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1 Quando spartirete a sorte il paese per esser vostra eredità, preleverete come offerta all’Eterno una parte consacrata del paese, della lunghezza di venticinquemila cubiti e della larghezza di diecimila; sarà sacra in tutta la sua estensione.

2 Di questa parte prenderete per il santuario un quadrato di cinquecento per cinquecento cubiti, e cinquanta cubiti per uno spazio libero, tutt’attorno.

3 Su quest’estensione di venticinquemila cubiti di lunghezza per diecimila di larghezza misurerai un’area per il santuario, per il luogo santissimo.

4 E’ la parte consacrata del paese, la quale apparterrà ai sacerdoti, che fanno il servizio del santuario, che s’accostano all’Eterno per servirlo; sarà un luogo per le loro case, un santuario per il santuario.

5 Venticinquemila cubiti di lunghezza e diecimila di larghezza saranno per i Leviti che faranno il servizio della casa; sarà il loro possesso, con venti camere.

6 Come possesso della città destinerete cinquemila cubiti di larghezza venticinquemila di lunghezza, parallelamente alla parte sacra prelevata; esso sarà per tutta la casa d’Israele.

7 Per il principe riserberete uno spazio ai due lati della parte sacra e del possesso della città, difaccia alla parte sacra offerta, e difaccia al possesso della città, dal lato d’occidente verso occidente, e dal lato d’oriente verso oriente, per una lunghezza parallela a una delle divisioni del paese, dal confine occidentale al confine orientale.

8 Questo sarà territorio suo, suo possesso in Israele; e i miei principi non opprimeranno più il mio popolo, ma lasceranno il paese alla casa d’Israele secondo le sue tribù.

9 Così parla il Signore, l’Eterno: Basta, o principi d’Israele! Lasciate da parte la violenza e le rapine, praticate il diritto e la giustizia, liberate il mio popolo dalle vostre estorsioni! dice il Signore, l’Eterno.

10 Abbiate bilance giuste, efa giusto, bat giusto.

11 L’efa e il bat avranno la stessa capacità: il bat conterrà la decima parte d’un omer e l’efa la decima parte d’un omer; la loro capacità sarà regolata dall’omer.

12 Il siclo sarà di venti ghere; venti sicli, venticinque sicli, quindici sicli, formeranno la vostra mina.

13 Questa è l’offerta che preleverete: la sesta parte d’un efa da un omer di frumento, e la sesta parte d’un efa da un omer d’orzo.

14 Questa è la norma per l’olio: un decimo di bat d’olio per un cor, che è dieci bati, cioè un omer; poiché dieci bati fanno un omer.

15 Una pecora su di un gregge di dugento capi nei grassi pascoli d’Israele sarà offerta per le oblazioni, gli olocausti e i sacrifizi di azioni di grazie, per fare la propiziazione per essi, dice il Signore, l’Eterno.

16 Tutto il popolo del paese dovrà prelevare quest’offerta per il principe d’Israele.

17 E al principe toccherà di fornire gli olocausti, le oblazioni e le libazioni per le feste, per i noviluni, per i sabati, per tutte le solennità della casa d’Israele; egli provvederà i sacrifizi per il peccato, l’oblazione, l’olocausto e i sacrifizi di azioni di grazie, per fare la propiziazione per la casa d’Israele.

18 Così parla il Signore, l’Eterno: Il primo mese, il primo giorno del mese, prenderai un giovenco senza difetto, e purificherai il santuario.

19 Il sacerdote prenderà del sangue della vittima per il peccato, e ne metterà sugli stipiti della porta della casa, sui quattro angoli de’ gradini dell’altare, e sugli stipiti della porta del cortile interno.

20 Farai lo stesso il settimo giorno del mese per chi avrà peccato per errore, e per il semplice; e così purificherete la casa.

21 Il quattordicesimo giorno del primo mese avrete la Pasqua. La festa durerà sette giorni; si mangeranno pani senza lievito.

22 In quel giorno, il principe offrirà per sé e per tutto il popolo del paese un giovenco, come sacrifizio per il peccato.

23 Durante i sette giorni della festa, offrirà in olocausto all’Eterno, sette giovenchi e sette montoni senza difetto, ognuno de’ sette giorni, e un capro per giorno come sacrifizio per il peccato.

24 E v’aggiungerà l’offerta d’un efa per ogni giovenco e d’un efa per ogni montone, con un hin d’olio per efa.

25 Il settimo mese, il quindicesimo giorno del mese, alla festa, egli offrirà per sette giorni gli stessi sacrifizi per il peccato, gli stessi olocausti, le stesse oblazioni e la stessa quantità d’olio.

   

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Scriptural Confirmations #53

  
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53. 25. A day of cloud and thick darkness (Ezekiel 34:12).

(I will make Mount Seir and the cities thereof into a waste and devastation, into a waste of eternity (Ezekiel 35:3-4, 7, 9, 12, 14-15).

Then the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be built (Ezekiel 36:10).

When I shall sanctify Myself among you, then I will give you a new heart, and I will give a new spirit in the midst of you and I will take away the heart of stone, and will give you a heart of flesh, and I will give a new spirit in your midst, and ye shall be My people, and I will be your God (Ezekiel 36:23, 26-28).

In the day that I have cleansed you from all your iniquities, I will make you to dwell in cities, and the waste places shall be built; they shall say, This land that was devastated is become as the garden of Eden, and the desolate and devastated cities are fortified and inhabited (Ezekiel 36:33-38).

Behold I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves, O my people, and I will lead you upon the land of Israel, and I will put my spirit in you that ye may live (Ezekiel 37:12-14). Concerning the dry bones: by the inflowing of the breath among them, and their living again, regeneration is described.

After many days thou shalt be visited, and in the latter days they shall come upon the land that was made a waste (Ezekiel 38:8, 16).

They shall bury Gog in the day in which I shall be glorified (Ezekiel 39:11-12, 13). Gog is one who is in external worship, but not in internal.

Of the great sacrifices upon the mountains of Israel, and that thus He will set His glory among the nations that they may know that Jehovah is their God from that day, and hence-forward (Ezekiel 39:17-22).

Of the New Church which is described by many things in Ezekiel 40-48: of the city which is the New Jerusalem, and of its gates (40): of the temple, etc. (41): of the court and of the chambers there (42): of the eastern gate where the glory of the God of Israel is seen, and of His worship (43): next of His worship and of ministration (44): of the statutes for the prince (45, 46): of waters from the house (47) of the allotment of the land according to tribes (47, 48). That the name of the city is, Jehovah there (48:35).

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for their permission to use this translation.

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Ezekiel 48

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1 Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar Enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath, (and they shall have their sides east [and] west), Dan, one [portion].

2 By the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, Asher, one [portion].

3 By the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west side, Naphtali, one [portion].

4 By the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one [portion].

5 By the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, Ephraim, one [portion].

6 By the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the west side, Reuben, one [portion].

7 By the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, Judah, one [portion].

8 By the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the offering which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand [reeds] in breadth, and in length as one of the portions, from the east side to the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in its midst.

9 The offering that you shall offer to Yahweh shall be twenty-five thousand [reeds] in length, and ten thousand in breadth.

10 For these, even for the priests, shall be the holy offering: toward the north twenty-five thousand [in length], and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south twenty-five thousand in length: and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in its midst.

11 [It shall be] for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my instruction, who didn't go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

12 It shall be to them an offering from the offering of the land, a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.

13 Answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.

14 They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy to Yahweh.

15 The five thousand that are left in the breadth, in front of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for suburbs; and the city shall be in its midst.

16 These shall be its measures: the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.

17 The city shall have suburbs: toward the north two hundred fifty, and toward the south two hundred fifty, and toward the east two hundred fifty, and toward the west two hundred fifty.

18 The remainder in the length, answerable to the holy offering, shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it shall be answerable to the holy offering; and its increase shall be for food to those who labor in the city.

19 Those who labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.

20 All the offering shall be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand: you shall offer the holy offering foursquare, with the possession of the city.

21 The residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city; in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering toward the east border, and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand toward the west border, answerable to the portions, it shall be for the prince: and the holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in its midst.

22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, it shall be for the prince.

23 As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side, Benjamin, one [portion].

24 By the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon, one [portion].

25 By the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar, one [portion].

26 By the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun, one [portion].

27 By the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad, one [portion].

28 By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt], to the great sea.

29 This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, says the Lord Yahweh.

30 These are the exits of the city: On the north side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure;

31 and the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel, three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.

32 At the east side four thousand and five hundred [reeds], and three gates: even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.

33 At the south side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.

34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred [reeds], with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.

35 It shall be eighteen thousand [reeds] around: and the name of the city from that day shall be, Yahweh is there.