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And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was its length, and a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its hight:
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And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was its length, and a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its hight:
'Instruments of music' have sometimes an opposite or bad sense in the Word, and signify gladness and joy resulting from the affections of evil and the falsity. (See Isaiah 5:11, 12, 23:15, 16) 'Instruments of music' in other places signify the pleasant and delightful affection of spiritual and celestial things.
(Reference: Arcana Coelestia 8337)