Generally in the Bible a "country" means a political subdivision ruled by a king, or sometimes a tribe with a territory ruled by a king or chieftain. Others are what we now call city-states, with surrounding farm areas. In almost all cases these countries were far smaller than our modern idea of countries, though Egypt and Assyria would be exceptions. Sometimes the word is used to refer to countryside, a wide area with no consideration of boundaries as when the twelve Israelites were sent to spy out the country.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 3816 [3], 6818, 6820, 6821; Charity 83, 85; True Christian Religion 305)

10268. 'And with it you shall anoint the tent of meeting' means in order to represent what is Divine and the Lord's in the heavens. This is clear from the meaning of 'to anoint with the holy oil' as to produce a representation of the Divine Good of the Lord's Divine Love as to His Divine Human, for 'anointing' means producing a representation (things which had been anointed were called holy not because of the oil but because of the representation of what was Divine, which oil is the sign of; for 'oil' is a sign of the Divine Good of Divine Love, and 'holiness' a sign of the Divine Human since the Human alone is holy, as becomes clear from what has been shown above in 9954, 10011, 10019, 10264-10267); and from the meaning of 'the tent of meeting' as heaven in its complete entirety - the inmost or third heaven being meant by the place where the ark of the Testimony was; the middle or second by the place where the table with the loaves of the presence, the lampstand, and the altar of incense were; and the lowest or first by the place where the court was, regarding all of which, see 9457, 9481, 9485, 9784, 9963, 10230, 10242, 10245. From all this it is evident that 'anointing the tent of meeting' means producing a representation of the Divine Good of the Lord's Divine Love as to His Divine Human; and since this is meant by 'anointing the tent of meeting', in order to represent what is Divine and the Lord's in the heavens is also meant. For heaven is heaven not by virtue of anything in angels that is entirely their own, only by virtue of what is Divine and the Lord's with them, see 9408, 10125, 10151, 10157, 10159.