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Genesis 1

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1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first Day.

6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.

14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

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Arcana Coelestia #9592

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9592. Exodus 26

1. And you shall make the dwelling-place, [formed by] ten curtains; from fine twined linen and violet and purple and twice-dyed scarlet, with cherubs, with the work of a designer you shall make them.

2. The length of one curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth four cubits; [this is what] one curtain [shall be]. All the curtains shall have one measure.

3. Five curtains shall be joined together, each one to the next, and five curtains joined together, each one to the next.

4. And you shall make loops of violet on the edge of the one curtain at the end in the joining-place, and you shall do the same in the edge of the end curtain in the complementary joining-place.

5. Fifty loops you shall make in the one curtain, and fifty loops you shall make in the end of the curtain which is in the complementary joining-place; the loops must be taken up, each one towards the other.

6. And you shall make fifty clasps of gold, and join the curtains together, each one to the next in the clasps; and the dwelling-place shall be one.

7. And you shall make curtains from [she-]goats 1 to be a tent over the dwelling-place; eleven curtains you shall make them.

8. The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth four cubits; [this is what] one curtain [shall be]. The eleven curtains shall have one measure.

9. And you shall join five curtains together by themselves, and six curtains by themselves; and you shall double over the sixth curtain at the forefront of the tent.

10. And you shall make fifty loops on the edge of one end curtain in the joining-place, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain of the complementary joining-place.

11. And you shall make fifty clasps of bronze, and put the clasps into the loops, and join the tent together, that it may be one.

12. And the additional part that trails backwards in the curtains of the tent, the half of the additional curtain, shall trail 2 over the back of the dwelling-place.

13. And a cubit on one side and a cubit on the other side in the additional part in the length of the curtains of the tent shall trail over the sides of the dwelling-place on this side and on that side, to cover it.

14. And you shall make a covering for the tent from the skins of red rams, and a covering from the skins of badgers above that.

15. And you shall make the boards for the dwelling-place from shittim wood, standing up. 3

16. Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of one board.

17. There shall be two hands 4 to one board, acting in combination with each other. Thus you shall make for all the boards of the dwelling-place.

18. And you shall make the boards for the dwelling-place, twenty boards for the south side, 5 southwards.

19. And you shall make forty bases of silver under the twenty boards, two bases under one board for its two hands, 4 and two bases under one board 6 for its two hands. 4

20. And for the other side of the dwelling-place - on the north side 7 - there shall be twenty boards,

21. And their forty bases [made] from silver, two bases under one board and two bases under one board. 6

22. And for the two legs 8 of the dwelling-place towards the sea 9 you shall make six boards.

23. And you shall make two boards for the corners of the dwelling-place at the two legs. 8

24. And they shall be paired from below, and together they shall be paired up to its head, up to one ring. Thus it shall be for them both; at the two corners they shall be.

25. And there shall be eight boards and their bases [made] from silver - sixteen bases - two bases under one board and two bases under one board. 6

26. And you shall make bars from shittim wood, five for the boards of one side of the dwelling-place,

27. And five bars for the boards of the other side of the dwelling-place, and five bars for the boards of the side of the dwelling-place at the two legs towards the sea, 9

28. And the middle bar in the midst of the boards that passes through from end to end.

29. And you shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings from gold, houses for the bars; and you shall overlay the bars with gold.

30. And you shall set up the dwelling-place according to the plan which you saw 10 on the mountain.

31. And you shall make a veil from violet and purple and twice-dyed scarlet and fine twined linen; with the work of a designer it shall be made, 11 with cherubs.

32. And you shall hang it upon four pillars of shittim [wood] overlaid with gold, and their hooks [shall be made] from gold; [they shall stand] on four bases of silver.

33. And you shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and you shall bring the ark of the Testimony in there, within the veil; and let the veil be for you a divider between the holy place and the holy of holies.

34. And you shall put the mercy-seat onto the ark of the Testimony in the holy of holies.

35. And you shall place the table outside the veil, and the lampstand across from the table, at the side of the dwelling-place towards the south; and you shall put the table on the north side.

36. And you shall make a screen for the tent door from violet and purple and twice-dyed scarlet and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer.

37. And you shall make for the screen five pillars of shittim [wood], and you shall overlay them with gold; and their hooks [shall be made] from gold; and you shall cast for them five bases of bronze.

CONTENTS

In this chapter the second or middle heaven is represented by the dwelling-place and the tent, and the celestial and spiritual constituents of that heaven are represented by the materials used to assemble the dwelling-place and tent. And after that the intermediary uniting this heaven and the inmost heaven is represented by the veil between the dwelling-place and the ark of the Testimony.

Footnotes:

1. i.e. goats' wool, see 9470.

2. literally, you shall cause to flow backwards

3. i.e. they are vertical boards

4. i.e. tenons

5. literally, corner or angle

6. i.e. another board

7. i.e. rear parts

8. i.e. at the west end

9. i.e. the rear parts at the west end

10. literally, according to the mode which you were caused to see

11. literally, he shall make it

  
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Exodus 26:1

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1 Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.