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Exodus 31

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1 Daarna sprak de HEERE tot Mozes, zeggende:

2 Zie, Ik heb met name geroepen Bezaleel, den zoon van Uri, den zoon van Hur, van den stam van Juda.

3 En Ik heb hem vervuld met den Geest Gods, met wijsheid, en met verstand, en met wetenschap, namelijk in alle handwerk;

4 Om te bedenken vernuftigen arbeid; te werken in goud, en in zilver, en in koper,

5 En in kunstige steensnijding, om in te zetten, en in kunstige houtsnijding, om te werken in alle handwerk.

6 En Ik, zie, Ik heb hem bijgevoegd Aholiab, den zoon van Ahisamach, van den stam van Dan; en in het hart van een iegelijk, die wijs van hart is, heb Ik wijsheid gegeven; en zij zullen maken al wat Ik u geboden heb.

7 Namelijk de tent der samenkomst, en de ark der getuigenis, en het verzoendeksel, dat daarop zal zijn, en al het gereedschap der tent;

8 En de tafel, met haar gereedschap; en den louteren kandelaar, met al zijn gereedschap; en het reukaltaar;

9 Ook des brandoffers altaar, met al zijn gereedschap; en het wasvat met zijn voet;

10 En de ambtsklederen, en de heilige klederen van den priester Aaron, en de klederen van zijn zonen, om het priesterambt te bedienen;

11 Ook de zalfolie, en het reukwerk van welriekende specerijen voor het heiligdom; naar alles, wat Ik u geboden heb, zullen zij het maken.

12 Verder sprak de HEERE tot Mozes, zeggende:

13 Gij nu, spreek tot de kinderen Israels, zeggende: Gij zult evenwel mijn sabbatten onderhouden; want dit is een teken tussen Mij en tussen ulieden, bij uw geslachten; opdat men wete, dat Ik de HEERE ben, Die u heilige.

14 Onderhoudt dan den sabbat, dewijl hij ulieden heilig is! Wie hem ontheiligt, zal zekerlijk gedood worden; want een ieder, die op denzelven enig werk doet, die ziel zal uitgeroeid worden uit het midden harer volken.

15 Zes dagen zal men het werk doen; doch op den zevenden dag is de sabbat der rust, een heiligheid des HEEREN! Wie op de sabbatdag arbeid doet, zal zekerlijk gedood worden.

16 Dat dan de kinderen Israels de sabbat houden, de sabbat onderhoudende in hun geslachten, tot een eeuwig verbond.

17 Hij zal tussen Mij en tussen de kinderen Israels een teken in eeuwigheid zijn; dewijl de HEERE, in zes dagen, den hemel en de aarde gemaakt, en op den zevenden dag gerust en Zich verkwikt heeft.

18 En Hij gaf aan Mozes, als Hij met hem op den berg Sinai te spreken geeindigd had, de twee tafelen der getuigenis, tafelen van steen, beschreven met den vinger Gods.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 10452

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10452. 'The tablets were written on across them both, from the edge of one and from the edge of the other they were written on' means through which the Lord was joined to the human race, or heaven to the world. This is clear from the meaning of 'the tablets on which the Law had been inscribed' as the Word in its entirety, dealt with immediately above in 10451. As regards the writing extending across both sides, from one edge and from the other, that this means the Lord's being joined to the human race, see the explanation in 9416, 10375. This also explains why those tablets were called the tablets of the covenant, for 'a covenant' means a joining together, 665, 666, 1023, 1864, 1996, 2003, 2021, 6804, 8767, 8778, 9396.

[2] Since the Lord's being joined to the human race or heaven to the world through the Word is spoken of here, what this really is must be stated. Those who have no knowledge of the true nature of the Word cannot possibly believe that through it the Lord is joined to the human race, and heaven to the world; less still can those who spurn the Word or think it is worthless believe it. But let such people know that the heavens are kept in being through Divine Truth and that without that Truth they would not be heavens, and that the human race is kept in being through heaven. For unless heaven were flowing in to be present with a person no person could even begin to think or therefore desire anything in a rational manner. In order therefore that heaven may be kept in being, and the human race by being joined to it, the Lord has provided the Word, in which there is Divine Truth for angels in heaven and for people in the world. For the nature of the Word in its spiritual and celestial senses is such that they hold angelic wisdom itself within them, in a so highly exalted degree that a person can have scarcely any notion of its exalted nature, though in the letter it appears to be exceedingly simple and crude.

[3] From all this it is evident that when a person reads the Word heaven has the enjoyment of the wisdom it derives from the Word, and that at the same time the person is joined to heaven. This is the end for which such a Word has been given to mankind. From this it follows that if this means of joining together did not exist in the world the connection with heaven would perish, and with it all the good present in a person's will and all the truth in his understanding, and with these that essential human quality which enables one person to live in a community with another. Consequently evil and falsity would take possession of everything, as a result of which one community after another would be destroyed. For the situation would be like that when a person moves about in thick darkness and stumbles wherever he goes. It would be like that when the head is deranged and the body consequently behaves in a foolish and insane manner that leads to self-destruction. Or it would be like that when the heart is weak and internal organs and members consequently cease performing their functions until the whole is dead.

[4] This is what the condition of the human being would be if heaven were not joined to him; and heaven would not be joined to him if the Word did not exist, or else Divine Truth were not conveyed to him directly through angels, as it had been in ancient times. When the word 'heaven' is used that which is Divine should also be understood; for that which is Divine and the Lord's composes heaven. Thus being joined to heaven entails being joined to the Lord, and being separated from heaven entails being separated from the Lord; and being separated from the Lord entails destruction. For all ordering of things for good, which is called Providence, arises from there; and when Providence is taken away everything quickly deteriorates and goes to ruin. From all this it becomes clear what purpose the Word serves; but few will believe that the Word serves so great a purpose as that described above.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.