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出埃及记 21

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1 你在百姓面前所要立的典章是这样:

2 你若买希伯来人作奴仆,他必服事你年;第七年他可以自由,白白的出去。

3 他若孤身就可以孤身去;他若有妻,他的妻就可以同他出去。

4 人若妻子妻子他生了儿子女儿妻子和儿女要归人,他要独自出去。

5 倘或奴仆明:我我的人和我的妻子儿女,不愿意自由出去。

6 他的人就要带他到审判官(审判官或作:;下同)那里,又要带他到前,靠框,用锥子穿他的耳朵,他就永远服事人。

7 女儿作婢女,婢女不可像仆那样出去。

8 人选定他归自己,若不喜欢他,就要许他赎身;人既然用诡诈待他,就没有权柄给外邦人。

9 主人若选定他给自己的儿子,就当待他如同女儿

10 若另娶一个,那女子的吃食、衣服,并好合的事,仍不可减少。

11 若不向他行这样,他就可以不用赎,白白的出去。

12 以致打的,必要把他治

13 人若不是埋伏着杀人,乃是交在他中,我就设下一个地方,他可以往那里逃跑

14 若任意用诡计杀了他的邻舍,就是逃到我的那里,也当捉去把他治

15 打父母的,必要把他治

16 拐带口,或是把了,或是留在他下,必要把他治

17 咒骂父母的,必要把他治

18 若彼此相争,这个用石头或是拳头打那个,尚且不至於,不过躺卧在

19 若再能起来扶杖而出,那打他的可算无罪;但要将他耽误的工夫用钱赔补,并要将他全然医好。

20 若用棍子打奴仆或婢女,立时在他的,他必要受刑。

21 若过一两才死,就可以不受刑,因为是用买的。

22 人若彼此争斗,伤害有孕的妇人,甚至坠胎,随後却无别害,那伤害他的,总要按妇人的丈夫所要的,照审判官所断的,受罚。

23 若有别害,就要以命偿命,

24 以眼还眼,以,以,以

25 以烙还烙,以伤还伤,以打还打。

26 若打坏了他奴仆或是婢女的一只眼,就要因他的眼放他去得以自由。

27 若打掉了他奴仆或是婢女的一个,就要因他的放他去得以自由。

28 牛若触男人或是女人,总要用石头打那牛,却不可他的;牛的主可算无罪。

29 倘若那牛素来是触的,有报告了牛主,他竟不把牛拴着,以致把男人或是女人,就要用石头打那牛,牛主也必治

30 若罚他赎命的价银,他必照所罚的赎他的命。

31 牛无论触了人的儿子或是女儿,必照这例办理。

32 牛若触了奴仆或是婢女,必将三十舍客勒他们的人,也要用石头把牛打死。

33 若敞着井口,或井不遮盖,有牛或掉在里头,

34 井主要拿赔还本主人,牲畜要归自己。

35 的牛若伤了那的牛,以至於,他们要了活牛,平分价值,也要平分牛。

36 人若知道这牛素来是触人的,主人竟不把牛拴着,他必要以牛还牛,牛要归自己。

   

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2276. 'Perhaps thirty will be found [there]' means some existence of conflict. This is clear from the meaning of the number 'thirty'. The reason 'thirty' means some existence of conflict, thus a small amount of conflict, is that this number is the product of 'five', meaning that which is small, times 'six', meaning toil or conflict, as shown in Volume One, in 649, 720, 737, 900, 1709.

[2] Hence also that number, wherever one reads it in the Word, means something relatively small, as in Zechariah,

I said to them, If it is good in your eyes, give me my wages; and if not, withhold them. And they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver. And Jehovah said to me, Throw it to the potter, the magnificent price I was valued at among them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw it into the house of Jehovah, to the potter. Zechariah 11:12-13.

This stands for how small a value those people placed on the Lord's merit, and on redemption and salvation from Him. 'The poster' stands for reformation and regeneration.

[3] This explains the reference to the same thirty pieces of silver in Matthew,

They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price set on him whom they had bought from the children of Israel, and gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me. Matthew 27:9-10.

From these words it is quite clear that 'thirty' here stands for the small price set on him. A slave, who was not considered to be worth much, was valued at thirty shekels, as is clear in Moses,

If the ox gores a slave or a servant-girl, the owner shall give to his master thirty shekels of silver; and the ox shall be stoned. Exodus 21:32.

How little a slave was considered to be worth is clear from verses 20-21, of that same chapter. In the internal sense 'a slave' stands for toil.

[4] The reason Levites were called upon for ministerial duty - which is described as one 'coming to perform military service and to do the work in the tent [of meeting] - from thirty up to fifty years of age', Numbers 4:3, 23, 30, 35, 39, 43, was that 'thirty' means those who were beginners, thus those who as yet could perform little of what was meant in the spiritual sense by 'military service'.

[5] There are other places in the Word besides these where 'thirty' is mentioned, such as in the requirement that with a young bull a minchah of three tenths [of fine flour] was to be offered by them, Numbers 15:9. Such was required because the sacrifice of an ox represented natural good, as shown above in 2180, and natural good is small in comparison with spiritual good, which was represented by the sacrifice of a ram, and smaller still in comparison with celestial good, which was represented by the sacrifice of a lamb, with which sacrifices a different number of tenths to the minchah were required, as is clear in verses 4-6 of that chapter, and also in Numbers 28:12-13, 20-21, 28-29; 29:3-4, 9-10, 14-15. These differing numbers of tenths, or proportions, would never have been commanded if they had not embodied heavenly arcana within them.

[6] 'Thirty' again stands for that which is small in Mark,

The seed which fell into good ground yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. One bore thirty-fold, and another sixty, and another a hundred. Mark 4:8.

'Thirty' stands for a small yield and for that which has laboured to only a small extent. Those numbers would not have been specified unless they had embodied the things meant by them.

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