'Precious things,' as in Genesis 24:53, signify spiritual things.

In Jeremiah 20:5, this signifies knowledge of faith and of spiritual things for natural good. (Arcana Coelestia 1327, 3166)

(Ссылки: Arcana Coelestia 3160; Exodus 24)

9862. 'A span the length of it, and a span the breadth of it' means equally in respect of good and in respect of truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'the length' as good, dealt with in 1613, 9487; and from the meaning of 'the breadth' as truth, dealt with in 1613, 3433, 3434, 4482, 9487. Equally in respect of both these is meant by the length and the breadth, that they were equal.