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1 Jahve reče Mojsiju:

2 "Izdaj Izraelcima naredbu i reci im: 'Kad uđete u kanaansku zemlju, ta će vam zemlja pripasti u baštinu, zemlja kanaanska sa svojim granicama.

3 Južna strana protezat će vam se od pustinje Sina uz Edom. Južna će vam granica početi s kraja Slanog mora na istočnoj strani.

4 Onda će vam granica skrenuti na jug, prema Akrabimskoj strmini, i nastaviti se preko Sina. Doprijet će na jugu do Kadeš Barnee; zatim će izaći prema Hasar Adaru i nastaviti se do Asmone.

5 Od Asmone granica će skrenuti prema Egipatskom potoku i izaći će na more.

6 Zapadna granica bit će vam Veliko more; neka vam je to granica prema zapadu.

7 A ovo će vam biti sjeverna granica: od Velikog mora povucite crtu na brdo Hor;

8 s brda Hora onda potegnite crtu do ulaza u Hamat; završetak granice bit će Sedada.

9 Onda će se granica protegnuti do Zifrona i završiti u Hasar Enanu. To će vam biti sjeverna granica.

10 Za svoju istočnu granicu povucite crtu od Hasar Enana do Šefama.

11 Granica će se spuštati od Šefama do Rible, istočno od Ajina. Odande će se Granica spustiti i doprijeti do istočne obale Kineretskog jezera.

12 Iza toga spustit će se granica niz Jordan da završi u Slanome moru. To će biti vaša zemlja sa svojim granicama naokolo.'"

13 Tada Mojsije naredi Izraelcima: "To je zemlja koju ćete kockom dobiti u baštinu, a za koju je zapovjedio Jahve da je dobije devet plemena i polovica jednog plemena.

14 Jer pleme Rubenovaca prema svojim porodicama, zatim pleme Gadovaca prema svojim porodicama već primiše svoju baštinu, kao što je svoju baštinu primila i polovica plemena Manašeova.

15 Ta dva plemena i pol primila su svoje baštine s one strane Jordana, nasuprot Jerihonu, s istočne strane."

16 Jahve reče Mojsiju:

17 "Ovo su imena ljudi koji će vam zemlju podijeliti: svećenik Eleazar i Nunov sin Jošua;

18 i od svakoga plemena uzmi po jednoga glavara za razdiobu zemlje.

19 Ovo su imena tih ljudi: Kaleb, sin Jefuneov; od plemena Judina;

20 Šemuel, sin Amihudov, od plemena Šimunova;

21 Elidad, sin Kislonov, od plemena Benjaminova;

22 knez Buki, sin Joglijev, od plemena Danovaca.

23 Od sinova Josipovih: knez Haniel, sin Efodov, od plemena Manašeovaca;

24 knez Kemuel, sin Šiftanov, od plemena Efrajimovaca;

25 knez Elisafan, sin Parnakov, od plemena Zebulunovaca;

26 knez Paltiel, sin Azanov, od plemena Jisakarovaca;

27 knez Ahihud, sin Šelomijev, od plemena Ašerovaca;

28 knez Pedahel, sin Amihudov, od plemena Naftalijevaca."

29 To su oni kojima je Jahve naložio da Izraelcima izdijele baštinu u zemlji kanaanskoj.

   

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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.