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出埃及記 24

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1 耶和華摩西:你和亞倫、拿答、亞比戶,並以色列長老中的七十人,都要上到我這裡來,遠遠的下拜。

2 惟獨你可以親耶和華;他們卻不可親;百姓也不可和你一同上來。

3 摩西下山,將耶和華的命令典章都述與百姓聽。眾百姓齊聲耶和華所吩咐的,我們都必遵行。

4 摩西耶和華的命令都上。清起來,在築一座,按以色列十二支派立十二根柱子,

5 又打發以色列人中的少年人去獻燔祭,又向耶和華獻牛為平安祭。

6 摩西將血一半盛在盆中,一半灑在上;

7 又將約念給百姓。他們耶和華所吩咐的,我們都必遵行。

8 摩西將血灑在百姓身上,:你看!這是立約的血,是耶和華按這一切與你們立約的憑據。

9 摩西亞倫、拿答、亞比戶,並以色列長老中的七十人,都上了山。

10 他們以色列的,他彷彿有平鋪的藍寶石,如同色明淨。

11 他的不加害在以色列的尊者身上。他們觀看;他們又

12 耶和華摩西:你上到我這裡來,住在這裡,我要將版並我所的律法和誡命你,使你可以教訓百姓。

13 摩西和他的幫手約書亞起來,上了

14 摩西對長老:你們在這裡等著,等到我們回來,有亞倫、戶珥與你們同在。凡有爭訟的,都可以就他們去。

15 摩西,有彩把遮蓋。

16 耶和華的榮耀停於西乃彩遮蓋,第七他從中召摩西

17 耶和華的榮耀在頂上,在以色列人眼前,形狀如烈

18 摩西進入中上,在四十晝夜。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9437

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9437. 'And Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights' means the instructions given and influx in their completeness. This is clear from the meaning of 'forty' as completeness. 'Forty' means completeness because 'four' means that which is complete, 9103, as similarly does 'ten', 3107, 4638, and forty is the product of four multiplied by ten. For compound numbers have a meaning similar to the simple numbers of which they are the product, 5291, 5335, 5708, 7973; and all numbers in the Word mean spiritual realities, see 575, 3252, 4264, 4495, 4670, 5265, 6175. All this goes to explain why Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights. The fact that 'forty' here means the instructions given and the influx in their completeness is evident from Chapters 25-32 which come next, recording the instructions Moses received, that is, instructions regarding the ark, Aaron, the urim and thummim, and sacrifices. The reason why influx in its completeness is also meant is that at that time Moses began to represent the outward holiness of the Word, which acted as the intermediary between the Lord and the people, and mediation is accomplished by means of influx through that holiness into the representative existing among that people, 9419.

[2] It was because 'forty' represented completeness that Moses remained on Mount Sinai forty days and forty nights not only this time but also on another occasion, Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 9:18, 25; 10:10. For the same reason the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness forty years until, as it says in Numbers 14:33-34; 32:13, all that generation had been consumed; Jonah told the Ninevites that their city would be overturned after forty days, Jonah 3:4; the prophet was commanded to lie on his right side and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days, Ezekiel 4:6; it says regarding Egypt that it would be made completely desolate for forty years, after which they would be gathered from the peoples, Ezekiel 29:11-13; and the earth was rained on forty days and forty nights, so that it was inundated with the flood, Genesis 7:4, 12, 17. From all this it is evident why the wicked person was to receive forty blows, Deuteronomy 25:3, for 'forty blows' meant the punishment in its completeness. It is also evident what should be understood in the prophecy of Deborah and Barak when it says that no shield or spear was seen among the forty thousand of Israel, Judges 5:8, 'among the forty thousand of Israel' meaning among them all. It is in addition evident why the temple built by Solomon was forty cubits long, 1 Kings 6:17, as was the new temple, according to Ezekiel 41:2; for in the highest sense 'the temple' means the Lord, and in the internal sense heaven and the Church, so that 'forty' means completeness in respect of representation. And it has a like meaning in other places.

  
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