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A relation of the most memorable thinges in the tabernacle of Moses and the temple of Salomon according to text of scripture / by Jacob Jehudah Leon ...; Retrato del tabernaculo de Moseh. English
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Templo, Jacob Judah Aryeh Leon, 1603-1675.
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A RELATION Of the most memorable thinges IN THE TABERNACLE of MOSES AND THE TEMPLE of SALOMON According to Text of Scripture By JACOB JEHUDAH LEON HEBR. Author of the Model of Salomons Temple At AMSTERDAM Printed by Peter Messchaert in the Stoof-steech 1675. A PRAYER For the Prosperitie of his ROYAL MAJESTIE HE that sends deliverance to Kings and giveth Dominion to Princes whose Kingdom and Dominion is everlasting He that delivered David his servant from the Perillous sword And he who made a way through the Red Sea and Pathes through the River Jordan He himself blesse preserve assist make great and more and more Exalt our Gracious Lord CHARLES the II. King and Protector of England Scotland France and Yreland The King of Kings by his Merciful Benevolence preserve Vivifie and deliver him from all trouble and danger The King of Kings encrease and highten the Star of his Constellation to prolong his dayes over his glorious Kingdome The King of Kings put it into his heart and into the hearts of his Nobles and Princes to use benigne Clemencie towards Us and to the Israel of God our brethren under his Dominion Amen TO THE High and Mightie PRINCE CHARLES By the Grace of God KING of ENGLAND SCOTLAND FRANCE and YRELAND Defender of the Faith May it please your Sacred MAJESTIE PYRAMIDES and Sumptuous Aedifices were wont of Old to be Dedicated to the Princes of this World ignorant of the things of God which though in shew splendid and Royall yet Exceeded not the Bounds of nature as savouring merely things Corporeall not Spirituall Neither did the Virtue of these Princes mount higher beeing altogether taken up with wordly matters Fitly therefore were such temporall things Dedicated to them who were not acquainted with Coelestiall But the loue of the Divine worship that imparalel Pietie of your Majestie Known not onely to your Brittains but to all Europe cals for the Protection not of the most magnificent structures of this World but of a building though made with hands yet that hath God Himself for the Architect thereof Vouchsafe therefore most Potent Prince Great Brittains Protector and Defender of the things of God to cast a Benign eye upon what is here represented to your Sacred Majestie it beeing the Exact form of the Tabernacle so as it was in the Wildernes with the structure of Salomons Temple the Holy Vessels Garments and Utensils thereof delineated and set forth to the life The which as it was graciously owned with devote affection 30 yeares ago and upwards by that Serene Queen your Majesties Mother so be pleased most noble Prince to imitate her Pietie The Lord God of the whole earth preserve your Majestie for the Good of your great Empire which is the prayer of him thal in all humilitie casteth himself at your Majesties Feet JACOB JEHUDAH LEON HEBREW A RELATION Of the most memorable thinges IN THE TABERNACLE of MOSES And the TEMPLE of SALOMON According to Text of Scripture THE I. CHAPTER Relating the order or station of the Tempel or Camp of the Israelites rownde about the Tabernacle THe wonderfull Armie of the Israelites entring into Egipt with seaventy soules onely Deuteron 10 22. by the powerfull Commaund Genes 15.13 which God revealed to theyr first father Abraham this generation sojourned there 210 yeares untill the 430 yeares were fulfilled Exod. 12 40. from that time which God foretold Abraham That blessed people of God Exod. 12.37 did there in that short time increasse to 60000 men of the age from 20 to 60 yeares Exod. 12.38 but if all the women and all the persons as wel men as women which were under 20 and above 60 yeares of Age should bee thereunto adjoind the same would then bee found to bee twoe Millions and foure hundred thousand people besides the Egiptians who went away with them as the holy Scripture sayth and they re innumerable Cattle which they tooke with them some others are of opinion that there were in this greate Campe or host 876 millions 9 hundred and 96 thousand persons Num. 10.11 After the first yeare of they re departure the worke of the Tabernacle was made ready or finished at which time God caused them to bee devided into twelve parts Num. 2.2 each with theyr severall Standard or Banner in the which each of thier Armes or ensigne was wrought like as thier father Jacob had blessed each Child or Tribe Genes 49.3 also the color of each Standard or Flagge agreed with the colour of the Stones in the breastplate of Aaron the Highpriest upon which its owne Tribes name was written and These twelve Tribes were devided into foure parts each part had three Banners or Ensignes Three stood on the Eastside three on the West three on the South and three on the Northside all these twelve Tribes encompassed the Tabernacle 1. Chron. 5 2. the Prince Jehuda as Captaine and Leader of his brethren stood on the East between Isachar and Zabulon Ruben stood with Simeon and Gad towards the South Ephraim placed himselfe towards the West with Menasse and Benjamin Dan towards the North with Asser and Naphthali These twelve Tribes thus placed in order fouresquare doe take up 12 miles in compasse or 24 thousand paces the fouresquare thwart over each of these twelve Tribes tooke up by it selfe a foursquare place of 4000 paces betweene the one and other tribe were 2000 paces betweene the saids Campe or host thorough all the foure sides and betweene the building of the Tabernacle were 8000 paces The outermost 4000 of the 8000 served for the feeding of they re Cattle Num. 3.35 the 2000 innermost paces towards the East served for the whole householding or familyes of Moses and Aaron and the other 2000 paces of the three remaining sides round about served for the whole housekeeping of the Children of Levi Gerson Kohath Merari Those of Kohath sett themselves in three partitions according to they re three families or generations towards the South as the Cheife the twoe divisions of Gerson were towards the North according to they re family alsoe the twoe families of Merari were in twoe divisions towards the West then there remained in the heart or very midle of this hoast or Campe 4000 paces in the which the above mentioned Tabernacle was placed Exod 26.18 the foremostpart towards the East 30 cubits long 10 cubits broad 10 cubits high encompassed with an outermost Court round about raised with Bases or Sockets and Pillars Exod. 27.9 the Curtaines hung on the Pillars to take up the place or space of the outermost Court that outermost Court was 100 cubits long 50 broad 5 high it was so placed as that against the East in that outmost Court an empty or voyd space of 50 cubits remained each of the three sides round about 20 cubits the middelmost space was taken up with the building of the Tabernacle And this is the whole space of the hoste where