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2 Mosebok 35

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1 Och Mose församlade Israels barns hela menighet och sade till dem: »Detta är vad HERREN har bjudit eder att göra:

2 Sex dagar skall arbete göras, men på sjunde dagen skolen I hava helgdag, en HERRENS vilosabbat. Var och en som på den dagen gör något arbete skall dödas.

3 I skolen icke tända upp eld på: sabbatsdagen, var I än ären bosatta.

4 Och Mose sade till Israels barns hela menighet: »Detta är vad HERREN har bjudit och sagt:

5 Låten bland eder upptaga en gärd åt HERREN, så att var och en som har ett därtill villigt hjärta bär fram denna gård åt HERREN: guld, silver och koppar,

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

7 rödfärgade vädurskinn, tahasskinn, akacieträ,

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

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

10 Och alla konstförfarna män bland eder må komma och förfärdiga allt vad HERREN har bjudit:

11 tabernaklet, dess täckelse och överdraget till detta, dess häktor, bräder, tvärstänger, stolpar och fotstycken,

12 arken med dess stänger, nådastolen och den förlåt som skall hänga framför den,

13 bordet med dess stänger och alla dess tillbehör och skådebröden,

14 ljusstaken med dess tillbehör och dess lampor, oljan till ljusstaken,

15 rökelsealtaret med dess stänger, smörjelseoljan och den välluktande rökelsen, förhänget för ingången till tabernaklet,

16 brännoffersaltaret med tillhörande koppargaller, dess stänger och alla dess tillbehör, bäckenet med dess fotställning,

17 omhängena till förgården, dess stolpar och fotstycken, förhänget för porten till förgården,

18 tabernaklets pluggar och förgårdens pluggar med deras streck,

19 äntligen de stickade kläderna till tjänsten i helgedomen och prästen Arons andra heliga kläder, så ock hans söners prästkläder.»

20 Och Israels barns hela menighet gick sin väg bort ifrån Mose.

21 Sedan kommo de tillbaka, var och en som av sitt hjärta manades därtill; och var och en som hade en därtill villig ande bar fram en gärd åt HERREN till förfärdigande av uppenbarelsetältet och till allt arbete därvid och till de heliga kläderna.

22 De kommo, både män och kvinnor, och framburo, var och en efter sitt hjärtas villighet, spännen, örringar, fingerringar och halssmycken, alla slags klenoder av guld, var och en som kunde offra åt HERREN någon gåva av guld.

23 Och var och en som hade i sin ägo mörkblått, purpurrött, rosenrött eller vitt garn eller gethår eller rödfärgade vädurskinn eller tahasskinn bar fram det.

24 Och var och en som kunde giva såsom gärd något av silver eller koppar bar fram sin gärd åt HERREN. Och var och en som hade i sin ägo akacieträ till förfärdigande av något slags arbete bar fram det.

25 Och alla konstförfarna kvinnor spunno med sina händer mörkblått, purpurrött, rosenrött och vitt garn och buro fram sin spånad;

26 och alla kvinnor som av sitt hjärta manades därtill och hade lärt konsten spunno gethår.

27 Och hövdingarna buro fram onyxstenar och infattningsstenar, till att användas för efoden och för bröstskölden,

28 vidare kryddor och olja, till att användas för ljusstaken och smörjelseoljan och den välluktande rökelsen.

29 Var och en av Israels barn, man eller kvinna, vilkens hjärta var villigt att bära fram något till förfärdigande av allt det som HERREN genom Mose hade bjudit att man skulle göra, bar fram sin frivilliga gåva åt HERREN.

30 och Mose sade till Israels barn: »Sen, HERREN har kallat och nämnt Besalel, son till Uri, son till Hur, av Juda stam;

31 och han har uppfyllt honom med Guds Ande, med vishet, med förstånd och kunskap och med allt slags slöjdskicklighet,

32 både till att tänka ut konstarbeten och till att arbeta i guld, silver och koppar,

33 till att smida stenar för infattning: och till att snida i trä, korteligen, till att utföra alla slags konstarbeten.

34 Åt honom och åt Oholiab, Ahisamaks son, av Dans stam, har han ock givit förmåga att undervisa andra.

35 Han har uppfyllt deras hjärtan med vishet till att utföra alla slags snideriarbeten och konstvävnader och brokiga vävnader av mörkblått, purpurrött, rosenrött och vitt garn, så ock andra vävnader, korteligen, alla slags arbeten och särskilt konstvävnadsarbeten.

   

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9777. '[And] all its pins and all the pins of the court, [they shall be made] from bronze' means everything that joins together and strengthens the two heavens, the middle and the lowest, through good. This is clear from the meaning of 'pins' as things that serve to join and strengthen, dealt with below; from the meaning of the dwelling-place, to which 'its' relates here, as heaven, in particular the middle heaven, dealt with in 9594, 9596, 9632; from the meaning of 'the court' as the lowest heaven, dealt with in 9741; and from the meaning of 'bronze' as external good, dealt with in 425, 1551.

[2] The reason why things that serve to join and strengthen are meant by 'pins' or pegs is that these articles do so. They have a similar meaning wherever else they are mentioned in the Word, as in Isaiah,

Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwelling-places; do not stop [them]. Lengthen your ropes, and make your pegs firm. Isaiah 54:2.

This refers to the New Church founded by the Lord. 'Enlarging the place of the tent, and stretching out the curtains of the dwelling-places' stands for the enhancement of teachings that present what is good and true, and worship that springs from them, 9596. 'Long ropes' and 'the pegs' stand for a far-reaching connection among truths and full corroboration of them. As for the court, that this too had ropes, see Exodus 35:18; Numbers 3:37; 4:32.

[3] In Isaiah,

Look upon Zion. May your eyes see Jerusalem, a quiet dwelling-place, a tabernacle which is not overthrown. Its pegs will never be removed, and none of its ropes will be pulled away. Isaiah 33:20.

'Pegs' and 'ropes' here stand in like manner for what serves to corroborate or strengthen and join together. 'Peg' again stands for strengthening and joining together in Isaiah 41:7 and Jeremiah 10:4; but these verses refer to idols, by which teachings of what is false are meant, because they are the product of self-intelligence, 8941, 9424. A peg however on which something is hung means affixing and joining [one thing to another], in Isaiah 22:23-24, and in Ezekiel 15:3.

  
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1551. That 'silver' means truths is clear from the meaning of 'silver' as truth. The most ancient people compared the goods and truths present in man to metals. Innermost or celestial goods which flow from love to the Lord they compared to gold, truths deriving from these to silver. Goods of a lower or natural kind however they compared to bronze, and truths of a lower kind to iron. Nor did they just compare them; they also called them such. This was the origin of periods of time being likened to those same metals and being called the golden, silver, bronze, and iron ages, for these followed in that order one after another. The golden age was the time of the Most Ancient Church, which was celestial man. The silver age was the time of the Ancient Church, which was spiritual man. The bronze age was the time of the Church that followed, and the iron age came after that. Similar things were also meant by the statue which Nebuchadnezzar saw in a dream, whose head was of fine gold, breast and arms of silver, belly and thighs of bronze, and shins of iron, Daniel 2:32-33. That periods of the Church were to follow one another in that order, and actually did so, is clear in that very chapter of the same prophet.

[2] That 'silver' in the internal sense of the Word wherever it is mentioned means truth, or in the contrary sense falsity, is clear from the following places: In Isaiah,

Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver, and instead of wood, bronze, and instead of stones, iron. And I will make peace your assessment, and righteousness your tax-collectors. Isaiah 60:17.

Here it is evident what each metal means. The subject is the Lord's Coming, His kingdom, and the celestial Church. 'Instead of bronze, gold' is celestial good in place of natural good; 'instead of iron, silver' is spiritual truth in place of natural truth; 'instead of wood, bronze' is natural good in place of bodily good; 'instead of stone, iron' is natural truth in place of truth acquired through the senses. In the same prophet,

Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the water, and he who has no money, 1 come, buy and eat! Isaiah 55:1.

'He who has no money' 1 is the person who does not know the truth but who nevertheless possesses the good that stems from charity, as is the case with many people inside the Church, and with gentiles outside it.

[3] In the same prophet,

The islands will wait for Me, the ships of Tarshish at their head, to bring your sons from afar, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of Jehovah your God, and to the Holy One of Israel. Isaiah 60:9.

This refers specifically to a new Church, or a Church among gentiles, and in general to the Lord's kingdom. 'Ships from Tarshish' stands for cognitions, 'silver' for truths, and 'gold' for goods, which are those things they 'will bring to the name of Jehovah'. In Ezekiel,

For your adornment you took vessels made of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and you made for yourselves figures of the male. Ezekiel 16:17.

Here 'gold' stands for cognitions of celestial things, 'silver' of spiritual things. In the same prophet,

You were adorned with gold and silver, and your raiment was fine linen and silk, and embroidered cloth. Ezekiel 16:13.

This refers to Jerusalem, by which the Lord's Church is meant, whose adornment is being described in this manner. In the same prophet,

Behold, you who are wise, there is no secret they have hidden from you; by your wisdom and by your intelligence you have acquired riches for yourself, and you have acquired gold and silver in your treasuries. Ezekiel 28:3-4.

Here, in what is said in reference to Tyre, 'gold' is plainly identified with the riches of wisdom, and 'silver' with the riches of intelligence.

[4] In Joel,

You have taken My silver and My gold, and My good and desirable treasures you have carried into your temples. Joel 3:5.

This refers to Tyre, Sidon, and Philistia, which mean cognitions, and these are 'the silver and the gold they took into their temples'. In Haggai,

The elect of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory. Mine is the silver, and Mine is the gold. The glory of this latter house will be greater than that of the former. Haggai 2:7-9.

This refers to the Lord's Church to which 'gold and silver' have reference. In Malachi,

He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi. Malachi 3:3.

This refers to the Coming of the Lord. In David,

The words of Jehovah are pure words, silver refined in an earthen crucible, poured seven times. Psalms 12:6.

'Silver purified seven times' stands for Divine truth. At the time of their exodus out of Egypt the children of Israel were commanded that every woman should ask of her neighbour, and of her who sojourned in her house, vessels of silver and vessels of gold and garments, and that they should put them on their sons and on their daughters, and so despoil the Egyptians, Exodus 3:22; 11:2-3; 12:35-36. Anyone may see from this that the children of Israel would never have been ordered to steal and despoil the Egyptians of those possessions in that way if these did not represent some arcana. But what those arcana are may become clear from the meaning of 'silver and gold, garments, and Egypt', and from the fact that what these possessions represented is similar to the words here 'rich in the silver and gold from Egypt', used in reference to Abram.

[5] Just as 'silver' means truth so in a contrary sense it means falsity, for people under the influence of falsity imagine falsity to be the truth, as is also clear in the Prophets. In Moses,

You shall not covet the silver and the gold of the nations, nor take it for yourself, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to Jehovah your God. You shall utterly detest it. Deuteronomy 7:25-26.

'The gold of the nations' stands for evils, and 'their silver' for falsities. In the same author,

You shall not make gods of silver to be with Me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold. Exodus 20:23.

In the internal sense these words mean nothing other than falsities and evil desires, falsities being meant by 'gods of silver', and evil desires by 'gods of gold'. In Isaiah,

On that day everyone will spurn his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your hands have made for you - a sin. Isaiah 31:7.

'Idols of silver and idols of gold' stands for similar things that are false and evil 'Which your hands have made' stands for what is a product of the proprium. In Jeremiah,

They are foolish and stupid; that wood is a way of learning vanities! Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the smith and of the hands of the moulder. Their clothing is violet and purple These are all the work of the wise. Jeremiah 10:8-9.

Here 'silver' and 'gold' quite clearly stand for similar things that are false and evil.

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