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1 Farás um altar para queimar o incenso; de madeira de acácia o farás.

2 O seu comprimento será de um côvado, e a sua largura de um côvado; será quadrado; e de dois côvados será a sua altura; as suas pontas formarão uma só peça com ele.

3 De ouro puro o cobrirás, tanto a face superior como as suas paredes ao redor, e as suas pontas; e lhe farás uma moldura de ouro ao redor.

4 Também lhe farás duas argolas de ouro debaixo da sua moldura; nos dois cantos de ambos os lados as farás; e elas servirão de lugares para os varais com que o altar será levado.

5 Farás também os varais de madeira de acácia e os cobrirás de ouro.

6 E porás o altar diante do véu que está junto à arca do testemunho, diante do propiciatório, que se acha sobre o testemunho, onde eu virei a ti.

7 E Arão queimará sobre ele o incenso das especiarias; cada manhã, quando puser em ordem as lâmpadas, o queimará.

8 Também quando acender as lâmpadas à tardinha, o queimará; este será incenso perpétuo perante o Senhor pelas vossas gerações.

9 Não oferecereis sobre ele incenso estranho, nem holocausto, nem oferta de cereais; nem tampouco derramareis sobre ele ofertas de libação.

10 E uma vez no ano Arão fará expiação sobre as pontas do altar; com o sangue do sacrifício de expiação de pecado, fará expiação sobre ele uma vez no ano pelas vossas gerações; santíssimo é ao Senhor.

11 Disse mais o Senhor a Moisés:

12 Quando fizeres o alistamento dos filhos de Israel para sua enumeração, cada um deles dará ao Senhor o resgate da sua alma, quando os alistares; para que não haja entre eles praga alguma por ocasião do alistamento.

13 Dará cada um, ao ser alistado, meio siclo, segundo o siclo do santuário (este siclo é de vinte jeiras); meio siclo é a oferta ao Senhor.

14 Todo aquele que for alistado, de vinte anos para cima, dará a oferta do Senhor.

15 O rico não dará mais, nem o pobre dará menos do que o meio siclo, quando derem a oferta do Senhor, para fazerdes expiação por vossas almas.

16 E tomarás o dinheiro da expiação dos filhos de Israel, e o designarás para o serviço da tenda da revelação, para que sirva de memorial a favor dos filhos de Israel diante do Senhor, para fazerdes expiação por vossas almas.

17 Disse mais o Senhor a Moisés:

18 Farás também uma pia de bronze com a sua base de bronze, para lavatório; e a porás entre a tenda da revelação e o altar, e nela deitarás água,

19 com a qual Arão e seus filhos lavarão as mãos e os pés;

20 quando entrarem na tenda da revelação lavar-se-ão com água, para que não morram, ou quando se chegarem ao altar para ministrar, para fazer oferta queimada ao Senhor.

21 Lavarão, pois, as mãos e os pés, para que não morram; e isto lhes será por estatuto perpétuo a ele e à sua descendência pelas suas gerações.

22 Disse mais o Senhor a Moisés:

23 Também toma das principais especiarias, da mais pura mirra quinhentos siclos, de canela aromática a metade, a saber, duzentos e cinqüenta siclos, de cálamo aromático duzentos e cinqüenta siclos,

24 de cássia quinhentos siclos, segundo o siclo do santuário, e de azeite de oliveiras um him.

25 Disto farás um óleo sagrado para as unções, um perfume composto segundo a arte do perfumista; este será o óleo sagrado para as unções.

26 Com ele ungirás a tenda da revelação, a arca do testemunho,

27 a mesa com todos os seus utensílios, o candelabro com os seus utensílios, o altar de incenso,

28 a altar do holocausto com todos os seus utensílios, o altar de incenso,

29 Assim santificarás estas coisas, para que sejam santíssimas; tudo o que as tocar será santo.

30 Também ungirás a Arão e seus filhos, e os santificarás para me administrarem o sacerdócio.

31 E falarás aos filhos de Israel, dizendo: Este me será o óleo sagrado para as unções por todas as vossas gerações.

32 Não se ungirá com ele carne de homem; nem fareis outro de semelhante composição; sagrado é, e para vós será sagrado.

33 O homem que compuser um perfume como este, ou que com ele ungir a um estranho, será extirpado do seu povo.

34 Disse mais o Senhor a Moisés: Toma especiarias aromáticas: estoraque, e ônica, e gálbano, especiarias aromáticas com incenso puro; de cada uma delas tomarás peso igual;

35 e disto farás incenso, um perfume segundo a arte do perfumista, temperado com sal, puro e santo;

36 e uma parte dele reduzirás a pó e o porás diante do testemunho, na tenda da revelação onde eu virei a ti; coisa santíssimá vos será.

37 Ora, o incenso que fareis conforme essa composição, não o fareis para vós mesmos; santo vos será para o Senhor.

38 O homem que fizer tal como este para o cheirar, será extirpado do seu povo.

   

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79. And He laid His right hand upon me, signifies life from Him. This is evident from the signification of "right hand," as being, in reference to the Lord, life from Him (See above, n. 72). It signifies life from Him, because it immediately follows the words, "I fell at His feet as dead;" and moreover, "to touch with the hand" signifies to communicate and transfer to another what pertains to oneself, and also to receive from another. To communicate and transfer to another what pertains to oneself, in reference to the Lord, as here, is to communicate and transfer life such as those have who are in a state of illumination and who see and hear such things as are in heaven. This also took place with John, for he was in such illumination when he saw and heard the things that are described in Revelation "To touch with the hand" is to communicate and transfer to another, because the whole power of man is transferred from the body into the hands; consequently what the mind wills that the body should do, that the arms and hands do (from this it is that by "arms" and "hands" in the Word is signified power, see Arcana Coelestia 878, 3091, 4931-4937, 6947, 7673, 10019).

But this power is natural power, and communication thereby is an exertion of the bodily forces; but spiritual power is to will the good of another, and to will to convey to another as far as possible what is with oneself. This power is what "hand" in the spiritual sense signifies, and its communication and transference are signified by "touching with the hand."

From this it can be seen what is signified by this, that the Lord, who is here called the "Son of man," laid His right hand upon John, when John lay as dead, namely, that He communicated and transferred to him life from Himself (See above). "To touch," and "to touch with the hand," has a similar signification in many passages in the Word, as in the following. In Daniel:

The Lord, who there appeared to him as a man clothed in linen, whose appearance was as the appearance of lightning, and His eyes as torches of fire, and His feet as the brightness of polished brass, touched him; and restored him to his standing; and lifted him upon his knees; and touched his lips, and opened his mouth; and still again touched him, and strengthened him (Daniel 10:4-21).

In Jeremiah:

Jehovah put forth His hand, and touched my mouth, and said, I put My words into thy mouth (Jeremiah 1:9).

And in Matthew:

Jesus stretching forth His hand to the leper, touched him, saying, I will; be thou made clean. And straightway his leprosy was cleansed (Matthew 8:3).

In the same:

Jesus saw Peter's wife's mother sick of a fever, and he touched her hand, and the fever left her (Matthew 8:14-15).

In the same:

Jesus touched the eyes of the two blind men, and their eyes were opened (Matthew 9:29-30).

In the same:

When Peter was yet speaking, behold a bright cloud overshadowed the disciples, and behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye Him. And when the disciples heard these things they fell on their face, and were sore afraid. Then came Jesus and touched them, and said, Arise, be not afraid (Matthew 17:5-8).

In Luke:

Jesus came and touched the bier of the dead, and said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise. Then he that was dead sat up, and began to speak (Luke 7:14-15).

In the same:

Jesus touched the ear of the deaf one, 1 and healed him (Luke 22:51).

In Mark:

And they brought [to Jesus] little children, that He should touch them; and He took them in His arms, put His hands upon them, and blessed them (Mark 10:13, 16).

In the same:

They brought unto Jesus those that were ill, that they might touch if it were but the border of His garment; and as many as touched were made whole (Mark 6:56; Matthew 14:35, 36).

In Luke:

A woman suffering from an issue of blood touched the border of His garment; and immediately the issue of her blood stanched. Jesus said, Who is it that touched Me? Some one did touch Me; I knew that power went forth from Me (Luke 8:43-46).

Because "touching" and "laying on of hands" signify communicating and transferring to another what pertains to oneself, therefore it has been customary in the churches from ancient times to lay hands upon the head of those who are inaugurated and blessed:

This Moses also was commanded to do to Joshua (Numbers 27:18-23; Deuteronomy 34:9).

As all things among the sons of Israel were representative and significative of spiritual things, so also was touch; wherefore those who touched what was holy were sanctified, and those who touched what was unclean were polluted; for "touch" signified communication and transference to another, and reception from another, as can be seen from the following passages in Moses:

Whosoever shall touch the tent of meeting; the ark of the Testimony; the table, and all the vessels thereof; the lampstand and the vessels thereof; the altar of incense; the altar of burnt-offering, and all the vessels thereof, and the laver and the base thereof, shall be holy (Exodus 30:26-29).

Whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy (Exodus 29:37).

Everything that toucheth the remainder of the meal-offering, and the remainder of the flesh from the sacrifice, shall be holy (Leviticus 6:18, 27).

Whosoever toucheth the dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel. And whosoever in the open field toucheth one that is slain with a sword, or the bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. He that toucheth the waters of separation shall be unclean until even. And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall become unclean, and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even (Numbers 19:11, 13, 16, 21-22).

He that toucheth unclean beasts and unclean reptiles shall be unclean. Everything upon which they shall fall shall be unclean, whether it be a vessel of wood, raiment, water, an earthen vessel, food, drink, an oven, (but not a fountain, pit, or receptacle of water) shall be unclean (Leviticus 11:31-36, besides other places, as Leviticus 5:2, 3; 7:21; 11:37, 38; 15 to the end; Leviticus 17:4; 22:4; Numbers 16:26; Isaiah 52:11; Lamentations 4:14, 15; Hosea 4:2, 3; Haggai 2:12, 13, 14).

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. In the Greek we have "servant"; but Arcana Coelestia 10130 also has "deaf one."

  
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