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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 Explained#257

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257. Because in this prophetical book numbers are often mentioned; and as no one can know the spiritual sense of what is contained in those numbers unless he knows what the particular numbers signify; for all numbers in the Word, as well as all names, signify spiritual things; and because the number seven is often mentioned amongst others, I am desirous here of showing that seven signifies all, and all things, also what is full and complete for that which signifies all, and all things, signifies also what is full and complete. For what is full and complete is said of the magnitude of a thing, and all and all things of multitude.

That the number seven has such a signification is evident from the following passages. In Ezekiel:

"The inhabitants of the cities of Israel shall set fire to and burn the arms, the shield also and the buckler, with the bow and the arrows, and with the hand-staff, and with the spear; and they shall kindle a fire with them seven years; and they shall bury Gog and all his multitude, and they shall cleanse the land seven months" (39:9, 11, 12).

The subject here treated of is the desolation of all things in the church. The inhabitants of the cities of Israel signify all the goods of truth, to set on fire and burn signifies to consume by evils. The arms, the shield, the buckler, the bows, the arrows, the hand-staff, the spear, denote everything pertaining to doctrine; to kindle fire with them seven years denotes to consume them all and fully by evils. Gog signifies those who are in external worship, and in no internal worship; to bury them and cleanse the land denotes to destroy them all, and completely to purge the church of them.

[2] In Jeremiah:

"Their widows shall be multiplied more than the sand of the seas, and I will bring to them upon the mother of the youths the waster at noon-day. She who hath borne seven shall languish, she shall breathe out her soul" (15:8, 9).

By the widows which will be multiplied are signified those who are in good and desire truths, and, in the opposite sense, as in the present case, those who are in evil and desire falsities. By the mother of the youths is signified the church; by the waster at noon-day is signified the vastation of that church, however much they may be in truths from the Word. By she that hath borne seven shall languish, she shall breathe out her soul, is signified that the church, to which all truths were given because the Word was given them, should perish; for she that hath borne seven signifies those to whom all truths were given. This is specifically said concerning the Jews.

[3] Similarly, in the first book of Samuel:

"They that were hungry ceased, so that the barren hath borne seven, and she that hath many children hath failed" (2:5).

The hungry who ceased denote those who desire the goods and truths of the church; the barren who hath borne seven signifies those who are outside the church and are ignorant of truths because they have not the Word, as the Gentiles, to whom all things will be given; she that hath many children failing signifies those who have truths, from whom they will be taken away. Again, in David:

"Render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom" (79:12).

And in Moses,

That the Jews should be punished seven times for their sins (Leviticus 26:18, 21, 24, 28);

seven times here signifying fully.

[4] In Luke:

"And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent, thou shalt forgive him" (17:4).

Here, to forgive seven times, if he shall return seven times, denotes to forgive as often as the offender should return, and thus at all times. But lest Peter should understand seven times to be meant by these words, the Lord explains His meaning to him, as recorded in Matthew:

"Peter said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times, but until seventy times seven " (18:21, 22).

Seventy times seven is always, without counting. In David:

"Seven times a day do I praise thee for the judgments of justice" (Psalms 119:164).

Seven times a day denotes always, or at all times.

[5] Again:

"The sayings of Jehovah are pure sayings, as silver refined in a furnace of earth, purified seven times" (Psalms 12:6).

Here silver signifies truth from the Divine: purified seven times denotes that it is altogether and fully pure.

[6] In Isaiah:

"The light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days" (30:26).

The light of the sun signifies Divine truth from Divine good: and that this light should be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, signifies that the Divine truth in heaven should be without any falsity, thus that it should be altogether and fully pure.

[7] In Matthew,

The unclean spirit "shall take with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and he shall dwell there" (12:45; Luke 11:26).

Here profanation is treated of, and by the seven other spirits with which the unclean spirit is said to return are signified all falsities of evil, thus a plenary destruction of good and truth.

[8] Similar is the signification of the seven times which were to pass over the king of Babylon, in Daniel,

"His heart shall be changed from man, and the heart of a beast shall be given unto him; while seven times shall pass over him" (4:16, 25, 32).

By the king of Babylon are signified those who profane the goods and truths of the Word. By his heart being changed from that of a man to that of a beast is meant that nothing spiritual, that is, truly human, should remain with him, but that instead there should be everything diabolical. By the seven times which were to pass over him is meant profanation, which is a complete destruction of truth and good.

[9] Because the terms seven, and seven times, signified all things, and also what is full, the following commands were given to the children of Israel:

Seven days their hands should be filled (Exodus 29:35).

Seven days they should be sanctified (Exodus 29:37).

Seven days Aaron should put on the garments when he was being initiated (Exodus 29:30).

Seven days they should not go out of the tabernacle when they were being initiated into the priesthood (Leviticus 8:33, 34).

Seven times expiation should be made upon the horns of the altar (Leviticus 16:18, 19).

Seven times should the altar be sanctified with oil (Leviticus 8:11).

Seven times should the blood be sprinkled before the veil (Leviticus 4:16, 17).

Seven times should the blood be sprinkled with the finger towards the east, when Aaron went in to the mercy seat (Leviticus 16:12-15).

Seven times should the water of separation be sprinkled towards the tabernacle (Num. 19:4).

Seven times should blood be sprinkled for the cleansing of leprosy (Leviticus 14:7, 8, 27, 38, 51).

The lampstand had seven lamps (Exodus 25:32, 37; 37:18-25).

Feasts should be celebrated for seven days (Exodus 34:18; Leviticus 23:4-9, 39-44; Deuteronomy 16:3, 4, 8).

Seven days of the feast there should be a burnt offering of seven bullocks and seven rams daily (Ezekiel 45:23).

Baalam built seven altars, and sacrificed seven oxen and seven rams (Num. 23:1-7, 15-18, 29, 30).

They numbered seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, and then should cause the trumpet of the jubilee to be sounded in the seventh month (Leviticus 25:8, 9).

From the signification of the number seven, it is evident what is signified

By the seven days of creation (Genesis 1).

Also by four thousand men being filled from seven loaves, and that seven basketsful of fragments remained over (Matthew 15:34-37; Mark 8:5-9).

Hence now it is clear what is signified in the Apocalypse,

By the seven churches (1:4, 11).

By the seven golden lampstands, in the midst of which was the Son of man (1:13).

By the seven stars in His right hand (1:16, 20).

By the seven spirits of God (3:1).

By the seven lamps of fire burning before the throne (4:5).

By the book sealed with seven seals (5:1).

By the seven angels to whom were given seven trumpets (8:2).

By the seven thunders which uttered their voices (10:3, 4).

By the seven angels having the seven last plagues, (15:1, 6).

By seven vials full of the seven last plagues (16:1; 21:9)

and elsewhere in the Word, where seven is mentioned.

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.