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1 Ðức Giê-hô-va phán cùng Môi-se rằng:

2 Hãy nói cùng dân Y-sơ-ra-ên đặng họ dâng lễ vật cho ta; các ngươi hãy nhận lấy lễ vật của mọi người có lòng thành dâng cho.

3 Nầy là lễ vật các ngươi sẽ nhận lấy của họ: vàng, bạc, và đồng;

4 chỉ tím, đỏ điều, đỏ sặm, vải gai mịn, lông , da chiên đực nhuộm đỏ,

5 da cá nược, cây si-tim,

6 dầu thắp, hương liệu đặng làm dầu xức và hương,

7 bích ngọc cùng các thứ ngọc khác để gắn vào ê-phót và bảng đeo ngực.

8 Họ sẽ làm cho ta một đền thánh và ta sẽ ở giữa họ.

9 Hãy làm điều đó y như kiểu đền tạm cùng kiểu các đồ dùng mà ta sẽ chỉ cho ngươi.

10 Vậy, chúng hãy đóng một cái hòm bằng cây si-tim; bề dài hai thước rưỡi, bề ngang một thước rưỡi, và bề cao cũng một thước rưỡi,

11 lấy vàng ròng bọc trong, bọc ngoài, và chạy đường viền chung quanh hòm bằng vàng.

12 Ngươi cũng hãy đúc bốn khoen bằng vàng để tại bốn góc hòm: hai cái bên hông nầy, hai cái bên hông kia,

13 cùng làm hai cây đòn bằng cây si-tim, bọc vàng;

14 rồi lòn đòn vào khoen hai bên hông hòm, để dùng đòn khiêng hòm.

15 Ðòn sẽ ở trong khoen luôn, không nên rút ra.

16 Ngươi hãy cất vào trong hòm bảng chứng mà ta sẽ ban cho.

17 Ngươi cũng hãy làm một cái nắp thi ân bằng vàng ròng, bề dài hai thước rưỡi, bề ngang một thước rưỡi.

18 Lại làm hai tượng chê-ru-bin bằng vàng giát mỏng, để hai đầu nắp thi ân,

19 ló ra ngoài, một tượng ở đầu nầy và một tượng ở đầu kia.

20 Hai chê-ru-bin sẽ sè cánh ra, che trên nắp thi ân, đối diện nhau và xây mặt vào nắp thi ân.

21 Ngươi hãy để nắp thi ân trên hòm, rồi để vào trong hòm bảng chứng mà ta sẽ ban cho.

22 Ta sẽ gặp ngươi tại đó, và ở trên nắp thi ân, giữa hai tượng chê-ru-bin, trên hòm bảng chứng, ta sẽ truyền cho ngươi các mạng lịnh về dân Y-sơ-ra-ên.

23 Ngươi cũng hãy đóng một cái bàn bằng cây si-tim; bề dài hai thước, bề ngang một thước, và bề cao một thước rưỡi,

24 bọc bằng vàng ròng, và chạy một đường viền chung quanh;

25 rồi lên be cho tứ vi bàn, cao chừng bốn ngón tay và chạy cho be một đường viền vàng.

26 Lại đúc bốn cái khoen vàng, tra vào bốn góc nơi chân bàn.

27 Khoen sẽ ở gần be, để xỏ đòn khiêng bàn.

28 Ngươi hãy chuốt đòn bằng cây si-tim, bọc vàng, rồi người ta sẽ dùng khiêng bàn đó.

29 Lại hãy lấy vàng ròng mà làm dĩa, chén, chậu, và ly đặng dùng làm lễ quán.

30 Trên bàn ngươi sẽ để bánh trần thiết cho có luôn luôn trước mặt ta.

31 Ngươi cũng hãy làm chân đèn bằng vàng ròng. Cái chân, cái thân, cái đài, cái bầu cùng cái hoa của đèn đều làm bằng vàng đánh giát.

32 Hai bên thân đèn sẽ có sáu nhánh nứt ra, hạ nhánh ở bên nầy và ba nhánh ở bên kia.

33 Trong sáu nhánh nứt ra trên chân đèn, mỗi nhánh đều sẽ có ba cái đài hình như hột hạnh nhân cùng bầu và hoa.

34 Trên thân chân đèn, lại cũng sẽ có bốn cái đài hình hột hạnh nhân, bầu và hoa.

35 Trong sáu nhánh từ thân chân đèn nứt ra, hễ cứ mỗi hai nhánh thì dưới có một cái bầu.

36 Bầu cùng nhánh của chân đèn đều bằng vàng ròng nguyên miếng đánh giát.

37 Ngươi cũng hãy làm bảy cái thếp đèn, đặng hễ khi thắp thì chiếu trước chân đèn.

38 Kéo bắt tim cùng đồ đựng tàn đèn cũng sẽ bằng vàng ròng.

39 Người ta sẽ dùng một ta lâng vàng ròng làm chân đèn nầy và các đồ phụ tùng của chân đèn.

40 Vậy, ngươi hãy xem, cứ làm y như kiểu đã chỉ cho trên núi.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #585

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585. And against His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. This symbolizes scandalous assertions against the Lord's celestial church and against heaven.

The Tabernacle has almost the same symbolic meaning as the Temple, namely, in the highest sense, the Lord's Divine humanity, and in a relative sense, heaven and the church (nos. 191, 529). But in the latter sense the Tabernacle symbolizes the celestial church, which is impelled by the goodness of love toward the Lord received from the Lord; and the Temple symbolizes the spiritual church, which is impelled by truths of wisdom received from the Lord. Those who dwell in heaven symbolize heaven.

The Tabernacle symbolizes the celestial church because the Most Ancient Church, being impelled by love toward the Lord, was a celestial church and held sacred worship in tents. And the Ancient Church was a spiritual church and held sacred worship in temples.

Tents used wood in their construction, while temples used stone, and wood symbolizes goodness, and stone truth.

[2] That the Tabernacle symbolizes the Lord's Divine humanity in respect to Divine love, and a heaven and a church that is impelled by love toward the Lord, can be seen from the following passages:

Jehovah, who may abide in Your tabernacle? Who may dwell in Your holy mountain? He who walks uprightly, and practices righteousness, and speaks the truth... (Psalms 15:1-2)

(Jehovah) shall hide me in His tabernacle; in the secret place of His tabernacle He shall conceal me; He shall set me high... (Psalms 27:4-5)

I will abide in Your tabernacle forever. (Psalms 61:4)

Look upon Zion...; let your eyes behold Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that will not be dispelled... (Isaiah 33:20)

(Jehovah) who... spreads (the heavens) out like a tent to dwell in. (Isaiah 40:22)

...you have made Jehovah..., the Most High, your dwelling place..., no plague shall come near your tent. (Psalms 91:9-10)

(Jehovah) set (His) tabernacle among (them).... (He) will walk among (them).... (Leviticus 26:11-12)

(Jehovah) forsook the tent of Shiloh, the tabernacle in which He dwelled among men. (Psalms 78:60)

I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them...." (Revelation 21:3)

...My tabernacle has been laid waste... (Jeremiah 4:20; 10:20)

He shall... pluck you out of your tent, and uproot you from the land of the living. (Psalms 52:5)

And so on elsewhere, as in Isaiah 16:5; 54:2, Jeremiah 30:18, Lamentations 2:4, Hosea 9:6; 12:9, Zechariah 12:7.

[3] Since the Most Ancient Church, which was a celestial church, being impelled by love toward the Lord and being thus in conjunction with Him, held sacred worship in tents, therefore by the Lord's command Moses erected a tent or tabernacle, in which everything relating to heaven and the church was represented. And it was so holy that no one was permitted to enter except Moses, Aaron, and Aaron's sons; and if any of the people were to do so, they would die (Numbers 17:12-13; 18:1, 22-23; 19:14-19).

Inmostly in that tabernacle, containing the two tables of the Decalogue, was the Ark, on which was the mercy seat and over it the cherubim. And outside the veil was the table holding the showbread, the altar of incense, and the lampstand having seven lamps. All of these things were representative objects relating to heaven and the church. The tabernacle itself is described in Exodus 26:7-16; 36:8-37.

We also read that the design of the Tabernacle was shown to Moses upon Mount Sinai (Exodus 25:9; 26:30); and whatever he was given to see from heaven is a representation relating to heaven and the church.

In memory of the most ancient people's sacred worship of the Lord in tents, and of their conjunction with Him through love, Israel was commanded to observe the Feast of Tabernacles, as recorded in Leviticus 23:39-44, Deuteronomy 16:13-14.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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1 Yahweh said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your fathers' house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

2 Your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you: but you and your sons with you shall be before the tent of the testimony.

3 They shall keep your commands, and the duty of all the Tent: only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they, nor you.

4 They shall be joined to you, and keep the responsibility of the Tent of Meeting, for all the service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not come near to you.

5 "You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary, and the duty of the altar; that there be wrath no more on the children of Israel.

6 I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are a gift, given to Yahweh, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting.

7 You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and you shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death."

8 Yahweh spoke to Aaron, "I, behold, I have given you the command of my wave offerings, even all the holy things of the children of Israel; to you have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever.

9 This shall be yours of the most holy things, [reserved] from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons.

10 You shall eat of it like the most holy things. Every male shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you.

11 "This is yours, too: the wave offering of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the children of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a portion forever. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.

12 "All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to Yahweh, to you have I given them.

13 The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to Yahweh, shall be yours; everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.

14 "Everything devoted in Israel shall be yours.

15 Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal shall be yours: nevertheless you shall surely redeem the firstborn of man, and you shall redeem the firstborn of unclean animals.

16 You shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of money, after the shekel of the sanctuary (the same is twenty gerahs).

17 "But you shall not redeem the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat. They are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

18 Their flesh shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours.

19 All the wave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to Yahweh, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever: it is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to your seed with you."

20 Yahweh said to Aaron, "You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.

21 "To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the Tent of Meeting.

22 Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.

23 But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations; and among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

24 For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a wave offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance: therefore I have said to them, 'Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.'"

25 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

26 "Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, 'When you take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a wave offering of it for Yahweh, a tithe of the tithe.

27 Your wave offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.

28 Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to Yahweh of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and of it you shall give Yahweh's wave offering to Aaron the priest.

29 Out of all your gifts you shall offer every wave offering of Yahweh, of all its best, even the holy part of it out of it.'

30 "Therefore you shall tell them, 'When you heave its best from it, then it shall be reckoned to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the winepress.

31 You shall eat it in every place, you and your households: for it is your reward in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting.

32 You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it its best: and you shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that you not die.'"