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تثنية 34

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1 وصعد موسى من عربات موآب الى جبل نبو الى راس الفسجة الذي قبالة اريحا فاراه الرب جميع الارض من جلعاد الى دان

2 وجميع نفتالي وارض افرايم ومنسّى وجميع ارض يهوذا الى البحر الغربي

3 والجنوب والدائرة بقعة اريحا مدينة النخل الى صوغر.

4 وقال له الرب هذه هي الارض التي اقسمت لابراهيم واسحق ويعقوب قائلا لنسلك اعطيها. قد اريتك اياها بعينيك ولكنك الى هناك لا تعبر.

5 فمات هناك موسى عبد الرب في ارض موآب حسب قول الرب.

6 ودفنه في الجواء في ارض موآب مقابل بيت فغور ولم يعرف انسان قبره الى هذا اليوم

7 وكان موسى ابن مئة وعشرين سنة حين مات ولم تكلّ عينه ولا ذهبت نضارته

8 فبكى بنو اسرائيل موسى في عربات موآب ثلاثين يوما. فكملت ايام بكاء مناحة موسى

9 ويشوع بن نون كان قد امتلأ روح حكمة اذ وضع موسى عليه يديه فسمع له بنو اسرائيل وعملوا كما اوصى الرب موسى

10 ولم يقم بعد نبي في اسرائيل مثل موسى الذي عرفه الرب وجها لوجه

11 في جميع الآيات والعجائب التي ارسله الرب ليعملها في ارض مصر بفرعون وبجميع عبيده وكل ارضه

12 وفي كل اليد الشديدة وكل المخاوف العظيمة التي صنعها موسى امام اعين جميع اسرائيل

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 4117

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4117. 'And he set his face towards mount Gilead' means good within it. This is clear from the meaning of 'mount' as the celestial element of love, which is good, dealt with in 795, 1430, to which the good meant by 'Jacob' was joined - 'Gilead' meaning the essential nature of it. Since the river was the boundary and, as has been stated, meant the first phase of the joining together, 'mount Gilead', which lay in this part away from the Jordan, means the good involved in that first stage of the joining together.

[2] The land of Gilead where the mountain was situated lay within the confines of the land of Canaan understood in a wide sense. It was situated on this side of the Jordan, and was granted as an inheritance to the Reubenites and the Gadites, and in particular to the half-tribe of Manasseh. And since the inheritances stretched out that far, it is said that it was situated within the confines of the land of Canaan understood in a wide sense. The fact that this territory was granted as an inheritance to those tribes is clear in Moses, Numbers 32:1, 26-41; Deuteronomy 3:8, 10-16; Joshua 13:24-31. For this reason when the land of Canaan was envisaged in its entirety it was said to stretch from Gilead even to Dan, and in another sense from Beersheba even to Dan, for Dan also was a boundary, 1710, 3923. Regarding its stretching from Beersheba even to Dan, see 2858, 2859; and reference to its doing so from Gilead to Dan occurs in Moses,

Moses went up from the plains of Moab onto mount Nebo, the top of Pisgah, which is in the direction of Jericho. There Jehovah showed him the whole land, Gilead even to Dan. Deuteronomy 34:1.

And in the Book of Judges,

Gilead dwelling at the crossing of the Jordan; and Dan, why will he fear ships? Judges 5:17.

[3] Because it was a boundary, 'Gilead' in the spiritual sense means the good that comes first, which is that of the bodily senses, for it is the good or delight of the senses that a person who is being regenerated is introduced into first of all. This is the sense in which 'Gilead' is taken in the Prophets, as in Jeremiah 8:22; 22:6; 46:11; 50:19; Ezekiel 47:18; Obad. verse 19; Micah 7:14; Zechariah 10:10; Psalms 60:7; and in the contrary sense, in Hosea 6:8; 12:11.

  
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