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1 Et l'Eternel parla à Moïse, en disant :

2 Au premier jour du premier mois, tu dresseras le pavillon du Tabernacle d'assignation.

3 Et tu y mettras l'Arche du Témoignage, au devant de laquelle tu tendras le voile.

4 Puis tu apporteras la Table, et y arrangeras ce qui y doit être arrangé. Tu apporteras aussi le chandelier, et allumeras ses lampes.

5 Tu mettras aussi l'autel d'or pour le parfum au devant de l'Arche du Témoignage; et tu mettras la tapisserie de l'entrée au pavillon.

6 Tu mettras aussi l'autel de l'holocauste vis-à-vis de l'entrée du pavillon du Tabernacle d'assignation.

7 Tu mettras aussi la cuve entre le Tabernacle d'assignation et l'autel, et y mettras de l'eau.

8 Tu mettras aussi le parvis tout à l’entour, et tu mettras la tapisserie à la porte du parvis.

9 Tu prendras aussi l'huile de l'onction, et tu en oindras le pavillon, et tout ce qui y est, et tu le sanctifieras, avec tous ses ustensiles; et il sera saint.

10 Tu oindras aussi l'autel de l'holocauste, et tous ses ustensiles, et tu sanctifieras l'autel, et l'autel sera très-saint.

11 Tu oindras aussi la cuve et son soubassement, et la sanctifieras.

12 Tu feras aussi approcher Aaron et ses fils à l'entrée du Tabernacle d'assignation, et les laveras avec de l'eau.

13 Et tu feras vêtir à Aaron les saints vêtements, tu l'oindras, et le sanctifieras; et il m'exercera la Sacrificature.

14 Tu feras aussi approcher ses fils, lesquels tu revêtiras de chemises.

15 Et tu les oindras comme tu auras oint leur père; et ils m'exerceront la Sacrificature, et leur onction leur sera pour exercer la Sacrificature à toujours, d'âge en âge.

16 Ce que Moïse fit selon toutes les choses que l'Eternel lui avait commandées; il le fit ainsi.

17 Car au premier jour du premier mois, en la seconde année, le pavillon fut dressé.

18 Moïse donc dressa le pavillon, et mit ses soubassements, et posa ses ais, et mit ses barres, et dressa ses piliers.

19 Et il étendit le Tabernacle sur le pavillon, et mit la couverture du Tabernacle au-dessus du pavillon par le haut, comme l'Eternel l'avait commandé à Moïse.

20 Puis il prit et posa le Témoignage dans l'Arche, et mit les barres à l'Arche; il mit aussi le Propitiatoire au-dessus de l'Arche.

21 Et il apporta l'Arche dans le pavillon, et posa le voile de tapisserie, et le mit au devant de l'Arche du Témoignage, comme l'Eternel l'avait commandé à Moïse.

22 Il mit aussi la Table dans le Tabernacle d'assignation, au côté du pavillon, vers le Septentrion, au deçà du voile.

23 Et il arrangea sur elle les rangées de pains devant l'Eternel, comme l'Eternel l'avait commandé à Moïse.

24 Il mit aussi le chandelier au Tabernacle d'assignation vis-à-vis de la Table au côté du pavillon vers le Midi.

25 Et il alluma les lampes devant l'Eternel, comme l'Eternel l'avait commandé à Moïse.

26 Il posa aussi l'autel d'or au Tabernacle d'assignation devant le voile.

27 Et il fit fumer sur lui le parfum de drogues, comme l'Eternel l'avait commandé à Moïse.

28 Il mit aussi la tapisserie de l'entrée pour le pavillon.

29 Et il mit l'autel de l'holocauste à l'entrée du pavillon du Tabernacle d'assignation; et offrit sur lui l'holocauste et le gâteau, comme l'Eternel l'avait commandé à Moïse.

30 Et il posa la cuve entre le Tabernacle d'assignation et l'autel, et y mit de l'eau pour se laver.

31 Et Moïse et Aaron avec ses fils en lavèrent leurs mains et leurs pieds.

32 Et quand ils entraient au Tabernacle d'assignation, et qu'ils approchaient de l'autel, ils se lavaient, selon que l'Eternel l'avait commandé à Moïse.

33 Il dressa aussi le parvis tout à l'entour du pavillon et de l'autel, et tendit la tapisserie de la porte du parvis. Ainsi Moïse acheva l'ouvrage.

34 Et la nuée couvrit le Tabernacle d'assignation, et la gloire de l'Eternel remplit le pavillon.

35 Tellement que Moïse ne put entrer au Tabernacle d'assignation, car la nuée se tenait dessus et la gloire de l'Eternel remplissait le pavillon.

36 Or quand la nuée se levait de dessus le Tabernacle, les enfants d'Israël partaient dans toutes leurs traittes.

37 Mais si la nuée ne se levait point, ils ne partaient point jusqu’au jour qu'elle se levait.

38 Car la nuée de l'Eternel [était] le jour sur le pavillon, et le feu y était la nuit, devant les yeux de toute la maison d'Israël, dans toutes leurs traittes.

   

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White House at Night by Vincent van Gogh

A "house" is essentially a container -- for a person, a family, several families or even a large group with shared interests (think of the term "houses of worship.") In the Bible, a "house" is also a container, but for spiritual things rather than natural things. In various uses a "house" can represent part of the mind, the whole mind, a whole person or even a church. The other nuance to the word "house" is that it is generally used in regards to our affections and desires rather than our thoughts and principles. This makes sense; we tend to engage our thoughts and rationality when we are out in the world doing our work, but when we are inside our houses we are driven most by love for our families and the desire to be good to those we love. So "house" tends to represent the things we want and care about -- which are ultimately the things that define us.

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5023. 'Until his lord came to his house' means so that it might communicate with natural good. This is clear from the meaning of 'lord' as unspiritual natural good, dealt with in 4973, 4988. 'House' in the internal sense is the natural mind, for the natural mind, like the rational mind also, resembles a house. 'The husband' in it is good, 'the wife' truth; 'the daughters and sons' are affections for good and truth, as well as being forms of good and truth which are begotten from that aforesaid good and truth as their parents, while 'the women servants and the men servants' are the desires and the known facts that minister to and support them. Here therefore 'until his lord came to his house' means when natural good comes to its own dwelling-place, where also there is the truth that is joined to it, though in this case it is falsity which convinces the good that it is truth. For unspiritual natural good is easily convinced that falsity is truth and that truth is falsity. The expression 'his lord' is used because the unspiritual natural looks on the spiritual as something servile, 5013.

[2] The fact that a person's natural mind, like his rational mind, is called 'a house' is evident from the following places:

In Luke,

When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person he passes through dry places seeking rest; and if he does not find any he says, I will return to my house out of which I came. And if when he comes he finds it swept and decorated, he goes away and brings seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. Luke 11:24-26.

'House' here stands for the natural mind, which is called a house that is 'empty and swept' 1 when there are no forms of good and truth in it meant by 'husband and wife', no affections for good and truth meant by 'daughters and sons', nor anything such as supports these meant by 'women servants and men servants'. The person himself is 'the house' because the rational mind together with the natural mind constitutes a human being. Without the inhabitants just mentioned - that is, without the forms of good and truth, and without the affections for these, and the service rendered by those affections - a person is not a human being but a beast.

[3] The human mind is again meant by 'a house' in the same gospel,

Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and house falls upon house. Luke 11:17.

And in Mark,

If a kingdom is divided against itself, this kingdom cannot stand. Also, if a house is divided against itself, this house cannot stand. No one can go into the house and plunder the vessels of a strong man unless he first binds the strong man, and then he may plunder his house. Mark 3:14, 25, 27.

'Kingdom' means truth, 1672, 2547, 4691, and 'house' good, 2233, 2234, 3720, 4982, 'house' meaning good on account of its greater importance.

[4] In Luke,

If the householder had known at what hour the thief was coming he would certainly have been awake and would not have permitted his house to be broken into. Luke 12:39.

In the same gospel,

From now on there will be in one house five divided, three against two, and two against three. Father will be divided against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother. Luke 12:52-53.

This refers to the spiritual conflicts which members of the Church enter into once the internal or spiritual contents of the Word have been opened up to them. 'House' stands for the actual person or his mind, while the 'father', 'mother', 'son', and 'daughter' in it are forms of good and truth together with affections for these, or in the contrary sense evils and falsities together with affections for these, which are the source of conflict and the things to be grappled with in such conflict.

[5] The Lord commanded His disciples, in Luke,

Whatever house you enter, first say, Peace be to this house! And if indeed a son of peace is there, your peace shall rest on it; but if not, it shall return to you. But remain in the same house; eat and drink what they have there. Do not pass on from house to house. Luke 10:5-7.

This represented the requirement for them to remain with genuine good, that is, with the good of love to the Lord and of charity towards the neighbour, and not to pass on to any other kind. For more about the actual person or his mind being meant by 'a house', see also 3538, 4973.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. empty and swept belongs to Matthew 12:44.

  
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