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Éxodo 36

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1 Hizo, pues , Bezaleel y Aholiab, y todo hombre sabio de corazón, a quien el SEÑOR dio sabiduría e inteligencia para que supiesen hacer toda la obra del servicio del santuario, todas las cosas que había mandado el SEÑOR.

2 Y Moisés llamó a Bezaleel y a Aholiab, y a todo varón sabio de corazón, en cuyo corazón había dado el SEÑOR sabiduría, y a todo hombre a quien su corazón le movió a llegarse a la obra, para trabajar en ella;

3 y tomaron de delante de Moisés toda la ofrenda que los hijos de Israel habían traído para la obra del servicio del santuario, a fin de hacerla. Y ellos le traían aun ofrenda voluntaria cada mañana.

4 Tanto que vinieron, todos los maestros que hacían toda la obra del santuario, cada uno de la obra que hacía.

5 Y hablaron a Moisés, diciendo: El pueblo trae mucho más de lo que se necesita para hacer la obra para el ministerio que el SEÑOR ha mandado que se haga.

6 Entonces Moisés mandó pregonar por el campo, diciendo: Ningún hombre ni mujer haga más obra para ofrecer para el santuario. Y así fue el pueblo detenido de ofrecer;

7 pues tenía material abundante para hacer toda la obra, y sobraba.

8 Y todos los sabios de corazón entre los que hacían la obra, hicieron el tabernáculo de diez cortinas, de lino torcido, y de cárdeno, y de púrpura y carmesí; las cuales hicieron de obra primorosa, con querubines.

9 La longitud de una cortina era de veintiocho codos, y la anchura de cuatro codos; todas las cortinas tenían una misma medida.

10 Y juntó las cinco cortinas la una con la otra; asimismo unió las otras cinco cortinas la una con la otra.

11 E hizo las lazadas de color de cárdeno en la orilla de una cortina, en el borde, a la juntura; y así hizo en la orilla al borde de la segunda cortina, en la juntura.

12 Cincuenta lazadas hizo en una cortina, y otras Cincuenta en la segunda cortina, en el borde, en la juntura; las lazadas enfrente de las otras.

13 Hizo también cincuenta corchetes de oro, con los cuales juntó las cortinas, la una con la otra; y se hizo un tabernáculo.

14 Hizo asimismo cortinas de pelo de cabras para la tienda sobre el tabernáculo; once cortinas hizo.

15 La longitud de una cortina era de treinta codos, y la anchura de cuatro codos; las once cortinas tenían una misma medida.

16 Y juntó las cinco cortinas de por sí, y las seis cortinas aparte.

17 Hizo además cincuenta lazadas en la orilla de la postrera cortina en la juntura, y otras cincuenta lazadas en la orilla de la otra cortina en la juntura.

18 Hizo también cincuenta corchetes de bronce para juntar la tienda, de modo que fuese una.

19 E hizo una cubierta para la tienda de cueros rojos de carneros, y otra cubierta encima de cueros de tejones.

20 E hizo las tablas para el tabernáculo de madera de cedro estantes.

21 La longitud de cada tabla de diez codos, y de codo y medio la anchura.

22 Cada tabla tenía dos quicios enclavijados el uno delante del otro; así hizo todas las tablas del tabernáculo.

23 Hizo, pues, las tablas para el tabernáculo: veinte tablas al lado del austro, al mediodía.

24 Hizo también las cuarenta basas de plata debajo de las veinte tablas: dos basas debajo de una tabla para sus dos quicios, y dos basas debajo de la otra tabla para sus dos quicios.

25 Y para el otro lado del tabernáculo, en el lado del aquilón, hizo veinte tablas,

26 con sus cuarenta basas de plata: dos basas debajo de una tabla, y dos basas debajo de la otra tabla.

27 Y para el lado occidental del tabernáculo hizo seis tablas.

28 Para las esquinas del tabernáculo en los dos lados hizo dos tablas,

29 las cuales se juntaban por abajo, y asimismo por arriba a un gozne; y así hizo a la una y a la otra en las dos esquinas.

30 Eran, pues, ocho tablas, y sus basas de plata dieciséis; dos basas debajo de cada tabla.

31 Hizo también las barras de madera de cedro; cinco para las tablas de un lado del tabernáculo,

32 y cinco barras para las tablas del otro lado del tabernáculo, y cinco barras para las tablas del lado del tabernáculo a la parte occidental.

33 E hizo que la barra del medio pasase por en medio de las tablas de un extremo al otro.

34 Y cubrió las tablas de oro, e hizo de oro los anillos de ellas por donde pasasen las barras; cubrió también de oro las barras.

35 Hizo asimismo el velo de cárdeno, y púrpura, y carmesí, y lino torcido, el cual hizo con querubines de delicada obra.

36 Y para él hizo cuatro columnas de cedro; y las cubrió de oro, los capiteles de las cuales eran de oro; e hizo para ellas cuatro basas de plata de fundición.

37 Hizo asimismo el velo para la puerta del tabernáculo, de cárdeno, y púrpura, y carmesí, y lino torcido, obra de recamador;

38 y sus cinco columnas con sus capiteles; y cubrió las cabezas de ellas y sus molduras de oro; y sus cinco basas las hizo de bronce.

   

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3519. 'And take for me from there two good kids of the she-goats' means truths born from that good. This is clear from the meaning of 'kids of the she-goats' as truths born from good, dealt with below. The reason for having 'two' was that as in the rational so in the natural there are things of the will and those of the understanding. Things in the natural that belong to the will are delights, while those that belong to the understanding are facts. These two have to be joined together if they are to be anything at all.

[2] As regards 'kids of the she-goats' meaning truths born from good, this becomes clear from those places in the Word where kids and she-goats are mentioned. It should be recognized that all gentle and useful beasts mentioned in the Word mean in the genuine sense celestial things, which are forms of good, and spiritual things, which are forms of truth, see 45, 46, 142, 143, 246, 714, 715, 776, 2179, 2180, 2781, 3218. And since there are various genera of celestial things or forms of good, and consequently there are various genera of spiritual things or forms of truth, one beast has a different meaning from another; that is to say, a lamb has one meaning, a kid another, and a sheep, she-goat, ram, he-goat, young bull, or ox another, while a horse or a camel has yet another meaning. Birds have a different meaning again, as also do beasts of the sea, such as sea monsters, and fish. The genera of celestial and spiritual things, and consequently of forms of good and truth, are more than anyone can number, even though when that which is celestial or good is mentioned, and also when that which is spiritual or truth, this is not envisaged as being anything complex, consisting of many parts, but as a single entity. Yet how complex both of these are, that is, how countless the genera are of which they consist, may be seen from what has been stated about heaven in 3241, to the effect that it is distinguished into countless separate communities, according to the genera of celestial and spiritual things, that is, of goods of love and of derivative truths of faith. Furthermore each genus of good and each genus of truth has countless species into which the communities of each genus are separated. And each species in a similar way has separate sub-species.

[3] The commonest genera of good and truth are what the living creatures offered as burnt offerings and sacrifices represented. And because the genera are quite distinct and separate, people were explicitly commanded to use those living creatures and no others, that is to say, in some sacrifices lambs and ewe-lambs, and also kids and female kids of she-goats were to be used, in other sacrifices rams and sheep, and also he-goats, were to be used, while in other sacrifices again, calves, young bulls, and oxen, or else pigeons and doves, were to be used, see 992, 1823, 2180, 2805, 2807, 2830, 3218. What kids and she-goats meant however becomes clear both from the sacrifices in which they used to be offered and from other places in the Word. These show that lambs and ewe-lambs meant innocence belonging to the internal or rational man, and kids and she-goats innocence belonging to the external or natural man, and so the truth and the good of the latter.

[4] The fact that truth and good present in the innocence that belongs to the external or natural man is meant by a kid and a she-goat is clear from the following places in the Word: In Isaiah,

The wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the kid, the calf also and the young lion and the sheep together; and a little child will lead them. Isaiah 11:6.

This refers to the Lord's kingdom and to the state there in which people have no fear of evil, that is, no dread of hell, because they are with the Lord. 'The lamb' and 'the kid' stand for people who have innocence within them, and who, being the most secure of all, are mentioned first.

[5] When all the firstborn of Egypt were smitten the people were commanded to kill from among the lambs or among the kids a male without blemish, and to put some of the blood on the doorposts and on the lintel of their houses; and so the destroyer would not strike them with the plague, Exodus 12:5, 7, 13. 'The firstborn of Egypt' means the good of love and charity that was wiped out, 3325. 'The lambs' and 'the kids' are states of innocence, in which those with whom these exist are secure from evil. Indeed all in heaven are kept secure by the Lord through states of innocence. That security was represented by the killing of the lamb or kid, and putting the blood on the doorposts and on the lintel of the houses. .

[6] To avert his own death when a person saw Jehovah manifested as an angel he would sacrifice 'a kid of the she-goats', as Gideon did when he saw Him, Judges 6:19, and also Manoah, Judges 13:15-16, 19. The reason they offered a kid was that Jehovah or the Lord cannot appear to anybody, not even to an angel, unless the one to whom He appears is in a state of innocence. Therefore as soon as the Lord is present people are brought into a state of innocence, for the Lord enters in by way of innocence, even with angels in heaven. Consequently no one is able to enter heaven unless he has a measure of innocence, according to the Lord's words recorded in Matthew 18:3; Mark 10:15; Luke 18:17. Regarding people's belief that they would die when Jehovah appeared to them if they did not offer such a burnt offering, see Judges 13:22-23.

[7] Since genuine conjugial love is innocence itself, 2736, it was customary in the representative Church for a man to go to his wife with the gift of a kid of the she-goats, as one reads of Samson in Judges 15:1, and also of Judah when he visited Tamar, Genesis 38:17, 20, 23. The fact that 'a kid' and 'a she-goat' meant innocence is also evident from the sacrifices made as guilt offerings that a person would offer if he had sinned through error, Leviticus 1:10; 4:28; 5:6. Sinning through error is sinning through ignorance that has innocence within it. The same is evident from the following Divine command in Moses,

You shall bring the first of the firstfruits of your land to the house of Jehovah your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk. Exodus 23:19; 34:26.

Here the requirement 'to bring the firstfruits of the land to the house of Jehovah' means the state of innocence which exists in early childhood; and 'not boiling a kid in its mother's milk' means that they were not to destroy the innocence of early childhood. This being their meaning, the one command, in both places referred to, follows directly after the other. In the literal sense there seems to be no connection at all between them as there is in the internal sense.

[8] Because kids and she-goats, as has been stated, meant innocence it was also required that the curtains over the tabernacle should be made from she-goat hair, Exodus 25:4; 26:7; 35:5-6, 23, 26; 36:14, as a sign that all the holy things represented in it depended for their very being on innocence. 'She-goat hair' means the last or outermost degree of innocence present in ignorance, such as exists with gentiles who in the internal sense are meant by the curtains of the tabernacle. These considerations now show what truths born of good are, and what the nature of these is, meant by the two good kids of the she-goats which Rebekah his mother spoke about to Jacob. That is to say, they are truths belonging to innocence or early childhood, meant also by the things which Esau was to bring to Isaac his father, dealt with in 3501, 3508. They were not in fact such truths, but initially they appeared to be. Thus it was that Jacob pretended by means of them to be Esau.

  
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