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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 # 9779

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9779. 'And you shall command the children of Israel' means the Lord's command to the Church through the Word. This is clear from the representation of Moses, to whom 'you' refers here, as the Lord in respect of the Word, or the Word which comes from the Lord, dealt with in 4859 (end), 5922, 6752, 7014, 7089, 9372; and from the representation of 'the children of Israel' as members of the spiritual Church, dealt with in 9340. From this it is evident that Moses' being told to 'command the children of Israel' means the Lord's command to the Church through the Word.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 5951

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5951. 'And the sons of Israel did so' means a putting into effect by the spiritual truths within the natural. This is clear from the meaning of 'they did' as a putting into effect; and from the representation of 'the sons of Israel' as the spiritual truths within the natural, dealt with in 5414, 5879. What spiritual truths within the natural are must be stated: The truths of faith if separate from man, spirit, or angel are not in fact the truths of faith, for they are not attached to a recipient in whom they become such truths. But when they are attached to man, spirit, or angel as their recipient they then become the truths of faith, yet varyingly so according to each individual's state of life. With those who are just beginning to learn them they are no more than factual knowledge. If after that those people truly revere them they go on from being factual knowledge to become the truths of the Church. When however they have an affection for those truths and lead lives in keeping with them, they become spiritual truths; for the good of love and charity, which has its origin solely in the spiritual world, then enters in and brings life to them. For having an affection for them and leading a life in keeping with them stem from that good.

[2] What truths, called the truths of faith, are like with those who lead lives in keeping with them, and with those who do not, has been shown to me. With people who do not lead lives in keeping with them those truths have manifested themselves as white threads; and with people who knew those truths yet did nothing good at all they were fragile ones. But with people who do lead lives in keeping with them those truths have manifested themselves as fibres extending from the brain, which were filled with spirituous fluid and were soft. Thus these latter truths had life in them, the former did not. From all this one may recognize that the nature of the truths present with people depends on the individual's state of life. The truths which 'the sons of Jacob' represent are not as yet spiritual truths because they have not as yet been made matters of life. But the truths represented by those men as 'the sons of Israel' are spiritual ones because, having been made matters of life, the good of love and charity has entered them. Such truths are meant here because now the subject is the initial stage in the joining of the truths within the natural, which are 'the sons of Jacob', to internal good, which is 'Joseph', through the intermediary, which is 'Benjamin', and also through spiritual good, which is 'Israel'.

  
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