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1 Poi Betsaleel fece l’arca di legno d’acacia; la sua lunghezza era di due cubiti e mezzo, la sua larghezza di un cubito e mezzo, e la sua altezza di un cubito e mezzo.

2 E la rivestì d’oro puro di dentro e di fuori, e le fece una ghirlanda d’oro che le girava attorno.

3 E fuse per essa quattro anelli d’oro, che mise ai suoi quattro piedi: due anelli da un lato e due anelli dall’altro lato.

4 Fece anche delle stanghe di legno d’acacia, e le rivesti d’oro.

5 E fece passare le stanghe per gli anelli ai lati dell’arca per portar l’arca.

6 Fece anche un propiziatorio d’oro puro; la sua lunghezza era di due cubiti e mezzo, e la sua larghezza di un cubito e mezzo.

7 E fece due cherubini d’oro; li fece lavorati al martello, alle due estremità del propiziatorio:

8 un cherubino a una delle estremità, e un cherubino all’altra; fece che questi cherubini uscissero dal propiziatorio alle due estremità.

9 E i cherubini aveano le ali spiegate in alto, in modo da coprire il propiziatorio con le ali; aveano la faccia vòlta l’uno verso l’altro; le facce dei cherubini erano volte verso il propiziatorio.

10 Fece anche la tavola di legno d’acacia; la sua lunghezza era di due cubiti, la sua larghezza di un cubito, e la sua altezza di un cubito e mezzo.

11 La rivestì d’oro puro e le fece una ghirlanda d’oro che le girava attorno.

12 E le fece attorno una cornice alta quattro dita; e a questa cornice fece tutt’intorno una ghirlanda d’oro.

13 E fuse per essa quattro anelli d’oro; e mise gli anelli ai quattro canti, ai quattro piedi della tavola.

14 Gli anelli erano vicinissimi alla cornice per farvi passare le stanghe destinate a portar la tavola.

15 E fece le stanghe di legno d’acacia, e le rivesti d’oro; esse dovean servire a portar la tavola.

16 Fece anche, d’oro puro, gli utensili da mettere sulla tavola: i suoi piatti, le sue coppe, le sue tazze e i suoi calici da servire per le libazioni.

17 Fece anche il candelabro d’oro puro; fece il candelabro lavorato al martello, col suo piede e il suo tronco; i suoi calici, i suoi pomi e i suoi fiori erano tutti d’un pezzo col candelabro.

18 Gli uscivano sei bracci dai lati: tre bracci del candelabro da un lato e tre bracci del candelabro dall’altro;

19 su l’uno de’ bracci erano tre calici in forma di mandorla, con un pomo e un fiore; e sull’altro braccio, tre calici in forma di mandorla, con un pomo e un fiore. Lo stesso per i sei bracci uscenti dal candelabro.

20 E nel tronco del candelabro v’erano quattro calici in forma di mandorla, coi loro pomi e i loro fiori.

21 E c’era un pomo sotto i due primi bracci che partivano dal candelabro; un pomo sotto i due seguenti bracci che partivano dal candelabro, e un pomo sotto i due ultimi bracci che partivano dal candelabro; così per i sei rami uscenti dal candelabro.

22 Questi pomi e questi bracci erano tutti d’un pezzo col candelabro; il tutto era d’oro puro lavorato al martello.

23 Fece pure le sue lampade, in numero di sette, i suoi smoccolatoi e i suoi porta smoccolature, d’oro puro.

24 Per fare il candelabro con tutti i suoi utensili impiego un talento d’oro puro.

25 Poi fece l’altare dei profumi, di legno d’acacia; la sua lunghezza era di un cubito; e la sua larghezza di un cubito; era quadro, e aveva un’altezza di due cubiti; i suoi corni erano tutti d’un pezzo con esso.

26 E lo rivestì d’oro puro: il disopra, i suoi lati tutt’intorno, i suoi corni; e gli fece una ghirlanda d’oro che gli girava attorno.

27 Gli fece pure due anelli d’oro, sotto la ghirlanda, ai suoi due lati; li mise ai suoi due lati per passarvi le stanghe che servivano a portarlo.

28 E fece le stanghe di legno d’acacia, e le rivestì d’oro.

29 Poi fece l’olio santo per l’unzione e il profumo fragrante, puro, secondo l’arte del profumiere.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9475

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9475. 'And for the incense of spices' means for delightful perception. This is clear from the meaning of 'incense' as the things of worship that are perceived with delight, such as acts of thanksgiving, adoration, prayer, and the like; and from the meaning of 'spices' as truths of faith which are delightful because they originate in good. For sweet odours, such as spicy ones, mean that which is delightful; and whatever is delightful is such by virtue of the good made known through truths. So it is that 'the incense of spices' means the delightful perception that belongs to truth originating in good. The spices which went into the making of that incense are listed, and the preparation of it is described in the following words,

Take for yourself spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum - [these] spices, and pure frankincense. You shall make them an incense, salted, pure, holy. You shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the Testimony in the tent of meeting. Most holy 1 shall it be to you. The incense shall be to you holy for Jehovah. Exodus 30:34-38.

The altar of incense, along with the incense itself, is described as follows,

You shall make an altar for burning incense. You shall overlay it with pure gold. You shall put it before the veil that is over the ark of the Testimony before the mercy-seat, that Aaron may burn on it spicy incense every morning; when he trims the lamps he shall burn it, and between the evenings. Exodus 30:1-10; 37:25-end; 40:26-27.

And elsewhere,

When Aaron comes into the Holy Place he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire 2 from upon the altar, with his hands full of spicy incense beaten fine. 3 Then he shall bring it inside the veil, in order that he may put the incense onto the fire before Jehovah, and the cloud of incense may cover the mercy-seat which is over the Testimony. Leviticus 16:12-13.

[2] Since 'incense' meant acts of worship such as had their origin in good made known through truths, as do all expressions of faith that have their origin in the good of love, the fire was taken from the altar; for the fire on the altar meant the good of God's love, 934, 4906, 5071 (end), 5215, 6314, 6832, 6834, 6849, 7324, 7852. On this account when fire had been taken from any other source they were struck down by a plague and died, Leviticus 10:1-2ff; Numbers 16:45-48; for fire from any other source, or 'foreign fire', meant love that was not God's.

[3] The fact that expressions of faith having their origin in the good of love and charity, for example thanksgivings, acts of adoration, and prayers, are meant by 'incense' is clear in David,

My prayers are acceptable, [as] incense before You. Psalms 141:2.

In John,

The four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. Revelation 5:8.

In the same book,

An angel holding a golden censer ... And much incense was given to him, that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne. The smoke of the incense went up from the prayers of the saints. Revelation 8:3-4.

[4] The reason why such expressions of faith are meant by 'incense' is that they are matters of thought and consequently of the lips. But matters of affection and consequently of the heart are meant by 'the minchah' in Malachi 1:11, where it says that from the rising of the sun even to its setting Jehovah's name will be great among the nations, and 'in every place incense has been offered to My name, and a pure minchah'; and the same things are meant by 'the burnt offering' in Moses,

The sons of Levi will teach Jacob Your judgements and Israel Your law. They will put incense in Your nose, and burnt offering on Your altar. Deuteronomy 33:10.

'Incense' in these places stands for such things as are matters of thought and the lips and have regard to the truths of faith; 'minchah' and 'burnt offering' stand for such things as are matters of affection and the heart and have regard to forms of the good of love. All this being so, in the contrary sense worship arising from falsities of faith is meant by burning incense to other gods, Jeremiah 1:16; 44:3, 5; burning incense to idols, Ezekiel 8:11; 16:18; and burning incense to the baalim, Hosea 2:13.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, The holy thing of holy things

2. literally, the fullness of a censer, burning coals of fire

3. literally, the fullness of his fists, spicy incense [beaten] fine

  
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Leviticus 9

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1 It happened on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;

2 and he said to Aaron, "Take a calf from the herd for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before Yahweh.

3 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Take a male goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without blemish, for a burnt offering;

4 and a bull and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before Yahweh; and a meal offering mixed with oil: for today Yahweh appears to you.'"

5 They brought what Moses commanded before the Tent of Meeting: and all the congregation drew near and stood before Yahweh.

6 Moses said, "This is the thing which Yahweh commanded that you should do: and the glory of Yahweh shall appear to you."

7 Moses said to Aaron, "Draw near to the altar, and offer your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself, and for the people; and offer the offering of the people, and make atonement for them; as Yahweh commanded."

8 So Aaron drew near to the altar, and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.

9 The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar:

10 but the fat, and the kidneys, and the cover from the liver of the sin offering, he burned upon the altar; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

11 The flesh and the skin he burned with fire outside the camp.

12 He killed the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons delivered the blood to him, and he sprinkled it around on the altar.

13 They delivered the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head: and he burned them upon the altar.

14 He washed the innards and the legs, and burned them on the burnt offering on the altar.

15 He presented the people's offering, and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people, and killed it, and offered it for sin, like the first.

16 He presented the burnt offering, and offered it according to the ordinance.

17 He presented the meal offering, and filled his hand from there, and burned it upon the altar, besides the burnt offering of the morning.

18 He also killed the bull and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron's sons delivered to him the blood, which he sprinkled around on the altar,

19 and the fat of the bull and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covers the innards, and the kidneys, and the cover of the liver:

20 and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burned the fat on the altar:

21 and the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave offering before Yahweh, as Moses commanded.

22 Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them; and he came down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.

23 Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of Meeting, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of Yahweh appeared to all the people.

24 There came forth fire from before Yahweh, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar: and when all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.