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ആളേറെയുള്ളവര്ക്കും അവകാശം ഏറെയും ആള് കുറവുള്ളവര്ക്കും അവകാശം കുറെച്ചും കൊടുക്കേണം; ഔരോരുത്തന്നു അവനവന്റെ ആളെണ്ണത്തിന്നു ഒത്തവണ്ണം അവകാശം കൊടുക്കേണം.
സംഖ്യാപുസ്തകം 26:54
Arcana Coelestia # 4236
4236. 'And Jacob said [when he saw them], This is God's camp' means heaven. 'God's camp' means heaven, for the reason that 'an army' means truths and goods, 3448, and goods and truths are arranged by the Lord in conformity with heavenly order. Hence the arrangement of them like armies when arrayed is meant by 'an encampment', and the heavenly order itself, which is heaven, by 'a camp'. This camp or order is such that it cannot in any way be broken apart by hell, despite the constant effort from hell to break it apart. This also is why this order, which is heaven, is referred to as 'a camp', and why truths and goods, that is, angels, who are arranged in conformity with that order are called 'armies'. From all this it is now evident how 'God's camp' comes to mean heaven. It is that actual order, and so heaven itself, which was represented by the encampments of the children of Israel in the wilderness; and their actual dwelling together there according to their tribes was referred to as 'the camp'. The Tabernacle pitched in the middle and around which they encamped represented the Lord Himself. Regarding the children of Israel's encampment in this manner, see Numbers 1:1-end, and 33:2-56; and regarding their encampment around the Tabernacle according to their tribes - Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun to the east; Reuben, Simeon, and Gad to the south; Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin to the west; Dan, Asher, and Naphtali to the north; and the Levites in the middle next to the Tabernacle - Numbers 2:2 and following verses.
[2] The tribes' means all goods and truths in their entirety, see 3858, 3862, 3926, 3939, 4060. Consequently when Balaam saw Israel dwelling according to tribes and the Spirit of God came upon him, he delivered the utterance,
How good your tabernacles are, O Jacob; your dwelling-places, O Israel! They are like valleys that are planted, like gardens beside a river. Numbers 24:2-3, 5-6.
It is quite plain that this prophecy did not mean the people named Jacob and Israel but that it was the Lord's heaven which was represented. This also is why in other places in the Word their ordered settlements in the wilderness, or encampments according to tribes, are called camps, and in those places 'a camp' in the internal sense means heavenly order and 'encampment' an arrangement in conformity with that order, that is to say, with the order in which goods and truths exist in heaven - as in Leviticus 4:12; 8:17; 13:46; 14:8; 16:26, 28; 24:14, 23; Numbers 3; 4:4 and following verses; 5:2-4; Numbers 9:17-end; 10:1-10, 28; 11:31-32; 12:14-15; 31:19-24; Deuteronomy 23:9-14.
[3] The meaning of 'God's camp' as heaven may also be seen in Joel,
The earth quaked before Him, the heavens trembled. The sun and the moon were darkened, and the stars gathered back their shining; and Jehovah gave voice before His army, for His camp is exceedingly many; for that which executes His word is uncountable. Joel 2:10-11.
In Zechariah,
I will encamp by My house with an army set against anyone passing through and against anyone leaving, so that the oppressor passes over them no more. Zechariah 9:8.
In John,
Gog and Magog went up over the breadth 1 of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city; but fire came down 2 from God and consumed them. Revelation 20:9.
'Gog and Magog' stands for people whose worship is external separated from internal - worship that has become idolatrous, 1151. 'The breadth of the earth' stands for truth possessed by the Church - 'breadth', or a plain, meaning truth that constitutes doctrinal teaching, 2450, and 'earth' the Church, 556, 662, 1066, 1067, 1850, 2117, 2118, 3355. 'The camp of the saints' stands for heaven or the Lord's kingdom on earth, which is the Church.
[4] Since most things in the Word also have a contrary sense, so too does the word 'camp'. In this case it means evils and falsities, and consequently hell, as in David,
Though the evil pitch camp against me, my heart will not fear. Psalms 27:3.
In the same author,
God has scattered the bones of those encamping against you; 3 you have put them to shame, for God has rejected them. Psalms 53:5.
The camp of Asshur in which the angel of Jehovah smote a hundred and eighty-five thousand, Isaiah 37:36, does not have any other meaning, nor likewise does the camp of the Egyptians, Exodus 14:19-20.
Poznámky pod čarou:
1. literally, the plain
2. The Latin means went up, but the Greek means came down, which Swedenborg has in another place where he quotes this verse.
3. The Latin means me, but the Hebrew means you.
Numbers 31
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Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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"Avenge the children of Israel for the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people."
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Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh's vengeance on Midian.
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Of every tribe one thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, you shall send to the war."
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So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
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Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.
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They warred against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they killed every male.
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They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword.
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The children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their livestock, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.
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All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.
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They took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of animal.
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They brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.
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Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them outside of the camp.
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Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.
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Moses said to them, "Have you saved all the women alive?
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Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.
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Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.
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But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
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"Encamp outside of the camp seven days: whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.
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As to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats' [hair], and all things made of wood, you shall purify yourselves."
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Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, "This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded Moses:
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however the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
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everything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity: and all that doesn't withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water.
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You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp."
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Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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"Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the congregation;
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and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.
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Levy a tribute to Yahweh of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, [both] of the persons, and of the cattle, and of the donkeys, and of the flocks:
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take it of their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for Yahweh's wave offering.
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Of the children of Israel's half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, [even] of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of the tabernacle of Yahweh."
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Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,
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and seventy-two thousand head of cattle,
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and sixty-one thousand donkeys,
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and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.
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The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep:
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and Yahweh's tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.
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The cattle were thirty-six thousand; of which Yahweh's tribute was seventy-two.
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The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which Yahweh's tribute was sixty-one.
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The persons were sixteen thousand; of whom Yahweh's tribute was thirty-two persons.
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Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh's wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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Of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men who warred
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(now the congregation's half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,
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and thirty-six thousand head of cattle,
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and thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,
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and sixteen thousand persons),
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even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of the tabernacle of Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses;
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and they said to Moses, "Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man of us.
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We have brought Yahweh's offering, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, armlets, and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before Yahweh."
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Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all worked jewels.
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All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to Yahweh, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.
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([For] the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.)
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Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting, for a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh.
