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你要用皂莢木做壇。這壇要四方的，長五肘，寬五肘，高三肘。
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要做盆，收去壇上的灰，又做鏟子、盤子、肉鍤子、火鼎；壇上一切的器具都用銅做。
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你要做帳幕的院子。院子的南面要用撚的細麻做帷子，長一百肘。
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帷子的柱子要二十根，帶卯的銅座二十個。柱子上的鉤子和杆子都要用銀子做。
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北面也當有帷子，長一百肘，帷子的柱子二十根，帶卯的銅座二十個。柱子上的鉤子和杆子都要用銀子做。
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院子的西面當有帷子，寬五十肘，帷子的柱子十根，帶卯的座十個。
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門那邊的帷子也要十五肘，帷子的柱子三根，帶卯的座三個。
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院子的門當有簾子，長二十肘，要拿藍色、紫色、朱紅色線，和撚的細麻，用繡花的手工織成，柱子四根，帶卯的座四個。
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院子四圍一切的柱子都要用銀杆連絡，柱子上的鉤子要用銀做，帶卯的座要用銅做。
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院子要長一百肘，寬五十肘，高五肘，帷子要用撚的細麻做，帶卯的座要用銅做。
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帳幕各樣用處的器具，並帳幕一切的橛子，和院子裡一切的橛子，都要用銅做。
885. That a “leaf” signifies truth, is evident from many passages in the Word where man is compared to a tree, or is called a tree, and where “fruits” signify the good of charity, and a “leaf” the truth therefrom (which indeed they are like); as in Ezekiel:
And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, there cometh up every tree for food, whose leaf doth not fall, neither is the fruit consumed, it is reborn every month, because the waters thereof issue out of the sanctuary; and the fruit, thereof shall be for food, and the leaf, thereof for medicine (Ezekiel 47:12; Revelation 22:2).
Here “tree” denotes the man of the church in whom is the kingdom of the Lord; its “fruit” the good of love and of charity; its “leaf” the truths therefrom, which serve for the instruction of the human race and for their regeneration, for which reason the leaf is said to be for “medicine.” Again:
Shall He not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit, thereof that it wither? it shall wither in all the plucked off [leaves] of its shoot (Ezekiel 17:9).
This is said of the vine, that is, the church, in a state of vastation, whose good, which is the “fruit” and whose truth, which is the “plucked off [leaf] of the shoot” thus withers.
[2] In Jeremiah:
Blessed is the man that trusteth in Jehovah; he shall be like a tree planted by the waters; his leaf shall be green; and he shall not be anxious in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit (Jeremiah 17:7-8)
where the “green leaf” denotes the truth of faith, thus the very faith which is from charity. So in David (Psalms 1:3); and again in Jeremiah: There shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig-tree, and the leaf is fallen (Jeremiah 8:13);
“grapes on the vine” denote spiritual good; “figs on the fig-tree” natural good; “leaf” truth, which in this case is “fallen.” Likewise in (Isaiah 34:4). The same is meant by the fig-tree which Jesus saw and found nothing thereon but leaves, and which therefore withered away (Matthew 21:19-20; Mark 11:13-14, 20). Specifically, by this fig-tree there was meant the Jewish Church, in which there was no longer anything of natural good; and the religious teaching or truth that was preserved in it, are the “leaves;” for a vastated church is such that it knows truth, but is not willing to understand it. Similar are those who say that they know truth or the things of faith, yet have nothing of the good of charity: they are only fig-leaves, and they wither away.
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