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1 Еще сдјлай жертвенникъ для приношенія куреній; изъ дерева акаціи сдјлай его.

2 Длина ему локоть, и ширина ему локоть; онъ долженъ быть четыреугольный; а вышина ему два локтя; изъ него должны выходитъ роги его.

3 Обложи его чистымъ золотомъ, верхъ его, и бока его кругомъ, и роги его; и сдјлай къ нему золотой вјнецъ вокругъ.

4 Подъ вјнцемъ его, на двухъ углахъ его сдјлай два кольца изъ золота. Такъ сдјлай съ двухъ сторонъ его; и будутъ оныя влагалищемъ для шестовъ, чтобы носить его на нихъ.

5 Шесты сдјлай изъ дерева акаціи, и обложи ихъ золотомъ.

6 И поставь его предъ завјсою, которая предъ ковчегомъ откровенія противъ очистилища находящагося надъ откровеніемъ, гдј я буду открываться тебј.

7 И будетъ курить на немъ Ааронъ благовоннымъ куреніемъ каждое утро; тогда какъ онъ поправляетъ лампады, будетъ курить имъ.

8 По вечерамъ также, когда Ааронъ зажигаетъ лампады, онъ будетъ курить имъ. Это всегдашнее куреніе предъ Іеговою, въ роды ваши.

9 Не приносите на немъ куренія чуждаго, ни всесожженія, ни приношенія хлјбнаго. и возліянія не возливайте на него.

10 Только однажды въ годъ долженъ Ааронъ совершать очищеніе надъ рогами его; кровію жертвы очистительной отъ грјха онъ будетъ очищать его однажды въ годъ, въ роды ваши. Это великая святыня у Іеговы.

11 И говорилъ Іегова Моисею и сказалъ:

12 когда будешь дјлать перепись сыновъ Израилевыхъ при исчисленіи ихъ, то каждый дастъ окупъ за душу свою Іеговј, при исчисленіи ихъ, и не будетъ между ими язвы, при исчисленіи ихъ.

13 Всякій поступающій въ перепись долженъ дать половину сикля, противъ сикля святилища; въ сиклј двадцать геръ: полсикля приношеніе Іеговј.

14 Всякой поступающій въ перепись, отъ двадцати лјтъ и выше, дастъ приношеніе Іеговј.

15 Богатый дастъ не больше, и бјдный дастъ не меньше, какъ полсикля, принося приношеніе Іеговј, для окупа душъ вашихъ.

16 И возми серебро окупа отъ сыновъ Израилевыхъ, и употребляй оное на дјло скиніи собранія: и будетъ сіе въ память сыновъ Израилевыхъ предъ Іеговою, для искупленія душъ ихъ.

17 Еще говоридъ Іегова Моисею, и сказалъ:

18 сдјлай умывальницу мјдную для омовенія, и основаніе ей мјдное, и поставь ее между скиніею собранія и между жертвенникомъ, и налей въ нее воды.

19 И пусть Ааронъ и сыны его омываютъ изъ нея руки свои и ноги свои.

20 Когда имъ войдти въ скинію собранія; пусть они омываются водою, чтобъ имъ не умереть; или когда приступать имъ къ жертвеннику для служенія, для куренія огнепалимыми жертвами Іеговј,

21 пусть они омываютъ руки свои и ноги, чтобы не умереть. Сіе будетъ для нихъ вјчнымъ постановленіемъ для него, и для потомковъ его, въ роды ихъ.

22 Еще говорилъ Іегова Моисею, и сказалъ:

23 ты же возми себј первјйшихъ благовонныхъ веществъ: смирны самоточной пять сотъ сиклей, и корицы благовонной половину противъ того, двјсти пятьдесятъ; и трости благовонной двјсти пятьдесятъ,

24 и касіи пять сотъ сиклей, противъ сикля святилища, и елея гинъ.

25 И сдјлай изъ сего мўро для священнаго помазанія, масть составленную, искусствомъ составляюшаго масти. Это будетъ мўро для священнаго помазанія.

26 И помажь мнј скинію собранія, и ковчегъ откровенія,

27 и столъ и всј принадлежности его, и свјтильникъ и всј принадлежиости его, и жертвенникъ куренія,

28 и жертвенникъ всесожженія, и всј сосуды его, и умывальницу и основаніе ея.

29 И освяти ихъ, и будутъ святыня великая: все прикасающееся къ нимъ будетъ свято.

30 Помажь также Аарона и сыновъ его и посвяти ихъ, чтобы они были священниками Мнј.

31 А сынамъ Израилевымъ скажи: это будетъ у меня мўро священнаго помазанія въ роды ваши.

32 Тјла какого-либо человјка не мазать имъ; и по составу его не дјлайте другаго подобнаго. Оно святыня; святынею да будетъ для васъ.

33 Кто составитъ подобное ему, или кто помажетъ имъ посторонняго: тотъ истребится изъ народа своего.

34 Еще сказалъ Іегова Моисею: возми себј благовонныхъ веществъ: стакти, ониха, и халвана душистаго, и чистаго ливана, всего по ровну.

35 Изъ нихъ искусствомъ составляющаго масти, сдјлай курительный составъ, съ солью, чистый, святый;

36 и растолкп его мелко, и возлагай его предъ откровеніемъ въ скиніи собранія, гдј Я буду открываться тебј: это будетъ у васъ святыня великая.

37 Куренія сдјланнаго по сему составу не дјлайте себј: да будетъ оно у тебя свято для Іеговы.

38 Кто сдјлаетъ подобное ему, чтобы курить имъ, истребится изъ народа своего.

   

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2959. 'The land [is worth] four hundred shekels of silver' means the price of redemption by means of truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'four hundred shekels', dealt with below, and from the meaning of 'silver' as truth, dealt with in 1551, 2048, 2937. The reason 'four hundred shekels' means the price of redemption is that 'four hundred' means vastation and 'a shekel' price. What vastation is, see 2455 (end), 2682, 2694, 2699, 2702, 2704, where it is shown that there are two types of vastation. The first takes place when the Church altogether ceases to exist, that is, when there is no longer any charity or faith. At that point the Church is said to be vastated or laid waste. The second takes place when those who belong to the Church are reduced to a state of ignorance and also of temptation, for the reason that the evils and falsities residing with them are to be set apart and so to speak dissipated. Those who emerge from this vastation are those who are specifically called the redeemed, for at that point they are taught the goods and truths of faith, and are reformed and regenerated by the Lord, as shown in the paragraphs quoted. Now since the number four hundred, when used to specify a period of time - such as four hundred years - means the duration and also the state of vastation, so that same number, when used to specify the number of shekels, means the price of redemption; and when the word 'silver' is mentioned together with this number, the price of redemption by means of truth is meant.

[2] That 'four hundred years' means the duration and the state of vastation becomes clear also from what Abraham was told,

Jehovah said to Abraham, 1 Know for sure that your seed will be strangers in a land not theirs. And they will serve them, and these will afflict them for four hundred years. Genesis 15:13.

There it may be seen that 'four hundred years' is used to mean the duration of the stay of the children of Israel in Egypt. Yet it is not the duration of their stay in Egypt that is meant but something that is not evident to anyone except from the internal sense. This becomes clear from the fact that the duration of the stay of the children of Israel in Egypt was no more than half the stated period, as becomes quite clear from the descendants of Jacob down to Moses. For the facts are that Levi was descended from Jacob, Kohath from Levi, Amram from Kohath, and Aaron and Moses from Amram, Exodus 6:16-20; Levi and his son Kohath went down to Egypt together with Jacob, Genesis 46:11; and Moses came two generations later, and was eighty years old when he spoke to Pharaoh, Exodus 7:7. These facts show that the period of time from Jacob's entry into Egypt until his sons' departure from that land was approximately two hundred and fifteen years.

[3] That 'four hundred' is used in the Word to mean something other than its numerical value in the historical sense is clearer still from its being said that

The length of time that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years, and at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, it happened on that same day, that all the armies of Jehovah went out of the land of Egypt. Exodus 12:40-41.

The duration of the stay of the children of Israel in that land was in fact only half that number of years; but it was from Abraham's entry into Egypt that the four hundred and thirty years were measured. Consequently what is said at this point in Exodus is for the sake of the internal sense Lying within those words. In the internal sense the sojourn of the sons of Jacob in Egypt represents and means the vastation of the Church, the state and duration of which are described by the number four hundred and thirty years. Thirty describes the state of vastation of the sons of Jacob as being no vastation at all, for they were such as could not be reformed through any state of vastation (for the meaning of the number thirty, see 2276); and 'four hundred years' represents the general state of vastation of those who belonged to the Church.

[4] Those therefore who come out of that vastation are referred to as the redeemed, as is also evident from the words addressed to Moses,

Therefore say to the children of Israel, I am Jehovah, and I will bring you out from beneath the burdens of Egypt, and I will rescue you from their slavery, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgements. Exodus 6:6.

And elsewhere,

Jehovah has brought you out by means of a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of slaves, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Deuteronomy 7:8; 13:5.

And elsewhere,

You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, but Jehovah your God redeemed you. Deuteronomy 15:15; 24:18.

In Samuel,

Your people whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt. 2 Samuel 7:23.

Since those who emerge from the state of vastation are referred to as the redeemed, 'four hundred shekels' therefore means the price of redemption.

[5] As regards 'a shekel' meaning the price or valuation, this is clear from the following places in the Word: In Moses,

All your valuations shall be according to the shekel of holiness. Leviticus 27:25.

And elsewhere,

If a soul commits a trespass and has sinned inadvertently in the holy things of Jehovah, he shall bring his guilt offering to Jehovah, a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to your valuation in silver shekels, according to the shekel of holiness. Leviticus 5:15.

From this it is evident that 'a shekel' means the price or valuation. It is called 'the shekel of holiness' because the price or valuation has regard to truth and good from the Lord - truth and good from the Lord being, within the Church, holiness itself. Consequently it is called 'the shekel of holiness' many times elsewhere, as in Exodus 30:24; Leviticus 27:3; Numbers 3:47, 50; 7:13, 19, 25, 31, 37, 43, 49, 55, 61, 67, 73; 18:16.

[6] That 'a shekel' is the price of what is holy is quite evident in Ezekiel when the holy land and the holy city are the subject. There the shekel is referred to as follows,

The shekel there shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh (pound). Ezekiel 45:12.

Anyone may see that here 'shekel', 'pound', and the numbers mentioned mean holy things, that is, good and truth, for the holy land and the holy city or new Jerusalem, which are the subject there, mean nothing else than the Lord's kingdom where neither shekel, nor gerahs, nor pound, nor the numbering of them occurs. But the number itself, from the meaning it has in the internal sense, determines the valuation or price of good and truth.

[7] In Moses it is said that every man (vir) should give a ransom for his soul, so that there would be no plague. He had to give half a shekel, according to the shekel of holiness, a shekel being twenty gerahs. Half a shekel was to be the thruma (offering) to Jehovah, Exodus 30:12-13. Here ten gerahs, which make half a shekel, are remnants which are received from the Lord. Remnants are goods and truths stored away with a person - such remnants, being meant by 'ten', see 576, 1738, 1906, 2284. That remnants are goods and truths from the Lord that are stored away with a person, see 1906, 2284. Consequently they are also called 'the thruma (or offering) to Jehovah', and it is said that by means of this a soul will be redeemed. The reason it is stated several times that a shekel was twenty gerahs, as in these verses from Exodus, and also in Leviticus 27:25; Numbers 3:47; 18:16; and elsewhere, is that the shekel of twenty gerahs means the valuation of the good preserved in remnants - twenty meaning the good preserved in remnants, see 2280. Also therefore a shekel was a weight according to which the price of both gold and silver was determined, Genesis 24:22; Exodus 38:24; Ezekiel 4:10; 45:12 - the price of gold because 'gold' means good, 113, 1551, 1552, and the price of silver because 'silver' means truth, 1551, 2048. From this it is now evident that 'the land [is worth] four hundred shekels of silver' means the price of redemption by means of truth. The reason it is called 'the land' is that the spiritual Church is the subject, which is reformed and regenerated by means of truth received from the Lord, 2954. That 'the land' means the Church, see 662, 1066, 1068, 1262, 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118 (end).

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1 If there arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give you a sign or a wonder,

2 and the sign or the wonder come to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, "Let us go after other gods" (which you have not known) "and let us serve them;"

3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams: for Yahweh your God proves you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

4 You shall walk after Yahweh your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cling to him.

5 That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, "Let us go and serve other gods," which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;

7 of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;

8 you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him:

9 but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

10 You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

11 All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more such wickedness as this is in the midst of you.

12 If you shall hear tell concerning one of your cities, which Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, saying,

13 Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, "Let us go and serve other gods," which you have not known;

14 then you shall inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in the midst of you,

15 you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and its livestock, with the edge of the sword.

16 You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its street, and shall burn with fire the city, and all its spoil every whit, to Yahweh your God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.

17 Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand; that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;

18 when you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.