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Exode 39

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1 Ils firent aussi de pourpre, d'écarlate, et de cramoisi les vêtements du service, pour faire le service du Sanctuaire; et ils firent les saints vêtements pour Aaron, comme l'Eternel l'avait commandé à Moïse.

2 On fit donc l'Ephod, d'or, de pourpre, d'écarlate, de cramoisi, et de fin lin retors.

3 Or on étendit des lames d'or, et on les coupa par filets pour les brocher parmi la pourpre, l'écarlate, le cramoisi et le fin lin, d'ouvrage exquis.

4 On fit à l'Ephod des épaulières qui s'attachaient, en sorte qu'il était joint par ses deux bouts.

5 Et le ceinturon exquis duquel il était ceint, était tiré de lui, et de même ouvrage, d'or, de pourpre, d'écarlate, de cramoisi, et de fin lin retors, comme l'Eternel l'avait commandé à Moïse.

6 On enchâssa aussi les pierres d'Onyx dans leurs chatons d'or, ayant les noms des enfants d'Israël gravés de gravure de cachet.

7 Et on les mit sur les épaulières de l'Ephod, afin qu'elles fussent des pierres de mémorial pour les enfants d'Israël, comme l'Eternel avait commandé à Moïse.

8 On fit aussi le Pectoral d'ouvrage exquis, comme l'ouvrage de l'Ephod, d'or, de pourpre, d'écarlate, de cramoisi, et de fin lin retors.

9 On fit le Pectoral carré, et double; sa longueur était d'une paume, et sa largeur d'une paume de part et d'autre.

10 Et on le remplit de quatre rangs de pierres. A la première rangée on mit une Sardoine, une Topaze et une Emeraude.

11 A la seconde rangée une Escarboucle, un Saphir, et un Jaspe.

12 A la troisième rangée, un Ligure, une Agate, et une Améthyste.

13 Et à la quatrième rangée, un Chrysolithe, un Onyx, et un Béril, environnés de chatons d'or, dans leur remplage.

14 Ainsi il y avait autant de pierres qu'il y avait de noms des enfants d'Israël, douze selon leurs noms, chacune d'elles gravée de gravure de cachet, selon le nom, [qu'elle devait porter, et] elles étaient pour les douze Tribus.

15 Et on fit sur le Pectoral des chaînettes à bouts, en façon de cordon, de pur or.

16 On fit aussi deux crampons d'or, et deux anneaux d'or, et on mit les deux anneaux aux deux bouts du Pectoral.

17 Et on mit les deux chaînettes d'or faites à cordon, dans les deux anneaux, à l'extrémité du Pectoral;

18 Et on mit les deux autres bouts des deux chaînettes faites à cordon, aux deux crampons, sur les épaulières de l'Ephod, sur le devant de l'Ephod.

19 On fit aussi deux [autres] anneaux d'or, et on les mit aux deux [autres] bouts du Pectoral sur son bord, qui était du côté de l'Ephod en dedans.

20 On fit aussi deux [autres] anneaux d'or, et on les mit aux deux épaulières de l'Ephod par le bas, répondant sur le devant de l'Ephod, à l'endroit où il se joignait au-dessus du ceinturon exquis de l'Ephod.

21 Et on joignit le Pectoral élevé par ses anneaux aux anneaux de l'Ephod, avec un cordon de pourpre, afin qu'il tînt au-dessus du ceinturon exquis de l'Ephod, et que le Pectoral ne bougeât point de dessus l'Ephod, comme l'Eternel l'avait commandé à Moïse.

22 On fit aussi le Rochet de l'Ephod d'ouvrage tissu, [et] entièrement de pourpre.

23 Et l'ouverture [à passer la tête], était au milieu du Rochet, comme l'ouverture d'un corselet; et il y avait un ourlet à l'ouverture du Rochet tout à l’entour, afin qu'il ne se déchirât point.

24 Et aux bords du Rochet on fit des grenades de pourpre, d'écarlate, et de cramoisi, à fil retors.

25 On fit aussi des clochettes de pur or, et on mit les clochettes entre les grenades aux bords du Rochet tout à l’entour, parmi les grenades.

26 [Savoir], une clochette, puis une grenade; une clochette, puis une grenade, aux bords du Rochet tout à l’entour, pour faire le service, comme l'Eternel l'avait commandé à Moïse.

27 n fit aussi à Aaron et à ses fils des chemises de fin lin d'ouvrage tissu.

28 Et la tiare de fin lin, et les ornements des calottes de fin lin, et les caleçons de lin, de fin lin retors.

29 Et le baudrier de fin lin retors, de pourpre, d'écarlate, de cramoisi, d'ouvrage de broderie, comme l'Eternel l'avait commandé à Moïse.

30 Et la lame du saint couronnement de pur or, sur laquelle on écrivit en écriture de gravure de cachet : LA SAINTETÉ A L'ÉTERNEL.

31 Et on mit sur elle un cordon de pourpre, pour l'appliquer à la tiare par dessus, comme l'Eternel l'avait commandé à Moïse.

32 Ainsi fut achevé tout l'ouvrage du pavillon du Tabernacle d'assignation; et les enfants d'Israël firent selon toutes les choses que l'Eternel avait commandées à Moïse; ils les firent ainsi.

33 Et ils apportèrent à Moïse le pavillon, le Tabernacle, et tous ses ustensiles, ses crochets, ses ais, ses barres, ses piliers, et ses soubassements;

34 La couverture de peaux de moutons teintes en rouge, et la couverture de peaux de taissons, et le voile pour tendre [devant le lieu Très-saint];

35 L'Arche du Témoignage, et ses barres, et le Propitiatoire;

36 La Table, avec tous ses ustensiles, et le pain de proposition;

37 Et le chandelier pur, avec toutes ses lampes arrangées, et tous ses ustensiles, et l'huile du luminaire;

38 Et l'autel d'or, l'huile de l'onction, le parfum de drogues, et la tapisserie de l’entrée du Tabernacle;

39 Et l'autel d'airain, avec sa grille d'airain, ses barres, et tous ses ustensiles; la cuve, et son soubassement;

40 Et les courtines du parvis, ses piliers, ses soubassements, la tapisserie pour la porte du parvis, son cordage, ses pieux, et tous les ustensiles du service du pavillon, pour le Tabernacle d'assignation;

41 Les vêtements du service pour faire le service du Sanctuaire, les saints vêtements pour Aaron Sacrificateur, et les vêtements de ses fils pour exercer la Sacrificature.

42 Les enfants d'Israël [donc] firent tout l'ouvrage; comme l'Eternel [l']avait commandé à Moïse.

43 Et Moïse vit tout l'ouvrage, et voici, on l'avait fait ainsi que l'Eternel l'avait commandé, on l'avait, [dis-je], fait ainsi; et Moïse les bénit.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 39

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39. And all the tribes of the earth shall wail over him. That this signifies that the falsities of the church will resist, is evident from the signification of wailing, as denoting to lament, to grieve, to be indignant, to be angry, to be averse from, thus also to resist; and from the signification of tribes, as denoting all truths and goods in the aggregate, and, in the opposite sense, all falsities and evils in the aggregate, concerning which we shall speak in what follows; and from the signification of the earth, as being the church (on which see above, n. 29). By all the tribes of the earth, therefore, is signified the whole church, and by their wailing over Him, is signified that truths and goods are no more, because falsities and evils are about to dominate and resist. For what the state of the church will be at its end is treated of in general in this verse, when there will be no longer any faith because no charity; that is, that the Lord will then reveal Himself, and that all will acknowledge Him who are in truths from good, and that those also shall see Him who are in falsities from evil, but that the falsities of the church will resist. (That the Apocalypse does not treat of the successive states of the church, but of its last state, or when it is at its end, may be seen above, n. 5; and that its end is when there is no faith because no charity, may be seen in the small work, The Last Judgment 33-39, and following numbers. When there is no faith because no charity, then falsities from evil reign, which offer opposition to truths from good.)

[2] Tribes are often mentioned in the Word, because the Israelitish people were divided into twelve tribes; and he who is ignorant of the internal sense of the Word supposes, that by tribes are meant the tribes of Israel; nevertheless, by tribes are not meant tribes, nor is Israel meant by Israel; but tribes mean all those who are in truths from good, and Israel means the church of the Lord. He who does not know this, will easily accept the common belief that the children of Israel were chosen before all others on the whole earth, and also that they will be introduced at last into the land of Canaan. Indeed, he will believe that heaven will consist chiefly of them; although, by the names of those tribes in the Word they are not meant, but those who are in truths from good, that is, those who belong to the church; by the twelve tribes, all, and by each one of them, some special truth and good pertaining to those who belong to the church.

[3] These things being understood, it is evident what is meant by these words in the Apocalypse:

"I heard the number of them which were sealed; and there were sealed a hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the sons of Israel. Of the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Asher were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Naphtali were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasseh were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Zebulun were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand" (7:4-8).

In this passage those who belonged to the Israelitish nation are not meant, but all those, however many they may be, who are in truths from good; for all these are sealed for heaven. The numbers one hundred and forty-four thousand and twelve thousand, also signify all, and each tribe signifies all those who are in that truth or good which is signified by its name.

(As may be evident from what is shown in Arcana Coelestia in regard to the following: what good and truth are signified by Judah, n. 3881, 6363; what by Reuben, n. 3861, 3866, 4605, 4731, 4734, 4761, 6342-6345; what by Gad, n. 3934, 3935; what by Asher, n. 3938, 3939, 6408; what by Naphtali, n. 3927, 3928 what by Manasseh, n. 3969, 5354, 6222, 6231, 6238, 6267, 6296 what by Simeon, n. 3869-3872, 4197, 4502, 4503, 5482, 5626, 5630; what by Levi, n. 3875, 3877, 4497, 4502, 4503; what by Issachar, n. 3956, 3957; what by Zebulun, n. 3960, 3961, 6383; what by Joseph, n. 3969, 3971, 4669, 6417; and what by Benjamin, n. 3969, 4592, 5411, 5413, 5443, 5639, 5686, 5688, 5689, 6440.

That all numbers in the Word signify things, see n. 482, 487, 647, 648, 755, 813, 1963, 2075, 2252, 3252, 4264, 4495, 4670, 5265, 6175, 9488, 9659, 10217, 10253.

That twelve signifies all, and all things as to truths from good, see n. 577, 2089, 2129, 2130, 3272, 3858, 3913; also, the numbers 72, 144, 12,000, 144,000, because they arise from the number 12 by multiplication, n. 7973.

That numbers multiplied signify the same as the simple numbers from which they are produced by multiplication, see n. 5291, 5335, 5708, 7973.)

[4] He who does not know that numbers signify things, what the numbers twelve, one hundred and forty-four, and twelve thousand signify, and also what tribes and apostles signify, cannot know what is signified by those passages in the Apocalypse, where it is said, that the holy city, New Jerusalem,

"had a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and in the gates twelve angels, and names written which are the names of the twelve tribes of Israel; and the wall had twelve foundations, in which were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. The wall was a hundred and forty and four cubits, and the length and the breadth of the city twelve thousand furlongs" (21:12, 14, 16, 17).

The signification of all these things may be seen explained in the little work, The New Jerusalem and its Doctrine, n. 1; where it is shown, that by Jerusalem is signified the church as to doctrine; by the wall, its truths of defence; by the gates, introductory truths; by the foundations, the knowledges upon which doctrine is founded; by twelve angels, and by twelve tribes, all truths and goods collectively; the same by the twelve apostles; and by the numbers twelve, one hundred and forty-four, and twelve thousand, all things and all persons.

[5] Moreover, he who knows that such things are signified by the twelve tribes may see the mystery involved in the names of the twelve tribes being engraved upon the precious stones of the Urim and Thummim, and also the signification of the breast-plate (Exodus 28:21; 39:10-15). (This arcanum may be seen unfolded in Arcana Coelestia 3858, 6335, 6640, 9863, 9865, 9873, 9874, 9905.) He may also see what is the signification of the twelve apostles sitting upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel (Matthew 19:28), namely, that the Lord alone will judge every one by truths from good (n. 2129, 6397); also what things are meant by the predictions of Israel the father, concerning his sons (Gen. 49); and also the meaning of many other passages in the Word where the tribes are mentioned (as in Isaiah 19:13; 49:6; 63:17; Jeremiah 10:16; Ezekiel 48:1, and following verses; Psalm 122:3-5; Deuteronomy 32:8; Numbers 24:2; Apoc. 5:9; 7:4-9; 11:9; 13:7; 14:6; and elsewhere).

[6] And again, the meaning of the Lord's words about the consummation of the age and His coming, may be seen:

"After the tribulation of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven, with power and much glory" (Matthew 14:29, 30).

(These words may be seen explained in detail in the work, Heaven and Hell 1; and in the following passages in Arcana Coelestia, where it is shown that the twelve tribes of Israel represented, and thence signified, all truths and goods collectively, thus all things of faith and love, n. 3858, 3926, 4060, 6335; that similar things are signified by the twelve apostles, n. 2129, 3354, 3488, 3858, 6397; and that they have various significations according to the order in which they are named, n. 3862, 3926, 3939, 4603, 6337, 6640, 10335.)

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.