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1 Tabernaklet skal du gjøre av ti tepper av fint, tvunnet lingarn og blå og purpurrød og karmosinrød ull; du skal gjøre dem med kjeruber på i kunstvevning.

2 Hvert teppe skal være åtte og tyve alen langt og fire alen bredt; alle teppene skal holde samme mål.

3 Fem av teppene skal festes sammen, det ene til det andre, og likeså de andre fem tepper.

4 Og du skal gjøre hemper av blå ull i kanten på det ene teppe, ytterst der hvor sammenfestingen skal være, og likeså i kanten på det ytterste teppe, der hvor den andre sammenfesting skal være.

5 Femti hemper skal du gjøre på det ene teppe, og Femti hemper skal du gjøre på det teppe som er der hvor den andre sammenfesting skal være; hempene skal være like mot hverandre, den ene mot den andre.

6 Og du skal gjøre femti gullkroker og feste teppene til hverandre med krokene, så tabernaklet blir et sammenhengende telt.

7 Så skal du gjøre tepper av gjetehår til et dekke over tabernaklet; elleve sådanne tepper skal du gjøre.

8 Hvert teppe skal være tretti alen langt og fire alen bredt; alle de elleve tepper skal holde samme mål.

9 Og du skal feste fem av teppene sammen for sig, og seks for sig, og du skal legge det sjette teppe dobbelt på fremsiden av dekket.

10 Du skal gjøre femti hemper i kanten på det ene teppe, ytterst der hvor sammenfestingen skal være, og likeså femti hemper i kanten på det andre teppe, der hvor sammenfestingen skal være.

11 Og du skal gjøre femti kobberkroker og hekte krokene inn i hempene, og du skal feste teppene sammen, så de blir ett dekke.

12 Men det overskytende av dekketeppene - det halve teppe som er tilovers - skal henge ned på baksiden av tabernaklet.

13 Og den alen på hver av sidene som dekketeppene er for lange, skal henge ned på begge sider av tabernaklet for å dekke det.

14 Over dekket skal du gjøre et varetak av rødfarvede værskinn og ovenpå det et varetak av takasskinn.

15 Plankene til tabernaklet skal du gjøre av akasietre; de skal reises på ende.

16 Hver planke skal være ti alen lang og halvannen alen bred.

17 På hver planke skal det være to tapper, med en tverrlist imellem; således skal du gjøre med alle plankene til tabernaklet.

18 Og av plankene som du gjør til tabernaklet, skal du reise tyve planker på den side som vender mot syd;

19 og firti fotstykker av sølv skal du gjøre til å sette under de tyve planker, to fotstykker under hver planke til å feste begge tappene i.

20 Likeså skal du til tabernaklets andre side, den som vender mot nord, gjøre tyve planker,

21 og til dem firti fotstykker av sølv, to fotstykker under hver planke.

22 Til baksiden av tabernaklet, mot vest, skal du gjøre seks planker.

23 Og to planker skal du gjøre til tabernaklets hjørner på baksiden;

24 de skal være dobbelte nedenfra og likeledes begge være dobbelte helt op, til den første ring; således skal det være med dem begge; de skal stå i hver sitt hjørne.

25 Således blir det åtte planker med sine fotstykker av sølv - seksten fotstykker, to under hver planke.

26 Så skal du gjøre tverrstenger av akasietre, fem til plankene på den ene side av tabernaklet,

27 og fem til plankene på den andre side, og fem til plankene på baksiden av tabernaklet, mot vest.

28 Og den mellemste tverrstang, den som er midt på plankeveggen, skal gå tvert over, fra den ene ende til den andre.

29 Plankene skal du klæ med gull, og ringene på dem, som tverrstengene skal stikkes i, skal du gjøre helt av gull; tverrstengene skal du også klæ med gull.

30 Du skal reise tabernaklet på den rette måte, således som det blev vist dig på fjellet.

31 Så skal du gjøre et forheng av blå og purpurrød og karmosinrød ull og fint, tvunnet lingarn; det skal gjøres i kunstvevning med kjeruber på.

32 Og du skal henge det på fire gullklædde stolper av akasietre som det er gullhaker på, og som står på fire fotstykker av sølv.

33 Og du skal henge forhenget under krokene* og føre vidnesbyrdets ark dit og sette den innenfor forhenget; og forhenget skal være for eder en skillevegg mellem det Hellige og det Aller-helligste. / {* 2MO 26, 6.}

34 Og du skal sette nådestolen ovenpå vidnesbyrdets ark i det Aller-helligste.

35 Du skal sette bordet utenfor forhenget, og lysestaken midt imot bordet ved den søndre side av tabernaklet; bordet skal du sette ved den nordre side.

36 Til teltdøren skal du gjøre et teppe av blå og purpurrød og karmosinrød ull og fint, tvunnet lingarn med utsydd arbeid.

37 Og du skal gjøre fem stolper av akasietre til teppet og klæ dem med gull; hakene på dem skal være av gull, og du skal støpe fem fotstykker av kobber til dem.

   

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2165. I will take a piece of bread. That this signifies something celestial adjoined, is evident from the signification of “bread,” as being what is celestial (explained before, n. 276, 680-681, 1798). That “bread” signifies what is celestial, is because “bread” means all food in general, and thus in the internal sense all celestial food. What celestial food is, has been stated in Part First (n. 56-58, 680-681, 1480, 1695). That “bread” means all food in general, is evident from the following passages of the Word. We read of Joseph that:

He said to him who was over his house, that he should bring the men-his brethren-home, and should slay what was to be slain, and should make ready; and afterwards, when they had made ready, and were to eat, he said, Set on bread (Genesis 43:16, 31);

meaning that they should make ready the table; “bread” thus denoting all kinds of food. We read concerning Jethro that,

Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God (Exodus 18:12),

where also “bread” denotes all kinds of food. Concerning Manoah, in the Book of Judges:

Manoah said unto the Angel of Jehovah, Let us I pray detain thee, and let us make ready before thee a kid of the goats. And the Angel of Jehovah said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread (Judg. 13:15-16),

where “bread” denotes a kid of the goats. When Jonathan ate of the honeycomb, they told him that Saul had adjured the people, saying:

Cursed be the man that shall eat bread this day (1 Samuel 14:27-28),

where “bread” denotes all food. Again, concerning Saul:

When Saul sat down to eat bread, he said unto Jonathan, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to bread either yesterday or today? (1 Samuel 20:24, 27),

meaning to the table, where were all kinds of food. We read concerning David that he said to Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan:

Thou shalt eat bread on my table continually (2 Samuel 9:7, 10).

So too concerning Evil-merodach, who said that,

Jehoiachin king of Judah should eat bread before him continually, all the days of his life (2 Kings 25:29).

Concerning Solomon also:

Solomon’s bread for each day was thirty cors of fine flour, and sixty cors of meal, ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides the hart and the wild she-goat, and the antelope, and fatted fowl (1 Kings 4:22-23),

where “bread” plainly denotes all of these things.

[2] Now as “bread” means all kinds of food in general, it therefore signifies in the internal sense all those things which are called celestial foods, as may be still more evident from the burnt-offerings and sacrifices that were made of lambs, sheep, she-goats, kids, he-goats, heifers, and oxen, which were called in one word the “bread of the offering made by fire unto Jehovah,” as is clearly evident from the following passages in Moses, where the various sacrifices are treated of, of which it is said that,

The priest should burn them upon the altar, the bread of the offering made by fire unto Jehovah, for an odor of rest (Leviticus 3:11, 16),

all those sacrifices and burnt-offerings being so called. Again:

The sons of Aaron shall be holy unto their God, neither shall they profane the name of their God; because the offerings to Jehovah made by fire, the bread of their God, they do offer. Thou shalt sanctify him, because he offereth the bread of thy God. A man of the seed of Aaron in whom there shall be a blemish, shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God (Leviticus 21:6, 8, 17, 21),

where also sacrifices and burnt-offerings are the “bread.” The same is true of Leviticus 22:25. Again:

Command the sons of Israel, and say unto them, My oblation, My bread for offerings made by fire, of an odor of rest, shall ye observe, to offer unto Me at their appointed time (Numbers 28:2).

Here also “bread” denotes all the sacrifices which are there enumerated.

In Malachi:

Offering polluted bread upon Mine altar (Malachi 1:7),

where also the sacrifices are spoken of. The hallowed things of the sacrifices, which they ate, were also called “bread,” as is evident from these words in Moses:

He that toucheth an unclean thing shall not eat of the hallowed things, but he shall wash his flesh in water, and when the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterwards he shall eat of the hallowed things, because this is his bread (Leviticus 22:6-7).

[3] The burnt-offerings and sacrifices in the Jewish Church represented nothing else than the celestial things of the Lord’s kingdom in the heavens, and of the Lord’s kingdom on earth (that is, in the church), also of the Lord’s kingdom or church with each person, and in general all those things which are of love and charity, for these are things celestial; and each kind of sacrifice represented something special and peculiar. All these were at that time called BREAD, and therefore when sacrifices were abolished, and other things succeeded in their place for external worship, it was commanded that bread and wine should be made use of.

[4] From all this we may now see what the “bread” [in the Holy Supper] signifies, namely, all the things represented by the sacrifices, thus in the internal sense the Lord Himself. And because the “bread” signifies the Lord Himself, it signifies love itself toward the universal human race, and what belongs to love; as also man’s reciprocal love to the Lord and toward the neighbor. The “bread” thus signifies all celestial things, and in the same way the “wine” signifies all spiritual things, as the Lord also teaches in plain words in John. They said,

Our fathers did eat the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven, but My Father giveth you the true bread from heaven; for the bread of God is He that cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. They said unto Him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life; he that cometh to Me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on Me shall never thirst (John 6:31-35).

Verily I say unto you, he that believeth on Me hath eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers did eat the manna in the wilderness, and are dead; this is the bread that cometh down from heaven, that one may eat thereof and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven; if anyone eat of this bread, he shall live to eternity (John 6:47-51).

[5] Now because the “bread” is the Lord, it belongs to the celestial things which are of love, which are the Lord’s; for the Lord is the celestial itself, because He is love itself, that is, mercy itself; and because this is so, “bread” means all the celestial, that is, all the love and charity with man, for these are from the Lord; and therefore they who are not in love and charity have not the Lord with them, and thus are not gifted with the good and happy things that in the internal sense are signified by “bread.” This outward symbol was commanded because the greatest part of the human race are in external worship, and therefore without some outward symbol there would be scarcely anything holy with them. And therefore when they live in love to the Lord and in charity toward the neighbor, they nevertheless have appertaining to them what is internal, although they do not know that this love and charity is the veriest internal of worship. Thus in their external worship they are confirmed in the goods which are signified by the “bread.”

[6] In the Prophets also the celestial things of love are signified by “bread” (as in Isaiah 3:1, 7; 30:23; 33:15-16; 55:2; 58:7-8; Lam. 5:9; Ezekiel 4:16-17; 5:16; 14:13; Amos 4:6; 8:11; Psalms 105:16), in like manner by the “bread of faces” upon the table (mentioned Leviticus 24:5-9; Exodus 25:30; 40:23; Numbers 4:7; 1 Kings 7:48).

  
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2 "Command the children of Israel, and tell them, 'My offering, my food for my offerings made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to me, you shall observe to offer to me in their due season.'