8645. 'Heard all that God had done for Moses and for Israel His people' means a perception of the things which had been done for those who belonged to the Lord's spiritual kingdom. This is clear from the meaning of 'hearing', hearing all that God had done, as perception, dealt with in 5017, 8361; from the meaning of 'all that God had done' as the things which had been done by the Divine; and from the representation of Israel, to whom 'Moses' and 'the people' for whom those things had been done refer here, as those who belong to the Lord's spiritual kingdom, dealt with in 6426, 6637, 6862, 6868, 7035, 7062, 7198, 7201, 7215, 7223. 'Moses' together with 'the people' represents that kingdom, 'Moses' as the head and 'the people' as the things subordinate to the head. Thus also 'Moses' represents the Lord in respect of Divine Truth, for the spiritual kingdom arises from this.

4510. 'And their women' means charity. This is clear from the meaning of the words for 'woman' and 'wife' (femina, mulier, uxor) as affections for truth and affections for good. Affections for truth are meant when the partner is mentioned or when the expression 'husband' is used, affections for good when the partner is not mentioned or when the term 'man' is used, 915, 1468, 2517, 3236. At present affections for good are meant because the women belonged to the men of the city, who meant truths, 4478 (end), and because the city is everywhere called the city of Shechem, who represented the truth of the Church among the Ancients, 4454. The affection for spiritual good is the same as charity, and this is why 'women' here means charity.