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1 O tabernáculo farás de dez cortinas de linho fino torcido, e de estofo azul, púrpura, e carmesim; com querubins as farás, obra de artífice.

2 O comprimento de cada cortina será de vinte e oito côvados, e a largura de quatro côvados; todas as cortinas serão da mesma medida.

3 Cinco cortinas serão enlaçadas, cada uma à outra; e as outras cinco serão enlaçadas da mesma maneira.

4 Farás laçadas de estofo azul na orla da última cortina do primeiro grupo; assim também farás na orla da primeira cortina do segundo grupo;

5 a saber, cinqüenta laçadas na orla de uma cortina, e cinqüenta laçadas na orla da outra; as laçadas serão contrapostas uma à outra.

6 Farás cinqüenta colchetes de ouro, e prenderás com eles as cortinas, uma à outra; assim o tabernáculo virá a ser um todo.

7 Farás também cortinas de pêlos de cabras para servirem de tenda sobre o tabernáculo; onze destas cortinas farás.

8 O comprimento de cada cortina será de trinta côvados, e a largura de cada cortina de quatro côvados; as onze cortinas serão da mesma medida.

9 E ajuntarás cinco cortinas em um grupo, e as outras seis cortinas em outro grupo; e dobrarás a sexta cortina na frente da tenda.

10 E farás cinqüenta laçadas na orla da última cortina do primeiro grupo, e outras cinqüenta laçadas na orla da primeira cortina do segundo grupo.

11 Farás também cinqüenta colchetes de bronze, e meterás os colchetes nas laçadas, e assim ajuntarás a tenda, para que venha a ser um todo.

12 E o resto que sobejar das cortinas da tenda, a saber, a meia cortina que sobejar, penderá aos fundos do tabernáculo.

13 E o côvado que sobejar de um lado e de outro no comprimento das cortinas da tenda, penderá de um e de outro lado do tabernáculo, para cobri-lo.

14 Farás também para a tenda uma coberta de peles de carneiros, tintas de vermelho, e por cima desta uma coberta de peles de golfinhos.

15 Farás também as tábuas para o tabernáculo de madeira de acácia, as quais serão colocadas verticalmente.

16 O comprimento de cada tábua será de dez côvados, e a sua largura de um côvado e meio.

17 Duas couceiras terá cada tábua, unidas uma à outra por travessas; assim farás com todas as tábuas do tabernáculo.

18 Ao fazeres as tábuas para o tabernáculo, farás vinte delas para o lado meridional.

19 Farás também quarenta bases de prata debaixo das vinte tábuas; duas bases debaixo de uma tábua, para as suas duas couceiras, e duas bases debaixo de outra, para as duas couceiras dela.

20 Também para o outro lado do tabernáculo, o que dá para o norte, farás vinte tábuas,

21 com as suas quarenta bases de prata; duas bases debaixo de uma tábua e duas debaixo de outra.

22 E para o lado posterior do tabernáculo, o que dá para o ocidente, farás seis tábuas.

23 Farás também duas tábuas para os cantos do tabernáculo no lado posterior.

24 Por baixo serão duplas, do mesmo modo se estendendo inteiras até a primeira argola em cima; assim se fará com as duas tábuas; elas serão para os dois cantos.

25 Haverá oito tábuas com as suas dezesseis bases de prata: duas bases debaixo de uma tábua e duas debaixo de outra.

26 Farás também travessões de madeira de acácia; cinco para as tábuas de um lado do tabernáculo,

27 e cinco para as tábuas do outro lado do tabernáculo, bem como c6 azeite para a luz, especiarias para o óleo da unção e para o para o ocidente.

28 O travessão central passará ao meio das tábuas, de uma extremidade à outra.

29 E cobrirás de ouro as tábuas, e de ouro farás as suas argolas, como lugares para os travessões; também os travessões cobrirás de ouro.

30 Então levantarás o tabernáculo conforme o modelo que te foi mostrado no monte.

31 Farás também um véu de azul, púrpura, carmesim, e linho fino torcido; com querubins, obra de artífice, se fará;

32 e o suspenderás sobre quatro colunas de madeira de acácia, cobertas de ouro; seus colchetes serão de ouro, sobre quatro bases de prata.

33 Pendurarás o véu debaixo dos colchetes, e levarás para dentro do véu a arca do testemunho; este véu vos fará separação entre o lugar santo e o santo dos santos.

34 Porás o propiciatório sobre a arca do testemunho no santo dos santos;

35 colocarás a mesa fora do véu, e o candelabro defronte da mesa, para o lado sul do tabernáculo; e porás a mesa para o lado norte.

36 Farás também para a porta da tenda um reposteiro de azul, púrpura, carmesim: e linho fino torcido, obra de bordador.

37 E para o reposteiro farás cinco colunas de madeira de acácia, cobrindo-as de ouro (os seus colchetes também serão de ouro), e para elas fundirás cinco bases de bronze.

   

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'Rings' signify the conjunction of good and truth. In Exodus 25:12, 'rings' particularly signify divine truth with divine good.

(Mga Sanggunian: Arcana Coelestia 9493)

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Arcana Coelestia # 1551

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1551. That 'silver' means truths is clear from the meaning of 'silver' as truth. The most ancient people compared the goods and truths present in man to metals. Innermost or celestial goods which flow from love to the Lord they compared to gold, truths deriving from these to silver. Goods of a lower or natural kind however they compared to bronze, and truths of a lower kind to iron. Nor did they just compare them; they also called them such. This was the origin of periods of time being likened to those same metals and being called the golden, silver, bronze, and iron ages, for these followed in that order one after another. The golden age was the time of the Most Ancient Church, which was celestial man. The silver age was the time of the Ancient Church, which was spiritual man. The bronze age was the time of the Church that followed, and the iron age came after that. Similar things were also meant by the statue which Nebuchadnezzar saw in a dream, whose head was of fine gold, breast and arms of silver, belly and thighs of bronze, and shins of iron, Daniel 2:32-33. That periods of the Church were to follow one another in that order, and actually did so, is clear in that very chapter of the same prophet.

[2] That 'silver' in the internal sense of the Word wherever it is mentioned means truth, or in the contrary sense falsity, is clear from the following places: In Isaiah,

Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver, and instead of wood, bronze, and instead of stones, iron. And I will make peace your assessment, and righteousness your tax-collectors. Isaiah 60:17.

Here it is evident what each metal means. The subject is the Lord's Coming, His kingdom, and the celestial Church. 'Instead of bronze, gold' is celestial good in place of natural good; 'instead of iron, silver' is spiritual truth in place of natural truth; 'instead of wood, bronze' is natural good in place of bodily good; 'instead of stone, iron' is natural truth in place of truth acquired through the senses. In the same prophet,

Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the water, and he who has no money, 1 come, buy and eat! Isaiah 55:1.

'He who has no money' 1 is the person who does not know the truth but who nevertheless possesses the good that stems from charity, as is the case with many people inside the Church, and with gentiles outside it.

[3] In the same prophet,

The islands will wait for Me, the ships of Tarshish at their head, to bring your sons from afar, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of Jehovah your God, and to the Holy One of Israel. Isaiah 60:9.

This refers specifically to a new Church, or a Church among gentiles, and in general to the Lord's kingdom. 'Ships from Tarshish' stands for cognitions, 'silver' for truths, and 'gold' for goods, which are those things they 'will bring to the name of Jehovah'. In Ezekiel,

For your adornment you took vessels made of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and you made for yourselves figures of the male. Ezekiel 16:17.

Here 'gold' stands for cognitions of celestial things, 'silver' of spiritual things. In the same prophet,

You were adorned with gold and silver, and your raiment was fine linen and silk, and embroidered cloth. Ezekiel 16:13.

This refers to Jerusalem, by which the Lord's Church is meant, whose adornment is being described in this manner. In the same prophet,

Behold, you who are wise, there is no secret they have hidden from you; by your wisdom and by your intelligence you have acquired riches for yourself, and you have acquired gold and silver in your treasuries. Ezekiel 28:3-4.

Here, in what is said in reference to Tyre, 'gold' is plainly identified with the riches of wisdom, and 'silver' with the riches of intelligence.

[4] In Joel,

You have taken My silver and My gold, and My good and desirable treasures you have carried into your temples. Joel 3:5.

This refers to Tyre, Sidon, and Philistia, which mean cognitions, and these are 'the silver and the gold they took into their temples'. In Haggai,

The elect of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory. Mine is the silver, and Mine is the gold. The glory of this latter house will be greater than that of the former. Haggai 2:7-9.

This refers to the Lord's Church to which 'gold and silver' have reference. In Malachi,

He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi. Malachi 3:3.

This refers to the Coming of the Lord. In David,

The words of Jehovah are pure words, silver refined in an earthen crucible, poured seven times. Psalms 12:6.

'Silver purified seven times' stands for Divine truth. At the time of their exodus out of Egypt the children of Israel were commanded that every woman should ask of her neighbour, and of her who sojourned in her house, vessels of silver and vessels of gold and garments, and that they should put them on their sons and on their daughters, and so despoil the Egyptians, Exodus 3:22; 11:2-3; 12:35-36. Anyone may see from this that the children of Israel would never have been ordered to steal and despoil the Egyptians of those possessions in that way if these did not represent some arcana. But what those arcana are may become clear from the meaning of 'silver and gold, garments, and Egypt', and from the fact that what these possessions represented is similar to the words here 'rich in the silver and gold from Egypt', used in reference to Abram.

[5] Just as 'silver' means truth so in a contrary sense it means falsity, for people under the influence of falsity imagine falsity to be the truth, as is also clear in the Prophets. In Moses,

You shall not covet the silver and the gold of the nations, nor take it for yourself, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to Jehovah your God. You shall utterly detest it. Deuteronomy 7:25-26.

'The gold of the nations' stands for evils, and 'their silver' for falsities. In the same author,

You shall not make gods of silver to be with Me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold. Exodus 20:23.

In the internal sense these words mean nothing other than falsities and evil desires, falsities being meant by 'gods of silver', and evil desires by 'gods of gold'. In Isaiah,

On that day everyone will spurn his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your hands have made for you - a sin. Isaiah 31:7.

'Idols of silver and idols of gold' stands for similar things that are false and evil 'Which your hands have made' stands for what is a product of the proprium. In Jeremiah,

They are foolish and stupid; that wood is a way of learning vanities! Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the smith and of the hands of the moulder. Their clothing is violet and purple These are all the work of the wise. Jeremiah 10:8-9.

Here 'silver' and 'gold' quite clearly stand for similar things that are false and evil.

Mga talababa:

1. or silver

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.