee käärelakki valkoisista pellavalangoista, ja tee vyö kirjokudoksesta.

40 Ja Aaronin pojille tee ihokkaat ja vyöt; ja tee heille päähineet kunniaksi ja kaunistukseksi.

41 Ja pue ne veljesi Aaronin ja hänen poikiensa ylle; ja voitele heidät ja vihi heidät virkaansa ja pyhitä heidät pappeina palvelemaan minua.

42 Ja tee heille pellavakaatiot hävyn peitteeksi; ulottukoot ne lanteilta reisiin asti.

43 Ja Aaron ja hänen poikansa pitäkööt ne yllään mennessänsä ilmestysmajaan, tahi kun he lähestyvät alttaria tehdäkseen palvelusta pyhäkössä, etteivät he joutuisi syynalaisiksi ja kuolisi. Tämä olkoon ikuinen säädös hänelle ja hänen jälkeläisilleen."

   

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9468. And scarlet double-dyed. That this signifies mutual love, is evident from the signification of “scarlet,” and of “double-dyed,” as being celestial truth, which is the same as the good of mutual love. There are two kingdoms into which the angelic heaven has been divided—the celestial kingdom, and the spiritual kingdom; and in each there is an internal and an external. The internal in the celestial kingdom is the good of love to the Lord, and the external is the good of mutual love. It is this latter good which is signified by “scarlet double-dyed;” by “scarlet” the good itself, and by “double-dyed” its truth. But in the spiritual kingdom the internal is the good of charity toward the neighbor, and the external is the good of obedience from faith. That “scarlet double-dyed” signifies the good of mutual love and its truth, is from its appearance in the other life; for when the sphere of this good and truth is presented to view in the lowest heaven, it appears of a scarlet color; because that which flows down from the celestial heaven and appears beneath, takes its color from flame, and beneath becomes scarlet from the shining whiteness of the light of the middle heaven, through which it passes. Hence, it is that among other colors, scarlet double-dyed was employed upon the curtains of the Habitation (Exodus 26:1); upon the veil before the ark (Exodus 26:31); upon the covering for the door of the tent (Exodus 26:36); upon the covering at the gate of the court (Exodus 27:16); upon the ephod (Exodus 28:6); upon the belt (Exodus 28:8) upon the breastplate of judgment (Exodus 28:15); and upon the fringes of the robe of the ephod (Exodus 28:33).

[2] That “scarlet double-dyed” signifies the good of mutual love, which is the external good of the celestial kingdom or church, is evident from the fact that a cloth of scarlet double-dyed was to be spread over the table on which were the breads of faces, and that it was to be covered next with a covering of badgers’ skins (Numbers 4:8). For the inmost things that belong to the celestial kingdom or church, were signified by the things upon the table, especially by the breads; but exterior things by the coverings. From this also it is that the things to be collected are enumerated in this order; namely, the inmost things first, which were blue and crimson; the more outward things in the second place, which were scarlet double-dyed, fine linen, and goats’ wool; and lastly the outermost things, which were skins of red rams and badgers’ skins; in like manner everywhere in what follows.

[3] As external celestial good and its truth are signified by “scarlet double-dyed,” therefore the Word as to the external sense, and its derivative doctrine, are expressed by this color, for the reason that the Word is the Divine truth that proceeds from the Divine good of the Lord, and this appears as a flaming light in the inmost heaven, and as a shining white light in the middle heaven.

[4] The Word and its derivative doctrine are thus expressed in the second book of Samuel:

David lamented a lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan; and he wrote down to teach the sons of Judah the bow. Ye daughters of Israel weep over Saul, who clothed you in double-dyed with delights, who put an ornament of gold upon your apparel (2 Samuel 1:17-18, 24).

“To clothe in double-dyed” denotes to instruct in the truths that belong to the good of mutual love, thus in truths from a celestial origin. The subject treated of in this prophetic utterance is the doctrine of faith separated from the doctrine of love and charity; namely, that through the doctrine of faith separated, truths are extinguished, but are restored through the doctrine of love and charity. For by “the Philistines,” by whom Saul and Jonathan were slain, are signified those who are in the doctrine of faith separated from the doctrine of love and charity (n. 3412, 3413, 8093, 8096, 8099, 8313); and by “teaching the sons of Judah the bow” is signified instructing in the truths of doctrine those who are in the good of love and charity. (That “the sons of Judah” denote those who are in the good of love, see n. 3654, 3881, 5583, 5603, 5782, 5794, 5833, 6363; and that a “bow” denotes the doctrine of truth, n. 2686, 2709)

[5] In Jeremiah:

Thou therefore, O wasted one, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with double-dyed, though thou deckest thee with an ornament of gold, in vain shalt thou make thyself beautiful (Jeremiah 4:30).

The church that has been laid waste is here treated of; “clothing herself with double-dyed,” and “decking herself with an ornament of gold,” denotes to teach the truths of doctrine that are from a celestial origin, and the goods of life, consequently truths and goods from the Word. In like manner in the same:

They that did eat delicacies have been laid waste in the streets; they that were brought up upon scarlet have embraced a dunghill (Lam. 4:5).

“To be brought up upon scarlet” denotes to be instructed from the Word from infancy in the good of mutual love.

[6] As the things that belong to the external sense of the Word appear in heaven of a scarlet color, for the reason spoken of above, therefore they who apply the external sense of the Word to the confirmation of falsities from the evils of the love of self and of the world, and thus to those which are contrary to the truths and goods of love to the Lord and of mutual love, are said to be “clothed in crimson and scarlet;” for so do their outward things appear, because they are from the Word; but their internal things are profane. Such things are signified by “scarlet” in John:

I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet beast, full of names of blasphemy; she was clothed in crimson and scarlet (Revelation 17:3-4);

speaking of Babylon, by which is meant a religion in which the holy things of the Word are profaned by being applied to falsities that favor diabolical loves, which are the loves of self and of the world, thus to gaining dominion in the heavens and on earth. Again in the same:

The great city that was clothed in fine linen, and crimson, and scarlet; and gilded with gold, and precious stone, and pearls (Revelation 18:16).

Therefore also among the merchandise of Babylon are enumerated “fine linen, crimson, and scarlet” (Revelation 18:12).

[7] As the external of the Word appears in heaven of a scarlet color, and as there is an influx out of heaven into man’s memory, in which what is drawn from the Word appears of such a color, therefore scarlet was employed in relation to the remembrance of things; as in Moses:

The sons of Israel shall make them a train upon the borders of their garments, and shall put upon the train of the border a scarlet 1 thread, that by it they may remember all the commandments of Jehovah, and do them (Numbers 15:38-39).

[8] For the same reason also it was customary in ancient time, when significatives were in use, to bind a scarlet thread for the remembrance or recollection of a thing, as we read of Perez the son of Tamar, upon whose hand “the midwife bound a double-dyed thread” (Genesis 38:28, 30); and as we read of the harlot Rahab, who “bound a scarlet thread in the window, that the spies might remember their promise” (Josh. 2:18, 21).

[9] As a man cannot be withdrawn from evils and falsities except by means of the truths and goods that are with him from the Word, therefore in the cleansing of leprosy there were employed “cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop” (Leviticus 14:4-7, 49-52); for “leprosy” denotes truth profaned, thus falsified (see n. 6963); and “to be cleansed from” these things denotes to be withdrawn from them by means of the truths and goods which are from the Word. In like manner scarlet was employed “in the waters of separation and expiation made from a red heifer” (Numbers 19:6); “the waters of separation and expiation” also signified purification and withdrawal from evils and falsities by means of truths and goods from the Word.

[10] As most things have an opposite sense, so also have “double-dyed” and “scarlet,” and then they signify falsities and evils which are opposed to the before-mentioned truths and goods; as in Isaiah:

Though your sins be as double-dyed, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red as scarlet, they shall be as wool (Isaiah 1:18).

The case herein is the same as with “red,” with “blood,” with “flame,” and with “fire,” which in the genuine sense signify the goods of love and of faith; but in the opposite sense the evils contrary to them.

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1. The Latin has “scarlet” here; but blue in n. 2576, etc., as also it is in the Hebrew.

  
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Exodus 25

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1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

2 "Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.

3 This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, brass,

4 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair,

5 rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,

6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,

7 onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.

8 Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

9 According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it.

10 "They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.

11 You shall overlay it with pure gold. You shall overlay it inside and outside, and you shall make a gold molding around it.

12 You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of it, and Two rings on the other side of it.

13 You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

14 You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.

15 The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from it.

16 You shall put the testimony which I shall give you into the ark.

17 You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.

18 You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.

19 Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat.

20 The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.

21 You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you.

22 There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for the children of Israel.

23 "You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and one and a half cubits its height.

24 You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.

25 You shall make a rim of a handbreadth around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.

26 You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet.

27 the rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table.

28 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.

29 You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. You shall make them of pure gold.

30 You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.

31 "You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. Of hammered work shall the lampstand be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it.

32 There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side;

33 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the lampstand;

34 and in the lampstand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;

35 and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the lampstand.

36 Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it one beaten work of pure gold.

37 You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.

38 Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold.

39 It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories.

40 See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.