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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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Arcana Coelestia # 2959

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2959. 'The land [is worth] four hundred shekels of silver' means the price of redemption by means of truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'four hundred shekels', dealt with below, and from the meaning of 'silver' as truth, dealt with in 1551, 2048, 2937. The reason 'four hundred shekels' means the price of redemption is that 'four hundred' means vastation and 'a shekel' price. What vastation is, see 2455 (end), 2682, 2694, 2699, 2702, 2704, where it is shown that there are two types of vastation. The first takes place when the Church altogether ceases to exist, that is, when there is no longer any charity or faith. At that point the Church is said to be vastated or laid waste. The second takes place when those who belong to the Church are reduced to a state of ignorance and also of temptation, for the reason that the evils and falsities residing with them are to be set apart and so to speak dissipated. Those who emerge from this vastation are those who are specifically called the redeemed, for at that point they are taught the goods and truths of faith, and are reformed and regenerated by the Lord, as shown in the paragraphs quoted. Now since the number four hundred, when used to specify a period of time - such as four hundred years - means the duration and also the state of vastation, so that same number, when used to specify the number of shekels, means the price of redemption; and when the word 'silver' is mentioned together with this number, the price of redemption by means of truth is meant.

[2] That 'four hundred years' means the duration and the state of vastation becomes clear also from what Abraham was told,

Jehovah said to Abraham, 1 Know for sure that your seed will be strangers in a land not theirs. And they will serve them, and these will afflict them for four hundred years. Genesis 15:13.

There it may be seen that 'four hundred years' is used to mean the duration of the stay of the children of Israel in Egypt. Yet it is not the duration of their stay in Egypt that is meant but something that is not evident to anyone except from the internal sense. This becomes clear from the fact that the duration of the stay of the children of Israel in Egypt was no more than half the stated period, as becomes quite clear from the descendants of Jacob down to Moses. For the facts are that Levi was descended from Jacob, Kohath from Levi, Amram from Kohath, and Aaron and Moses from Amram, Exodus 6:16-20; Levi and his son Kohath went down to Egypt together with Jacob, Genesis 46:11; and Moses came two generations later, and was eighty years old when he spoke to Pharaoh, Exodus 7:7. These facts show that the period of time from Jacob's entry into Egypt until his sons' departure from that land was approximately two hundred and fifteen years.

[3] That 'four hundred' is used in the Word to mean something other than its numerical value in the historical sense is clearer still from its being said that

The length of time that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years, and at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, it happened on that same day, that all the armies of Jehovah went out of the land of Egypt. Exodus 12:40-41.

The duration of the stay of the children of Israel in that land was in fact only half that number of years; but it was from Abraham's entry into Egypt that the four hundred and thirty years were measured. Consequently what is said at this point in Exodus is for the sake of the internal sense Lying within those words. In the internal sense the sojourn of the sons of Jacob in Egypt represents and means the vastation of the Church, the state and duration of which are described by the number four hundred and thirty years. Thirty describes the state of vastation of the sons of Jacob as being no vastation at all, for they were such as could not be reformed through any state of vastation (for the meaning of the number thirty, see 2276); and 'four hundred years' represents the general state of vastation of those who belonged to the Church.

[4] Those therefore who come out of that vastation are referred to as the redeemed, as is also evident from the words addressed to Moses,

Therefore say to the children of Israel, I am Jehovah, and I will bring you out from beneath the burdens of Egypt, and I will rescue you from their slavery, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgements. Exodus 6:6.

And elsewhere,

Jehovah has brought you out by means of a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of slaves, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Deuteronomy 7:8; 13:5.

And elsewhere,

You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, but Jehovah your God redeemed you. Deuteronomy 15:15; 24:18.

In Samuel,

Your people whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt. 2 Samuel 7:23.

Since those who emerge from the state of vastation are referred to as the redeemed, 'four hundred shekels' therefore means the price of redemption.

[5] As regards 'a shekel' meaning the price or valuation, this is clear from the following places in the Word: In Moses,

All your valuations shall be according to the shekel of holiness. Leviticus 27:25.

And elsewhere,

If a soul commits a trespass and has sinned inadvertently in the holy things of Jehovah, he shall bring his guilt offering to Jehovah, a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to your valuation in silver shekels, according to the shekel of holiness. Leviticus 5:15.

From this it is evident that 'a shekel' means the price or valuation. It is called 'the shekel of holiness' because the price or valuation has regard to truth and good from the Lord - truth and good from the Lord being, within the Church, holiness itself. Consequently it is called 'the shekel of holiness' many times elsewhere, as in Exodus 30:24; Leviticus 27:3; Numbers 3:47, 50; 7:13, 19, 25, 31, 37, 43, 49, 55, 61, 67, 73; 18:16.

[6] That 'a shekel' is the price of what is holy is quite evident in Ezekiel when the holy land and the holy city are the subject. There the shekel is referred to as follows,

The shekel there shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh (pound). Ezekiel 45:12.

Anyone may see that here 'shekel', 'pound', and the numbers mentioned mean holy things, that is, good and truth, for the holy land and the holy city or new Jerusalem, which are the subject there, mean nothing else than the Lord's kingdom where neither shekel, nor gerahs, nor pound, nor the numbering of them occurs. But the number itself, from the meaning it has in the internal sense, determines the valuation or price of good and truth.

[7] In Moses it is said that every man (vir) should give a ransom for his soul, so that there would be no plague. He had to give half a shekel, according to the shekel of holiness, a shekel being twenty gerahs. Half a shekel was to be the thruma (offering) to Jehovah, Exodus 30:12-13. Here ten gerahs, which make half a shekel, are remnants which are received from the Lord. Remnants are goods and truths stored away with a person - such remnants, being meant by 'ten', see 576, 1738, 1906, 2284. That remnants are goods and truths from the Lord that are stored away with a person, see 1906, 2284. Consequently they are also called 'the thruma (or offering) to Jehovah', and it is said that by means of this a soul will be redeemed. The reason it is stated several times that a shekel was twenty gerahs, as in these verses from Exodus, and also in Leviticus 27:25; Numbers 3:47; 18:16; and elsewhere, is that the shekel of twenty gerahs means the valuation of the good preserved in remnants - twenty meaning the good preserved in remnants, see 2280. Also therefore a shekel was a weight according to which the price of both gold and silver was determined, Genesis 24:22; Exodus 38:24; Ezekiel 4:10; 45:12 - the price of gold because 'gold' means good, 113, 1551, 1552, and the price of silver because 'silver' means truth, 1551, 2048. From this it is now evident that 'the land [is worth] four hundred shekels of silver' means the price of redemption by means of truth. The reason it is called 'the land' is that the spiritual Church is the subject, which is reformed and regenerated by means of truth received from the Lord, 2954. That 'the land' means the Church, see 662, 1066, 1068, 1262, 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118 (end).

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Arcana Coelestia # 1551

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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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