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Ézéchiel 48

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1 Voici les noms des tribus. Depuis l'extrémité septentrionale, le long du chemin de Hethlon à Hamath, Hatsar-Enon, la frontière de Damas au nord vers Hamath, de l'orient à l'occident: Dan, une tribu.

2 Sur la limite de Dan, de l'orient à l'occident: Aser, une tribu.

3 Sur la limite d'Aser, de l'orient à l'occident: Nephthali, une tribu.

4 Sur la limite de Nephthali, de l'orient à l'occident: Manassé, une tribu.

5 Sur la limite de Manassé, de l'orient à l'occident: Ephraïm, une tribu.

6 Sur la limite d'Ephraïm, de l'orient à l'occident: Ruben, une tribu.

7 Sur la limite de Ruben, de l'orient à l'occident: Juda, une tribu.

8 Sur la frontière de Juda, de l'orient à l'occident, sera la portion que vous prélèverez, large de vingt-cinq mille cannes et longue comme l'une des parts de l'orient à l'occident; et le sanctuaire sera au milieu.

9 La portion que vous prélèverez pour l'Eternel aura vingt-cinq mille cannes de longueur et dix mille de largeur.

10 C'est aux sacrificateurs qu'appartiendra cette portion sainte: vingt-cinq mille cannes au septentrion, dix mille en largeur à l'occident, dix mille en largeur à l'orient, et vingt-cinq mille en longueur au midi; et le sanctuaire de l'Eternel sera au milieu.

11 Elle appartiendra aux sacrificateurs consacrés, aux fils de Tsadok, qui ont fait le service de mon sanctuaire, qui ne se sont point égarés, lorsque les enfants d'Israël s'égaraient, comme s'égaraient les Lévites.

12 Elle leur appartiendra comme portion très sainte, prélevée sur la portion du pays qui aura été prélevée, à côté de la limite des Lévites.

13 Les Lévites auront, parallèlement à la limite des sacrificateurs, vingt-cinq mille cannes en longueur et dix mille en largeur, vingt-cinq mille pour toute la longueur et dix mille pour la largeur.

14 Ils n'en pourront rien vendre ni échanger; et les prémices du pays ne seront point aliénées, car elles sont consacrées à l'Eternel.

15 Les cinq mille cannes qui resteront en largeur sur les vingt-cinq mille seront destinées à la ville, pour les habitations et la banlieue; et la ville sera au milieu.

16 En voici les mesures: du côté septentrional quatre mille cinq cents, du côté méridional quatre mille cinq cents, du côté oriental quatre mille cinq cents, et du côté occidental quatre mille cinq cents.

17 La ville aura une banlieue de deux cent cinquante au nord, de deux cent cinquante au midi, de deux cent cinquante à l'orient, et de deux cent cinquante à l'occident.

18 Le reste sur la longueur, parallèlement à la portion sainte, dix mille à l'orient et dix mille à l'occident, parallèlement à la portion sainte, formera les revenus destinés à l'entretien de ceux qui travailleront pour la ville.

19 Le sol en sera cultivé par ceux de toutes les tribus d'Israël qui travailleront pour la ville.

20 Toute la portion prélevée sera de vingt-cinq mille cannes en longueur sur vingt-cinq mille en largeur; vous en séparerez un carré pour la propriété de la ville.

21 Ce qui restera sera pour le prince, aux deux côtés de la portion sainte et de la propriété de la ville, le long des vingt-cinq mille cannes de la portion sainte jusqu'à la limite de l'orient, et à l'occident le long des vingt-cinq mille cannes vers la limite de l'occident, parallèlement aux parts. C'est là ce qui appartiendra au prince; et la portion sainte et le sanctuaire de la maison seront au milieu.

22 Ainsi ce qui appartiendra au prince sera l'espace compris depuis la propriété des Lévites et depuis la propriété de la ville; ce qui sera entre la limite de Juda et la limite de Benjamin appartiendra au prince.

23 Voici les autres tribus. De l'orient à l'occident: Benjamin, une tribu.

24 Sur la limite de Benjamin, de l'orient à l'occident: Siméon, une tribu.

25 Sur la limite de Siméon, de l'orient à l'occident: Issacar, une tribu.

26 Sur la limite d'Issacar, de l'orient à l'occident: Zabulon, une tribu.

27 Sur la limite de Zabulon, de l'orient à l'occident: Gad, une tribu.

28 Sur la limite de Gad, du côté méridional, au midi, la frontière ira depuis Thamar, jusqu'aux eaux de Meriba à Kadès, jusqu'au torrent vers la grande mer.

29 Tel est le pays que vous diviserez en héritage par le sort pour les tribus d'Israël et telles sont leurs parts, dit le Seigneur, l'Eternel.

30 Voici les issues de la ville. Du côté septentrional quatre mille cinq cents cannes.

31 et les portes de la ville d'après les noms des tribus d'Israël, trois portes au nord: la porte de Ruben, une, la porte de Juda, une, la porte de Lévi, une.

32 Du côté oriental quatre mille cinq cents cannes, et trois portes: la porte de Joseph, une, la porte de Benjamin, une, la porte de Dan, une.

33 Du côté méridional quatre mille cinq cents cannes, et trois portes: la porte de Siméon, une, la porte d'Issacar, une, la porte de Zabulon, une.

34 Du côté occidental quatre mille cinq cents cannes, et trois portes: la porte de Gad, une, la porte d'Aser, une, la porte de Nephthali, une.

35 Circuit: dix-huit mille cannes. Et, dès ce jour, le nom de la ville sera: l'Eternel est ici.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 349

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349. Sealed out of every tribe of Israel. This symbolizes the heaven and Lord's church formed from those people.

A tribe symbolizes religion as regards goodness of life, and every tribe symbolizes the church in respect to every good of love and every truth springing from that good, which produces goodness of life. For there are two elements which form the church: the goodness of love and doctrinal truth. The marriage of these two constitutes the church. The twelve tribes of Israel represented and so symbolized the church with respect to that marriage, and each tribe represented and so symbolized some universal truth accompanying goodness or some goodness accompanying truth present in that marriage.

But what each tribe symbolized has not been revealed previously to anyone, nor could it have been revealed, lest an ill-connected exposition profane the holiness that lies within these things when joined together, since their symbolism depends on their conjunction.

[2] They have one symbolism in the order in which they are listed according to their births (Genesis 29, 30, 35:18). The order there is: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, Benjamin.

They have another symbolism in the order in which they are listed when they went into Egypt, namely, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Gad, Asher, Joseph, Benjamin, Dan, Naphtali (Genesis 46:8-25).

Still another symbolism in the order in which they were blessed by their father Israel, namely, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Zebulun, Issachar, Dan, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Joseph, Benjamin (Genesis 49).

Still another symbolism in the order in which they were blessed by Moses, namely, Reuben, Judah, Levi, Benjamin, Joseph, Ephraim, Manasseh, Zebulun, Gad, Dan, Naphtali, Asher (Deuteronomy 33) - Ephraim and Manasseh being listed there, and not Simeon or Issachar.

[3] Still another symbolism in the order in which they encamped and set out, namely, the tribes of Judah, Issachar and Zebulun on the east side, the tribes of Reuben, Simeon and Gad on the south side, the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh and Benjamin on the west side, and the tribes of Dan, Asher and Naphtali on the north side, with the tribe of Levi in the middle (Numbers 2:1-34).

And still another symbolism in the order in which they are listed elsewhere, as in Genesis 35:23-26, Numbers 1:5-16; 7:1-89; 13:4-15; 26:5-57; 34:17-28, Deuteronomy 27:12-13, Joshua 15; 16; 17; 18; 19, Ezekiel 48:1-35.

Consequently, when Balaam saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes, he said, "How good are your tents, O Jacob, and your tabernacles, O Israel" (Numbers 24:1-4ff.).

[4] On the breastpiece of judgment, namely, the Urim and Thummim, containing twelve precious stones according to the names of the children of Israel (Exodus 28:15-21), the symbolism of the tribes in their arrangement depended on the inquiry to which they provided a response.

But what they symbolized in the order in which they are mentioned here in the book of Revelation, which is still another order, will be told in what follows.

Tribes symbolize religion, and the twelve tribes the church and everything pertaining to it, because "tribe" and "scepter" are, in Hebrew, the same word, 1 and a scepter means a kingdom, and the Lord's kingdom is heaven and the church.

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1. Hebrew מַטֶּה or שֵׁבֶט, and also מַשְׁעֵנָה.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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Genesis 28

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1 Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

2 Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

3 May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,

4 and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham."

5 Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah's brother, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,"

7 and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.

8 Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn't please Isaac, his father.

9 Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.

10 Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

11 He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.

12 He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

13 Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, "I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.

14 Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.

15 Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you."

16 Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, "Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn't know it."

17 He was afraid, and said, "How dreadful is this place! This is none other than God's house, and this is the gate of heaven."

18 Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top.

19 He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

20 Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,

21 so that I come again to my father's house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,

22 then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God's house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give the tenth to you."