Arcana Coelestia (Elliott): AC 10724

10724. Those with whom self-love and love of the world reign have no knowledge of what heaven is or of what the happiness of heaven is. It seems incredible to them that happiness can exist in any kinds of love other than these. But the reality is that so far as those loves are removed from reigning as ends in view, the happiness of heaven enters in; the happiness taking their place after they have been removed is so great that it surpasses all human understanding.

EXODUS 35

And Moses gathered together all the assembly of the children of Israel, and said to them, These are the words which Jehovah has commanded, to do them.

Six days shall work be done, and the seventh day shall be a holy day for you, a sabbath of rest to Jehovah ^a; everyone doing work on it shall die.

You shall not kindle a fire in any of your dwelling-places on the sabbath day.

And Moses spoke to all the assembly of the children of Israel, saying, This is the word which Jehovah commanded, saying,

Take from among you an offering to Jehovah. Everyone who is willing in heart shall bring Jehovah's offering: gold and silver and bronze,

And violet, and purple, and twice-dyed scarlet, and fine linen, and [wool of] she-goats,

And skins of red rams ^b, and skins of badgers, and pieces of shittim wood ^c,

And oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil, and for the incense of spices,

And shoham ^d stones, and stones of fillings ^e for the ephod and for the breastplate.

And let everyone wise in heart among you come and make all the things which Jehovah has commanded:

The dwelling-place, its tent, and its covering, its clasps, and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its bases,

The ark and its poles, the mercy-seat, and the veil of the screen ^f,

The table and its poles, and all its vessels, and the bread of the Presence ^g,

And the lampstand for the light and its vessels, and its lamps, and the oil for the light,

And the altar of incense and its poles, and the anointing oil, and the incense of spices, and the screen of the door at the door of the dwelling-place,

The altar of burnt offering and the grating of bronze made for it, its poles, and all its vessels, the laver and its pedestal,

The hangings of the court, its pillars, and its bases, and the screen of the gate of the court,

The pins of the dwelling-place, and the pins of the court, and their ropes,

The garments of service for serving in the holy place, the holy garments ^h for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons for serving in the priestly office.

And all the assembly of the children of Israel went out from before Moses.

And they came, every man whose heart stirred him, and everyone whose spirit was willing ⁱ; they brought Jehovah's offering for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments ^h.

And they came, the men with the women, everyone willing in heart; they brought brooches, and earrings, and rings, and girdles, and all jewellery made of gold ^j; and every man who waved a wave-offering of gold to Jehovah.

And every man with whom was found violet and purple and twice-dyed scarlet and fine linen and [wool of] she-goats and skins of red rams ^b and skins of badgers brought them.

And everyone bearing an offering of silver and bronze brought Jehovah's offering; and everyone with whom was found pieces of shittim wood ^c for any work of the service brought them.

And every woman wise at heart spun with her hands; and they brought the yarn, violet and purple, twice-dyed scarlet and fine linen.

And all the women whose hearts stirred them in wisdom spun [the yarn of] she-goats.

And the leaders brought shoham ^d stones and stones of fillings ^e for the ephod and for the breastplate,

And spices, and oil for the light and for the anointing oil and for the incense of spices.

Every man and woman whose hearts were willing to bring something for all the work which Jehovah had commanded through Moses to be done ^k [came]; the children of Israel brought a freewill offering to Jehovah.

And Moses said to the children of Israel, See, Jehovah has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, belonging to the tribe of Judah.

And He has filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in intelligence, and in knowledge, and in all [manner of] work ^l,

To compose designs ^m, to work ⁿ in gold, and in silver, and in bronze,

And in the cutting of stones for filling ^o, and in the carving of wood to work ^a in all [manner of] work of the designer ^p.

And He has put [wisdom] into his heart in order that he - he and Aholiab the son of Ahisamach belonging to the tribe of Dan - may teach [others].

He has filled them with wisdom of heart to do every work of a craftsman, and of a designer, and of an embroiderer in violet and in purple and in twice-dyed scarlet and in fine linen, and of a weaver - of those doing every work, of those who compose designs ^q.

Notes

^a lit. and on the seventh day there shall be holiness for you, a sabbath of sabbath for Jehovah
^b The Hebrew is usually taken to mean ram skins which have been dyed red.
^c i.e. wood from the shittah tree, generally thought to be a species of acacia. But see 9472.
^d A Hebrew word for a precious stone, probably an onyx
^e i.e. stones to be set in the ephod and the breastplate
^f i.e. the veil or curtain serving as a screen at the opening from the Holy Place into the Holy of Holies
^g lit. the bread of the faces
^h lit. garments of holiness
ⁱ lit. whom his spirit moved of its own accord
^j lit. every vessel of gold
^k lit. whose heart moved them of its own accord to bring [something] for every work which Jehovah had commanded to do by the hand of Moses
^l i.e. in every kind of workmanship or craft
^m lit. to design designs
ⁿ lit. make or do
^o i.e. stones which, having been cut, were to be set in the ephod and the breastplate
^p i.e. in every kind of workmanship or craft of a designer
^q lit. of those designing designs

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