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出埃及記 5

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1 摩西亞倫去對法老耶和華以色列的這樣:容我的百姓去,在曠野向我守節。

2 法老耶和華是誰,使我他的話,容以色列人去呢?我不認識耶和華,也不容以色列人去!

3 他們希伯來人遇見我們。求你容我們往曠野去,走的路程,祭祀耶和華我們,免得他用瘟疫、刀兵攻擊我們

4 埃及王對他們摩西亞倫!你們為甚麼叫百姓曠工呢?你們去擔你們的擔子罷!

5 :看哪,這的以色列人如今眾多,你們竟叫他們歇下擔子!

6 法老吩咐督工的和長說:

7 你們不可照常把百姓做磚,叫他們自己去撿

8 他們素常做磚的數目,你們仍舊向他們要,一點不可減少;因為他們是懶惰的,所以呼求說:容我們去祭祀我們

9 你們要把更重的工夫加在這些人身上,叫他們勞碌,不聽虛謊的言語。

10 督工的和長出來對百姓法老這樣:我不你們

11 你們自己在那裡能,就往那裡去罷!但你們的工一點不可減少。

12 於是百姓散在埃及,撿碎秸當作

13 督工的催著說:你們一天當完一天的工,與先前有一樣。

14 法老督工的,責打他所派以色列人長,:你們昨今天為甚麼沒有照向來的數目做磚、完你們的工作呢?

15 以色列人長就哀求法老說:為甚麼這樣待你的僕人

16 督工的不把僕人,並且對我們:做磚罷!看哪,你僕人挨了打,其實是你百姓的錯。

17 但法老:你們是懶惰的!你們是懶惰的!所以:容我們去祭祀耶和華

18 現在你們去做工罷!是不你們的,磚卻要如數交納。

19 以色列人長聽你們每做磚的工作一點不可減少,就知道是遭遇禍患了。

20 他們離了法老出來,正遇見摩西亞倫站在對面,

21 就向他們:願耶和華鑒察你們,施行判斷;因你們使我們法老和他臣僕面前有了名,把刀遞在他們中殺我們

22 摩西回到耶和華那裡,阿,你為甚麼苦待這百姓呢?為甚麼打發我去呢?

23 自從我去見法老,奉你的名說話,他就苦待這百姓,你一點也沒有拯救他們。

   

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Moses

  

At the inmost level, the story of Moses -- like all of the Bible -- is about the Lord and his spiritual development during his human life as Jesus. Moses's role represents establishing forms of worship and to make the people obedient. As such, his primary representation is "the Law of God," the rules God gave the people of Israel to follow in order to represent spiritual things. This can be interpreted narrowly as the Ten Commandments, more broadly as the books of Moses, or most broadly as the entire Bible. Fittingly, his spiritual meaning is complex and important, and evolves throughout the course of his life. To understand it, it helps to understand the meaning of the events in which he was involved. At a more basic level, Moses's story deals with the establishment of the third church to serve as a container of knowledge of the Lord. The first such church -- the Most Ancient Church, represented by Adam and centered on love of the Lord -- had fallen prey to human pride and was destroyed. The second -- the Ancient Church, represented by Noah and the generations that followed him -- was centered on love of the neighbor, wisdom from the Lord and knowledge of the correspondences between natural and spiritual things. It fell prey to the pride of intelligence, however -- represented by the Tower of Babel -- and at the time of Moses was in scattered pockets that were sliding into idolatry. On an external level, of course, Moses led the people of Israel out of Egypt through 40 years in the wilderness to the border of the homeland God had promised them. Along the way, he established and codified their religious system, and oversaw the creation of its most holy objects. Those rules and the forms of worship they created were given as containers for deeper ideas about the Lord, deeper truth, and at some points -- especially when he was first leading his people away from Egypt, a time before the rules had been written down -- Moses takes on the deeper representation of Divine Truth itself, truth from the Lord. At other times -- especially after Mount Sinai -- he has a less exalted meaning, representing the people of Israel themselves due to his position as their leader. Through Moses the Lord established a third church, one more external than its predecessors but one that could preserve knowledge of the Lord and could, through worship that represented spiritual things, make it possible for the Bible to be written and passed to future generations.