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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 #9688

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9688. 'The work of an embroiderer' means things that belong to factual knowledge. This is clear from the meaning of 'the work of an embroiderer', or embroidery, as factual knowledge. A large number of places in the Word speak of that which has been embroidered and of embroidery, and in every case factual knowledge is meant by it. The reason for this goes back to representatives in the next life; there garments embroidered in various ways are seen, and by these garments truths on the level of factual knowledge are meant.

[2] Truths on the level of factual knowledge differ from those on the level of the understanding in the same way as outward things differ from inward ones, or as the natural level with a person differs from the spiritual. Facts serve the understanding as objects from which it may deduce truths; for the power of understanding is the internal or spiritual man's power of sight, and known facts are its objects in the external or natural man. These facts are meant by 'the work of an embroiderer' whereas that power of understanding is meant by 'the work of a designer', 9598, for designing is a function of the understanding, and embroidering a function of the knowledge and skill employed by the understanding. This explains why the objects within the dwelling-place, which were signs meaning inner realities, were the work of a designer, such as the curtains that formed it, verse 1, and the veil between the holy place and the holy of holies, verse 31. But the objects which were signs meaning outer realities were the work of an embroiderer, such as the screen in place of a tent door, and the screen in place of a gate of the court, Exodus 38:18, and also the girdle, Exodus 39:29, 'the girdle' being what is external linking everything internal, 'the court' being the lowest part of heaven, and 'the tent door' the place where there is an exit from the middle heaven into the lowest.

[3] The fact that 'embroidery' and that which has been 'embroidered' mean factual knowledge belonging to the external or natural man is clear from the following places in the Word: In Ezekiel,

Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt was your sail; violet and purple from the islands of Elishah was your covering. Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks; [they exchanged for your wares] chrysoprase and purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen. The merchants of Sheba [came] with balls of violet and with embroidered work. Ezekiel 27:7, 16, 24.

This refers to Tyre, by which those in possession of cognitions or knowledge of truth and good are meant, and in the abstract sense those cognitions themselves, 1201. 'Fine linen with embroidery' means truth on the level of factual knowledge, for 'fine linen' means truth from a celestial origin, 5319, 9469, and 'embroidery' is factual knowledge. This also is the reason why it says that it came from Egypt - for 'Egypt' means factual knowledge, 1164, 1165, 1186, 1462, 2588, 4749, 4964, 4966, 5700, 5702, 6004, 6015, 6125, 6651, 6679, 6683, 6692, 6750, 7779 (end), 9391 - and also from Syria and from Sheba, since cognitions of truth and good are meant by 'Syria', 1232, 1234, 3051, 3249, 3664, 3680, 4112, and in like manner by 'Sheba', 1171, 3240. Cognitions of truth and good constitute the Church's factual knowledge. Anybody endowed with the ability to think intelligently and weigh things up can see that in these verses from Ezekiel one should not understand embroidery, fine linen, violet, or purple, but that these commodities mean things such as are worthy of mention in the Word, namely spiritual realities that belong to heaven and the Church.

[4] In the same prophet,

All the princes of the sea will step down from upon their thrones, and will cast away their robes and will strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with tremblings. Ezekiel 26:16.

This too refers to Tyre. 'The princes of the sea' are the first and foremost known facts, which are called dogmas, 'princes' meaning things which are first and foremost, see 1482, 2089, 5044, and 'the sea' factual knowledge in general 28, 2850. 'Robes' are external truths, 'embroidered' are truths on the level of factual knowledge, which too are external ones. For the meaning of 'garments' as truths, 2576, 4545, 4763, 5248, 5319, 5954, 6914, 6917, 6918, 9093, 9158, 9212, 9216.

[5] In the same prophet,

I clothed you with embroidered cloth, and shod you with badger; I swathed you in fine linen and covered you with silk. Thus were you adorned with gold and silver; and your garments were fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. But you took your embroidered garments and covered the images, with which you committed whoredom. 1 Ezekiel 16:10, 13, 18.

This refers to Jerusalem, by which the Church is meant. 'Embroidered garments' stands for truths on the level of factual knowledge. 'Covering the images, with which she committed whoredom' stands for giving strength to falsities, for 'committing whoredom' means perverting truths by bringing them into contact with falsities or with evils. Is there anyone who cannot see that since these verses describe Jerusalem 'fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth' are not used to mean fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth? Yet what they really mean the Christian world does not seek to know, because it supposes that heavenly and spiritual matters in the Word reside in its literal sense; the more internal contents of the Word it calls mystical, but has no interest in them.

[6] In the same prophet,

A great eagle with great wings, with long pinions, full of feathers, 2 which had embroidery ... Ezekiel 17:3.

This refers to the house of Israel, which means the spiritual Church; and this Church is called 'an eagle' by virtue of its perception of truth, 3901, 8764, 'which had embroidery' standing for its possession of factual knowledge. In David,

All glorious is the king's daughter within, in her clothing with gold interweavings; in an embroidered [robe] she will be led to the king. Psalms 45:13-14.

'The king's daughter' stands for an affection for truth, 'an embroidered [robe]' for factual knowledge of truth. In the Book of Judges,

Will they not divide the spoil, ... the spoil of colours for Sisera, the spoil of colours of embroidered work, embroiderers' colour - on the necks of the spoil? 3 Judges 5:30.

In this verse, which is part of the Song of Deborah and Barak, 'embroidered [work]' stands for factual knowledge belonging to the natural man.

Bilješke:

1. Here verse 18 of Ezekiel 16 has become confused with the preceding verse 17.

2. literally, A great eagle, great with wings, long with pinions, and full with feathers,

3. The meaning in the Hebrew of this verse is very obscure. The Latin rendering by Sebastian Schmidt, which Swedenborg relies on here, is literal and equally difficult to make sense of.

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

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1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

2 "Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.

3 This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, brass,

4 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair,

5 rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,

6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,

7 onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.

8 Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

9 According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it.

10 "They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.

11 You shall overlay it with pure gold. You shall overlay it inside and outside, and you shall make a gold molding around it.

12 You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of it, and Two rings on the other side of it.

13 You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

14 You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.

15 The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from it.

16 You shall put the testimony which I shall give you into the ark.

17 You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.

18 You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.

19 Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat.

20 The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.

21 You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you.

22 There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for the children of Israel.

23 "You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and one and a half cubits its height.

24 You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.

25 You shall make a rim of a handbreadth around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.

26 You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet.

27 the rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table.

28 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.

29 You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. You shall make them of pure gold.

30 You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.

31 "You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. Of hammered work shall the lampstand be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it.

32 There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side;

33 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the lampstand;

34 and in the lampstand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;

35 and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the lampstand.

36 Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it one beaten work of pure gold.

37 You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.

38 Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold.

39 It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories.

40 See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.