8589. Because of the quarreling of the sons of Israel. That this signifies a complaining from the grievousness of the temptation even so that they nearly yielded, is evident from the signification of “quarreling,” as being a grievous complaining (see n. 8563); that it denotes that they nearly yielded, is evident from the character of their quarreling, namely, that they had almost stoned Moses, and that they tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah in the midst of us?

9829. 'And they shall make the holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons' means that a representative sign of the spiritual kingdom lying adjacent to the celestial kingdom will therefore exist. This is clear from what has been shown above in 9814.