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2 Mosebok 25

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1 Och HERREN talade till Mose och sade:

2 Säg till Israels barn att de upptaga en gärd åt mig; av var och en som har ett därtill villigt hjärta skolen I upptaga denna gärd åt mig.

3 Och detta är vad I skolen upptaga av dem såsom gärd: guld, silver och koppar

4 mörkblått, purpurrött, rosenrött och vitt garn och gethår,

5 rödfärgade vädurskinn, tahasskinn, akacieträ,

6 olja till ljusstaken, kryddor till smörjelseoljan och till den välluktande rökelsen,

7 äntligen onyxstenar och infattningsstenar, till att användas för efoden och för bröstskölden.

8 Och de skola göra åt mig en helgedom, för att jag må bo mitt ibland dem.

9 Tabernaklet och alla dess tillbehör skolen I göra alldeles efter de mönsterbilder som jag visar dig.

10 De skola göra en ark av akacieträ, två och en halv aln lång, en och en halv aln bred och en och en halv aln hög.

11 Och du skall överdraga den med rent guld, innan och utan skall du överdraga den; och du skall på den göra en rand av guld runt omkring.

12 Och du skall till den gjuta fyra ringar av guld och sätta dem över de fyra fötterna, två ringar på ena sidan och två ringarandra sidan.

13 Och du skall göra stänger av akacieträ och överdraga dem med guld.

14 Och stängerna skall du skjuta in i ringarna, på sidorna av arken, så att man med dem kan bära arken.

15 Stängerna skola sitta kvar i ringarna på arken; de få icke dragas ut ur dem.

16 Och i arken skall du lägga vittnesbördet, som jag skall giva dig.

17 Och du skall göra en nådastol av rent guld, två och en halv aln lång och en och en halv aln bred.

18 Och du skall göra två keruber av guld; i drivet arbete skall du göra dem och sätta dem vid de båda ändarna av nådastolen.

19 Du skall göra en kerub till att sätta vid ena ändan, och en kerub till att sätta vid andra ändan. I ett stycke med nådastolen skolen I göra keruberna vid dess båda ändar.

20 Och keruberna skola breda ut sina vingar och hålla dem uppåt, så att de övertäcka nådastolen med sina vingar, under det att de hava sina ansikten vända mot varandra; ned mot nådastolen skola keruberna vända sina ansikten.

21 Och du skall sätta nådastolen ovanpå arken, och i arken skall du lägga vittnesbördet, som jag skall giva dig.

22 Och där skall jag uppenbara mig för dig; från nådastolen, från platsen mellan de två keruberna, som stå på vittnesbördets ark, skall jag tala med dig om alla bud som jag genom dig vill giva Israels barn.

23 Du skall ock göra ett bord av akacieträ, två alnar långt, en aln brett och en och en halv aln högt.

24 Och du skall överdraga det med rent guld; och du skall göra en rand av guld därpå runt omkring

25 Och runt omkring det skall du göra en list av en hands bredd, och runt omkring listen skall du göra en rand av guld.

26 Och du skall till bordet göra fyra ringar av guld och sätta ringarna i de fyra hörnen vid de fyra fötterna.

27 Invid listen skola ringarna sitta, för att stänger må skjutas in i dem, så att man kan bära bordet.

28 Och du skall göra stängerna av akacieträ och överdraga dem med guld, och med dem skall bordet bäras.

29 Du skall ock göra därtill fat och skålar, kannor och bägare, med vilka man skall utgjuta drickoffer; av rent guld skall du göra dem.

30 Och du skall beständigt hava skådebröd liggande på bordet inför mitt ansikte.

31 Du skall ock göra en ljusstake av rent guld. I drivet arbete skall ljusstaken göras, med sin fotställning och sitt mittelrör; kalkarna därpå, kulor och blommor skola vara i ett stycke med den.

32 Och sex armar skola utgå från ljusstakens sidor, tre armar från ena sidan och tre armar från andra sidan.

33 På den ena armen skola vara tre kalkar, liknande mandelblommor, vardera bestående av en kula och en blomma, och på den andra armen sammalunda tre kalkar, liknande mandelblommor, vardera bestående av en kula och en blomma så skall det vara på de sex arma som utgå från ljusstaken.

34 Men på själva ljusstaken skola vara fyra kalkar, liknande mandelblommor, med sina kulor och blommor.

35 En kula skall sättas under del första armparet som utgår från ljusstaken, i ett stycke med den, och en kula under det andra armparet som utgår från ljusstaken, i ett stycke med den, och en kula under det tredje armparet som utgår från ljusstaken, i ett stycke med den: alltså under de sex armar som utgå från ljusstaken.

36 Deras kulor och armar skola vara: i ett stycke med den, alltsammans ett enda stycke i drivet arbete av rent guld.

37 Och du skall till den göra sju lampor, och lamporna skall man sätta upp så, att den kastar sitt sken över platsen därframför.

38 Och lamptänger och brickor till den skall du göra av rent guld.

39 Av en talent rent guld skall man göra den med alla dessa tillbehör.

40 Och se till, att du gör detta efter de mönsterbilder som hava blivit dig visade på berget.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 2165

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2165. That 'I will take a piece of bread' means something heavenly or celestial to go with [that something natural] is clear from the meaning of 'bread' as that which is celestial, dealt with already in 276, 680, 681, 1798. The reason 'bread' here means that which is celestial is that bread means all food in general, and so in the internal sense all heavenly or celestial food. What celestial food is has been stated in Volume One, in 56-58, 680, 681, 1480, 1695. That 'bread' means all food in general becomes clear from the following places in the Word: One reads of Joseph telling the man in charge of his house to bring the men, that is, his brothers, into the house, and then to slaughter what needed to be slaughtered and made ready. And after that, when these things had been made ready and the men were to eat them, he said, Set on bread, Genesis 43:16, 31, by which he meant that the table was to be made ready by them. Thus 'bread' stood for all the food that made up the entire meal. Regarding Jethro one reads that Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God, Exodus 18:12. Here also 'bread' stands for all the food that made up the entire meal. And regarding Manoah, in the Book of Judges,

Manoah said to the angel of Jehovah, Let us now detain you, and let us make ready a kid before you. And the angel of Jehovah said to Manoah, If you detain me I will not eat your bread. Judges 13:15-16.

Here 'bread' stands for the kid. When Jonathan ate from the honeycomb the people told him that Saul had commanded the people with an oath, saying,

Cursed be the man who eats bread this day. 1 Samuel 14:27-28.

Here 'bread' stands for all food. Elsewhere, regarding Saul,

When Saul sat down to eat bread he said to Jonathan, Why has not the son of Jesse come either yesterday or today, to bread? 1 Samuel 20:24, 27.

This stands for coming to the table, where there was food of every kind. Regarding David who said to Mephibosheth, Jonathan's son,

You will eat bread at my table always. 2 Samuel 9:7, 10.

Similarly regarding Evil-Merodach who said that Jehoiachin the king of Judah was to eat bread with him always, all the days of his life, 2 Kings 25:29. Regarding Solomon the following is said,

Solomon's bread for each day was thirty cors 1 of fine flour, sixty cors of meal, ten fatted oxen, twenty pasture-fed oxen, and a hundred sheep, besides harts and wild she-goats and roebucks and fatted fowl. 1 Kings 4:22-23.

Here 'bread' plainly stands for all the provisions that are mentioned.

[2] Since then 'bread' means every kind of food in general it consequently means in the internal sense all those things that are called heavenly or celestial foods. This becomes even clearer still from the burnt offerings and sacrifices that were made of lambs, sheep, 2 she-goats, kids, he-goats, young bulls, and oxen, which are referred to by the single expression bread offered by fire to Jehovah, as is quite clear from the following places in Moses where the various sacrifices are dealt with and which, it says, the priest was to burn on the altar as the bread offered by fire to Jehovah for an odour of rest, Leviticus 3:11, 16. All those sacrifices and burnt offerings were called such. In the same book,

The sons of Aaron shall be holy to their God, and they shall not profane the name of their God, for it is the fire-offerings to Jehovah, the bread of their God, that they offer. You shall sanctify him, for it is the bread of your God that he offers. No man of Aaron's seed who has a blemish in himself shall approach to offer the bread of his God. Leviticus 21:6, 8, 17, 21.

Here also sacrifices and burnt offerings are referred to as 'bread', as they are also in Leviticus 22:25. Elsewhere in the same author,

Command the children of Israel, and say to them, My gift, My bread, for fire-offerings of an odour of rest, you shall take care to offer to Me at their appointed times. Numbers 28:2.

Here also 'bread' stands for all the sacrifices that are mentioned in that chapter. In Malachi,

Offering polluted bread on My altar. Malachi 1:7.

This also has regard to sacrifices. The consecrated parts of the sacrifices which they ate were called 'bread' as well, as is clear from these words in Moses,

The person who has touched anything unclean shall not eat any of the consecrated offerings, but he shall surely bathe his flesh in water, and when the sun has set he will be clean. And afterwards he shall eat of the consecrated offerings, because it is his bread. Leviticus 22:6-7.

[3] Burnt offerings and sacrifices in the Jewish Church represented nothing else than the heavenly things of the Lord's kingdom in heaven, and of the Lord's kingdom on earth, which is the Church. They also represented the things of the Lord's kingdom or Church as it exists with every individual; and in general they represented all those things that are composed of love and charity, for those things are celestial or of heaven. In addition each type of sacrifice represented some specific thing. In those times all of the sacrifices were called 'bread', and therefore when the sacrifices were abolished and other things serving for external worship took their place, the use of bread and wine was commanded.

[4] From all this it is now clear what is meant by that 'bread', namely that it means all those things which were represented in the sacrifices, and thus in the internal sense means the Lord Himself. And because 'bread' there means the Lord Himself it means love itself towards the whole human race and what belongs to love. It also means man's reciprocal love to the Lord and towards the neighbour. Thus the bread now commanded means all celestial things, and wine accordingly all spiritual things, as the Lord also explicitly teaches in John,

They said, Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, It was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. They said to Him, Lord, give us this bread always. Jesus said to them, I am the Bread of life he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst. John 6:31-35.

And in the same chapter,

Truly I say to you, He who believes in Me has eternal life. I am the Bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the Bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat of it and not die. I am the living Bread which came down from heaven; if anyone eats of this Bread he will live for ever. John 6:47-51.

[5] Now because this 'Bread' is the Lord it exists within the celestial things of love which are the Lord's, for the Lord is the celestial itself, because He is love itself, that is, mercy itself. This being so, 'bread' also means everything celestial, that is, all the love and charity existing with a person, for these are derived from the Lord. People who are devoid of love and charity therefore do not have the Lord within them, and so are not endowed with the forms of good and of happiness which are meant in the internal sense by 'bread'. This external symbol [of love and charity] was commanded because the worship of the majority of the human race is external, and therefore without some external symbol scarcely anything holy would exist among them. Consequently when they lead lives of love to the Lord and of charity towards the neighbour, that which is internal exists with them even though they do not know that such love and charity constitute the inner core of worship. Thus in their external worship they are confirmed in the kinds of good which are meant by 'the bread'.

[6] In the Prophets as well 'bread' means the celestial things of love, as in Isaiah 3:1, 7; 30:23; 33:15-16; 55:2; 58:7-8; Lamentations 5:9; Ezekiel 4:16-17; 5:16; 14:13; Amos 4:6; 8:11; Psalms 105:16. Those things are in a similar way meant by 'the loaves of the Presence' on the table, referred to in Leviticus 24:5-9; Exodus 25:30; 40:23; Numbers 4:7; 1 Kings 7:48.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. A cor, or a homer, was a Hebrew measure of about 6 bushels or 220 litres.

2. The Latin has a word meaning oxen (boves), but comparison with other places where Swedenborg gives the same list of animals suggests that he intended sheep (oves).

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.