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1 И сказал Господь Моисею, говоря:

2 смотри, Я назначаю именно Веселеила, сына Уриева, сына Орова, из колена Иудина;

3 и Я исполнил его Духом Божиим, мудростью, разумением, ведением и всяким искусством,

4 работать из золота, серебра и меди,

5 резать камни для вставливания и резать дерево для всякого дела;

6 и вот, Я даю ему помощником Аголиава, сына Ахисамахова, из колена Данова, и в сердце всякого мудрого вложу мудрость, дабы они сделали все, что Я повелел тебе:

7 скинию собрания и ковчег откровения и крышку на него, и все принадлежности скинии,

8 и стол и принадлежности его, и светильник из чистого золота и все принадлежности его, и жертвенник курения,

9 и жертвенник всесожжения и все принадлежности его, и умывальник и подножие его,

10 и одежды служебные и одежды священные Аарону священнику, и одежды сынам его, для священнослужения,

11 и елей помазания и курение благовонное для святилища: все так, как Я повелел тебе,они сделают.

12 И сказал Господь Моисею, говоря:

13 скажи сынам Израилевым так: субботы Мои соблюдайте, ибо это – знамение между Мною и вами в роды ваши, дабы вы знали, что Я Господь, освящающий вас;

14 и соблюдайте субботу, ибо она свята для вас: кто осквернит ее, тот да будет предан смерти; кто станет в оную делать дело, та душа должна быть истреблена из среды народа своего;

15 шесть дней пусть делают дела, а в седьмой – суббота покоя,посвященная Господу: всякий, кто делает дело в день субботний, да будет предан смерти;

16 и пусть хранят сыны Израилевы субботу, празднуя субботу в роды свои, как завет вечный;

17 это – знамение между Мною и сынами Израилевыми на веки, потому что в шесть дней сотворил Господь небо и землю, а в день седьмой почил и покоился.

18 И когда Бог перестал говорить с Моисеем на горе Синае, дал ему две скрижали откровения, скрижали каменные, на которых написано было перстом Божиим.

   

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9437. 'And Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights' means the instructions given and influx in their completeness. This is clear from the meaning of 'forty' as completeness. 'Forty' means completeness because 'four' means that which is complete, 9103, as similarly does 'ten', 3107, 4638, and forty is the product of four multiplied by ten. For compound numbers have a meaning similar to the simple numbers of which they are the product, 5291, 5335, 5708, 7973; and all numbers in the Word mean spiritual realities, see 575, 3252, 4264, 4495, 4670, 5265, 6175. All this goes to explain why Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights. The fact that 'forty' here means the instructions given and the influx in their completeness is evident from Chapters 25-32 which come next, recording the instructions Moses received, that is, instructions regarding the ark, Aaron, the urim and thummim, and sacrifices. The reason why influx in its completeness is also meant is that at that time Moses began to represent the outward holiness of the Word, which acted as the intermediary between the Lord and the people, and mediation is accomplished by means of influx through that holiness into the representative existing among that people, 9419.

[2] It was because 'forty' represented completeness that Moses remained on Mount Sinai forty days and forty nights not only this time but also on another occasion, Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 9:18, 25; 10:10. For the same reason the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness forty years until, as it says in Numbers 14:33-34; 32:13, all that generation had been consumed; Jonah told the Ninevites that their city would be overturned after forty days, Jonah 3:4; the prophet was commanded to lie on his right side and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days, Ezekiel 4:6; it says regarding Egypt that it would be made completely desolate for forty years, after which they would be gathered from the peoples, Ezekiel 29:11-13; and the earth was rained on forty days and forty nights, so that it was inundated with the flood, Genesis 7:4, 12, 17. From all this it is evident why the wicked person was to receive forty blows, Deuteronomy 25:3, for 'forty blows' meant the punishment in its completeness. It is also evident what should be understood in the prophecy of Deborah and Barak when it says that no shield or spear was seen among the forty thousand of Israel, Judges 5:8, 'among the forty thousand of Israel' meaning among them all. It is in addition evident why the temple built by Solomon was forty cubits long, 1 Kings 6:17, as was the new temple, according to Ezekiel 41:2; for in the highest sense 'the temple' means the Lord, and in the internal sense heaven and the Church, so that 'forty' means completeness in respect of representation. And it has a like meaning in other places.

  
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Deuteronomy 26:1-11

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1 It shall be, when you are come in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell therein,

2 that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you; and you shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

3 You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, "I profess this day to Yahweh your God, that I am come to the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us."

4 The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of Yahweh your God.

5 You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, "A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

6 The Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on us hard bondage:

7 and we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression;

8 and Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror, and with signs, and with wonders;

9 and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

10 Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me." You shall set it down before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God.

11 You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is in the midst of you.