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1 L'Eternel parla à Moïse, et dit:

2 Parle aux enfants d'Israël, et prends d'eux une verge selon les maisons de leurs pères, soit douze verges de la part de tous leurs princes selon les maisons de leurs pères. Tu écriras le nom de chacun sur sa verge,

3 et tu écriras le nom d'Aaron sur la verge de Lévi; car il y aura une verge pour chaque chef des maisons de leurs pères.

4 Tu les déposeras dans la tente d'assignation, devant le témoignage, où je me rencontre avec vous.

5 L'homme que je choisirai sera celui dont la verge fleurira, et je ferai cesser de devant moi les murmures que profèrent contre vous les enfants d'Israël.

6 Moïse parla aux enfants d'Israël; et tous leurs princes lui donnèrent une verge, chaque prince une verge, selon les maisons de leurs pères, soit douze verges; la verge d'Aaron était au milieu des leurs.

7 Moïse déposa les verges devant l'Eternel, dans la tente du témoignage.

8 Le lendemain, lorsque Moïse entra dans la tente du témoignage, voici, la verge d'Aaron, pour la maison de Lévi, avait fleuri, elle avait poussé des boutons, produit des fleurs, et mûri des amandes.

9 Moïse ôta de devant l'Eternel toutes les verges, et les porta à tous les enfants d'Israël, afin qu'ils les vissent et qu'ils prissent chacun leur verge.

10 L'Eternel dit à Moïse: Reporte la verge d'Aaron devant le témoignage, pour être conservée comme un signe pour les enfants de rébellion, afin que tu fasses cesser de devant moi leurs murmures et qu'ils ne meurent point.

11 Moïse fit ainsi; il se conforma à l'ordre que l'Eternel lui avait donné.

12 Les enfants d'Israël dirent à Moïse: Voici, nous expirons, nous périssons, nous périssons tous!

13 Quiconque s'approche du tabernacle de l'Eternel, meurt. Nous faudra-t-il tous expirer?

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 5622

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5622. 'Pistachio nuts and almonds' means forms of the good of life that agree with those truths. This is clear from the meaning of 'pistachio nuts' as forms of the good of life that agree with the truths of exterior natural good, meant by 'resin', dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'almonds' as forms of the good of life that agree with the truths of interior natural good, meant by 'aromatic wax and stacte'. Those nuts have that meaning because they are fruits, and 'fruits' in the Word means deeds - fruits produced by useful trees meaning good deeds, or what amounts to the same, forms of the good of life, since these, so far as the use they serve is concerned, are good deeds. The reason 'pistachio nuts' means forms of the good of life that agree with the truths of exterior natural good is that they are the fruit borne by an inferior kind of tree, and things of an exterior nature are meant by objects of an inferior kind, for the reason that essentially exterior things are not so specific as interior ones since they are the general appearances produced by large numbers of inner components.

[2] The reason 'almonds' means forms of the good of life that agree with the truths of interior natural good is that the almond is a superior kind of tree. In the spiritual sense the tree itself means a perception of interior truth derived from good, its blossom means interior truth derived from good, while its fruit means the good of life resulting from that truth. The word 'almond' is used with this meaning in Jeremiah,

The word of Jehovah came [to me], saying, What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said, A rod of almond do I see. Then Jehovah said to me, You have seen well, 1 for I am watching over My word to perform it. Jeremiah 1:11-12.

'A rod' stands for power, 'almond' for a perception of interior truth; and because this rod is said to be Jehovah's it stands for a watching over that truth -'word' standing for truth.

[3] The almonds which blossomed on Aaron's rod for the tribe of Levi also mean the good deeds of charity or forms of the good of life. They are described in Moses as follows,

It happened the next day, when Moses went into the tent of meeting, that behold, Aaron's rod for the house 2 of Levi had blossomed, and had produced buds, 3 so that it flowered and produced almonds. Numbers 17:8.

This was the sign that that tribe had been chosen for the priesthood; for charity was meant by that tribe, 3875, 3877, 4497, 4502, 4503, and charity is the essential characteristic of the spiritual Church.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, Well have you done in seeing

2. The Latin means tribe but the Hebrew means house.

3. literally, flower

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

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