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Dies ist die Opfergabe Aarons und seiner Söhne, welche sie Jehova darbringen sollen an dem Tage, da er gesalbt wird: Ein zehntel Epha Feinmehl als beständiges Speisopfer, die Hälfte davon am Morgen und die Hälfte davon am Abend.
3 Mose 6:13
Arcana Coelestia # 10133
10133. 'A continual [offering]' means within all Divine worship. This is clear from the meaning of 'continual', when it refers to such things as belong to Divine worship, as all and within all. For the subject is purification from evils and falsities by means of the good of innocence, this good being meant by 'lambs' and purification from evils and consequent falsities by a burnt offering of them. This is called 'continual' because it must be present in all Divine worship. Therefore also the offering was presented twice each day, in the morning and in the evening; and offerings made morning and evening served in general to represent all worship and what must be present within all worship. The good of innocence must be in all good, and consequently in all truth, if they are to be goodness and truth that have life from the Divine within them, and so it must be within all worship. For all worship, to be worship, must spring from the good of love and from the truths of faith.
All of the Church's and of heaven's good has innocence within it, and without that innocence good is not good, nor therefore is worship worship, see 2736, 2780, 6013, 7840, 7887, 9262.
What innocence is, 3994, 4001, 4797, 5236, 6107, 6765, 7902, 9262, 9936, and the places referred to in 10021 (end).
[2] 'Continual' means all and within all - that is to say, the all of worship, and within all worship - because it is a term that has a temporal connotation and in heaven, where the Word is understood not in the natural but in the spiritual sense, people have no notions of time. Instead of periods of time they perceive the kinds of things that are states. By 'continual' at this point therefore they perceive a perpetual state within worship, thus the all of worship and within all worship. The same applies to all other terms in the Word which have temporal connotations, such as yesterday, today, tomorrow, two days, three days, daily, a week, a month, a year, also times of day and seasons of the year - morning, midday, evening, night, spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Therefore if the spiritual sense of the Word is to be understood, any idea of a period of time acquired from its natural sense, any idea of a place as well, indeed any idea of an actual person must be set aside, and states of things must be conceived of instead. From this it may be seen how perfect the Word is in its internal sense, and so how perfect is the perception of it by the angels in heaven, consequently how much more excellent angels' wisdom and understanding are than the understanding and wisdom of people in the world, who think with solely natural vision focused on the completely finite things of this world and planet. Regarding periods of time in heaven, that they are states, see 1274, 1382, 2625, 2788, 2837, 3254, 3356, 3404, 3827, 4814, 4882, 4901, 4916, 6110, 7218, 7381, 8070; and regarding what states are, 4850.
[3] From all this it is evident what the continual burnt offering of lambs means, and so what 'continual' and 'continually' mean elsewhere, as in the commands that 'the fire shall burn continually on the altar', Leviticus 6:13, and that 'the continual bread shall be on the table', Numbers 4:7. 'The fire' there and 'the bread' mean the good of love received from the Lord and offered back to Him. For 'the fire', that it has this meaning, see 4906, 5215, 6314, 6832, 6834, 6849, 7324, 7852, 10055; and also for 'the bread', 2165, 2177, 3478, 3735, 3813, 4211, 4217, 4735, 4976, 9323, 9545. In those places as well 'continual' means in addition that this good must be present in all worship; and the fact that the same good is the source from which the truth of faith must shine, as if from its fire, is meant by the decree that they were to cause a lamp to go up 1 continually, Exodus 27:20, 'a lamp' being the truth and good of faith, see 9548, 9783.
Фусноте:
1. i.e. to burn
Exodus 40
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Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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"On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.
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You shall put the ark of the testimony in it, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.
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You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it. You shall bring in the lampstand, and light its lamps.
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You shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.
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"You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.
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You shall set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and shall put water therein.
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You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court.
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"You shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is in it, and shall make it holy, and all its furniture: and it will be holy.
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You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels, and sanctify the altar: and the altar will be most holy.
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You shall anoint the basin and its base, and sanctify it.
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"You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.
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You shall put on Aaron the holy garments; and you shall anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest's office.
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You shall bring his sons, and put coats on them.
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You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to me in the priest's office. Their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations."
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Moses did so. According to all that Yahweh commanded him, so he did.
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It happened in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was raised up.
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Moses raised up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and raised up its pillars.
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He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tabernacle above on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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He took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.
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He brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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He put the table in the Tent of Meeting, on the side of the tabernacle northward, outside of the veil.
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He set the bread in order on it before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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He put the lampstand in the Tent of Meeting, opposite the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.
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He lit the lamps before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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He put the golden altar in the Tent of Meeting before the veil;
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and he burnt incense of sweet spices on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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He put up the screen of the door to the tabernacle.
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He set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal offering, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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He set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water therein, with which to wash.
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Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet there.
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When they went into the Tent of Meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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He raised up the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.
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Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of Yahweh filled the tabernacle.
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Moses wasn't able to enter into the Tent of Meeting, because the cloud stayed on it, and Yahweh's glory filled the tabernacle.
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When the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys;
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but if the cloud wasn't taken up, then they didn't travel until the day that it was taken up.
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For the cloud of Yahweh was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
