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Jošua 14

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1 Ovo je što su dobili u baštinu sinovi Izraelovi u zemlji kanaanskoj - što su im razdijelili u baštinu svećenik Eleazar i Jošua, sin Nunov, i glavari porodica izraelskih plemena.

2 Ždrijebom su razdijelili baštinu, kao što je Jahve odredio preko Mojsija, među devet plemena i polovinu desetoga plemena.

3 Mojsije je odredio baštinu dvama plemenima i polovini desetog plemena s onu stranu Jordana, a levitima nije dao baštine među njima.

4 Jer bijahu dva plemena sinova Josipovih: Manašeovo i Efrajimovo. A levitima nisu dali dijela u zemlji nego gradove za prebivanje i pašnjake za njihovu stoku i za blago njihovo.

5 Kako je Jahve zapovjedio Mojsiju, tako su učinili sinovi Izraelovi pri diobi zemlje.

6 Sinovi Judini pristupe k Jošui u Gilgalu, a Kaleb, sin Jefuneov, Kenižanin, reče mu: "Ti znaš što je Jahve rekao Mojsiju, čovjeku Božjem, za mene i za tebe u Kadeš Barnei.

7 Bilo mi je četrdeset godina kad me posla Mojsije, sluga Jahvin, iz Kadeš Barnee da uhodim zemlju. I donio sam mu izvješće kako sam najbolje znao.

8 Braća koja su pošla sa mnom uplašila su srce naroda, ali sam ja vršio volju Jahve, Boga svojega.

9 I onoga se dana zakle Mojsije: 'Zemlja kojom je stupala noga tvoja pripast će tebi i sinovima tvojim u vječnu baštinu, jer si vršio volju Jahve, Boga mojega.'

10 I vidiš, Jahve me sačuvao u životu, kao što je rekao. Već je prošlo četrdeset i pet godina kako je Jahve to obećao Mojsiju, dok je Izrael još išao pustinjom; sada mi je osamdeset i pet godina,

11 ali sam još i danas snažan kao što sam bio onoga dana kad me Mojsije poslao kao uhodu. Kao nekoć, i sada je moja snaga u meni, za borbu, da odem i da se vratim.

12 Daj mi sada ovo gorje, koje mi je Jahve obećao onoga dana. Sam si čuo onoga dana. Ondje su Anakovci, a i gradovi su im veliki i tvrdi. Ako je Jahve sa mnom, protjerat ću ih, kako je to obećao Jahve."

13 Tada ga Jošua blagoslovi i dade Kalebu, sinu Jefuneovu, Hebron u baštinu.

14 Hebron je pripao u baštinu Kalebu, sinu Jefuneovu, Kenižaninu, sve do danas, jer je Kaleb vršio volju Jahve, Boga Izraelova.

15 Hebron se prije zvao Kirjat Arba; a Arba bijaše velik čovjek među Anakovcima. I počinu zemlja od rata.

   

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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.