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1 耶和华在埃及地晓谕摩西、亚伦说：

2 你们要以本月为正月，为一年之首。

3 你们吩咐以色列全会众说：本月初十日，各人要按着父家取羊羔，一家一只。

4 若是一家的人太少，吃不了一只羊羔，本人就要和他隔壁的邻舍共取一只。你们预备羊羔，要按着人数和饭量计算。

5 要无残疾、一岁的公羊羔，你们或从绵羊里取，或从山羊里取，都可以。

6 要留到本月十四日，在黄昏的时候，以色列全会众把羊羔宰了。

7 各家要取点血，涂在吃羊羔的房屋左右的门框上和门楣上。

8 当夜要吃羊羔的肉；用火烤了，与无酵饼和苦菜同吃。

9 不可吃生的，断不可吃水煮的，要带着头、腿、五脏，用火烤了吃。

10 不可剩下一点留到早晨；若留到早晨，要用火烧了。

11 你们吃羊羔当腰间束带，脚上穿鞋，手中拿杖，赶紧的吃；这是耶和华的逾越节。

12 因为那夜我要巡行埃及地，把埃及地一切头生的，无论是人是牲畜，都击杀了，又要败坏埃及一切的神。我是耶和华。

13 这血要在你们所住的房屋上作记号；我一见这血，就越过你们去。我击杀埃及地头生的时候，灾殃必不临到你们身上灭你们。

14 你们要记念这日，守为耶和华的节，作为你们世世代代永远的定例。

15 你们要吃无酵饼七日。头一日要把酵从你们各家中除去；因为从头一日起，到第七日为止，凡吃有酵之饼的，必从以色列中剪除。

16 头一日你们当有圣会，第七日也当有圣会。这两日之内，除了预备各人所要吃的以外，无论何工都不可做。

17 你们要守无酵节，因为我正当这日把你们的军队从埃及地领出来。所以，你们要守这日，作为世世代代永远的定例。

18 从正月十四日晚上，直到二十一日晚上，你们要吃无酵饼。

19 在你们各家中，七日之内不可有酵；因为凡吃有酵之物的，无论是寄居的，是本地的，必从以色列的会中剪除。

20 有酵的物，你们都不可吃；在你们一切住处要吃无酵饼。

21 於是，摩西召了以色列的众长老来，对他们说：你们要按着家口取出羊羔，把这逾越节的羊羔宰了。

22 拿一把牛膝草，蘸盆里的血，打在门楣上和左右的门框上。你们谁也不可出自己的房门，直到早晨。

23 因为耶和华要巡行击杀埃及人，他看见血在门楣上和左右的门框上，就必越过那门，不容灭命的进你们的房屋，击杀你们。

24 这例，你们要守着，作为你们和你们子孙永远的定例。

25 日後，你们到了耶和华按着所应许赐给你们的那地，就要守这礼。

26 你们的儿女问你们说：行这礼是甚麽意思？

27 你们就说：这是献给耶和华逾越节的祭。当以色列人在埃及的时候，他击杀埃及人，越过以色列人的房屋，救了我们各家。於是百姓低头下拜。

28 耶和华怎样吩咐摩西、亚伦，以色列人就怎样行。

29 到了半夜，耶和华把埃及地所有的长子，就是从坐宝座的法老，直到被掳囚在监里之人的长子，以及一切头生的牲畜，尽都杀了。

30 法老和一切臣仆，并埃及众人，夜间都起来了。在埃及有大哀号，无一家不死一个人的。

31 夜间，法老召了摩西、亚伦来，说：起来！连你们带以色列人，从我民中出去，依你们所说的，去事奉耶和华罢！

32 也依你们所说的，连羊群牛群带着走罢！并要为我祝福。

33 埃及人催促百姓，打发他们快快出离那地，因为埃及人说：我们都要死了。

34 百姓就拿着没有酵的生面，把抟面盆包在衣服中，扛在肩头上。

35 以色列人照着摩西的话行，向埃及人要金器、银器，和衣裳。

36 耶和华叫百姓在埃及人眼前蒙恩，以致埃及人给他们所要的。他们就把埃及人的财物夺去了。

37 以色列人从兰塞起行，往疏割去；除了妇人孩子，步行的男人约有六十万。

38 又有许多闲杂人，并有羊群牛群，和他们一同上去。

39 他们用埃及带出来的生面烤成无酵饼。这生面原没有发起；因为他们被催逼离开埃及，不能耽延，也没有为自己预备甚麽食物。

40 以色列人住在埃及共有四百三十年。

41 正满了四百三十年的那一天，耶和华的军队都从埃及地出来了。

42 这夜是耶和华的夜；因耶和华领他们出了埃及地，所以当向耶和华谨守，是以色列众人世世代代该谨守的。

43 耶和华对摩西、亚伦说：逾越节的例是这样：外邦人都不可吃这羊羔。

44 但各人用银子买的奴仆，既受了割礼就可以吃。

45 寄居的和雇工人都不可吃。

46 应当在一个房子里吃；不可把一点肉从房子里带到外头去。羊羔的骨头一根也不可折断。

47 以色列全会众都要守这礼。

48 若有外人寄居在你们中间，愿向耶和华守逾越节，他所有的男子务要受割礼，然後才容他前来遵守，他也就像本地人一样；但未受割礼的，都不可吃这羊羔。

49 本地人和寄居在你们中间的外人同归一例。

50 耶和华怎样吩咐摩西、亚伦，以色列众人就怎样行了。

51 正当那日，耶和华将以色列人按着他们的军队，从埃及地领出来。

   

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7984. 'Four hundred and thirty years' means the essential nature and state of them. This is clear from the meaning of 'thirty' as a state when the quantity of remnants is complete, for that number is the product of three and ten multiplied, and 'three' means a state made complete, 2788, 4495, 7715, and 'ten' means remnants, 576, 1906, 2284 (what a state made complete is will be explained below); and from the meaning of 'four hundred' as the duration of vastation, dealt with in 2959, 2966, and from this the joining together of goodness and truth, 4341, The fact that all numbers mean real things and states, and that a compound number is similar to the simple ones of which it is a product, see above in 7973.

[2] As regards vastation, meant by 'four hundred years', there are two kinds, namely the vastation of evil and falsity and the vastation of goodness and truth. With those suffering damnation it is the vastation of goodness and truth, but with those who are being saved it is the vastation of evil and falsity, vastation being the taking away of those things. So far it has been shown that the evil who have belonged to the Church undergo vastation of all goodness and truth, for stages of vastation one after another are meant by the plagues in Egypt. But the good undergo vastation of evil and falsity. Evil and falsity residing with them are gradually separated, that is, removed to the sides, and forms of good and truths are gathered towards the middle. The term 'remnants' is used to describe goodness and truth gathered together in that way. And when their state of remnants has been made complete the good are raised to heaven. This state is what is meant by 'thirty', and vastation what is meant by 'four hundred'. With the good the vastation of evil and falsity and the instilling of goodness and truth is effected by means of molestations and by means of temptations. By means of both these, falsities and evils are removed and forms of good and truths are inserted; and this process continues until the state is made complete.

[3] What a state made complete is must also be explained briefly. Everyone, whether damned or saved, has a certain measure that can be made complete. The evil, or those who are damned, have a certain measure of evil and falsity, while the good, or those who are saved, have a certain measure of goodness and truth. This measure that everyone has is made complete in the next life, though with some the measure may be quite large, with others rather small. People acquire that measure in the world through the affections belonging to their love. The more anyone has loved evil and the falsity arising from it, the greater is the measure acquired by him; and the more anyone has loved good and the truth springing from it, the greater is his measure. The breadths and heights to which that measure can go are clearly apparent in the next life. These limits cannot be exceeded there, but they can be reached, and in fact are reached; that is to say, those whose affection has been for goodness and truth have their measure made complete with forms of good and truths, while those whose affection has been for evil and falsity have theirs made complete with evils and falsities. From this it is evident that this measure is a propensity acquired in the world to receive either evil and falsity or goodness and truth.

[4] This state is what a state made complete refers to and what is meant by 'thirty'. It is described by the Lord in the parable of the talents, Matthew 25:14-30, and in that of the minas, Luke 19:11-27, and at length by these words in Matthew,

To everyone who has, it will be given, so that he may have in abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away. Matthew 25:29.

And in Luke,

To those standing by he said, Take the mina from him, and give to him who has ten minas. They said, Sir, he has ten minas. I say to you, that to everyone who has, it will be given; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. Luke 19:24-26.

That everyone's measure is made complete is the Lord's teaching elsewhere in the same gospel, Give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over they will give into your bosom. Luke 6:38.

From all this one may now see what is meant by a state made complete.

  
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