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출애굽기 30

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1 너는 분향할 단을 만들지니 곧 조각목으로 만들되

2 장이 일 규빗,광이 일 규빗으로 네모 반듯하게 하고 고는 이 규빗으로 하며 그 뿔을 그것과 연하게 하고

3 단 상면과 전후 좌우면과 뿔을 정금으로 싸고 주위에 금테를 두를지며

4 금테 아래 양편에 금고리 둘을 만들되 곧 그 양편에 만들지니 이는 단을 메는 채를 꿸 곳이며

5 그 채를 조각목으로 만들고 금으로 싸고

6 그 단을 증거궤 위 속죄소 맞은편 곧 증거궤 앞에 있는 장 밖에 두라 그 속죄소는 내가 너와 만날 곳이며

7 아론이 아침마다 그 위에 향기로운 향을 사르되 등불을 정리할 때에 사를지며

8 또 저녁때 등불을 켤때에 사를지니 이향은 너희가 대대로 여호와앞에 끊지 못할지며

9 너희는 그 위에 다른 향을 사르지 말며 번제나 소제를 드리지 말며 전제의 술을 붓지 말며

10 아론이 일년 일차씩 이 향단 뿔을 위하여 속죄하되 속죄제의 피로 일년 일차씩 대대로 속죄할지니라 ! 이 단은 여호와께 지극히 거룩하니라

11 여호와께서 모세에게 일러 가라사대

12 네가 이스라엘 자손의 수효를 따라 조사할 때에 조사 받은 각 사람은 그 생명의 속전을 여호와께 드릴지니 이는 그 계수할 때에 그들 중에 온역이 없게 하려 함이라

13 무릇 계수 중에 드는 자마다 성소에 세겔대로 반 세겔을 낼지니 한 세겔은 이 십 게라라 그 반 세겔을 여호와께 드릴지며

14 무릇 계수 중에 드는 자 곧 이십세 이상 된 자가 여호와께 드리되

15 너희의 생명을 속하기 위하여 여호와께 드릴 때에 부자라고 반 세겔에서 더 내지 말고, 가난한 자라고 덜 내지 말지며

16 너는 이스라엘 자손에게서 속전을 취하여 회막의 봉사에 쓰라 이것이 여호와 앞에서 이스라엘 자손의 기념이 되어서 너희의 생명을 속하리라

17 여호와께서 모세에게 일러 가라사대

18 너는 물두멍을 놋으로 만들어 씻게 하되 그것을 회막과 단 사이에 두고 그 속에 물을 담으라

19 아론과 그 아들들이 그 두멍에서 수족을 씻되

20 그들이 회막에 들어갈 때에 물로 씻어 죽기를 면할 것이요 단에 가까이 가서 그 직분을 행하여 화제를 여호와 앞에 사를 때에도 그리할지니라

21 이와 같이 그들이 그 수족을 씻어 죽기를 면할지니 이는 그와 그 자손이 대대로 영원히 지킬 규례니라

22 여호와께서 모세에게 또 일러 가라사대

23 너는 상등 향품을 취하되 액체 몰약 오백 세겔과, 그 반수의 향기로운 육계 이백 오십세겔과, 향기로운 창포 이백 오십세겔과,

24 계피 오백 세겔을 성소의 세겔대로 하고 감람 기름 한 힌을 취하여

25 그것으로 거룩한 관유를 만들되 향을 제조하는 법대로 향기름을 만들지니 그것이 거룩한 관유가 될지라

26 너는 그것으로 회막과 증거궤에 바르고

27 상과 그 모든 기구며 등대와 그 기구며 분향단과

28 및 번제단과 그 모든 기구와 물두멍과 그 받침에 발라

29 그것들을 지성물로 구별하라 ! 무릇 이것에 접촉하는 것이 거룩하리라

30 너는 아론과 그 아들들에게 기름을 발라 그들을 거룩하게 하고 그들로 내게 제사장 직분을 행하게 하고

31 이스라엘 자손에게 고하여 이르기를 이것은 너희 대대로 내게 거룩한 관유니

32 사람의 몸에 붓지 말며 이 방법대로 이와 같은 것을 만들지 말라 이는 거룩하니 너희는 거룩히 여기라

33 무릇 이와 같은 것을 만드는 자나 무릇 이것을 타인에게 붓는 자는 그 백성중에서 끊쳐지리라 하라

34 여호와께서 모세에게 이르시되 너는 소합향과, 나감향과, 풍자향의 향품을 취하고 그 향품을 유향에 섞되 각기 동일한 중수로 하고

35 그것으로 향을 만들되 향 만드는 법대로 만들고 그것에 소금을 쳐서 성결하게 하고

36 그 향 얼마를 곱게 찧어 내가 너와 만날 회막 안 증거궤 앞에 두라 이 향은 너희에게 지극히 거룩하니라 !

37 네가 만들 향은 여호와를 위하여 거룩한 것이니 그 방법대로 너희를 위하여 만들지 말라 !

38 무릇 맡으려고 이같은 것을 만드는 자는 그 백성 중에서 끊쳐지리라 !

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 10284

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10284. 'And as to the composition of it, you shall not make any other like it' means no imitations produced by human endeavour. This is clear from the meaning of 'as to the composition, making some like it' - that is, making a similar oil with similar spices - as making a preparation in imitation of it by means of human endeavour. This meaning of these words follows from the train of thought in the internal sense; for first it says, 'It shall not be poured onto the flesh of a person', which means no imparting [of what is the Lord's] to a person's proprium or self, and finally, 'it shall be holy to you'. But anything done by a person, by his own endeavour, begins in his proprium or self and is unholy. The reason is that any endeavour a person makes from his proprium consists entirely of falsity arising from evil, since it has self and the world, not the neighbour and God, as its end in view, which also explains why it is called an imitation.

[2] The implications of all this are that everything which comes from the Lord is good and true; but anything good or true produced by man in imitation of it is neither good nor true. The reason for this is that everything good and true has life within it by virtue of the end in view. An end that begins in man is entirely selfish; but that which is good and true, coming from the Lord, exists for the sake of goodness and truth themselves as ends in view, and so for the Lord's sake, because the Lord is the source of everything good and true. With man the end in view is himself, since it constitutes his will and his love; for what a person loves and wills he has as his end in view. All the love in a person that originates in himself is self-love and a selfish love of the world; but the love in a person that originates in the Lord is love towards the neighbour and love to God. The difference between the two kinds of love is as great as that between hell and heaven. Furthermore self-love and a selfish love of the world reign in hell and constitute hell, whereas love towards the neighbour and love to the Lord reign in heaven and constitute heaven. Also a person's character is such and remains forever such as his love is; for love composes the whole of a person's will, and consequently of his understanding since the love that constitutes the will flows unceasingly into the understanding, kindling it and illuminating it. So it is that when those who love evil think within themselves, their thoughts consist of falsity that is in keeping with the evil they love, though they are moved by hypocrisy to express different ideas to others; some are moved by faith that is no more than persuasion, for the nature of which, see 9364, 9369.

[3] It should be recognized that by his own endeavour a person is able to simulate what is actually Divine and to present himself before others as an angel of light. But what is seen by the Lord and by angels is not the outward form he presents but the form that exists inwardly, which is foul when the proprium is the source of it. With people like this everything within them is merely natural and not at all spiritual. They see everything in natural light alone and nothing in the light of heaven; indeed they do not know what the light of heaven is, nor what anything spiritual is. All their inner powers are turned to things of an external nature, in almost the same way as those of living creatures are; nor do they allow themselves to be raised by the Lord to anything higher. Yet the human being, superior to animals, has a special ability, namely the ability to be raised by the Lord towards heaven and the Lord, and so be led by Him. All those are raised in this manner who love goodness and truth for their own sake, which is the same thing as loving the neighbour and God since in a general sense the neighbour means that which is good and true, and in a lower sense that which is right and fair; and also God constitutes what is good and true, and what is right and fair, since God is the source of them.

[4] From all this it may be seen what imitating Divine things by human endeavour is. In places throughout the Word 'Egypt' and 'Pharaoh' are used to describe people such as this; for factual knowledge belonging to the natural man is meant by 'Egypt' and 'Pharaoh'. 'Asshur' too, meaning reasoning based on factual knowledge, is used to describe them. Regarding 'Egypt', see in the places referred to in 9340, 9391; and regarding 'Asshur', 1186. Among spirits there are very many who by their own endeavour and cunning can imitate what is Divine; for they counterfeit sincerity, uprightness, and godliness, so cunningly that good spirits would be led astray unless the Lord enlightened them and enabled them to see what the interiors of those other spirits are like. And when these interiors are revealed the good spirits are filled with horror and run away. But such spirits are stripped of their outward pretences and brought into a state in which their devilish interiors are laid bare; and in this condition they sink automatically into hell. For more about these spirits, see paragraph 10286 below.

  
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Exodus 30

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1 "You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood.

2 Its length shall be a cubit, and its breadth a cubit. It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.

3 You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding around it.

4 You shall make two golden rings for it under its molding; on its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make them; and they shall be for places for poles with which to bear it.

5 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

6 You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.

7 Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.

8 When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.

9 You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering; and you shall pour no drink offering on it.

10 Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh."

11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

12 "When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are numbered among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you number them; that there be no plague among them when you number them.

13 They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.

14 Everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh.

15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.

16 You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the Tent of Meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls."

17 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

18 "You shall also make a basin of brass, and its base of brass, in which to wash. You shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.

19 Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it.

20 When they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die: and it shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations."

22 Moreover Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

23 "Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels; and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty; and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty;

24 and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary; and a hin of olive oil.

25 You shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil.

26 You shall use it to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the testimony,

27 the table and all its articles, the lampstand and its accessories, the altar of incense,

28 the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its base.

29 You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.

30 You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest's office.

31 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'This shall be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations.

32 It shall not be poured on man's flesh, neither shall you make any like it, according to its composition: it is holy. It shall be holy to you.

33 Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.'"

34 Yahweh said to Moses, "Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be an equal weight;

35 and you shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy:

36 and you shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most holy.

37 The incense which you shall make, according to its composition you shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for Yahweh.

38 Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his people."