9491. 'On the inside and on the outside you shall overlay it' means everywhere. This is clear from the meaning of 'on the inside and on the outside' as everywhere, that is to say, round about since it says 'you shall overlay it'. For the inner material that was overlaid with gold was shittim wood, and 'shittim wood' means the good itself that proceeds from the Lord's Divine Human, 9472, 9486. But on the outside and on the inside there was gold, which too means good, but such as appears to the senses, and so in comparison is external. By everywhere round about, 'on the inside and on the outside' - when these words have reference to heaven, meant by 'the ark' - heaven in general and every heavenly community in particular are meant, heaven in general being meant by 'on the outside' and heavenly communities by 'on the inside' since they lie within heaven.