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2 Mose 35

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1 Und Mose versammelte die ganze Gemeinde der Kinder Israel und sprach zu ihnen: Dies sind die Worte, die Jehova geboten hat, sie zu tun:

2 Sechs Tage soll man Arbeit tun, aber am siebten Tage soll euch ein heiliger Tag sein, ein Sabbath der Ruhe dem Jehova; wer irgend an ihm eine Arbeit tut, soll getötet werden.

3 Ihr sollt am Tage des Sabbaths kein Feuer anzünden in allen euren Wohnungen.

4 Und Mose sprach zu der ganzen Gemeinde der Kinder Israel und sagte: Dies ist das Wort, das Jehova geboten hat, indem er sprach:

5 Nehmet von euch ein Hebopfer für Jehova; jeder, der willigen Herzens ist, soll es bringen, das Hebopfer Jehovas: Gold und Silber und Erz

6 und blauen und roten Purpur und Karmesin und Byssus und Ziegenhaar

7 und rotgefärbte Widderfelle und Dachsfelle und Akazienholz

8 und Öl zum Licht und Gewürze zum Salböl und zum wohlriechenden Räucherwerk

9 und Onyxsteine und Steine zum Einsetzen für das Ephod und für das Brustschild.

10 Und alle, die weisen Herzens sind unter euch, sollen kommen und alles machen, was Jehova geboten hat:

11 die Wohnung, ihr Zelt und ihre Decke, ihre Klammern und ihre Bretter, ihre Riegel, ihre Säulen und ihre Füße;

12 die Lade und ihre Stangen, den Deckel und den Scheidevorhang;

13 den Tisch und seine Stangen und alle seine Geräte und die Schaubrote;

14 und den Leuchter zum Licht und seine Geräte und seine Lampen und das Öl zum Licht;

15 und den Räucheraltar und seine Stangen und das Salböl und das wohlriechende Räucherwerk; und den Eingangsvorhang für den Eingang der Wohnung;

16 den Brandopferaltar und das eherne Gitter an demselben, seine Stangen und alle seine Geräte; das Becken und sein Gestell;

17 die Umhänge des Vorhofs, seine Säulen und seine Füße, und den Vorhang vom Tore des Vorhofs;

18 die Pflöcke der Wohnung und die Pflöcke des Vorhofs und ihre Seile;

19 die Dienstkleider zum Dienst im Heiligtum, die heiligen Kleider für Aaron, den Priester, und die Kleider seiner Söhne, um den Priesterdienst auszuüben.

20 Und die ganze Gemeinde der Kinder Israel ging von Mose hinweg.

21 Und sie kamen, ein jeder, den sein Herz trieb; und ein jeder, der willigen Geistes war, brachte das Hebopfer Jehovas für das Werk des Zeltes der Zusammenkunft und für all seine Arbeit und für die heiligen Kleider.

22 Und die Männer kamen mit den Weibern; ein jeder, der willigen Herzens war, brachte Nasenringe und Ohrringe und Fingerringe und Spangen, allerlei goldene Geräte; und jeder, der dem Jehova ein Webopfer an Gold webte.

23 Und ein jeder, bei dem sich blauer und roter Purpur fand, und Karmesin und Byssus und Ziegenhaar und rotgefärbte Widderfelle und Dachsfelle, brachte es.

24 Jeder, der ein Hebopfer an Silber und Erz hob, brachte das Hebopfer Jehovas; und jeder, bei dem sich Akazienholz fand zu allerlei Werk der Arbeit, brachte es.

25 Und alle Weiber, die weisen Herzens waren, spannen mit ihren Händen und brachten das Gespinst: den blauen und den roten Purpur, den Karmesin und den Byssus.

26 Und alle verständigen Weiber, die ihr Herz trieb, spannen das Ziegenhaar.

27 Und die Fürsten brachten Onyxsteine und Steine zum Einsetzen für das Ephod und für das Brustschild,

28 und das Gewürz und das Öl zum Licht und zum Salböl und zum wohlriechenden Räucherwerk.

29 Die Kinder Israel, alle Männer und Weiber, die willigen Herzens waren, um zu all dem Werke zu bringen, das Jehova durch Mose zu machen geboten hatte, brachten eine freiwillige Gabe dem Jehova.

30 Und Mose sprach zu den Kindern Israel: Sehet, Jehova hat Bezaleel, den Sohn Uris, des Sohnes Hurs, vom Stamme Juda, mit Namen berufen

31 und hat ihn mit dem Geiste Gottes erfüllt, in Weisheit, in Verstand und in Kenntnis und in jeglichem Werke;

32 und zwar um Künstliches zu ersinnen, zu arbeiten in Gold und in Silber und in Erz,

33 und im Schneiden von Steinen zum Einsetzen und im Holzschneiden, um zu arbeiten in jeglichem Kunstwerk;

34 und zu unterweisen hat er ihm ins Herz gelegt, ihm und Oholiab, dem Sohne Achisamaks, vom Stamme Dan.

35 Er hat sie mit Weisheit des Herzens erfüllt, um jegliches Werk des Künstlers und des Kunstwebers und des Buntwirkers zu machen, in blauem und rotem Purpur und Karmesin und Byssus, und des Webers; derer, die allerlei Werk machen und Künstliches ersinnen.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 3519

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3519. 'And take for me from there two good kids of the she-goats' means truths born from that good. This is clear from the meaning of 'kids of the she-goats' as truths born from good, dealt with below. The reason for having 'two' was that as in the rational so in the natural there are things of the will and those of the understanding. Things in the natural that belong to the will are delights, while those that belong to the understanding are facts. These two have to be joined together if they are to be anything at all.

[2] As regards 'kids of the she-goats' meaning truths born from good, this becomes clear from those places in the Word where kids and she-goats are mentioned. It should be recognized that all gentle and useful beasts mentioned in the Word mean in the genuine sense celestial things, which are forms of good, and spiritual things, which are forms of truth, see 45, 46, 142, 143, 246, 714, 715, 776, 2179, 2180, 2781, 3218. And since there are various genera of celestial things or forms of good, and consequently there are various genera of spiritual things or forms of truth, one beast has a different meaning from another; that is to say, a lamb has one meaning, a kid another, and a sheep, she-goat, ram, he-goat, young bull, or ox another, while a horse or a camel has yet another meaning. Birds have a different meaning again, as also do beasts of the sea, such as sea monsters, and fish. The genera of celestial and spiritual things, and consequently of forms of good and truth, are more than anyone can number, even though when that which is celestial or good is mentioned, and also when that which is spiritual or truth, this is not envisaged as being anything complex, consisting of many parts, but as a single entity. Yet how complex both of these are, that is, how countless the genera are of which they consist, may be seen from what has been stated about heaven in 3241, to the effect that it is distinguished into countless separate communities, according to the genera of celestial and spiritual things, that is, of goods of love and of derivative truths of faith. Furthermore each genus of good and each genus of truth has countless species into which the communities of each genus are separated. And each species in a similar way has separate sub-species.

[3] The commonest genera of good and truth are what the living creatures offered as burnt offerings and sacrifices represented. And because the genera are quite distinct and separate, people were explicitly commanded to use those living creatures and no others, that is to say, in some sacrifices lambs and ewe-lambs, and also kids and female kids of she-goats were to be used, in other sacrifices rams and sheep, and also he-goats, were to be used, while in other sacrifices again, calves, young bulls, and oxen, or else pigeons and doves, were to be used, see 992, 1823, 2180, 2805, 2807, 2830, 3218. What kids and she-goats meant however becomes clear both from the sacrifices in which they used to be offered and from other places in the Word. These show that lambs and ewe-lambs meant innocence belonging to the internal or rational man, and kids and she-goats innocence belonging to the external or natural man, and so the truth and the good of the latter.

[4] The fact that truth and good present in the innocence that belongs to the external or natural man is meant by a kid and a she-goat is clear from the following places in the Word: In Isaiah,

The wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the kid, the calf also and the young lion and the sheep together; and a little child will lead them. Isaiah 11:6.

This refers to the Lord's kingdom and to the state there in which people have no fear of evil, that is, no dread of hell, because they are with the Lord. 'The lamb' and 'the kid' stand for people who have innocence within them, and who, being the most secure of all, are mentioned first.

[5] When all the firstborn of Egypt were smitten the people were commanded to kill from among the lambs or among the kids a male without blemish, and to put some of the blood on the doorposts and on the lintel of their houses; and so the destroyer would not strike them with the plague, Exodus 12:5, 7, 13. 'The firstborn of Egypt' means the good of love and charity that was wiped out, 3325. 'The lambs' and 'the kids' are states of innocence, in which those with whom these exist are secure from evil. Indeed all in heaven are kept secure by the Lord through states of innocence. That security was represented by the killing of the lamb or kid, and putting the blood on the doorposts and on the lintel of the houses. .

[6] To avert his own death when a person saw Jehovah manifested as an angel he would sacrifice 'a kid of the she-goats', as Gideon did when he saw Him, Judges 6:19, and also Manoah, Judges 13:15-16, 19. The reason they offered a kid was that Jehovah or the Lord cannot appear to anybody, not even to an angel, unless the one to whom He appears is in a state of innocence. Therefore as soon as the Lord is present people are brought into a state of innocence, for the Lord enters in by way of innocence, even with angels in heaven. Consequently no one is able to enter heaven unless he has a measure of innocence, according to the Lord's words recorded in Matthew 18:3; Mark 10:15; Luke 18:17. Regarding people's belief that they would die when Jehovah appeared to them if they did not offer such a burnt offering, see Judges 13:22-23.

[7] Since genuine conjugial love is innocence itself, 2736, it was customary in the representative Church for a man to go to his wife with the gift of a kid of the she-goats, as one reads of Samson in Judges 15:1, and also of Judah when he visited Tamar, Genesis 38:17, 20, 23. The fact that 'a kid' and 'a she-goat' meant innocence is also evident from the sacrifices made as guilt offerings that a person would offer if he had sinned through error, Leviticus 1:10; 4:28; 5:6. Sinning through error is sinning through ignorance that has innocence within it. The same is evident from the following Divine command in Moses,

You shall bring the first of the firstfruits of your land to the house of Jehovah your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk. Exodus 23:19; 34:26.

Here the requirement 'to bring the firstfruits of the land to the house of Jehovah' means the state of innocence which exists in early childhood; and 'not boiling a kid in its mother's milk' means that they were not to destroy the innocence of early childhood. This being their meaning, the one command, in both places referred to, follows directly after the other. In the literal sense there seems to be no connection at all between them as there is in the internal sense.

[8] Because kids and she-goats, as has been stated, meant innocence it was also required that the curtains over the tabernacle should be made from she-goat hair, Exodus 25:4; 26:7; 35:5-6, 23, 26; 36:14, as a sign that all the holy things represented in it depended for their very being on innocence. 'She-goat hair' means the last or outermost degree of innocence present in ignorance, such as exists with gentiles who in the internal sense are meant by the curtains of the tabernacle. These considerations now show what truths born of good are, and what the nature of these is, meant by the two good kids of the she-goats which Rebekah his mother spoke about to Jacob. That is to say, they are truths belonging to innocence or early childhood, meant also by the things which Esau was to bring to Isaac his father, dealt with in 3501, 3508. They were not in fact such truths, but initially they appeared to be. Thus it was that Jacob pretended by means of them to be Esau.

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