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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 # 6637

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6637. 'These are the names of the children of Israel' means the essential nature of the Church. This is clear from the meaning of' the name as the essential nature, dealt with in 144, 145, 1754, 1896, 2009, 2628, 2724, 3006, 3421; from the representation of 'the sons of Israel' as spiritual truths, dealt with in 5414, 5879, 5951; and from the representation of 'Israel' as the good of truth, which is spiritual good, dealt with in 3654, 4598, 5803, 5806, 5812, 5817, 5819, 5826, 5833. Since Israel' represents the good of truth or spiritual good and 'his sons' represent spiritual truths in the natural, 'the sons of Israel' also represent the Church, for what makes it the Church is spiritual good and the truths that spring from that good. A person without spiritual good, that is, the good of charity, and without spiritual truths, that is, the truths of faith, does not belong to the Church in spite of having been born within the Church. The whole of the Lord's heavenly kingdom possesses the good of love and faith, and unless the Church possesses good like that it cannot be the Church since it is not joined to heaven; for the Church is the Lord's kingdom on earth.

[2] The term 'Church' is not used because it is the place where the Word is and teachings drawn from it, or because it is where the Lord is known and the sacraments are celebrated. Rather it is the Church because it lives in accordance with the Word or with teachings drawn from the Word, and seeks to make those teachings its rule of life. People who do not live like this do not belong to the Church but are outside it; and those who lead wicked lives, thus lives contrary to that teaching, are further away outside the Church than gentiles who know nothing whatever about the Word, the Lord, or the sacraments. For since those people are acquainted with the forms of good that the Church fosters and with the truths it teaches they annihilate the Church within themselves, something gentiles cannot do because they are unacquainted with those things. It should also be realized that everyone who leads a good life, in charity and faith, is a Church, and is a kingdom of the Lord. He is for that reason also called a temple, and a house of God too. Those who are Churches individually, no matter how remote from one another they may be, constitute one Church collectively. This then is the Church meant by the expression 'the children of Israel' here and in what follows.

  
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