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1 Então disse o Senhor a Moisés:

2 Fala aos filhos de Israel que me tragam uma oferta alçada; de todo homem cujo coração se mover voluntariamente, dele tomareis a minha oferta alçada.

3 E esta é a oferta alçada que tomareis deles: ouro, prata, bronze,

4 estofo azul, púrpura, carmesim, linho fino, pêlos de cabras,

5 peles de carneiros tintas de vermelho, peles de golfinhos, madeira de acácia,

6 azeite para a luz, especiarias para o óleo da unção e para o incenso aromàtico,

7 pedras de ônix, e pedras de engaste para o éfode e para o peitoral.

8 E me farão um santuário, para que eu habite no meio deles.

9 Conforme a tudo o que eu te mostrar para modelo do tabernáculo, e para modelo de todos os seus móveis, assim mesmo o fareis.

10 Também farão uma arca de madeira ,de acácia; o seu comprimento será de dois côvados e meio, e a sua largura de um côvado e meio, e de um côvado e meio a sua altura.

11 E cobri-la-ás de ouro puro, por dentro e por fora a cobrirás; e farás sobre ela uma moldura de ouro ao redor;

12 e fundirás para ela quatro argolas de ouro, que porás nos quatro cantos dela; duas argolas de um lado e duas do outro.

13 Também farás varais de madeira de acácia, que cobrirás de ouro.

14 Meterás os varais nas argolas, aos lados da arca, para se levar por eles a arca.

15 Os varais permanecerão nas argolas da arca; não serão tirados dela.

16 E porás na arca o testemunho, que eu te darei.

17 Igualmente farás um propiciatório, de ouro puro; o seu comprimento será de dois covados e meio, e a sua largura de um côvado e meio.

18 Farás também dois querubins de ouro; de ouro batido os farás, nas duas extremidades do propiciatório.

19 Farás um querubim numa extremidade e o outro querubim na outra extremidade; de uma só peça com o propiciatório fareis os querubins nas duas extremidades dele.

20 Os querubins estenderão as suas asas por cima do propiciatório, cobrindo-o com as asas, tendo as faces voltadas um para o outro; as faces dos querubins estarão voltadas para o propiciatório.

21 E porás o propiciatório em cima da arca; e dentro da arca porás o testemunho que eu te darei.

22 E ali virei a ti, e de cima do propiciatório, do meio dos dois querubins que estão sobre a arca do testemunho, falarei contigo a respeito de tudo o que eu te ordenar no tocante aos filhos de Israel.

23 Também farás uma mesa de madeira de acácia; o seu comprimento será de dois côvados, a sua largura de um côvado e a sua altura de um côvado e meio;

24 cobri-la-ás de ouro puro, e lhe farás uma moldura de ouro ao redor.

25 Também lhe farás ao redor uma guarnição de quatro dedos de largura, e ao redor na guarnição farás uma moldura de ouro.

26 Também lhe farás quatro argolas de ouro, e porás as argolas nos quatro cantos, que estarão sobre os quatro pés.

27 Junto da guarnição estarão as argolas, como lugares para os varais, para se levar a mesa.

28 Farás, pois, estes varais de madeira de acácia, e os cobrirás de ouro; e levar-se-á por eles a mesa.

29 Também farás os seus pratos, as suas colheres, os seus cântaros e as suas tigelas com que serão oferecidas as libações; de ouro puro os farás.

30 E sobre a mesa porás os pães da o proposição perante mim para sempre.

31 Também farás um candelabro de ouro puro; de ouro batido se fará o candelabro, tanto o seu pedestal como a sua haste; os seus copos, os seus cálices e as suas corolas formarão com ele uma só peça.

32 E de seus lados sairão seis braços: três de um lado, e três do outro.

33 Em um braço haverá três copos a modo de flores de amêndoa, com cálice e corola; também no outro braço três copos a modo de flores de amêndoa, com cálice e corola; assim se farão os seis braços que saem do candelabro.

34 Mas na haste central haverá quatro copos a modo de flores de amêndoa, com os seus cálices e as suas corolas,

35 e um cálice debaixo de dois braços, formando com a haste uma só peça; outro cálice debaixo de dois outros braços, de uma só peça com a haste; e ainda outro cálice debaixo de dois outros braços, de uma só peça com a haste; assim será para os seis braços que saem do candelabro.

36 Os seus cálices e os seus braços formarão uma só peça com a haste; o todo será de obra batida de ouro puro.

37 Também lhe farás sete lâmpadas, as quais se acenderão para alumiar defronte dele.

38 Os seus espevitadores e os seus cinzeiros serão de ouro puro.

39 De um talento de ouro puro se fará o candelabro, com todos estes utensílios.

40 Atenta, pois, que os faças conforme o seu modelo, que te foi mostrado no monte.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9437

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9437. 'And Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights' means the instructions given and influx in their completeness. This is clear from the meaning of 'forty' as completeness. 'Forty' means completeness because 'four' means that which is complete, 9103, as similarly does 'ten', 3107, 4638, and forty is the product of four multiplied by ten. For compound numbers have a meaning similar to the simple numbers of which they are the product, 5291, 5335, 5708, 7973; and all numbers in the Word mean spiritual realities, see 575, 3252, 4264, 4495, 4670, 5265, 6175. All this goes to explain why Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights. The fact that 'forty' here means the instructions given and the influx in their completeness is evident from Chapters 25-32 which come next, recording the instructions Moses received, that is, instructions regarding the ark, Aaron, the urim and thummim, and sacrifices. The reason why influx in its completeness is also meant is that at that time Moses began to represent the outward holiness of the Word, which acted as the intermediary between the Lord and the people, and mediation is accomplished by means of influx through that holiness into the representative existing among that people, 9419.

[2] It was because 'forty' represented completeness that Moses remained on Mount Sinai forty days and forty nights not only this time but also on another occasion, Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 9:18, 25; 10:10. For the same reason the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness forty years until, as it says in Numbers 14:33-34; 32:13, all that generation had been consumed; Jonah told the Ninevites that their city would be overturned after forty days, Jonah 3:4; the prophet was commanded to lie on his right side and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days, Ezekiel 4:6; it says regarding Egypt that it would be made completely desolate for forty years, after which they would be gathered from the peoples, Ezekiel 29:11-13; and the earth was rained on forty days and forty nights, so that it was inundated with the flood, Genesis 7:4, 12, 17. From all this it is evident why the wicked person was to receive forty blows, Deuteronomy 25:3, for 'forty blows' meant the punishment in its completeness. It is also evident what should be understood in the prophecy of Deborah and Barak when it says that no shield or spear was seen among the forty thousand of Israel, Judges 5:8, 'among the forty thousand of Israel' meaning among them all. It is in addition evident why the temple built by Solomon was forty cubits long, 1 Kings 6:17, as was the new temple, according to Ezekiel 41:2; for in the highest sense 'the temple' means the Lord, and in the internal sense heaven and the Church, so that 'forty' means completeness in respect of representation. And it has a like meaning in other places.

  
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5335. 'And Joseph was a son of thirty years' means a state when the quantity of remnants was complete. This is clear from the meaning of 'thirty' as a completed number of remnants, dealt with below, and from the meaning of 'years' as states, dealt with in 482, 487, 488, 493, 893. In the Word the number thirty can mean some existence of conflict, or else it can mean a completed number of remnants. The reason why that number has this twofold meaning is that it is arrived at by multiplying five and six, or else by multiplying three and ten. When it is the product of five times six it means some existence of conflict, 2276, because 'five' means some, 649, 4638, 5291, and 'six' conflict, 720, 737, 900, 1709. But when thirty is the product of three times ten it means a completed number of remnants, because 'three' means that which is complete, 2788, 4495, and 'ten' means remnants, 576, 1906, 2284. A composite number implies much the same as the simple ones of which it is the product, 5291. Remnants are the truths joined to good which have been stored away by the Lord in a person's interior parts, see 468, 530, 560, 561, 576, 660, 1050, 1738, 1906, 2284, 5135.

[2] A completed number of remnants is likewise meant by 'thirty' - as it is also by 'sixty', and by 'a hundred' too - in Mark,

The seed which fell into good ground yielded fruit growing up and increasing. One bore thirty-fold, and another sixty, and another a hundred. Mark 4:8, 10.

Each of these numbers, being a multiple of ten, means a completed number of remnants. Also, because no one can be regenerated - that is, permitted to enter into spiritual temptations, by means of which regeneration is effected - until he has received a completed number of remnants, it was therefore laid down that no Levite should carry out any work in the tent of meeting until he was fully thirty years old. Their work or function is also called 'military service', being referred to in Moses as follows,

Take a census of the sons of Kohath from the midst of the sons of Levi - from sons thirty years of age and over, up to sons fifty years of age, everyone coming to perform military service, to do the work in the tent of meeting. Numbers 4:2-3.

Much the same is said regarding the sons of Gershon, and much the same regarding the sons of Merari, in verses 22, 23, 29, 30, and then in verses 35, 39, 43. Of that same chapter in Moses. And something similar is implied where it says that David began to reign when he was a son thirty years of age, 2 Samuel 5:4.

[3] From all this one may now see why the Lord did not make Himself known until He was thirty years of age, Luke 3:23. At that age a completed number of remnants existed with Him, though these remnants which the Lord possessed were ones that He Himself had acquired for Himself. They were also Divine ones and the means by which He united His Human Essence to His Divine Essence and made that Human Essence Divine, 1906. In Him therefore lies the reason why 'thirty years' means a state when the quantity of remnants is complete and why the priests the Levites began to perform their specific functions when they were thirty years old. And because he was to represent the Lord's kingship, David did not begin to reign until he was that same age. For every representative is derived from the Lord, and therefore every representative has reference to Him.

  
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