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1 Ðức Giê-hô-va phán cùng Môi-se rằng:

2 Hãy nói cùng dân Y-sơ-ra-ên đặng họ dâng lễ vật cho ta; các ngươi hãy nhận lấy lễ vật của mọi người có lòng thành dâng cho.

3 Nầy là lễ vật các ngươi sẽ nhận lấy của họ: vàng, bạc, và đồng;

4 chỉ tím, đỏ điều, đỏ sặm, vải gai mịn, lông , da chiên đực nhuộm đỏ,

5 da cá nược, cây si-tim,

6 dầu thắp, hương liệu đặng làm dầu xức và hương,

7 bích ngọc cùng các thứ ngọc khác để gắn vào ê-phót và bảng đeo ngực.

8 Họ sẽ làm cho ta một đền thánh và ta sẽ ở giữa họ.

9 Hãy làm điều đó y như kiểu đền tạm cùng kiểu các đồ dùng mà ta sẽ chỉ cho ngươi.

10 Vậy, chúng hãy đóng một cái hòm bằng cây si-tim; bề dài hai thước rưỡi, bề ngang một thước rưỡi, và bề cao cũng một thước rưỡi,

11 lấy vàng ròng bọc trong, bọc ngoài, và chạy đường viền chung quanh hòm bằng vàng.

12 Ngươi cũng hãy đúc bốn khoen bằng vàng để tại bốn góc hòm: hai cái bên hông nầy, hai cái bên hông kia,

13 cùng làm hai cây đòn bằng cây si-tim, bọc vàng;

14 rồi lòn đòn vào khoen hai bên hông hòm, để dùng đòn khiêng hòm.

15 Ðòn sẽ ở trong khoen luôn, không nên rút ra.

16 Ngươi hãy cất vào trong hòm bảng chứng mà ta sẽ ban cho.

17 Ngươi cũng hãy làm một cái nắp thi ân bằng vàng ròng, bề dài hai thước rưỡi, bề ngang một thước rưỡi.

18 Lại làm hai tượng chê-ru-bin bằng vàng giát mỏng, để hai đầu nắp thi ân,

19 ló ra ngoài, một tượng ở đầu nầy và một tượng ở đầu kia.

20 Hai chê-ru-bin sẽ sè cánh ra, che trên nắp thi ân, đối diện nhau và xây mặt vào nắp thi ân.

21 Ngươi hãy để nắp thi ân trên hòm, rồi để vào trong hòm bảng chứng mà ta sẽ ban cho.

22 Ta sẽ gặp ngươi tại đó, và ở trên nắp thi ân, giữa hai tượng chê-ru-bin, trên hòm bảng chứng, ta sẽ truyền cho ngươi các mạng lịnh về dân Y-sơ-ra-ên.

23 Ngươi cũng hãy đóng một cái bàn bằng cây si-tim; bề dài hai thước, bề ngang một thước, và bề cao một thước rưỡi,

24 bọc bằng vàng ròng, và chạy một đường viền chung quanh;

25 rồi lên be cho tứ vi bàn, cao chừng bốn ngón tay và chạy cho be một đường viền vàng.

26 Lại đúc bốn cái khoen vàng, tra vào bốn góc nơi chân bàn.

27 Khoen sẽ ở gần be, để xỏ đòn khiêng bàn.

28 Ngươi hãy chuốt đòn bằng cây si-tim, bọc vàng, rồi người ta sẽ dùng khiêng bàn đó.

29 Lại hãy lấy vàng ròng mà làm dĩa, chén, chậu, và ly đặng dùng làm lễ quán.

30 Trên bàn ngươi sẽ để bánh trần thiết cho có luôn luôn trước mặt ta.

31 Ngươi cũng hãy làm chân đèn bằng vàng ròng. Cái chân, cái thân, cái đài, cái bầu cùng cái hoa của đèn đều làm bằng vàng đánh giát.

32 Hai bên thân đèn sẽ có sáu nhánh nứt ra, hạ nhánh ở bên nầy và ba nhánh ở bên kia.

33 Trong sáu nhánh nứt ra trên chân đèn, mỗi nhánh đều sẽ có ba cái đài hình như hột hạnh nhân cùng bầu và hoa.

34 Trên thân chân đèn, lại cũng sẽ có bốn cái đài hình hột hạnh nhân, bầu và hoa.

35 Trong sáu nhánh từ thân chân đèn nứt ra, hễ cứ mỗi hai nhánh thì dưới có một cái bầu.

36 Bầu cùng nhánh của chân đèn đều bằng vàng ròng nguyên miếng đánh giát.

37 Ngươi cũng hãy làm bảy cái thếp đèn, đặng hễ khi thắp thì chiếu trước chân đèn.

38 Kéo bắt tim cùng đồ đựng tàn đèn cũng sẽ bằng vàng ròng.

39 Người ta sẽ dùng một ta lâng vàng ròng làm chân đèn nầy và các đồ phụ tùng của chân đèn.

40 Vậy, ngươi hãy xem, cứ làm y như kiểu đã chỉ cho trên núi.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 585

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585. And against His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. This symbolizes scandalous assertions against the Lord's celestial church and against heaven.

The Tabernacle has almost the same symbolic meaning as the Temple, namely, in the highest sense, the Lord's Divine humanity, and in a relative sense, heaven and the church (nos. 191, 529). But in the latter sense the Tabernacle symbolizes the celestial church, which is impelled by the goodness of love toward the Lord received from the Lord; and the Temple symbolizes the spiritual church, which is impelled by truths of wisdom received from the Lord. Those who dwell in heaven symbolize heaven.

The Tabernacle symbolizes the celestial church because the Most Ancient Church, being impelled by love toward the Lord, was a celestial church and held sacred worship in tents. And the Ancient Church was a spiritual church and held sacred worship in temples.

Tents used wood in their construction, while temples used stone, and wood symbolizes goodness, and stone truth.

[2] That the Tabernacle symbolizes the Lord's Divine humanity in respect to Divine love, and a heaven and a church that is impelled by love toward the Lord, can be seen from the following passages:

Jehovah, who may abide in Your tabernacle? Who may dwell in Your holy mountain? He who walks uprightly, and practices righteousness, and speaks the truth... (Psalms 15:1-2)

(Jehovah) shall hide me in His tabernacle; in the secret place of His tabernacle He shall conceal me; He shall set me high... (Psalms 27:4-5)

I will abide in Your tabernacle forever. (Psalms 61:4)

Look upon Zion...; let your eyes behold Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that will not be dispelled... (Isaiah 33:20)

(Jehovah) who... spreads (the heavens) out like a tent to dwell in. (Isaiah 40:22)

...you have made Jehovah..., the Most High, your dwelling place..., no plague shall come near your tent. (Psalms 91:9-10)

(Jehovah) set (His) tabernacle among (them).... (He) will walk among (them).... (Leviticus 26:11-12)

(Jehovah) forsook the tent of Shiloh, the tabernacle in which He dwelled among men. (Psalms 78:60)

I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them...." (Revelation 21:3)

...My tabernacle has been laid waste... (Jeremiah 4:20; 10:20)

He shall... pluck you out of your tent, and uproot you from the land of the living. (Psalms 52:5)

And so on elsewhere, as in Isaiah 16:5; 54:2, Jeremiah 30:18, Lamentations 2:4, Hosea 9:6; 12:9, Zechariah 12:7.

[3] Since the Most Ancient Church, which was a celestial church, being impelled by love toward the Lord and being thus in conjunction with Him, held sacred worship in tents, therefore by the Lord's command Moses erected a tent or tabernacle, in which everything relating to heaven and the church was represented. And it was so holy that no one was permitted to enter except Moses, Aaron, and Aaron's sons; and if any of the people were to do so, they would die (Numbers 17:12-13; 18:1, 22-23; 19:14-19).

Inmostly in that tabernacle, containing the two tables of the Decalogue, was the Ark, on which was the mercy seat and over it the cherubim. And outside the veil was the table holding the showbread, the altar of incense, and the lampstand having seven lamps. All of these things were representative objects relating to heaven and the church. The tabernacle itself is described in Exodus 26:7-16; 36:8-37.

We also read that the design of the Tabernacle was shown to Moses upon Mount Sinai (Exodus 25:9; 26:30); and whatever he was given to see from heaven is a representation relating to heaven and the church.

In memory of the most ancient people's sacred worship of the Lord in tents, and of their conjunction with Him through love, Israel was commanded to observe the Feast of Tabernacles, as recorded in Leviticus 23:39-44, Deuteronomy 16:13-14.

  
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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.

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Ezekiel 41

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1 He brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tent.

2 The breadth of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured its length, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits.

3 Then went he inward, and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the breadth of the entrance, seven cubits.

4 He measured its length, twenty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place.

5 Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side room, four cubits, all around the house on every side.

6 The side rooms were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side rooms all around, that they might have hold [therein], and not have hold in the wall of the house.

7 The side rooms were broader as they encompassed [the house] higher and higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher around the house: therefore the breadth of the house [continued] upward; and so one went up [from] the lowest [room] to the highest by the middle [room].

8 I saw also that the house had a raised base all around: the foundations of the side rooms were a full reed of six great cubits.

9 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side rooms, on the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side rooms that belonged to the house.

10 Between the rooms was a breadth of twenty cubits around the house on every side.

11 The doors of the side rooms were toward [the place] that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits all around.

12 The building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.

13 So he measured the house, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, one hundred cubits long;

14 also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, one hundred cubits.

15 He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at its back, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches of the court;

16 the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, over against the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and [from] the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),

17 to [the space] above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall all around inside and outside, by measure.

18 It was made with cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces;

19 so that there was the face of a man toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. [thus was it] made through all the house all around:

20 from the ground to above the door were cherubim and palm trees made: thus was the wall of the temple.

21 As for the temple, the door posts were squared; and as for the face of the sanctuary, the appearance [of it] was as the appearance [of the temple].

22 The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits; and its corners, and its length, and its walls, were of wood: and he said to me, This is the table that is before Yahweh.

23 The temple and the sanctuary had two doors.

24 The doors had two leaves [apiece], two turning leaves: two [leaves] for the one door, and two leaves for the other.

25 There were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm trees, like as were made on the walls; and there was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside.

26 There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch: thus were the side rooms of the house, and the thresholds.