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Ezekiel 47

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1 Kaj li revenigis min al la pordo de la domo; kaj mi ekvidis, ke jen el sub la sojlo de la domo fluas akvo orienten, cxar la vizagxa flanko de la domo estis turnita orienten; kaj la akvo fluis el sub la dekstra flanko de la domo al la suda flanko de la altaro.

2 Kaj li elkondukis min tra la norda pordego, kaj kondukis min laux ekstera vojo al la ekstera pordego, turnita orienten; kaj jen la akvo fluas el la dekstra flanko.

3 Kiam la viro iris orienten, li havis en sia mano mezursxnuron, kaj li mezuris mil ulnojn, kaj transpasigis min trans la akvon, kiu estis alta gxis la maleoloj.

4 Kaj li mezuris ankoraux mil ulnojn, kaj transpasigis min trans la akvon; la akvo estis alta gxis la genuoj. Kaj li mezuris ankoraux mil, kaj transpasigis min trans la akvon, kiu estis alta gxis la lumboj.

5 Kiam li mezuris ankoraux mil, estis jam torento, kiun mi ne povis transiri; cxar la akvo estis tro alta, oni devis gxin transnagxi, sed transiri la torenton oni ne povis.

6 Kaj li diris al mi:CXu vi vidis, ho filo de homo? Kaj li kondukis min returne al la bordo de la torento.

7 Kiam mi revenis, mi vidis, ke sur la bordo de la torento estas jam tre multe da arboj sur ambaux flankoj.

8 Kaj li diris al mi:CXi tiu akvo, kiu eliras el la orienta regiono, iros malsupren en la stepon, kaj venos en la maron; kiam gxi trovigxos en la maro, tiam sanigxos la akvo.

9 Kaj cxiu vivanta estajxo, kiu rampas tie, kie pasas la torentoj, revivigxos, kaj estos tre multe da fisxoj; cxar tien venos cxi tiu akvo, kaj cxio sanigxos kaj revivigxos, kien venos la torento.

10 Kaj staros apud gxi fisxkaptistoj de En-Gedi gxis En-Eglaim, kaj ili etendos tie retojn; iliaj fisxoj estos tiaspecaj, kiel la fisxoj de la Granda Maro, kaj tre multe.

11 Sed gxiaj marcxoj kaj marcxetoj ne sanigxos, ili estos destinitaj por salo.

12 Kaj apud la torento sur ambaux bordoj kreskos cxiaspecaj mangxajxdonantaj arboj; ne velkos iliaj folioj, kaj ne forfinigxos iliaj fruktoj; cxiumonate ili donos novajn fruktojn, cxar la akvo por ili fluas el la sanktejo; kaj iliaj fruktoj estos uzataj kiel mangxajxo, kaj iliaj folioj kiel kuracilo.

13 Tiele diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo:Jen estas la limoj, laux kiuj vi devas dividi heredige la teron al la dek du triboj de Izrael:al Jozef duoblan parton.

14 Kaj dividu gxin al cxiuj egale; cxar per levo de la mano Mi promesis doni gxin al viaj patroj, tial cxi tiu tero farigxos via hereda posedajxo.

15 Jen estas la limo de la lando:sur la norda rando, komencante de la Granda Maro, gxi iras tra HXetlon en la direkto al Cedad;

16 tra HXamat, Berota, Sibraim, kiu estas inter la limo de Damasko kaj la limo de HXamat, gxis HXacer-Tihxon, kiu trovigxas cxe la limo de HXavran.

17 Kaj la limo estos de la maro gxis HXacar-Enan apud la limo de Damasko, kaj gxis la norda Cafon kaj la limo de HXamat. Tio estas la rando norda.

18 Kaj la orientan randon mezuru inter HXavran kaj Damasko, inter Gilead kaj la lando de Izrael, laux Jordan, de la limo gxis la orienta maro; tio estas la rando orienta.

19 La suda rando estas de Tamar gxis la Akvo de Malpaco apud Kadesx, laux la torento gxis la Granda Maro; tio estas la rando suda.

20 La okcidenta rando estas la Granda Maro, gxis la komenco de HXamat; tio estas la rando okcidenta.

21 Kaj dividu inter vi cxi tiun landon laux la triboj de Izrael.

22 Kaj dividu gxin lote al vi, kaj ankaux al la fremduloj, kiuj logxas inter vi kaj kiuj naskis infanojn inter vi; ili devas esti por vi kiel indigxenoj inter la Izraelidoj, kune kun vi ili devas ricevi lote heredan posedajxon inter la triboj de Izrael.

23 En tiu tribo, inter kiu eklogxis la fremdulo, tie donu al li lian heredan posedajxon, diras la Sinjoro, la Eternulo.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #9487

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9487. 'Two cubits and a half shall be its length' means all so far as good is concerned. This is clear from the meaning of 'two and a half' as much and as what is complete, and as all when this number has reference to something Divine (the reason why 'two and a half' means much and what is complete is that this number is similar in meaning to five, ten, a hundred, and a thousand, since twice two and a half makes five, twice five makes ten, and ten times ten makes a hundred; for doubles and multiples have a similar meaning to the simple numbers of which they are the products, 5291, 5335, 5708, 7973. For the meaning of 'five' as much and completeness, see 5708, 5956, 9102; likewise 'ten', 3107, 4638; also 'a hundred', 2636, 4400; and a thousand, 2575, 8715. So it is that when these numbers are used in reference to something Divine they mean all); and from the meaning of 'length' as good, dealt with in 1613, 8898.

[2] To say that 'length' in the Word means good and 'breadth' truth may seem to be like nonsense; nevertheless this is indeed what they mean. The reason why they do so is that all things without exception in the Word mean realities such as belong to heaven and to the Church, and so such as are connected with the good of love and with the truth of faith. No spatial dimensions such as 'length' and 'breadth' imply can be attributed to these; but instead of spatial dimensions the state of their essential being (esse), which is a state of good, and the resulting state of manifestation (existere), which is a state of truth, can be attributed to them. Furthermore in heaven spatial dimensions are appearances produced by those states, 4882, 9440. From all this it becomes clear that spiritual realities are meant by the measurements and dimensions given in Chapters 40-48 of Ezekiel, where a new temple and a new land are the subject. They are consequently meant here in Exodus, where the ark, the dwelling-place, the court, the tables there, and the altars are the subject. Such realities are in a similar way meant where the temple in Jerusalem is the subject, also when it says that the holy Jerusalem coming down from heaven was square, its breadth being as great as its length, Revelation 21:16; Zechariah 2:1-2. For 'Jerusalem' means a new Church, the character of its good being meant by the measurement of its length, and the character of its truth by that of its breadth.

[3] The fact that 'breadth' or 'broad place' means truth is plainly evident in David,

In distress I called on Jah; He answered me in a broad place. Psalms 118:5.

In the same author,

You have made my feet stand in a broad place. Psalms 31:8.

In Isaiah,

The outstretchings of Asshur's wings will fill the breadth of the land. Isaiah 8:8.

In Habakkuk,

I am rousing the Chaldeans, a bitter and hasty nation, marching 1 into the breadths of the earth. Habakkuk 1:6.

'Marching into the breadths of the earth', when said of the Chaldeans, means destroying the truths of faith.

Footnotes:

1. literally, walking

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

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Exodus 25

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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.