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1 Y DEL jacinto, y púrpura, y carmesí, hicieron las vestimentas del ministerio para ministrar en el santuario, y asimismo hicieron las vestiduras sagradas para Aarón; como Jehová lo había mandado á Moisés.

2 Hizo también el ephod de oro, de cárdeno y púrpura y carmesí, y lino torcido.

3 Y extendieron las planchas de oro, y cortaron hilos para tejerlos entre el jacinto, y entre la púrpura, y entre el carmesí, y entre el lino, con delicada obra.

4 Hiciéronle las hombreras que se juntasen; y uníanse en sus dos lados.

5 Y el cinto del ephod que estaba sobre él, era de lo mismo, conforme á su obra; de oro, jacinto, y púrpura, y carmesí, y lino torcido; como Jehová lo había mandado á Moisés.

6 Y labraron las piedras oniquinas cercadas de engastes de oro, grabadas de grabadura de sello con los nombres de los hijos de Israel:

7 Y púsolas sobre las hombreras del ephod, por piedras de memoria á los hijos de Israel; como Jehová lo había á Moisés mandado.

8 Hizo también el racional de primorosa obra, como la obra del ephod, de oro, jacinto, y púrpura, y carmesí, y lino torcido.

9 Era cuadrado: doblado hicieron el racional: su longitud era de un palmo, y de un palmo su anchura, doblado.

10 Y engastaron en él cuatro órdenes de piedras. El primer orden era un sardio, un topacio, y un carbunclo: este el primer orden.

11 El segundo orden, una esmeralda, un zafiro, y un diamante.

12 El tercer orden, un ligurio, un ágata, y un amatista.

13 Y el cuarto orden, un berilo, un onix, y un jaspe: cercadas y encajadas en sus engastes de oro.

14 Las cuales piedras eran conforme á los nombres de los hijos de Israel, doce según los nombres de ellos; como grabaduras de sello, cada una con su nombre según las doce tribus.

15 Hicieron también sobre el racional las cadenas pequeñas de hechura de trenza, de oro puro.

16 Hicieron asimismo los dos engastes y los dos anillos, de oro; los cuales dos anillos de oro pusieron en los dos cabos del racional.

17 Y pusieron las dos trenzas de oro en aquellos dos anillos á los cabos del racional.

18 Y fijaron los dos cabos de las dos trenzas en los dos engastes, que pusieron sobre las hombreras del ephod, en la parte delantera de él.

19 E hicieron dos anillos de oro, que pusieron en los dos cabos del racional, en su orilla, á la parte baja del ephod.

20 Hicieron además dos anillos de oro, los cuales pusieron en las dos hombreras del ephod, abajo en la parte delantera, delante de su juntura, sobre el cinto del ephod.

21 Y ataron el racional de sus anillos á los anillos del ephod con un cordón de jacinto, para que estuviese sobre el cinto del mismo ephod, y no se apartase el racional del ephod; como Jehová lo había mandado á Moisés.

22 Hizo también el manto del ephod de obra de tejedor, todo de jacinto.

23 Con su abertura en medio de él, como el cuello de un coselete, con un borde en derredor de la abertura, porque no se rompiese.

24 E hicieron en las orillas del manto las granadas de jacinto, y púrpura, y carmesí, y lino torcido.

25 Hicieron también las campanillas de oro puro, las cuales campanillas pusieron entre las granadas por las orillas del manto alrededor entre las granadas:

26 Una campanilla y una granada, una campanilla y una granada alrededor, en las orillas del manto, para ministrar; como Jehová lo mandó á Moisés.

27 Igualmente hicieron las túnicas de lino fino de obra de tejedor, para Aarón y para sus hijos;

28 Asimismo la mitra de lino fino, y los adornos de los chapeos (tiaras) de lino fino, y los pañetes de lino, de lino torcido;

29 También el cinto de lino torcido, y de jacinto, y púrpura, y carmesí, de obra de recamador; como Jehová lo mandó á Moisés.

30 Hicieron asimismo la plancha de la diadema santa de oro puro, y escribieron en ella de grabadura de sello, el rótulo, SANTIDAD A JEHOVA.

31 Y pusieron en ella un cordón de jacinto, para colocarla en alto sobre la mitra; como Jehová lo había mandado á Moisés.

32 Y fue acabada toda la obra del tabernáculo, del tabernáculo del testimonio: é hicieron los hijos de Israel como Jehová lo había mandado á Moisés: así lo hicieron.

33 Y trajeron el tabernáculo á Moisés, el tabernáculo y todos sus vasos; sus corchetes, sus tablas, sus barras, y sus columnas, y sus basas;

34 Y la cubierta de pieles rojas de carneros, y la cubierta de pieles de tejones, y el velo del pabellón;

35 El arca del testimonio, y sus varas, y la cubierta;

36 La mesa, todos sus vasos, y el pan de la proposición;

37 El candelero limpio, sus candilejas, las lámparas que debían mantenerse en orden, y todos sus vasos, y el aceite para la luminaria;

38 Y el altar de oro, y el aceite de la unción, y el perfume aromático, y el pabellón para la puerta del tabernáculo;

39 El altar de metal, con su enrejado de metal, sus varas, y todos sus vasos; y la fuente, y su basa;

40 Las cortinas del atrio, y sus columnas, y sus basas, y el pabellón para la puerta del atrio, y sus cuerdas, y sus estacas, y todos los vasos del servicio del tabernáculo, del tabernáculo del testimonio;

41 Las vestimentas del servicio para ministrar en el santuario, las sagradas vestiduras para Aarón el sacerdote, y las vestiduras de sus hijos, para ministrar en el sacerdocio.

42 En conformidad á todas las cosas que Jehová había mandado á Moisés, así hicieron los hijos de Israel toda la obra.

43 Y vió Moisés toda la obra, y he aquí que la habían hecho como Jehová había mandado; y bendíjolos.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #2959

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2959. 'The land [is worth] four hundred shekels of silver' means the price of redemption by means of truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'four hundred shekels', dealt with below, and from the meaning of 'silver' as truth, dealt with in 1551, 2048, 2937. The reason 'four hundred shekels' means the price of redemption is that 'four hundred' means vastation and 'a shekel' price. What vastation is, see 2455 (end), 2682, 2694, 2699, 2702, 2704, where it is shown that there are two types of vastation. The first takes place when the Church altogether ceases to exist, that is, when there is no longer any charity or faith. At that point the Church is said to be vastated or laid waste. The second takes place when those who belong to the Church are reduced to a state of ignorance and also of temptation, for the reason that the evils and falsities residing with them are to be set apart and so to speak dissipated. Those who emerge from this vastation are those who are specifically called the redeemed, for at that point they are taught the goods and truths of faith, and are reformed and regenerated by the Lord, as shown in the paragraphs quoted. Now since the number four hundred, when used to specify a period of time - such as four hundred years - means the duration and also the state of vastation, so that same number, when used to specify the number of shekels, means the price of redemption; and when the word 'silver' is mentioned together with this number, the price of redemption by means of truth is meant.

[2] That 'four hundred years' means the duration and the state of vastation becomes clear also from what Abraham was told,

Jehovah said to Abraham, 1 Know for sure that your seed will be strangers in a land not theirs. And they will serve them, and these will afflict them for four hundred years. Genesis 15:13.

There it may be seen that 'four hundred years' is used to mean the duration of the stay of the children of Israel in Egypt. Yet it is not the duration of their stay in Egypt that is meant but something that is not evident to anyone except from the internal sense. This becomes clear from the fact that the duration of the stay of the children of Israel in Egypt was no more than half the stated period, as becomes quite clear from the descendants of Jacob down to Moses. For the facts are that Levi was descended from Jacob, Kohath from Levi, Amram from Kohath, and Aaron and Moses from Amram, Exodus 6:16-20; Levi and his son Kohath went down to Egypt together with Jacob, Genesis 46:11; and Moses came two generations later, and was eighty years old when he spoke to Pharaoh, Exodus 7:7. These facts show that the period of time from Jacob's entry into Egypt until his sons' departure from that land was approximately two hundred and fifteen years.

[3] That 'four hundred' is used in the Word to mean something other than its numerical value in the historical sense is clearer still from its being said that

The length of time that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years, and at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, it happened on that same day, that all the armies of Jehovah went out of the land of Egypt. Exodus 12:40-41.

The duration of the stay of the children of Israel in that land was in fact only half that number of years; but it was from Abraham's entry into Egypt that the four hundred and thirty years were measured. Consequently what is said at this point in Exodus is for the sake of the internal sense Lying within those words. In the internal sense the sojourn of the sons of Jacob in Egypt represents and means the vastation of the Church, the state and duration of which are described by the number four hundred and thirty years. Thirty describes the state of vastation of the sons of Jacob as being no vastation at all, for they were such as could not be reformed through any state of vastation (for the meaning of the number thirty, see 2276); and 'four hundred years' represents the general state of vastation of those who belonged to the Church.

[4] Those therefore who come out of that vastation are referred to as the redeemed, as is also evident from the words addressed to Moses,

Therefore say to the children of Israel, I am Jehovah, and I will bring you out from beneath the burdens of Egypt, and I will rescue you from their slavery, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgements. Exodus 6:6.

And elsewhere,

Jehovah has brought you out by means of a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of slaves, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Deuteronomy 7:8; 13:5.

And elsewhere,

You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, but Jehovah your God redeemed you. Deuteronomy 15:15; 24:18.

In Samuel,

Your people whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt. 2 Samuel 7:23.

Since those who emerge from the state of vastation are referred to as the redeemed, 'four hundred shekels' therefore means the price of redemption.

[5] As regards 'a shekel' meaning the price or valuation, this is clear from the following places in the Word: In Moses,

All your valuations shall be according to the shekel of holiness. Leviticus 27:25.

And elsewhere,

If a soul commits a trespass and has sinned inadvertently in the holy things of Jehovah, he shall bring his guilt offering to Jehovah, a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to your valuation in silver shekels, according to the shekel of holiness. Leviticus 5:15.

From this it is evident that 'a shekel' means the price or valuation. It is called 'the shekel of holiness' because the price or valuation has regard to truth and good from the Lord - truth and good from the Lord being, within the Church, holiness itself. Consequently it is called 'the shekel of holiness' many times elsewhere, as in Exodus 30:24; Leviticus 27:3; Numbers 3:47, 50; 7:13, 19, 25, 31, 37, 43, 49, 55, 61, 67, 73; 18:16.

[6] That 'a shekel' is the price of what is holy is quite evident in Ezekiel when the holy land and the holy city are the subject. There the shekel is referred to as follows,

The shekel there shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh (pound). Ezekiel 45:12.

Anyone may see that here 'shekel', 'pound', and the numbers mentioned mean holy things, that is, good and truth, for the holy land and the holy city or new Jerusalem, which are the subject there, mean nothing else than the Lord's kingdom where neither shekel, nor gerahs, nor pound, nor the numbering of them occurs. But the number itself, from the meaning it has in the internal sense, determines the valuation or price of good and truth.

[7] In Moses it is said that every man (vir) should give a ransom for his soul, so that there would be no plague. He had to give half a shekel, according to the shekel of holiness, a shekel being twenty gerahs. Half a shekel was to be the thruma (offering) to Jehovah, Exodus 30:12-13. Here ten gerahs, which make half a shekel, are remnants which are received from the Lord. Remnants are goods and truths stored away with a person - such remnants, being meant by 'ten', see 576, 1738, 1906, 2284. That remnants are goods and truths from the Lord that are stored away with a person, see 1906, 2284. Consequently they are also called 'the thruma (or offering) to Jehovah', and it is said that by means of this a soul will be redeemed. The reason it is stated several times that a shekel was twenty gerahs, as in these verses from Exodus, and also in Leviticus 27:25; Numbers 3:47; 18:16; and elsewhere, is that the shekel of twenty gerahs means the valuation of the good preserved in remnants - twenty meaning the good preserved in remnants, see 2280. Also therefore a shekel was a weight according to which the price of both gold and silver was determined, Genesis 24:22; Exodus 38:24; Ezekiel 4:10; 45:12 - the price of gold because 'gold' means good, 113, 1551, 1552, and the price of silver because 'silver' means truth, 1551, 2048. From this it is now evident that 'the land [is worth] four hundred shekels of silver' means the price of redemption by means of truth. The reason it is called 'the land' is that the spiritual Church is the subject, which is reformed and regenerated by means of truth received from the Lord, 2954. That 'the land' means the Church, see 662, 1066, 1068, 1262, 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118 (end).

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1. In Genesis 15 the patriarch's name is still Abram.

  
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Exodus 6:16-20

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16 These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred thirty-seven years.

17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families.

18 The sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were one hundred thirty-three years.

19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.

20 Amram took Jochebed his father's sister to himself as wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty-seven years.