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1 Ovo su imena Izraelovih sinova koji su s Jakovom sišli u Egipat, svaki sa svojim domom:

2 Ruben, Šimun, Levi i Juda;

3 Jisakar, Zebulun i Benjamin;

4 Dan i Naftali; Gad i Ašer.

5 U svemu Jakovljevih potomaka bijaše sedamdeset duša. A Josip je već bio u Egiptu.

6 I umre Josip, a pomru i sva njegova braća i sav onaj naraštaj.

7 Ali su Izraelci bili rodni, namnožili se i silno ojačali, tako da su napučili zemlju.

8 Uto u Egiptu zavlada novi kralj koji nije poznavao Josipa.

9 I reče on svome puku: "Eto, sinovi su Izraelovi postali narod brojan i moćniji od nas.

10 Hajde, postupimo mudro s njima: spriječimo im porast, da se u slučaju rata ne pridruže našim neprijateljima, da ne udare na nas i napokon ne odu iz zemlje."

11 I postaviše nad njima nadglednike da ih tlače teškim radovima. Tako su faraonu sagradili gradove-skladišta: Pitom i Ramses.

12 Ali što su ih više tlačili, oni se još više množili, napredovali i širili se, tako da su Egipćani strahovali od Izraelaca.

13 I Egipćani se okrutno obore na Izraelce.

14 Ogorčavali su im život teškim radovima: pravljenjem meljte i opeke, različitim poljskim poslovima i svakovrsnim naporima koje im nemilosrdno nametahu.

15 Egipatski se kralj obrati i na hebrejske babice, od kojih jednoj bijaše ime Šifra, a drugoj Pua, pa im naredi:

16 "Kad u porodu pomažete Hebrejkama, dobro pogledajte oba kamena sjedala: ako je muško dijete, ubijte ga; ako je žensko, neka živi.

17 Ali su se babice bojale Boga i nisu činile kako im je naredio egipatski kralj, nego su ostavljale na životu mušku djecu.

18 Stoga egipatski kralj pozove babice pa im rekne: "Zašto ste tako radile i na životu ostavljale mušku djecu?"

19 Nato babice odgovore faraonu: "Hebrejke nisu kao egipatske žene. One su životne. Prije nego babica dođe k njima, one već rode."

20 Bog je to babicama za dobro primio. Narod se množio i silno porastao.

21 A kako su se babice bojale Boga, on ih obdari potomstvom.

22 Onda faraon izda naredbu svemu svome narodu: "Svako muško dijete koje se rodi Hebrejima bacite u Rijeku! Na životu ostavite samo žensku djecu."

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7932. 'And it shall be, when you come to the land which Jehovah will give you' means when they reach heaven, given them by the Lord. This is clear from the meaning of 'the land', at this point the land of Canaan, which they will 'come to' as the Lord's kingdom, which is heaven, dealt with in 1607, 1866, 3078, 3481, 3705, 4116, 4240, 4447, 5757. The Children of Israel represented those belonging to the spiritual Church who lived in the world before the Lord's Coming, but could not be saved except by the Lord, on account of which they were preserved and held back on the lower earth, where they were in the meantime molested by the hells which were round about them. When therefore the Lord came into the world and made the Human within Him Divine, He then - when He rose again - delivered those who had been preserved and held back there. And after they had undergone temptations He raised them to heaven. These matters are what the internal sense of the second Book of Moses or Exodus contains. By 'the Egyptians' those who molested are meant; by 'being led away from them' deliverance is meant; by 'living forty years in the wilderness' temptations are meant; and by 'being led into the land of Canaan' being raised into heaven is meant. For what has been mentioned already about these meanings, see 6854, 6914, 7091 (end), 7828. From all this it is evident that 'when you come into the land' means when they reach heaven, given them by the Lord. 1

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1. [NCBS editor's note] From sections 7930 to 7932, there are some differences between the first and third Latin editions, regarding where the text should be divided into its sections. These differences have been carried over into the translations into English and other modern languages; different translators have made different decisions about it. The text is all there in each translation, but you may find what you are looking for in 7930, 7931, or 7932.

  
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