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出埃及記第28章

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1 你要從以色列人中,使你的哥哥亞倫和他的兒子拿答、亞比戶、以利亞撒、以他瑪一同就近你,給我供祭司的職分。

2 你要給你哥哥亞倫衣為榮耀,為華美。

3 又要吩咐一切中有智慧的,就是我用智慧的靈所充滿的,給亞倫衣服,使他分別為,可以給我供祭司的職分。

4 所要做的就是胸牌、以弗得、外袍、雜色的內袍、冠冕、腰帶,使你哥哥亞倫和他兒子穿這服,可以給我供祭司的職分。

5 要用線和藍色紫色、朱紅色線,並細麻去做。

6 他們要拿線和藍色紫色、朱紅色線,並撚的細麻,用巧匠的手工做以弗得。

7 以弗得當有兩條帶,接上兩頭,使他相連。

8 其上巧工織的帶子,要和以弗得一樣的做法,用以束上,與以弗得接連一塊,要用線和藍色紫色、朱紅色線,並撚的細麻做成。

9 要取兩塊紅瑪瑙,在上面刻以色列兒子名字

10 名字在這塊寶上,名字在那塊寶上,都照他們生來的次序。

11 要用刻寶的手工,彷彿刻圖書,按著以色列兒子名字,刻這兩塊寶,要鑲在槽上。

12 要將這兩塊寶安在以弗得的兩條帶上,為以色列人紀念亞倫要在兩上擔他們的名字,在耶和華面前作為紀念

13 要用子做二槽,

14 又拿精,用擰工彷彿擰繩子,做兩條鍊子,把這擰成的鍊子搭在槽上。

15 你要用巧匠的手工做一個決斷的胸牌。要和以弗得一樣的做法:用線和藍色紫色、朱紅色線,並撚的細麻做成。

16 這胸牌要四方的,疊為兩層,長一虎口,寬一虎口。

17 要在上面鑲寶行:第行是紅寶、紅璧璽、紅玉;

18 第二行是綠寶石、藍寶石、金鋼石;

19 第三行是紫瑪瑙、白瑪瑙、紫晶;

20 第四行是水蒼玉、紅瑪瑙、碧玉。這都要鑲在槽中。

21 這些寶都要按著以色列十二個兒子名字,彷彿刻圖書,刻十二個支派的名字

22 要在胸牌上用精擰成如繩的鍊子。

23 在胸牌上也要做兩個,安在胸牌的兩頭。

24 要把那兩條擰成的鍊子,穿過胸牌兩頭的子。

25 又要把鍊子的那兩頭接在兩槽上,安在以弗得前面帶上。

26 要做兩個,安在胸牌的兩頭,在以弗得裡面的邊上。

27 又要做兩個,安在以弗得前面兩條帶的邊,挨近相接之處,在以弗得巧工織的帶子以上。

28 要用藍細帶子把胸牌的子與以弗得的子繫住,使胸牌貼在以弗得巧工織的帶子上,不可與以弗得離縫。

29 亞倫所的時候,要將決斷胸牌,就是刻著以色列兒子名字的,帶在胸前,在耶和華面前常作紀念

30 又要將烏陵和土明放在決斷的胸牌裡;亞倫進到耶和華面前的時候,要帶在胸前,在耶和華面前常將以色列人的決斷牌帶在胸前。

31 你要做以弗得的外袍,顏色全是藍的。

32 袍上要為留一領的周圍織出領邊來,彷彿鎧甲的領,免得破裂。

33 袍子周圍底邊上要用藍色紫色、朱紅色線做石榴。在袍子周圍的石榴中間要有鈴鐺:

34 一個鈴鐺一個石榴,一個鈴鐺一個石榴,在袍子周圍的底邊上。

35 亞倫供職的時候要穿這袍子。他進所到耶和華面前,以及出的時候,袍上的響聲必被見,使他不至於亡。

36 你要用精做一面牌,在上面按刻圖書之法刻著歸耶和華

37 要用一條藍細帶子將牌繫在冠冕的前面。

38 這牌必在亞倫的額上,亞倫要擔當干犯物條例的罪孽;這物是以色列人在一切的禮物上所分別為的。這牌要常在他的額上,使他們可以在耶和華面前蒙悅納。

39 要用雜色細麻線織內袍,用細麻布做冠冕,又用繡花的手工做腰帶。

40 你要為亞倫的兒子做內袍、腰帶、裹頭巾,為榮耀,為華美。

41 要把這些給你的哥哥亞倫和他的兒子穿戴,又要他們,將他們分別為,好給我供祭司的職分。

42 要給他們做細麻布褲子,遮掩下體;褲子當從腰達到大腿

43 亞倫和他兒子進入會幕,或就,在所供職的時候必穿上,免得擔罪而。這要為亞倫和他的裔作永遠的定例。

   

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Arcana Coelestia#9938

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9938. 'Which the children of Israel shall sanctify, even in all their gifts of holy things' means acts of worship representative of removal from sins. This is clear from the meaning of 'gifts' - or presents, which among the Israelite and Jewish nation were primarily burnt offerings, sacrifices, and minchahs - as the inner realities of acts of worship; for those realities were represented by these acts. The inner realities of worship are the fruits of love and faith; they are therefore pardonings of sins, that is, removals from them, since faith and love are the means by which the Lord moves sins away. For in the measure that the good of love and faith comes in, or what amounts to the same thing, heaven comes in, sins are removed, that is, hell is removed - the hell within the person as well as the hell outside him. From this it is evident what should be understood by the gifts which they made holy, that is, offered. The gifts were called holy, and giving or offering them was called sanctifying them, because they represented holy realities. For they were offered to expiate people, thus to remove them from their sins, which is accomplished by means of faith in and love to the Lord received from the Lord.

[2] Gifts and presents were said to be made to Jehovah, though Jehovah, that is, the Lord, is not the receiver of gifts or presents, but the giver of them, freely to everyone. Even so, His will is that they should come from a person as though they did so from that person himself, provided the person acknowledges that they do not actually come from him but from the Lord. For the Lord imparts a desire to do good because he loves it, and a desire to speak the truth because he believes it. The actual desire flows in from the Lord, yet appears to be inherent in the person and so to flow from the person. For whatever a person does out of love and desire for it, he does from his life, love being what composes anyone's life. From this it is evident that the things that are called gifts and presents made to the Lord by a person are essentially gifts and presents made to a person by the Lord, and that they are called gifts and presents on account of what they appear to be. All who are wise at heart recognize this appearance, but not so the simple. Yet their gifts and presents are acceptable, so far as they are made in ignorance that has innocence within it. Innocence is the good of love to God, and dwells within ignorance, especially with the wise at heart. Those who are wise at heart know, indeed perceive, that nothing whatever of the wisdom within themselves originates in themselves, but that the all of wisdom is attributable to the Lord, that is, the all of the good of love and the all of the truth of faith are attributable to Him, and that for this reason even with the wise innocence dwells in ignorance. From this it is evident that the acknowledgement of this matter, and especially the perception of it, constitutes the innocence of wisdom.

[3] The gifts offered in the Jewish Church, which were primarily burnt offerings, sacrifices, and minchahs, were also spoken of as offerings made for the expiations of sins; for they were offered for the sake of being pardoned from sins, that is, being removed from them. Those who belonged to that Church also thought that sins were pardoned, indeed completely taken away, by means of these offerings; for it is said of people who have offered them that they will be pardoned, see Leviticus 4:26, 31, 35; 5:6, 10, 13, 16, 18; 6:7; 9:7; 15:15, 30. But they were unaware of the fact that their gifts represented more internal things, thus the kinds of things that are done by a person from love and faith received from the Lord; that these are what expiate, that is, remove sins; and that when they have been removed they appear to have been completely removed or banished, as has been shown above in the present paragraph and the one before it. The worship of that nation was representative, and so was external devoid of anything internal; and it was by means of this worship that heaven was joined to mankind, in those times, see the places referred to in 9320 (end), 9380.

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