quality of marriages in the earths, namely, that they ought to be between two, one husband and one wife, and that love truly conjugial is in no case given, if one husband has a plurality of wives.

10,173. What is done from a principle of love truly conju gial, this is done from freedom on both sides, for all freedom is from love, and each party has freedom when one loves what the other thinks and what the other wills. Hence it is that to be willing to exercise rule in marriages destroys genuine love, for it takes away its freedom, thus also its delight; the delight of exercising rule, which succeeds in its place, begets disagreements, and sets minds at enmity, and causes evils to take root according to the quality of dominion on one part, and the quality of servitude on the other.

10,174. From these considerations it may be manifest, that marriages are holy, and that to do violence to them is to do violence to that which is holy: consequently that adulteries are profane; for since the delight of conjugial love descends from heaven, the delight of adultery ascends out of hell.

10,175. Those, therefore, who take delight in adulteries, cannot any longer receive any good and truth from heaven. Hence it is that those who have taken delight in adulteries, afterwards make light of and also in heart deny those things which are of the church and of heaven. The reason is, because the love of adultery is from the marriage of what is evil and false, which is the infernal marriage.

CHAPTER XXX.

1. AND thou shalt make an altar of the fuming of incense; of shittim-wood thou shalt make it.

2. A cubit the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; it shall be square; and two cubits the height thereof; out of it shall be its horns.

3. And thou shalt cover it over with pure gold, its roof and its walls round about, and its horns; and thou shalt make for it a border of gold round about.

4. And two rings of gold thou shalt make for it from beneath its border, upon its two ribs, thou shalt make them upon its two sides; and it shall be for receptacles to the staves, to carry it in them.

5. And thou shalt make the staves of shittim-wood; and shalt cover them over with gold.

6. And thou shalt give it before the vail, which is over the ark of the testimony, before the propitiatory which is over the testimony, where I will meet thee there.

7. And Aaron sha.l cause to fume upon it incense of spices in the morning in the morning, in adorning the lamps he shall cause it to fume.

8. And in Aaron causing the lamps to ascend between the evenings he shall cause it to fume; continual incense before JEHOVAH to your generations.

9. Ye shall not make to ascend upon it strange incense, and a burnt-offering, and a meat-offering; and a libation ye shall not offer upon it.

10. And Aaron shall expiate upon its horns once in a year from the blood of the sin of expiations: once in a year he shall expiate upon it to your generations; this is the holy of holies to JEHOVAH.

11. And JEHOVAH spake to Moses, saying,

12. When thou shalt take the sum of the sons of Israel as to those that are numbered of them, and they shall give every one an expiation of his soul to JEHOVAH in numbering them; and let there be no plague in them in numbering them.

13. This they shall give every one that passeth upon the numbered; half a shekel in the shekel of holiness: a shekel is twenty oboli; the half of a shekel an up-lifting to JEHOVAH.

14. Every one passing upon the numbered, from a son of twenty years and upwards, shall give an up-lifting to JEHOVAH. 15. A rich man shall not give more, and a poor man shall not give less, froin the half of a shekel to give an up-lifting to JEHOVAH to expiate on your souls.

16. And thou shalt take silver of expiations from [being] with the sons of Israel, and thou shalt give it for the work of the tent of the congregation; and it shall be to the sons of Is rael for remembrance before JEHOVAH to expiate on your souls. 17. And JEHOVAH spake to Moses saying,

18. And thou shalt make a laver of brass, and its base of brass, to wash; and thou shalt give it between the tent of the congregation and between the altar, and thou shalt give waters

there.

19. And Aaron and his sons shall wash out of it their hands and their feet.

20. In their entering-in into the tent of the congregation, they shall wash with waters lest they die; or in their coming near to the altar to minister, to cause to burn an offering made by fire to JEHOVAH.

21. And they shall wash their hands and their feet, lest they die; and it shall be to them a statute of an age to him and to his seed, to their generations.

22. And JEHOVAH spake to Moses, saying,

23. And do thou take to thyself chief spices, the best myrrh five hundred, and aromatic cinnamon the half thereof, fifty and two hundred, and aromatic calamus fifty and two hundred.

24. And cassia five hundred, in the shekel of holiness; and oil of olive a hin.

25. And thou shalt make it oil of anointing of holiness, an ointment of ointment, the work of an ointment dealer, it shall be the oil of anointing of holiness.

26. And thou shalt anoint with it the tent of the congregation, and the ark of the testimony.

27. And the table and all its vessels, and the candlestick and its vessels, and the altar of incense.

28. And the altar of burnt-offering and all its vessels, and the laver and its base.

29. And thou shalt sanctify them, and they shall be the holy of holies; every one that toucheth them shall be sanctified.

30. And Aaron and his sons thou shalt anoint, and shalt sanctify them to perform the office of the priesthood to Me. 31. And to the sons of Israel speak, saying; this shall be to Me the oil of anointing of holiness to your generations.

32. Upon the flesh of man it shall not be poured; and in its quality ye shall not make like it, it is holy, it shall be holy

to you.

33. The man [vir] who shall make ointment like it, and who shall give of it upon a stranger, shall be cut off from his people.

34. And JEHOVAH said to Moses; take to thee fragrant spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum [which are] fragrant, and pure frankincense; so much shall be in so much.

35. And thou shalt make it incense, an ointment the work of an ointment dealer, salted, pure, holy.

36. And thou shalt bruise of it into small pieces, and shalt give of it before the testimony in the tent of the congregation, where I will meet thee there; the holy of holies it shall be to

you.

37. And the incense which thou makest in its quality, ye shall not make to yourselves; it shall be holy to thee to JEHOVAH.

38. The man [vir] who shall make like it, to make an odor with it, shall be cut off from his people.

THE CONTENTS.

THE subject treated of in this chapter is the altar of fuming incense; the expiation of every one by silver; the laver and washing thence derived; and the preparation of the oil of anointing, and of incense. By fuming incense in the internal sense

is signified the hearing and reception of all the things of worship, which are from love and charity by the Lord. By the expiation of every one by silver, is signified the ascribing of all the things of worship to the Lord, and nothing to self, that no one may have merit. By the laver and washing is signified purification from evils first in all worship. By the preparation of the oil of anointing, is signified the quality of love in worship; and by the preparation of incense, the quality of worship hence derived.

THE INTERNAL SENSE.

10,176. VERSES 1 to 10. And thou shalt make an altar of the fuming of incense; of shittim-wood thou shalt make it. A cubit the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; it shall be square; and two cubits the height thereof; out of it shall be its horns. And thou shalt cover it over with pure gold, its roof, its walls round about, and its horns; and thou shalt make for it a border of gold round about. And two rings of gold thou shalt make for it from beneath its border, upon its two ribs, thou shalt make them upon its two sides; and it shall be for receptacles to the staves, to carry it in them. And thou shalt make the staves of shittim-wood; and shalt cover them over with gold. And thou shalt give it before the vail, which is over the ark of the testimony, before the propitiatory, which is over the testimony, where I will meet thee there. And Aaron shall cause to fume upon it incense of spices in the morning in the morning, in adorning the lamps he shall cause it to fume. And in Aaron causing the lamps to ascend between the evenings, he shall cause it to fume; continual incense before Jehovah to your generations. Ye shall not make to ascend upon it strange incense, and a burnt-offering, and a meat-offering; and a libation ye shall not offer upon it. And Aaron shall expiate upon its horns once in a year from the blood of the sin of expiations; once in a year he shall expiate upon it to your generations. This is the holy of holies to Jehovah. And thou shalt make an altar of the fuming of incense, signifies a representative of the hearing and grateful reception of all the things of worship, which are from love and charity, by the Lord. Of shittim-wood thou shalt make it, signifies from Divine Love. A cubit the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, signifies what is equally from good and from truth. It shall be square, signifies thereby perfect. And two cubits the height thereof, signifies the degrees of good and truth, and their conjunction. Out of it shall be its horns, signifies the powers of truth derived from the good of love and charity. And thou shalt cover it over with pure gold, signifies a representative of

all the things of worship grounded in good. Its roof signifies the inmost principle. And its walls, signifies interior principles. And its horns, signifies exterior principles. And thou shalt make a border of gold round about, signifies termination from good lest they should be approached and hurt by evils. And two rings of gold thou shalt make for it from beneath the border, signifies the sphere of Divine Good, by which is conjunction and conservation. On its two ribs, signifies with truths on one part. Thou shalt make them on its two sides, signifies with good on the other part. And it shall be for receptacles to the staves, signifies the power of truth derived from good there. To carry it in them, signifies hence conservation in its state. And thou shalt make the staves of shittim-wood, signifies power derived from the good of the Lord's love. And shalt cover them over with gold, signifies the foundation of all things on good. And shalt give it before the vail which is over the ark of the testimony, signifies in the interior heaven, where it is conjoined to the inmost heaven. Before the propitiatory which is above the testimony, signifies where there is hearing and reception of all the things of worship grounded in the good of love from the Lord. Where I will meet thee there, signifies thus the presence and influx of the Lord. And Aaron shall fume incense upon it, signifies the elevation of worship by virtue of love and charity from the Lord. Incense of spices, signifies grateful hearing and reception. In the morning in the morning, signifies when the state of love is in clearness. In adorning the lamps he shall fume it, signifies when truth also comes into its light. And in Aaron causing the lamps to ascend between the evenings he shall fume it, signifies elevation also in an obscure state of love when truth is likewise in its shade. Continual incense before Jehovah, signifies in all worship grounded in love from the Lord. To your generations, signifies to eternity to those who are in faith grounded in love. Ye shall not make to ascend upon it strange incense, signifies no worship from any other love than of the Lord. And the burnt-offering and meat-offering, signifies no representative there of regeneration by truths and goods of celestial love. And a libation ye shall not offer upon it, signifies no representative there of regeneration by the truths and goods of spiritual love. And Aaron shall expiate on its horns, signifies purification from evils by the truths of faith which are from the good of love. Once in a year, signifies perpetually. Of the blood of the sin of expiations, signifies by truths which are from the good of innocence. Once in a year he shall expiate upon it, signifies the perpetual removal of evils. To your generations, signifies those of the church who are in the truths and goods of faith. This is the holy of holies to Jehovah, signifies since grounded in the celestial Divine [principle] 10,177. "And thou shalt make an altar of the fuming of in