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1 여호와께서 또 모세와 아론에게 일러 가라사대

2 레위 자손 중에서 고핫 자손을 그들의 가족과 종족을 따라 총계할지니

3 곧 삼십세 이상으로 오십세까지 회막의 일을 하기 위하여 그 역사에 참가할 만한 모든 자를 계수하라

4 고핫 자손의 회막 안 지성물에 대하여 할 일은 이러하니라

5 행진할 때에 아론과 그 아들들이 들어가서 간 막는 장을 걷어 증거궤를 덮고

6 그 위에 해달의 가죽으로 덮고 그 위에 순청색 보자기를 덮은후에 그 채를 꿰고

7 또 진설병의 상에 청색 보자기를 펴고 대접들과, 숟가락들과, 주발들과, 붓는 잔들을 그 위에 두고 또 항상 진설하는 떡을 그 위에 두고

8 홍색 보자기를 그 위에 펴고 그것을 해달의 가죽 덮개로 덮은후에 그 채를 꿰고

9 또 청색 보자기를 취하여 등대와, 그 등잔들과, 그 불집게들과, 불똥 그릇들과, 그 쓰는 바 모든 기름 그릇을 덮고

10 등대와 그 모든 기구를 해달의 가죽 덮개 안에 넣어 메는 틀위에 두고

11 또 금단 위에 청색 보자기를 펴고 해달의 가죽 덮개로 덮고 그 채를 꿰고

12 또 성소에서 봉사하는 데 쓰는 모든 기명을 취하여 청색 보자기에 싸서 해달의 가죽 덮개로 덮어 메는 틀 위에 두고

13 또 단의 재를 버리고 그 단 위에 자색 보자기를 펴고

14 봉사하는 데 쓰는 모든 기구 곧 불 옮기는 그릇들과, 고기 갈고리들과, 부삽들과, 대야들과, 단의 모든 기구를 두고 해달의 가죽 덮개를 그 위에 덮고 그 채를 꿸 것이며

15 행진할 때에 아론과 그 아들들이 성소와 성소의 모든 기구 덮기를 필하거든 고핫 자손이 와서 멜 것이니라 그러나 성물은 만지지 말지니 죽을까 하노라 회막 물건 중에서 이것들은 고핫 자손이 멜 것이며

16 제사장 아론의 아들 엘르아살의 맡을 것은 등유와, 분향할 향품과, 항상 드리는 소제물과, 관유며, 또 장막의 전체와, 그 중에 있는 모든 것과, 성소와, 그 모든 기구니라

17 여호와께서 또 모세와 아론에게 일러 가라사대

18 너희는 고핫 족속의 지파를 레위인 중에서 끊어지게 말지니

19 그들이 지성물에 접근할 때에 그 생명을 보존하고 죽지 않게 하기 위하여 너희는 이같이 하여 아론과 그 아들들이 들어가서 각 사람에게 그 할 일과 그 멜 것을 지휘할지니라

20 그들은 잠시라도 들어가서 성소를 보지 말것은 죽을까 함이니라

21 여호와께서 또 모세에게 일러 가라사대

22 게르손 자손도 그 종족과 가족을 따라 총계하되

23 삼십세 이상으로 오십세까지 회막 봉사에 입참하여 일할 만한 모든 자를 계수하라

24 게르손 가족의 할 일과 멜 것은 이러하니

25 곧 그들은 성막의 앙장들과, 회막과, 그 덮개와, 그 위의 해달의 가죽 덮개와, 회막 문장을 메이며

26 뜰의 휘장과, 및 성막과, 단 사면에 있는 뜰의 문장과, 그 줄들과, 그것에 사용하는 모든 기구를 메이며 이 모든 것을 어떻게 맡아 처리할 것이라

27 게르손 자손은 그 모든 일 곧 멜 것과 처리할 것에 아론과 그 아들들의 명대로 할 것이니 너희는 그들의 멜 짐을 그들에게 맡길 것이니라

28 게르손 자손의 가족들이 회막에서 할 일이 이러하며 그들의 직무는 제사장 아론의 아들 이다말이 감독할지니라

29 너는 므라리 자손도 그 가족과 종족을 따라 계수하되

30 삼십세 이상으로 오십세까지 회막 봉사에 입참하여 일할 만한 모든 자를 계수하라

31 그들이 직무를 따라 회막에서 할 모든 일 곧 그 멜 것이 이러하니 곧 장막의 널판들과, 그 띠들과, 그 기둥들과, 그 받침들과,

32 뜰 사면 기둥들과, 그 받침들과, 그 말뚝들과, 그 줄들과, 그 모든 기구들과, 무릇 그것에 쓰는 것이라 너희는 그들의 맡아 멜 모든 기구의 명목을 지정하라

33 이는 제사장 아론의 아들 이다말의 수하에 있을 므라리 자손의 가족들이 그 모든 사무대로 회막에서 행할 일이니라

34 모세와 아론과 회중의 족장들이 고핫 자손들을 그 가족과 종족대로 계수하니

35 삼십세 이상으로 오십세까지 회막 봉사에 입참하여 일할 만한 모든 자

36 곧 그 가족대로 계수함을 입은 자가 이천 칠백 오십이니

37 이는 모세와 아론이 여호와께서 모세로 명하신 대로 회막에서 종사하는 고핫인의 모든 가족 중 계수한 자니라

38 게르손 자손의 그 가족과 종족을 따라 계수함을 입은 자는

39 삼십세 이상으로 오십세까지 회막 봉사에 입참하여 일할 만한 모든 자라

40 그 가족과 종족을 따라 계수함을 입은 자가 이천 육백 삼십명이니

41 이는 모세와 아론이 여호와의 명대로 회막에서 종사하는 게르손 자손의 모든 가족 중 계수한 자니라

42 므라리 자손의 가족 중 그 가족과 종족을 따라 계수함을 입은 자는

43 삼십세 이상으로 오십세까지 회막 봉사에 입참하여 일할 만한 모든 자라

44 그 가족을 따라 계수함을 입은 자가 삼천 이백명이니

45 이는 모세와 아론이 여호와께서 모세로 명하신 대로 므라리 자손들의 가족 중 계수한 자니라

46 모세와 아론과 이스라엘 족장들이 레위인을 그 가족과 종족대로 다 계수하니

47 삼십세 이상으로 오십세까지 회막 봉사와 메는 일에 입참하여 일할 만한 모든 자

48 곧 그 계수함을 입은 자가 팔천 오백 팔십명이라

49 그들이 그 할 일과 멜일을 따라 모세에게 계수함을 입었으되 여호와께서 모세에게 명하신 대로 그들이 계수함을 입었더라

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 10038

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10038. 'You shall burn with fire outside the camp' means that those things must be banished to hell and be consumed by the evils of self-love. This is clear from the meaning of 'burning with fire' as consuming by means of the evils of self-love, for 'burning' means consuming or devouring and 'fire' the evil of self-love (for these meanings of 'burning' and 'fire', see 1297, 5071, 5215, 6314, 6832, 7324, 7575, 9141, 9434); and from the meaning of 'the camp' as heaven and the Church, and in the contrary sense the place where heaven and the Church do not exist, thus where hell exists, dealt with below. The reason why 'being burned with fire' means being consumed by the evils of self-love is that that love consumes every good or truth of faith. Scarcely anyone at the present day knows that self-love does this, nor consequently that this love constitutes hell with a person and that it is what should be understood by hell-fire.

[2] There are two fires of life that exist with a person; one is self-love, the other is love to God. Those in whom self-love predominates cannot be governed by love to God, for those loves are opposites. They are opposites because self-love gives rise to all evils, which are contempt for others in comparison with self, enmity towards those who do not treat oneself favourably, and in the end to hatred, vengeance, brutality, and cruelty; and these evils act in total opposition to Divine influx, consequently annihilate truths and forms of the good of faith and charity, these being the things that flow in from the Lord. Anybody who stops to reflect may know that everyone's love is the fire of his life - for without love there is no life, and the character of the love determines that of the life - and therefore that self-love gives rise to evils of every kind, doing so in the measure that he has only himself in view, that is, self-love reigns in him. The worst kind of self-love is the love of dominion over others for selfish reasons, that is, the love of possessing dominion solely for the sake of position and gain. Those in whom that love predominates may, it is true, make profession of faith and charity, but they do so with their lips, not with their heart; indeed the worst among them look on the things that belong to faith and charity, thus the holy things of the Church, as means to their own ends. But self-love and all the different types of it, also the evils that gush out of it, and the condition of the selfish in the next life, must in the Lord's Divine mercy be stated in detail somewhere else. They have been referred to here to enable people to know what 'being burned with fire outside the camp' means.

[3] The fact that 'the camp' where the children of Israel were encamped represented heaven and the Church, and therefore that 'outside the camp' represented the place where heaven and the Church did not exist, thus where hell was, becomes clear from those places in the Word which mention the camp and the encampment of the children of Israel in the wilderness, such as the following in Moses,

The children of Israel shall camp, [every] man by his own camp, and [every] man by his own standard, according to their armies. And the Levites shall camp around the dwelling-place of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel. Numbers 1:52-53; 2:2.

In addition, Numbers 2:1-end says that the tribes of Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun encamped to the east; the tribes of Reuben, Simeon, and Gad to the south; the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin to the west; and the tribes of Dan, Asher, and Naphtali to the north. But the Levites were in the middle of their camps. The like applied when they set out on their journeys, Numbers 2:17; 10:1-end. The reason why their encampments were arranged in that kind of order was so that they might represent heaven and the Church, 9320 (end). Moreover the tribes according to which the children of Israel set up their camps represented all the forms of good and all the truths in their entirety that belonged to heaven and the Church, 3858, 3926, 3939, 4060, 6335, 6337, 6397, 6640, 7836, 7891, 7996, 7997. This explains why it says that Jehovah dwells in the middle of the camps, Numbers 5:3, and that He walks in the middle of them and they will therefore be holy, Deuteronomy 23:14, and why, in the prophecy uttered by Balaam, when he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes, he said, How good are your tabernacles, O Jacob, and your dwelling-places, O Israel! Numbers 24:2-3, 5.

[4] Since heaven and the Church was represented by the camp it follows that 'outside the camp' meant the place where neither heaven nor the Church existed, thus where hell was. That is why everyone who was unclean and also anyone who was guilty was sent out there, as may be recognized from the following,

You shall send out of the camp everyone who is leprous, and everyone suffering a discharge, and everyone unclean on account of a soul 1 . Whether they are male or female 2 you shall send them outside the camp, so that they may not defile the camps, in the middle of which Jehovah dwells. Numbers 5:2-3; Leviticus 13:45-46.

A man who is not clean by reason of an accident in the night shall go outside the camp and not come into the middle of the camp. When he has washed himself with water and the sun has set he shall enter the camp. There shall be a space for you outside the camp where you may go out, and you shall cover your excrement by means of a spade 3 , since Jehovah walks in the middle of the camp. Therefore the camp shall be holy. Deuteronomy 23:10-14.

And the stoning of people was done outside the camp, Leviticus 24:14; Numbers 15:35-36.

From all this it is now clear that 'you shall burn with fire the flesh, skin, and dung of the young bull, outside the camp' means that evils, meant by these things, must be banished to hell.

[5] The same thing as was represented by the camp and the area outside it was also represented by the land of Canaan and the lands around it after that land had been divided up as inheritances among the children of Israel. This is why in the Word 'the land of Canaan' or simply 'the land' means heaven and the Church, and 'the children of Israel' those who are in heaven and the Church. For the meaning of 'the land' as heaven and the Church, see the places referred to in 9325; and for that of 'the children of Israel' as those who are there, 9340.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. i.e. unclean through contact with a dead body

2. literally, From male even to female

3. literally, peg or nail

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 9434

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9434. 'And the sight of Jehovah's glory was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel' means Divine Truth beaming brightly with the good of love in heaven itself, but harmful and ruinous with those restricted to its outward level, separated from the inward. This is clear from the meaning of 'the sight of Jehovah's glory' as the appearance presented by Divine Truth emanating from the Lord (the fact that 'the sight of' means the appearance presented before the eyes is self-evident; and for the meaning of 'Jehovah's glory' as Divine Truth emanating from the Lord, see 9429); from the meaning of 'fire' as love in both senses, dealt with in 4906, 5215, 6314, 6832, 7324, in this instance God's love itself; from the meaning of 'the top of the mountain' as the inmost part of heaven, for 'Mount Sinai' means heaven, 9420, 9427, and its highest point, which is called 'the top' and the peak, means its inmost part, 9422; from the meaning of 'devouring' as consuming, and so harming and ruining; and from the representation of 'the children of Israel' as those restricted to outward things, apart from inward ones, dealt with often above. From all this it becomes clear that 'the sight of Jehovah's glory was like a [devouring] fire on the top of the mountain' means Divine Truth beaming brightly with the good of love in heaven itself; and the statement that it was 'like a devouring fire in the eyes of the children of Israel' means that with those restricted to its outward level, apart from the inward, it was harmful and ruinous.

[2] The implications of all this are that there are two kinds of love which are complete opposites, heavenly love and hellish love. Heavenly love consists of love to the Lord and love towards the neighbour; hellish love consists of self-love and love of the world. Those with whom hellish loves reign are in hell, whereas those with whom heavenly loves reign are in heaven. For love is what constitutes the actual life within a person; without the love there is no life whatever. In everyone the heat and fire that his life possesses originate in his love; without that animating heat and fire he has no life, as is plainly evident. From this it follows that the character of the love determines the character of the life, and therefore that the character of the love determines that of the person. This being so, anyone can know from what his loves are whether he has heaven within himself or hell. The love present in a person is like a fire or flame, and in addition constitutes, as has been stated, the fire or flame of life; and the faith present there is like the light radiating from that fire or flame, and in addition constitutes the light which enlightens the more internal parts of his understanding. This also reveals the character of the light which gives rise to faith among those governed by heavenly love and the character of the light which gives rise to faith among those ruled by hellish love. The latter kind of light gives rise to faith that is no more than persuasion, which in itself is not faith at all, only a conviction that something is so, dictated by selfishness and worldliness, see 9363-9369. In the Church at the present day spiritual life, which is eternal life, is thought to lie in faith alone, thus in faith without the good works of heavenly love. But anyone who gives thought to the matter can see from the things which have now been stated what the character of that life is.

[3] Something must be said next about what Divine fire, that is, Divine Love, is like among those governed by heavenly love and what it is like among those ruled by hellish love. Among those governed by heavenly love it is God's fire or love constantly creating and renewing the interior parts of the will and enlightening the interior parts of the understanding. But among those ruled by hellish love it is God's fire or love constantly harming and ruining; and the reason for this is that among these people God's love meets with contrary feelings that destroy it. For it is turned into the fire or love of self and the world, and so into contempt for others in comparison with themselves, into feelings of enmity towards all who do not support them, thus into feelings of hatred, feelings of vengeance, and finally the readiness to behave brutally. This is why Jehovah's fire appeared before the eyes of the children of Israel as a devouring or consuming one. For being restricted to outward things, apart from inward, they were ruled by selfish and worldly love.

[4] The fact that this fire was to them a devouring and consuming one is again evident elsewhere in Moses,

It happened, when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, and the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders. And you said, Lo, Jehovah our God has caused us to see His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice out of the midst of the fire. Why therefore should we die? For this great fire will devour us; if we hear the voice of Jehovah our God any more we shall certainly die. Deuteronomy 5:23-25.

See also what has been shown in 6832, 8814, 8819, and the places quoted in 9380 showing that the character of this people was such. There are other places in the Word in which 'devouring fire' is used in reference to the wicked and means ruination, for example in Joel,

The day of Jehovah is coming, a day of darkness and thick darkness, a day of cloud and gloom. Fire devours before them, 1 and behind them a flame burns. The land before them is like the garden of Eden, but behind them a desolate wilderness. 2 Joel 2:1-3.

[5] In Isaiah,

Jehovah will cause His glorious voice 3 to be heard, in the flame of a devouring fire. Isaiah 30:30.

In the same prophet,

Who among us will dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us will dwell with the hearths of eternity? Isaiah 33:14.

In the same prophet,

You will be punished 4 by Jehovah with the flame of a devouring fire. Isaiah 29:6.

In Ezekiel,

Your descendants will be devoured by fire. Ezekiel 23:25.

In these places 'a devouring fire' is the fire of desires that spring from self-love and love of the world, for this fire is that which consumes a person and ruins the Church. This was also represented by the fire that went out from before Jehovah, which devoured Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu, because they put foreign 5 fire in their censers, Leviticus 10:1-2. 'Putting foreign fire in censers' means introducing worship that springs from a love other than that which is heavenly. Such fire means selfish and worldly love, and every desire arising from it, see 1297, 1861, 5071, 5215, 6314, 6832, 7324, 7575, 9141.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. i.e. the great and strong people who will invade the land

2. literally, a wilderness of ruination

3. literally, the glory of His voice

4. literally, visited

5. i.e. unauthorized or profane

  
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