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Exodus 34

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1 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon the tables the words that were on the first tables, which thou brakest.

2 And be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me on the top of the mount.

3 And no man shall come up with thee; neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.

4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as Jehovah had commanded him, and took in his hand two tables of stone.

5 And Jehovah descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Jehovah.

6 And Jehovah passed by before him, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth,

7 keeping lovingkindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin; and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.

9 And he said, If now I have found favor in thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in the midst of us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.

10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been wrought in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of Jehovah; for it is a terrible thing that I do with thee.

11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:

13 but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim;

14 for thou shalt worship no other god: for Jehovah, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

15 lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot after their gods, and sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee and thou eat of his sacrifice;

16 and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters play the harlot after their gods, and make thy sons play the harlot after their gods.

17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

18 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.

19 All that openeth the womb is mine; and all thy cattle that is male, the firstlings of cow and sheep.

20 And the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break its neck. All the first-born of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.

21 Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, [even] of the first-fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.

23 Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord Jehovah, the God of Israel.

24 For I will cast out nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou goest up to appear before Jehovah thy God three times in the year.

25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.

26 The first of the first-fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring unto the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

27 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

28 And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of the testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses knew not that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.

30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.

31 And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses spake to them.

32 And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that Jehovah had spoken with him in mount Sinai.

33 And when Moses had done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.

34 But when Moses went in before Jehovah to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded.

35 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the veil upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

   

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Exodus 23:24

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24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and break in pieces their pillars.

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Heaven and Hell # 118

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118. That the Lord is actually seen in heaven as a Sun I have not only been told by angels but it has sometimes been granted me to see it. Therefore, I would here tell in a few words what I have heard and seen respecting the Lord as a Sun.

The Lord is seen as a Sun, not in heaven, but high above the heavens, and not directly overhead or in the zenith but before the faces of the angels at a middle height. He is seen in two distinct places, noticeably apart, one before the right eye and the other before the left eye. Before the right eye He appears exactly like a Sun with, as it were, the same brilliance and size as the sun of the world. Before the left eye, however, He appears not as a Sun but as a Moon, shining white like the moon of our earth, and of like size, but more refulgent and surrounded with many little moons, as it were, of similar whiteness and splendour. The Lord is seen in two places with such a difference because every person sees the Lord in accordance with the quality of his reception of Him. Thus, He is seen in one way by those who receive Him with the good of love, and in another by those who receive Him with the good of faith. Those who receive Him with the good of love see Him as a Sun, fiery and flaming, in accordance with the reception. These are in His celestial kingdom. Those who receive Him with the good of faith see Him as a Moon, white and gleaming in accordance with the reception. These are in His spiritual kingdom. 1 This is so because the good of love corresponds to fire. Therefore, "fire" in the spiritual sense is love; and the good of faith corresponds to light, for "light" in the spiritual sense is faith. 2

The Lord appears before the eyes because the interior things of the mind (mens) see through the eyes, through the right eye from the good of love, and through the left eye from the good of faith. 3 For, with the angels and also with man, all things on the right side correspond to the good from which truth is derived, and all on the left to the truth which is from good. 4 The good of faith is, in its essence, truth from good.

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1. [Swedenborg's footnote] The Lord appears in heaven as the Sun, and He is the Sun of heaven (Arcana Coelestia 1053, 3636, 3643, 4060).

The Lord appears to those who are in the celestial kingdom, where the ruling love is love to Him, as the Sun; and to those who are in the spiritual kingdom, where charity towards the neighbour and faith rule, as the Moon (Arcana Coelestia 1521, 1529-1531, 1837, 4696).

The Lord as the Sun appears at a middle altitude before the right eye, and as the Moon before the left eye (Arcana Coelestia 1053, 1521, 1529-1531, 3636, 3643, 4321, 5097, 7078, 7083, 7173, 7270, 8812, 10809).

The Lord has been seen as the Sun and as the Moon (Arcana Coelestia 1531, 7173).

The Essential Divine of the Lord is far above His Divine in heaven (Arcana Coelestia 7270, 8760).

2. [Swedenborg's footnote] "Fire" in the Word, signifies love, in a twofold sense (Arcana Coelestia 934, 4906, 5215).

"Sacred" or "heavenly fire" signifies Divine Love (Arcana Coelestia 934, 6314, 6832); and "infernal fire" signifies the love of self and the world, and every lust which is of those loves (Arcana Coelestia 1861, 5071, 6314, 6832, 7575, 10747).

Love is the fire of life, and life itself is actually from it (Arcana Coelestia 4906, 5071, 6032, 6314).

"Light" signifies the truth of faith (Arcana Coelestia 3395, 3485, 3636, 3643, 3993, 4302, 4413, 4415, 9548, 9684).

3. [Swedenborg's footnote] The sight of the left eye corresponds to the truths of faith, and the sight of the right eye, to their goods (Arcana Coelestia 4410, 6923).

4. [Swedenborg's footnote] The things which are on man's right side have reference to good from

Which is truth, and those which are on the left side have reference to truth from good (Arcana Coelestia 9495, 9604).

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.