9941. Verses 39-40 And you shall weave the tunic in checker work of fine linen, ¹ and you shall make the turban of fine linen; and the belt you shall make with the work of an embroiderer. And for Aaron's sons you shall make tunics, and you shall make belts for them, and you shall make headdresses for them, for glorious adornment. ²

'And you shall weave the tunic in checker work of fine linen' means the inmost things of the spiritual kingdom, emanating from the truths of celestial love. 'And you shall make the turban of fine linen' means the wisdom there. 'And the belt' means a bond, and a separation from the outward things of that kingdom. 'You shall make with the work of an embroiderer' means through cognitions or knowledge of goodness and truth. 'And for Aaron's sons' means Divine Truths emanating in the heavens from the Lord's Divine Good. 'You shall make tunics' means the things that belong to faith there. 'And you shall make belts for them' means a holding in connection. 'And you shall make headdresses for them' means the intelligence there. 'For glorious adornment' means the spiritual Church's truth.

फुटनोट:

2089. 'Twelve princes will he beget' means the first and foremost commandments [of faith] inhering in charity. This is clear from the meaning of 'twelve' as all things belonging to faith, and from the meaning of 'princes' as first and foremost features. King and princes are mentioned in various places in the Word, but in the internal sense they nowhere mean king or princes but the first and foremost features of the subject under discussion. That 'kings' means truths taken as a whole has been shown already in 2015, and that 'princes' means the first and foremost aspects of truth, which are commandments, in 1482. For this reason angels, especially spiritual angels, are called principalities, because they are governed by truths. Princes have reference to truths which go with charity because, as stated above in 2088, spiritual people receive charity from the Lord through truths which to them look like truths, and through charity they receive conscience.

[2] Up to now the world has not known that 'twelve' means all things of faith. Yet every time the number twelve occurs in the Word, in historical or in prophetical sections, it has no other meaning. The twelve sons of Jacob, and therefore the twelve tribes named after them, have no other meaning. And the same applies to the Lord's twelve disciples. Each one of Jacob's sons and each of the disciples represented some essential and primary aspect of faith. What each son of Jacob represented, and therefore what each tribe of Israel represented, will in the Lord's Divine mercy be discussed later on at Genesis 29, 30, where the sons of Jacob are the subject.