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Exodo 27

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1 At gagawin mong kahoy ng akasia ang dambana, na limang siko ang haba at limang siko ang luwang; ang dambana ay gagawing parisukat: at ang taas ay magkakaroon ng tatlong siko.

2 At gagawin mo ang mga anyong sungay sa ibabaw ng apat na sulok niyaon: ang mga anyong sungay ay kaputol din, at iyong babalutin ng tanso.

3 At igagawa mo ng kaniyang mga kawa upang magalis ng mga abo, at ng mga pala, at ng mga mangkok, at ng mga pangalawit at ng mga suuban: lahat ng mga kasangkapa'y gagawin mong tanso.

4 At igagawa mo ng isang salang tanso na tila lambat ang yari, at ang ibabaw ng nilambat ay igagawa mo ng apat na argolyang tanso sa apat na sulok niyaon.

5 At ilalagay mo sa ibaba ng gilid ng dambana, sa dakong ibaba, upang ang nilambat ay umabot hanggang sa kalahatian ng dambana.

6 At igagawa mo ng mga pingga ang dambana, mga pinggang kahoy na akasia at babalutin mo ng tanso.

7 At ang mga pingga niyao'y isusuot sa mga argolya, at ang mga pingga ay ilalagay sa dalawang tagiliran ng dambana, pagka dinadala.

8 Gagawin mo ang dambana na kuluong sa pamamagitan ng mga tabla kung paano ang ipinakita sa iyo sa bundok, ay gayon gagawin nila.

9 At iyong gagawin ang looban ng tabernakulo: sa tagilirang timugan na dakong timugan ay magkakaroon ng mga tabing sa looban na linong pinili, na may isang daang siko ang haba sa isang tagiliran:

10 At ang ihahaligi doo'y dalawang pu, at ang mga tungtungan ng mga yaon ay dalawang pu na tanso; ang mga sima ng mga haligi at ang mga pilete niyaon ay pilak.

11 At gayon din sa tagilirang dakong hilagaan, sa kahabaan ay magkakaroon ng mga tabing na may isang daang siko ang haba, at ang mga haligi ng mga yaon ay dalawangpu, at ang mga tungtungan ng mga yaon ay dalawangpu na tanso; ang mga sima ng mga haligi at ang mga pilete ng mga yaon ay pilak.

12 At sa kaluwangan ng looban sa kalunuran ay magkakaroon ng mga tabing na may limangpung siko: ang haligi ng mga yaon ay sangpu at ang mga tungtungan ng mga yaon ay sangpu.

13 At sa kaluwangan ng looban sa dakong silanganan, sa dakong sinisikatan ng araw, ay magkakaroon ng limangpung siko.

14 Ang mga tabing sa isang dako ng pintuang-daan ay magkakaroon ng labinglimang siko: ang mga haligi ng mga yaon ay tatlo, at ang mga tungtungan ng mga yaon ay tatlo rin.

15 At sa kabilang dako'y magkakaroon ng mga tabing na ma'y labing limang siko: ang mga haligi ng mga yao'y tatlo, at ang mga tungtungan ng mga yao'y tatlo.

16 At sa pintuan ng looban ay magkakaroon ng isang tabing na may dalawang pung siko, na ang kayo'y bughaw, at kulay-ube, at pula, at kayong linong pinili, na yari ng mangbuburda: ang mga haligi ng mga yao'y apat, at ang mga tungtungan ng mga yao'y apat.

17 Lahat ng haligi sa palibot ng looban ay pagsusugpungin ng mga pileteng pilak; ang mga sima ng mga yaon ay pilak, at ang mga tungtungan ng mga yaon ay tanso.

18 Ang haba ng looban ay magkakaroon ng isang daang siko, at ang luwang ay limang pu magpasaan man, at ang taas ay limang siko, kayong linong pinili, at ang mga tuntungan ay tanso.

19 Lahat ng mga kasangkapan ng tabernakulo, sa buong paglilingkod doon, at lahat ng mga tulos niyaon, at lahat ng mga tulos ng looban ay tanso.

20 At iyong iuutos sa mga anak ni Israel na sila'y magdala sa iyo ng taganas na langis ng binayong oliba na pangilawan, upang papagningasing palagi ang ilawan.

21 Sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan sa labas ng lambong na nasa harap ng kaban ng patotoo, ay aayusin yaon ni Aaron at ng kaniyang mga anak mula sa hapon hanggang sa umaga sa harap ng Panginoon: magiging palatuntunan sa buong panahon ng kanilang lahi sa ikagagaling ng mga anak ni Israel.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 6971

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6971. 'And do not hear the voice of the former sign' means that if they did not obey what was declared by the Word, then instead of being spiritual and rational they would become people who were not spiritual or rational. This is clear from the meaning of 'hearing' as obeying, dealt with in 2542, 3869, 5017; from the meaning of 'the voice' as what is declared by the Word, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'the former sign' as an indication that instead of being spiritual and rational they would become people who were not spiritual or rational. The truth of this may be seen from the meaning of 'the serpent' that was made out of Moses' rod when it was thrown onto the earth - the event to which 'the first sign' refers here - as a person who thinks on a sensory and bodily level, 6949, and so is not spiritual or rational. For a person who is sensory- and bodily-minded is not rational, and so is not spiritual either, because he thinks things that are false and desires those that are evil. One who behaves like this is not rational, still less spiritual, for an acceptance of and belief in what is true, together with a life of goodness, since these two come from the Divine, constitute true spirituality within rationality, whereas an acceptance of and belief in what is false, together with a life of evil, are the opposite. For the fact that wholly sensory- and bodily-minded people are like this, see 6844, 6845, 6948, 6949.

[2] Those people become wholly sensory- and bodily-minded who have first had a knowledge of things that belong to the spiritual world but after that have rejected them, and then have adopted fundamental ideas of falsity that are contrary to truths and focused their lives solely on worldly, bodily, and earthly values. They have consequently come to believe that life is meant to be filled with pleasures of every kind, saying, 'What more does a person have while he is alive? When we die, we die; as for the possibility of life after death, has anyone ever come back to talk about it? We have no knowledge of anything that will go on living when the life goes out of a person.' If anyone using rational arguments induces those people to give any thought to eternal life, they think that nothing worse will happen to them than to anyone else, and they immediately go back to living in the way they had done previously. With such people the passageway for the light of heaven to flow in is closed, and at the natural level of their minds the light of heaven is turned into thick darkness, while the light of the world there becomes brightness, 6907, a brightness that shines ever more brilliantly, the more that the light of heaven is darkened. This is why such people do not see the evil in their lives as anything other than goodness, or consequently the false ideas as anything other than true. Here then is the reason why a person becomes sensory- and bodily-minded. In short, once the way is opened for the light of heaven to flow in and then closed, a person is impelled to look downwards, and not upwards. This is done in keeping with Divine order so as to prevent truths once accepted and remaining in a person's inner self from being contaminated by falsities and thereby rendered profane.

[3] The same applies to gentiles who fall away from their religion, though their lot is better than that of people within the Church since what they possess are not truths from the Word, not genuine truths therefore but truths coupled with many misconceptions, which cannot be profaned in the way genuine ones can.

As regards the meaning of 'the voice' as that which is declared by the Word, it should be recognized that frequent use is made of the expression 'the voice'. It is also linked to other things that have nothing to do with a voice, such as the linking of it here to 'the sign' - 'If they do not hear the voice of the former sign they will believe the voice of the latter sign' - and also elsewhere, for example in Nahum,

The voice of the whip and the voice of the sound of the wheel. Nahum 3:2.

And in David,

The rivers have lifted up their voice, more than the voices of many mighty waters. Psalms 93:3-4.

[4] The fact that 'the voice' means a declaration, in the good sense a declaration by the Word, when it is called 'the voice of Jehovah', is clear in David,

The voice of Jehovah is powerful; the voice of Jehovah is glorious; the voice of Jehovah breaks the cedars; the voice of Jehovah flashes forth flames of fire; the voice of Jehovah causes the wilderness to shake; the voice of Jehovah causes the hinds to calve, and strips the forests bare. Psalms 29:3-5; Psalms 7-9.

And elsewhere in the same author,

. . . to Him who rides above the heavens of heavens of old. Behold, He will put forth His voice, a mighty voice. Psalms 68:33.

Here 'voice' stands for Divine Truth, and so for the Word and a declaration made by it. For what more is meant by 'voice', see 219; and for its use in reference to truth, 3563.

  
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