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Exodus 27

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1 And thou shalt make the altar of shittim* wood, five cubits the length, and five cubits the breadth; the altar shall be foursquare; and its height shall be three cubits.

2 And thou shalt make its horns upon its four corners; from it shall be its horns; and thou shalt overlay it with bronze.

3 And thou shalt make its pots to remove its grease, and its shovels, and its basins, and its forks, and its pincers; all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of bronze.

4 And thou shalt make for it a grate, a network of bronze; and upon the net shalt thou make four rings of bronze, upon the four ends of it.

5 And thou shalt put it under the area of the altar below, and the net shall be as·​·far·​·as half of the altar.

6 And thou shalt make poles for the altar, poles of shittim wood, and shalt overlay them with bronze.

7 And its poles shall be made to come into the rings, and the poles shall be upon the two ribs of the altar, in carrying it.

8 Hollow with tablets shalt thou make it; as thou wast made to see in the mountain, so shall they make it.

9 And thou shalt make the court of the Habitation at the south quarter southward; the hangings for the court shall be of fine· twined ·linen, a hundred in cubits the length for the one quarter.

10 And its pillars shall be twenty, and their bases twenty, of bronze; the links of the pillars and their collars shall be of silver.

11 And so for the quarter of the north in length, there shall be hangings of a hundred cubits in length, and its pillars twenty, and their bases twenty, of bronze; the links of the pillars and their collars of silver.

12 And the breadth of the court at the quarter of the sea shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their bases ten.

13 And the breadth of the court at the quarter of the east eastward shall be fifty cubits.

14 And the hangings for the wing shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their bases three.

15 And for the second wing shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their bases three.

16 And for the gate of the court a sheltering of twenty cubits, of blue, and crimson, and scarlet twice-dyed, and fine· twined ·linen, the making of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their bases four.

17 All the pillars around the court shall be collared with silver; their links of silver, and their bases of bronze.

18 The length of the court shall be a hundred in cubits, and the breadth fifty in fifty; and the height five cubits, of fine· twined ·linen, and their bases of bronze.

19 And as for all the vessels of the Habitation in all the service thereof, all the pegs thereof, and all the pegs of the court, shall be of bronze.

20 And thou shalt command the sons of Israel, that they take to thee pure olive oil, beaten for the light, to cause the flame of the lamp to go·​·up* continually.

21 In the Tabernacle of the congregation, outside the veil which is over the Testimony, Aaron and his sons shall arrange it from evening until morning before Jehovah; a statute of an age for their generations with the sons of Israel.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 9719

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9719. 'And you shall make [its] horns' means power. This is clear from the meaning of 'horns' as the power of truth derived from good, dealt with in 2832, 9081.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 9081

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9081. 'If the ox strikes a male slave with its horn, or a female slave' means if the affection for evil destroys truth or good in the natural. This is clear from the meaning of 'a male slave' as truth in the natural, dealt with in 3019, 3020, 5305, 7998; from the meaning of 'a female slave' as an affection for truth there, dealt with in 1895, 2567, 3835, 3849, 8993, 8994; and from the meaning of 'striking with the horn' as destroying. The words 'striking with the horn' in the Word refer to the destruction of falsity by the power of truth, and in the contrary sense to the destruction of truth by the power of falsity. They do so because 'a horn' means the power of truth that springs from good, or the power of falsity that springs from evil, 2832, as in Ezekiel,

You push with side and shoulder, and strike with your horns all the weak [sheep]. Ezekiel 34:21.

This refers to those who with all their force and power destroy the Church's truths and forms of good by means of fallacious reasonings based on sensory evidence, 'pushing with side and shoulder' meaning with all their force and power, 1085, 4931-4937. From this it is evident why the words 'striking with the horn' are used in Moses,

The firstborn of his cattle has honour, and his horns are unicorn horns. 1 With these he will strike the peoples together to the ends of the earth. Deuteronomy 33:17.

This occurs in Moses' prophetic utterance concerning Joseph, in which 'Joseph' in the internal sense means the Lord's Divine Spiritual, and in the representative sense His spiritual kingdom 'Unicorn horns' means forms of power received from the good and truth of faith; 'striking the peoples' means destroying falsities by means of truths; and 'to the ends of the earth' means on every side where the Church is. In David,

You Yourself are my King. O God; through You we will strike our enemies with the horn. Psalms 44:4-5.

'Striking enemies with the horn' again means destroying falsities by means of the power of the truth and good of faith. Who can fail to see that in these places the words 'striking with the horn' would not have been used, since the action is performed by human beings, but for the meaning of 'horn' as power?

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1. i.e. horns that are high and powerful, like the horn of a unicorn

  
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