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Ponovljeni Zakon 27

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1 Potom Mojsije i starješine izraelske nalože narodu: "Vršite sve zapovijedi što vam ih danas naređujem.

2 Onog dana kad prijeđete preko Jordana u zemlju što ti je daje Jahve, Bog tvoj, podigni sebi veliko kamenje; krečom ga okreči

3 i na njemu ispiši sve riječi ovoga Zakona u trenutku kad budeš ulazio u zemlju što ti je daje Jahve, Bog tvoj, u zemlju kojom teče med i mlijeko, kako ti je rekao Jahve, Bog otaca tvojih.

4 Kada, dakle, prijeđeš preko Jordana, onda to kamenje, kako ti danas zapovijedam, podigni na brdu Ebalu i okreči ga krečom.

5 Ondje sagradi i žrtvenik Jahvi, Bogu svome - žrtvenik od kamenja na koje nisi spuštao gvožđa.

6 Žrtvenik Jahvi, Bogu svome, sagradi od neklesana kamena. Na njemu prinosi paljenice Jahvi, Bogu svome.

7 Prinosi i pričesnice i ondje ih blaguj, radujući se pred Jahvom, Bogom svojim.

8 Ispiši na tom kamenju sve riječi ovoga Zakona: ureži ih dobro."

9 Zatim Mojsije i levitski svećenici rekoše svemu Izraelu: "Pozor, Izraele, i slušaj! Danas si postao narodom Jahve, Boga svoga.

10 Zato slušaj glas Jahve, Boga svoga, i vrši zapovijedi njegove i zakone njegove koje ti danas naređujem."

11 Onoga dana naredi Mojsije narodu:

12 "Kad prijeđete preko Jordana, neka ova plemena: Šimun, Levi, Juda, Jisakar, Josip i Benjamin stanu na brdu Gerizimu da blagoslivljaju narod.

13 A ova neka stanu na brdu Ebalu da proklinju: Ruben, Gad, Ašer, Zebulun, Dan i Naftali.

14 Neka onda Levijevci preuzmu riječ i jakim glasom reknu svim Izraelcima:

15 'Proklet bio tko načini kumira, klesana ili livena - zazor Jahvi, djelo rukotvorca, sve ako ga stavi i na potajno mjesto.' - I sav narod neka odgovori: 'Amen!'

16 'Proklet bio koji vrijeđa oca svoga i majku svoju!' - I sav narod neka reče: 'Amen!'

17 'Proklet bio koji pomakne međaš susjedov!' - I sav narod neka reče: 'Amen!'

18 'Proklet bio koji slijepca zavede na stranputicu!' - I sav narod neka reče: 'Amen!'

19 'Proklet bio koji krnji prava došljaka, sirote i udovice!' - I sav narod neka reče: 'Amen!'

20 'Proklet bio koji legne sa ženom oca svoga, jer je razgrnuo pokrivač oca svoga!'- I sav narod neka reče: 'Amen!'

21 'Proklet bio koji legne s bilo kakvom životinjom!' - I sav narod neka reče: 'Amen!'

22 'Proklet bio koji legne sa svojom sestrom, bila ona kći njegova oca ili kći njegove majke.' - I sav narod neka reče: 'Amen!'

23 'Proklet bio koji legne s punicom svojom!' - I sav narod neka reče: 'Amen!'

24 'Proklet bio koji ubije bližnjega svoga iz potaje!' - I sav narod neka reče: 'Amen!'

25 'Proklet bio koji primi mito da smrt donese nevinome!' - I sav narod neka reče: 'Amen!'

26 'Proklet bio koji ne bude držao riječi ovoga Zakona i vršio ih!' - I sav narod neka reče: 'Amen!'

   

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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.