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1 At sinalita ng Panginoon kay Moises at kay Aaron, na sinasabi,

2 Ayusin ninyo ang bilang ng mga anak ni Coath, sa gitna ng mga anak ni Levi, ayon sa kanilang mga angkan, ayon sa mga sangbahayan ng kanilang mga magulang.

3 Mula sa tatlong pung taong gulang hanggang sa limang pung taong gulang, lahat ng pumapasok sa paglilingkod, upang gumawa ng gawain sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan.

4 Ito ang paglilingkod ng mga anak ni Coath sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan, sa mga bagay na kabanalbanalan:

5 Pagka ang kampamento ay isusulong, ay papasok si Aaron sa loob, at ang kaniyang mga anak, at kanilang ibababa ang lambong ng tabing, at kanilang tatakpan niyaon ang kaban ng patotoo:

6 At kanilang ilalagay sa ibabaw ang isang takip na balat ng foka at kanilang lalatagan ang ibabaw ng isang kayong taganas na bughaw, at kanilang ilalagay ang mga pingga niyaon.

7 At sa ibabaw ng dulang ng tinapay na handog ay maglalatag sila ng isang kayong bughaw, at kanilang ilalagay sa ibabaw nito ang mga pinggan, at ang mga sandok, at ang mga mangkok, at ang mga tasa upang buhusan; at ang namamalaging tinapay ay malalagay sa ibabaw niyaon.

8 At kanilang lalatagan ang ibabaw ng mga yaon ng kayong pula, at kanilang tatakpan ito ng isang panakip na balat ng foka, at kanilang ilalagay ang mga pingga.

9 At kukuha sila ng isang kayong bughaw at kanilang tatakpan ang kandelerong pangtanglaw at ang mga ilawan, at ang mga gunting, at ang mga pinggan, at ang lahat ng sisidlan ng langis niyaon, na kanilang pinangangasiwaan:

10 At kanilang ilalagay, pati ang lahat ng kasangkapan niyaon sa loob ng isang takip na balat ng foka, at kanilang ilalagay sa ibabaw ng isang patungan.

11 At ang ibabaw ng dambanang ginto ay kanilang lalatagan ng isang kayong bughaw, at kanilang tatakpan ng isang panakip na balat ng foka, at kanilang ilalagay ang mga pingga niyaon:

12 At kanilang kukunin ang lahat ng mga kasangkapan na ukol sa pangangasiwa na ipinangangasiwa nila sa santuario, at kanilang ilalagay sa isang kayong bughaw, at kanilang tatakpan ng isang panakip na balat ng foka, at kanilang ipapatong sa patungan.

13 At kanilang aalisin ang mga abo sa dambana at kanilang lalatagan ng isang kayong kulay ube.

14 At kanilang ipapatong doon ang lahat ng mga kasangkapan na kanilang ipinangangasiwa sa palibot ng dambana, ang suuban at ang mga pangipit, at ang mga pala at ang mga mangkok, lahat ng mga kasangkapan ng dambana; at kanilang lalatagan ng isang panakip na balat ng foka, at kanilang ilalagay ang mga pingga niyaon.

15 At pagka si Aaron at ang kaniyang mga anak ay nakatapos na makapagtakip sa santuario at sa buong kasangkapan ng santuario, kailan ma't isusulong ang kampamento: ay magsisilapit pagkatapos ang mga anak ni Koath upang kanilang buhatin yaon: datapuwa't huwag silang hihipo sa santuario, baka sila'y mamatay. Ang mga bagay na ito ay siyang pasanin ng mga anak ni Coath sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan.

16 At ang magiging katungkulan ni Eleazar na anak ni Aaron na saserdote, ay ang langis sa ilawan, at ang mabangong kamangyan, at ang palaging handog na harina, at ang langis na pang-pahid, at ang pagiingat ng buong tabernakulo at ng lahat na nandoon, ang santuario at ang mga kasangkapan niyaon.

17 At sinalita ng Panginoon kay Moises at kay Aaron, na sinasabi,

18 Huwag ninyong ihiwalay ang lipi ng mga angkan ng mga Coathita sa gitna ng mga Levita.

19 Kundi gawin ninyo sa kanila ang ganito, upang sila'y mabuhay at huwag mamatay, paglapit nila sa mga kabanalbanalang bagay: si Aaron at ang kaniyang mga anak ay paparoon at ituturo sa bawa't isa ang kanikaniyang paglilingkod at ang kanikaniyang pasanin:

20 Nguni't sila'y huwag magsisipasok upang tingnan ang santuario kahit sandali man, baka sila'y mamatay.

21 At sinalita ng Panginoon kay Moises, na sinasabi,

22 Aayusin mo rin ang bilang ng mga anak ni Gerson, ayon sa mga sangbahayan ng kanilang mga magulang ayon sa kanilang mga angkan;

23 Mula sa tatlong pung taong gulang hanggang sa limang pung taong gulang ay bibilangin mo sila; yaong lahat na pumapasok na nangangasiwa sa paglilingkod upang gawin ang gawain sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan.

24 Ito ang paglilingkod ng mga angkan ng mga Gersonita, sa paglilingkod at sa pagdadala ng mga pasanin:

25 Dadalhin nila ang mga tabing ng tabernakulo, at ang tabernakulo ng kapisanan, ang takip niyaon, at ang panakip na balat ng foka na nasa ibabaw nito, at ang tabing sa pintuan ng tabernakulo ng kapisanan;

26 At ang mga tabing sa looban, at ang tabing sa pintuang-daan ng looban na nasa siping ng tabernakulo, at ng dambana, at ang mga tali ng mga yaon, at ang lahat ng kasangkapan sa kanilang paglilingkod at ang lahat na marapat na gawin sa mga yaon ay kanilang ipaglilingkod.

27 Mapapasa kapangyarihan ni Aaron at ng kaniyang mga anak ang buong paglilingkod ng mga anak ng mga Gersonita sa buong kanilang pasanin, at sa buong kanilang paglilingkod: at inyong ituturo sa kanila ang mga nauukol sa kanilang buong pasanin.

28 Ito ang paglilingkod ng mga angkan ng mga Gersonita sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan: at ang katungkulan nila ay mapapasa ilalim ng pamamahala ni Ithamar na anak ni Aaron na saserdote.

29 Tungkol sa mga anak ni Merari, ay bibilangin mo sila ayon sa kanilang mga angkan, ayon sa mga sangbahayan ng kanilang mga magulang;

30 Mula sa tatlong pung taong gulang na patanda hanggang sa limang pung taong gulang ay iyong bibilangin sila, lahat na pumapasok sa paglilingkod, upang gawin ang gawain sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan.

31 At ito ang katungkulan sa kanilang pasanin ayon sa buong paglilingkod nila sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan: ang mga tabla ng tabernakulo, at ang mga barakilan, at ang mga haligi, at ang mga tungtungan;

32 At ang mga haligi sa palibot ng looban, at ang mga tungtungan, at ang mga tulos, at ang mga tali pati ng lahat ng kasangkapan at ng buong paglilingkod: at ayon sa pangalan, ay ituturo mo sa kanila ang mga kasangkapan na katungkulan sa kanilang pasanin.

33 Ito ang paglilingkod ng mga angkan ng mga anak ni Merari ayon sa buong paglilingkod nila sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan, sa ilalim ng pamamahala ni Ithamar na anak ni Aaron na saserdote.

34 At binilang ni Moises at ni Aaron, at ng mga prinsipe ng kapisanan ang mga anak ng mga Coathita ayon sa kanilang mga angkan, at ayon sa mga sangbahayan ng kanilang mga magulang,

35 Mula sa tatlong pung taong gulang na patanda hanggang sa limang pung taong gulang, ang bawa't isa na pumapasok sa paglilingkod, upang gumawa sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan;

36 At yaong nangabilang sa kanila ayon sa kanilang mga angkan, ay dalawang libo at pitong daan at limangpu.

37 Ito ang nangabilang sa mga angkan ng mga Coathita, lahat ng nagsisipaglingkod sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan na binilang ni Moises at ni Aaron, ayon sa utos ng Panginoon sa pamamagitan ni Moises.

38 At yaong nangabilang sa mga anak ni Gerson, ang kanilang mga angkan, at ayon sa mga sangbahayan ng kanilang mga magulang,

39 Mula sa tatlong pung taong gulang na patanda hanggang sa limang pung taong gulang, bawa't isa na pumapasok sa paglilingkod upang gumawa sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan.

40 Sa makatuwid baga'y ang nangabilang sa kanila, ayon sa kanilang mga angkan, ayon sa mga sangbahayan ng kanilang mga magulang, ay dalawang libo at anim na raan at tatlong pu.

41 Ito ang nangabilang sa mga angkan ng mga anak ni Gerson, sa lahat ng naglingkod sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan, na binilang ni Moises at ni Aaron, ayon sa utos ng Panginoon.

42 At ang nangabilang sa mga angkan ng mga anak ni Merari ayon sa kanilang mga angkan, ayon sa mga sangbahayan ng kanilang mga magulang.

43 Mula sa tatlong pung taong gulang na patanda hanggang sa limang pung taong gulang, bawa't isa na pumapasok sa paglilingkod, upang gumawa sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan,

44 Sa makatuwid baga'y yaong lahat na nangabilang sa kanila ayon sa kanilang mga angkan, ay tatlong libo at dalawang daan.

45 Ito ang nangabilang sa mga angkan ng mga anak ni Merari na binilang ni Moises at ni Aaron, ayon sa utos ng Panginoon sa pamamagitan ni Moises.

46 Yaong lahat na nangabilang sa mga Levita, na binilang ni Moises at ni Aaron at ng mga prinsipe sa Israel, ayon sa kanilang mga angkan, at ayon sa mga sangbahayan ng kanilang mga magulang,

47 Mula sa tatlong pung taong gulang na patanda hanggang sa limang pung taong gulang, bawa't isa na pumapasok upang gumawa ng gawang paglilingkod, at ng gawang pagdadala ng mga pasanin sa tabernakulo ng kapisanan,

48 Sa makatuwid baga'y yaong nangabilang sa kanila, ay walong libo at limang daan at walong pu.

49 Ayon sa utos ng Panginoon ay nangabilang sa pamamagitan ni Moises, bawa't isa ayon sa kaniyang paglilingkod, at ayon sa kaniyang pasanin: ganito niya binilang sila gaya ng iniutos ng Panginoon kay Moises.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 447

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447. Now the number of the army of the horsemen was two hundred million. (9:16) This symbolizes their reasonings concerning faith alone, with which they had filled the interiors of their minds, springing from nothing but an abundance of falsities accompanying evil.

Armies symbolize goods and truths, and in an opposite sense, evils and falsities - here falsities accompanying evil, as we will see presently. Horsemen symbolize reasonings concerning faith alone, because a horse symbolizes an understanding of the Word (no. 298) and also a destroyed understanding of the Word (nos. 305, 312, 320). Horsemen consequently symbolize reasonings based on a destroyed understanding of the Word - here reasonings concerning faith alone, because the subject is people caught up in that faith. Two hundred million does not mean two hundred million, but an abundance. The number two is used because two is said in application to goodness, and in an opposite sense, to evil (no. 322); and a hundred million, or ten thousand times ten thousand, is said in application to truths, and in an opposite sense, to falsities (no. 287).

It can be seen from this that the number of the army of horsemen being two hundred million symbolizes reasonings concerning faith alone, with which these people had filled the interiors of their minds, springing from nothing but an abundance of falsities accompanying evil.

[2] That armies in the Word symbolize the goods and truths of heaven and the church, and in an opposite sense, evils and falsities, can be seen from passages where the sun, moon and stars are called armies or hosts, and where the sun symbolizes the goodness of love, the moon the truth of faith, and stars concepts of goodness and truth, and the antithesis in an opposite sense (nos. 51, 53, 332, 413). All of these are called armies or hosts in the following passages:

Praise (Jehovah), all His hosts! Praise Him, sun and moon; praise Him, all you stars...! (Psalms 148:2-3)

My hands stretched out the heavens, and all their host I have commanded. (Isaiah 45:12)

By the word of Jehovah the heavens were made, and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth. (Psalms 33:6)

Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. (Genesis 2:1)

(The male goat's horn) grew up to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and some of the stars to the ground... He even exalted himself as high as the Prince of the host... And the host was sent under the yoke for its transgression, (because) it cast truth to the ground... Then... a holy one said..., "How long will... the sanctuary and the host be trampled under foot?" (Daniel 8:10-14)

Jehovah has given forth His voice before His army. (Joel 2:11)

...(on the roofs of the houses) they have burned incense to all the host of heaven... (Jeremiah 19:13)

(Lest you bow down to and serve) the sun, the moon, the stars, and all the host of heaven... (Deuteronomy 4:19; cf. 17:3, Jeremiah 8:2)

So, too, Isaiah 13:4; 34:4; 40:26, Jeremiah 33:22, Zechariah 9:8, Revelation 19:14.

[3] Since the hosts of heaven symbolize the goods and truths of heaven and the church, therefore the Lord is called Jehovah Zebaoth, or Jehovah of Hosts. And therefore the ministry of the Levites was called military service (Numbers 4:3, 23, 30, 39).

Moreover, we read in the book of Psalms,

Bless Jehovah, all you His hosts, you ministers of His, who do His will. (Psalms 103:21)

Evils and falsities in the church are symbolically meant by the armies of the nations in Isaiah 34:2; and by the army of the king of the north with which he came against the king of the south, in Daniel 11:13, 15, 20. The king of the north is the falsity accompanying evil in the church, and the king of the south is the truth accompanying goodness in it.

The Lord says,

When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its devastation is near. (Luke 21:20)

Jerusalem there symbolizes the church, and the armies symbolize the evils and falsities that will devastate it. The subject is the end of the age, which is the final period of the church.

Evils and falsities are symbolically meant by armies in Joel,

I will restore to you the years that the locust, the beetle grub, the locust's larva, and the caterpillar has eaten, My great army which I sent among you. (Joel 2:25)

To be shown that the locust and the rest symbolize falsity of the lowest sort, see no. 424 above.

  
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Apocalypse Revealed # 424

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424. Then out of the smoke came locusts upon the earth. (9:3) This symbolically means that from them issued falsities of the lowest sort, such as are found in the case of people who have become sensual and who view and judge everything in accordance with the senses and their fallacies.

Falsities that we term falsities of the lowest sort are those which occur on the lowest level of a person's life, called sensual, which we will speak of below. These falsities are symbolized in the Word by locusts. It should be known, however, that the locusts here did not look like the locusts found in fields, which hop about and devastate pastures and crops. Instead they looked like pygmies or midgets, as is apparent also from their description, as for instance, that they had crowns on their heads, faces like the faces of men, hair like women's hair, teeth like lions' teeth, breastplates of iron, and the angel of the bottomless pit as king over them.

Ancient peoples, too, called midgets locusts, as we can conclude from these verses:

(Those who spied out the land of Canaan said:) ."..we saw the Nephilim, the descendants of the Anakim..., and we were like locusts... in their sight." (Numbers 13:33)

(Jehovah) who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants like locusts... (Isaiah 40:22)

[2] However, because falsities of the lowest sort, such as existed in the people here, are in the Word symbolized by locusts, therefore in Nahum the people are called locusts, as well as being termed crowned and commanders:

...the fire will devour you..., it will eat you up like a locust's larva. Make yourself many like the locust's larva! Make yourself many like locusts! ...Your crowned ones are like locusts, and your commanders like great locusts... (Nahum 3:15-17)

Because falsities of the lowest sort devour the growing truths and goods of the church in a person, they are symbolized by locusts which devour the grasses in fields and the vegetation on farms, as is clear from the following passages:

You shall carry much seed out to the field, but... the locust shall consume it. (Deuteronomy 28:38)

What the caterpillar left, the locust will eat; what the locust left, the beetle grub will eat; and what the beetle grub left, the locust's larva will eat. (Joel 1:4)

I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the beetle grub, the locust's larva, and the caterpillar... (Joel 2:25)

[3] The locusts in Egypt have the same symbolic meaning, of which we read the following in Exodus:

Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and... the east wind brought the locusts. And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt...; previously there had been no such locusts...; and they ate every herb... of the field... (Exodus 10:12ff.)

And afterward Moses stretched out his rod, and the locusts were cast into the Red Sea.

Further, in the book of Psalms:

He gave their produce to the locust's larva, and their labor to the locust. (Psalms 78:46, cf. 105:34-35)

The miracles in Egypt describe the devastation of the church, and this particular miracle, its devastation by falsities of the lowest sort. And when the inner levels of a person's life are closed, on which the lowest levels depend, the lowest levels become hellish. Therefore the locusts were cast into the Red Sea, which symbolizes hell.

[4] Since few people today know what we mean by the sensual level, or what the character of a sensual person is, and since this is what locusts symbolize, therefore we will introduce from our Arcana Coelestia (The Secrets of Heaven) the following extracts regarding it:

The sensual level is the lowest of a person's mental life, attaching to and uniting with his five physical senses (nos. 5077 5767, 9212, 9216, 9331, 9730).

That person is called sensual who judges of everything in accordance with his physical senses, and who believes in nothing but what he can see with his eyes and touch with his hands, saying that if he can, it is real, and rejecting everything else (nos. 5094 7693).

The inner levels of that person's mind, which see in the light of heaven, are closed, so that he sees no truth on those levels which has to do with heaven and the church (nos. 6564, 6844, 6845).

A person like that thinks on the lowest levels, and not interiorly in any spiritual light (nos. 5089 5094, 6564, 7693).

In a word, people like that have a crude natural sight (nos. 6201 6310, 6564, 6844, 6845, 6612, 6614, 6622, 6624).

Inwardly they are therefore hostile to matters having to do with heaven and the church, though it is possible for them to speak in favor of them outwardly, even ardently, according to the power they have by virtue of them (nos. 6201, 6316, 6844, 6845, 6948, 6949).

The educated and learned who have deeply confirmed themselves in falsities, and still more those who are hostile to the Word's truths, are more sensual than others (no. 6316).

Sensual people reason keenly and skillfully, because their thinking is so near to speech as to almost reside in it, and to be, so to speak, on the lips, and because they place all intelligence in speech from the memory alone; moreover, some of them can cleverly defend falsities, and after they have done so, believe they are true (nos. 195 196, 5700, 10236).

They reason from fallacies of the senses and defend them, which they use to captivate and persuade the populace (nos. 5084 6948, 6949, 7693).

Sensual people are craftier and more malicious than others (nos. 7693, 10236).

Greedy people, adulterers, hedonists, and the deceitful are especially sensual, even though to the world they do not appear so (no. 6310).

The interiors of their minds are foul and filthy (no. 6201).

Through them they are in communication with the hells (no. 6311).

People residing in the hells are sensual, and the more so the deeper the hell (nos. 4623 6311).

The atmosphere of spirits in hell mixes with a person's sensual level from behind (no. 6312).

People who have based their reasoning on the evidence of the senses only, and so are hostile to the genuine truths of the church, were called by ancient peoples serpents of the tree of knowledge (nos. 195, 196, 197, 6398, 6399, 10313).

In addition, a person's sensual level and the sensual person are described (no. 10236), together with the extent of the sensual things in a person (no. 9731).

Sensual things ought to be held in last place, and not in first place, and in a wise and intelligent person they are held in last place, subject to more interior ones, while in a foolish person they are in first place and dominant; the latter are those properly called sensual (nos. 5077 5125, 5128, 7645).

If sensual things are in last place, they are the means by which a path is opened to understanding, and truths are refined by a process of abstraction (no. 5580).

These sensual things are the closest to the world, and they admit things that flow in from the world and, so to speak, sift them (no. 9726).

By these sensual things a person is in communication with the world, and by rational things with heaven (no. 4009).

Sensual things supply materials that are of service to the interior levels of the mind (nos. 5077 5081).

Some sensual things are of service to the intellectual faculty, and some are of service to the volitional faculty (no. 5077).

If a person does not raise his thought from sensual things, he is hardly wise (no. 5089).

A wise person thinks above the level of sensual things (nos. 5089, 5094).

When a person raises his thinking above the level of sensual things, he comes into a clearer sight, and finally into the light of heaven (nos. 6183 6313, 6315, 9407, 9730, 9922).

An elevation above the level of sensual things and withdrawal from them was something known to ancient peoples (no. 6313).

A person can be conscious in his spirit of things that occur in the spiritual world, if he can be withdrawn from sensual things by the Lord and elevated into the light of heaven (no. 4622). That is because it is not the body that thinks, but a person's spirit in the body, and to the extent that it dwells in the body, it thinks dimly and in a state of darkness; however, to the extent that it does not dwell in the body, it thinks clearly and in a state of light - but only as regards spiritual matters (nos. 4622, 6614, 6622).

The lowest level of the intellect is sensual knowledge, and the lowest level of the will is sensual delight (no. 9996).

The difference between sensual characteristics possessed in common with animals, and those not possessed in common with them (no. 10236).

Some sensual people are not evil, because their interior levels have not been closed: their state in the other life (no. 6311).

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.