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1 Harás asimismo un altar de sahumerio de incienso; de madera de cedro lo harás.

2 Su longitud será de un codo, y su anchura de un codo; será cuadrado, y su altura de dos codos; y sus cuernos serán de lo mismo.

3 Y lo cubrirás de oro puro, su techado, y sus paredes en derredor, y sus cuernos; y le harás en derredor una corona de oro.

4 Le harás también dos anillos de oro debajo de su corona a sus dos esquinas en ambos lados, para meter las varas con que será llevado.

5 Y harás las varas de madera de cedro, y las cubrirás de oro.

6 Y lo pondrás delante del velo que está junto al arca del testimonio, delante de la cubierta que está sobre el testimonio, donde yo te testificaré de mí.

7 Y quemará sobre él Aarón sahumerio de aroma cada mañana, cuando aderezare las lámparas lo quemará.

8 Y cuando Aarón encienda las lámparas al anochecer, quemará el sahumerio continuamente delante del SEÑOR por vuestras edades.

9 No ofreceréis sobre él sahumerio extraño, ni holocausto, ni presente; ni tampoco derramaréis sobre él libación.

10 Y sobre sus cuernos hará Aarón expiación una vez en el año con la sangre de la expiación para las reconciliaciones; una vez en el año hará expiación sobre él en vuestras edades; será santísimo al SEÑOR.

11 Y habló el SEÑOR a Moisés, diciendo:

12 Cuando tomares el número de los hijos de Israel conforme a la cuenta de ellos, cada uno dará al SEÑOR el rescate de su persona, cuando los contares, y no habrá en ellos mortandad por haberlos contado.

13 Esto dará cualquiera que pasare por la cuenta: medio siclo conforme al siclo del santuario. El siclo es de veinte óbolos; la mitad de un siclo será la ofrenda al SEÑOR.

14 Cualquiera que pasare por la cuenta, de veinte años arriba, dará la ofrenda al SEÑOR.

15 Ni el rico aumentará, ni el pobre disminuirá de medio siclo, cuando dieren la ofrenda al SEÑOR para hacer expiación por vuestras personas.

16 Y tomarás de los hijos de Israel el dinero de las expiaciones, y lo darás para la obra del tabernáculo del testimonio; y será por memorial a los hijos de Israel delante del SEÑOR, para expiar vuestras personas.

17 Habló más el SEÑOR a Moisés, diciendo:

18 Harás también una fuente de bronce, con su basa de bronce, para lavar; y la has de poner entre el tabernáculo del testimonio y el altar; y pondrás en ella agua.

19 Y de ella se lavarán Aarón y sus hijos sus manos y sus pies.

20 Cuando entraren en el tabernáculo del testimonio, se han de lavar con agua, para que no mueran; y cuando se llegaren al altar para ministrar, para encender al SEÑOR la ofrenda que se ha de consumir al fuego,

21 también se lavarán las manos y los pies, para que no mueran. Y lo tendrán por estatuto perpetuo él y su simiente por sus generaciones.

22 Habló más el SEÑOR a Moisés, diciendo:

23 Y tú has de tomar de las principales especias; de mirra excelente quinientos siclos , y de canela aromática la mitad, esto es, doscientos cincuenta, y de cálamo aromático doscientos cincuenta,

24 y de casia quinientos, al peso del santuario, y de aceite de olivas un hin;

25 y harás de ello el aceite de la santa unción, superior ungüento, obra de perfumador, el cual será el aceite de la santa unción.

26 Con él ungirás el tabernáculo del testimonio, y el arca del testimonio,

27 y la mesa, y todos sus vasos, y el candelero, y todos sus vasos, y el altar del incienso,

28 y el altar del holocausto, todos sus vasos, y la fuente y su basa.

29 Así los consagrarás, y serán cosas santísimas; todo lo que tocare en ellos, será santificado.

30 Ungirás también a Aarón y a sus hijos, y los santificarás para que sean mis sacerdotes.

31 Y hablarás a los hijos de Israel, diciendo: Este será mi aceite de la santa unción por vuestras edades.

32 Sobre carne de hombre no será untado, ni haréis otro semejante, conforme a su composición, santo es; por santo habéis de tenerlo vosotros.

33 Cualquiera que compusiere ungüento semejante, y que pusiere de él sobre extraño, será cortado de su pueblo.

34 Dijo aún El SEÑOR a Moisés: Tómate aromas, estacte y uña olorosa y gálbano aromático e incienso limpio; de todo en igual peso.

35 Y harás de ello una confección aromática de obra de perfumador, bien mezclada, pura y santa;

36 y molerás alguna de ella pulverizándola, y la pondrás delante del testimonio en el tabernáculo del testimonio, donde yo te testificaré de mí. Os será cosa santísima.

37 Como la confección que harás, no os haréis otra según su composición: santidad te será para el SEÑOR.

38 Cualquiera que hiciere otra como ella para olerla, será cortado de su pueblo.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#4748

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4748. 'And their camels carrying spices, and resin' and stacte' means interior natural truths. This is clear from the general meaning of 'camels' as things belonging to the natural man which serve the spiritual, and from their specific meaning as general facts within the natural man, dealt with in 3048, 3071, 3114, 3143, 3145, 4156; and from the meaning of 'spices, resin, and stacte' as interior natural truths joined to the good there, which are dealt with below. Among the ancients, sweet smelling and fragrant substances were used in their sacred worship; from these substances they obtained their frankincense and incense, similar substances being mixed with oil for their anointings. But no one today knows why those fragrances were used, for the reason that no knowledge at all exists of the fact that all aspects of the worship of the ancients had their origin in the spiritual and celestial things existing in heaven, or that those aspects of it corresponded to these. Mankind has been removing itself so far from spiritual and celestial things, immersing itself in natural, worldly, and bodily ones, that it lives in obscurity, many people having a negative attitude of mind to the existence of anything spiritual or celestial.

[2] The reason frankincense and incense were used among the ancients in sacred acts of worship is that 'odour' corresponds to perception, and 'a fragrant odour' - like that of the aromas which various kinds of spices have - to a pleasing and acceptable perception, as is the perception of truth derived from good, or of faith from charity. Indeed the correspondence of one to the other is such that, as often as it pleases the Lord, actual perceptions in the next life are converted into odours. Regarding these, see what has already been told from experience in 925, 1514, 1517-1519, 3577, 4624-4634. What specifically is meant here by 'spices, resin, and stacte' may be seen from other places where these three are mentioned. In general they mean interior truths within the natural, but those truths which are derived from the good there; for truths do not on their own constitute the natural, but good does by means of truths. Consequently variations exist, conditioned by what the truth joined to the good is like and therefore by what the good is like, since the particular nature of the good depends on what the truths are like.

[3] 'Gilead' means exterior good like that belonging to the senses, called pleasure, 4117, 4124, while 'Egypt' in the good sense means facts, which are the external truths of the natural man that correspond to, that is, are in accord with, that good, 1462. Therefore the reference to Ishmaelites from Gilead bringing down those aromatic commodities on camels to Egypt means bringing their own interior truths, based on their own facts, to the facts meant by 'Egypt', which matters are dealt with below. Interior truths are conclusions based on exterior truths, that is, on facts; for the facts belonging to the natural man are the means that enable conclusions to be drawn about interior truths and thereby to identify them, just as a person identifies another's state of mind in his facial expressions and in the twinkling of light in his eyes, as well as in his tone of voice and his gestures.

[4] Because such truths are the means by which a person's natural is made more perfect and also receives correction, healing is therefore associated with spices of this kind - with resin, for example, in Jeremiah,

Is there no balsamic resin in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why has not the healing of the daughter of my people arisen? Jeremiah 8:22.

In the same prophet,

Go up to Gilead to take resin, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you have multiplied medicaments; there is no healing for you. Jeremiah 46:11.

In the same prophet,

Suddenly Babel has fallen and been broken; wail over her! Take resin for her pain; perhaps she will be healed. Jeremiah 51:8.

[5] Wares similar to this mean spiritual things, as is quite evident in John,

The merchants of the earth will weep and will mourn over Babel, that nobody buys their wares any longer, wares of gold and silver, and precious stones, and pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel made of most precious wood, and bronze, and iron, and marble, and cinnamon, and incense, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and draught-cattle, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and the bodies and souls of people. Revelation 18:11-13.

These wares would never have been listed in this specific manner if each and all had not meant the kinds of things that exist in the Lord's kingdom and in His Church. Otherwise they would have been words that had no real meaning. It is well known that 'Babel' means those who turn all worship of the Lord into worship of themselves, so that profanity exists inwardly while outwardly they are doing what is holy. This being so, 'their wares' means the things which, for the sake of worship of themselves, they themselves have invented enthusiastically and skillfully, as well as doctrinal teachings and ideas of good and truth from the Word which they have twisted to suit themselves. Thus the individual wares mentioned in these verses mean specific features of their invention, 'cinnamon, incense, ointment, and frankincense' meaning truths that are derived from good, but with those people perverted truths and falsities that are the products of evil.

[6] Something similar may be seen in what is recorded in Ezekiel regarding the wares of Tyre,

Judah and the land of Israel, they were your traders. Wheat of minnith and pannag, and honey, and oil, and resin, they exchanged for your trading. Ezekiel 27:17.

Here also 'resin' means truth derived from good. To one who has no belief in the internal sense of the Word all these expressions will be mere words and so vessels with nothing in them, when in fact they hold Divine, celestial, and spiritual things within them.

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