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1 Prvoga mjeseca druge godine nakon izlaska iz zemlje egipatske Jahve reče Mojsiju u Sinajskoj pustinji:

2 "Neka Izraelci slave Pashu u njezino vrijeme.

3 Slavite je u njezino vrijeme, u suton, četrnaestoga dana ovoga mjeseca; slavite je prema svim njezinim propisima i običajima."

4 Tako Mojsije reče Izraelcima da slave Pashu.

5 I oni su je slavili u Sinajskoj pustinji, u suton, prvoga mjeseca, četrnaestoga dana u mjesecu. Kako je god Jahve Mojsiju naredio, tako su Izraelci i učinili.

6 A bijaše ljudi onečišćenih mrtvacem; ti nisu mogli slaviti Pashu onoga dana. Dođu tako pred Mojsija i Arona istoga dana

7 pa reknu: "Mrtvacem smo se onečistili; ipak, zašto bi nam bilo uskraćeno prinositi Jahvi žrtvu u njezino vrijeme usred Izraelovih sinova?"

8 Mojsije im reče: "Strpite se da čujem što će Jahve za vas odrediti."

9 I Jahve reče Mojsiju:

10 "Ovako kaži Izraelcima: 'Kad se tko između vas ili vaših potomaka onečisti mrtvacem ili je na daleku putu, neka ipak slavi Pashu Jahvi.

11 Neka je slave u suton četrnaestog dana drugoga mjeseca. Neka je blaguju s neukvasanim kruhom i gorkim zeljem;

12 neka ništa od nje ne ostavljaju za ujutro; neka ni jedne kosti na njoj ne lome. Neka je slave prema propisima Pashe.

13 Onaj koji je čist a ne bude na putovanju pa ipak propusti proslaviti Pashu, neka se iskorijeni iz svoga naroda. Budući da nije prinio Jahvi žrtve u njezino vrijeme, takav neka snosi svoju krivnju.

14 Ako s vama boravi stranac i Pashu prinosi Jahvi, neka je prinosi prema propisima i običajima njezinim. Neka bude jedan zakon za vas, bio to stranac ili domorodac.'"

15 Na dan kad je podignuto Prebivalište oblak prekri Prebivalište, Šator svjedočanstva. Od večeri do jutra stajao je u obliku ognja nad Prebivalištem.

16 Tako ga je oblak neprestano zaklanjao, a noću bijaše poput ognja.

17 Kad bi se god oblak digao sa Šatora, Izraelci bi poslije toga krenuli. A gdje bi oblak stao, tu bi se i Izraelci utaborili.

18 Na zapovijed Jahvinu Izraelci su kretali na put i na Jahvinu se zapovijed utaborivali. Sve vrijeme što bi oblak stajao nad Prebivalištem oni su taborovali.

19 Ako bi oblak dugo stajao nad Prebivalištem, Izraelci su slušali Jahvin nalog i ne bi polazili na put.

20 Ali ako bi se dogodilo da oblak ostane nad Prebivalištem malo vremena, oni bi se na Jahvinu zapovijed utaborili i na Jahvinu zapovijed opet krenuli na put.

21 Ako bi se oblak digao pošto se zadržao od večeri do jutra, oni bi tada ujutro krenuli na put. Danju ili noću, kad bi se oblak digao, oni bi krenuli na put.

22 Dva dana ili mjesec ili godinu - dok bi oblak ostajao nad Prebivalištem - Izraelci su taborovali, ne krećući na put, a čim bi se digao, oni bi krenuli.

23 Po zapovijedi Jahvinoj stajahu u taboru i po zapovijedi Jahvinoj kretahu na put. Držali su se Jahvina naloga, kako Jahve bijaše zapovjedio Mojsiju.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 4236

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4236. 'And Jacob said [when he saw them], This is God's camp' means heaven. 'God's camp' means heaven, for the reason that 'an army' means truths and goods, 3448, and goods and truths are arranged by the Lord in conformity with heavenly order. Hence the arrangement of them like armies when arrayed is meant by 'an encampment', and the heavenly order itself, which is heaven, by 'a camp'. This camp or order is such that it cannot in any way be broken apart by hell, despite the constant effort from hell to break it apart. This also is why this order, which is heaven, is referred to as 'a camp', and why truths and goods, that is, angels, who are arranged in conformity with that order are called 'armies'. From all this it is now evident how 'God's camp' comes to mean heaven. It is that actual order, and so heaven itself, which was represented by the encampments of the children of Israel in the wilderness; and their actual dwelling together there according to their tribes was referred to as 'the camp'. The Tabernacle pitched in the middle and around which they encamped represented the Lord Himself. Regarding the children of Israel's encampment in this manner, see Numbers 1:1-end, and 33:2-56; and regarding their encampment around the Tabernacle according to their tribes - Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun to the east; Reuben, Simeon, and Gad to the south; Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin to the west; Dan, Asher, and Naphtali to the north; and the Levites in the middle next to the Tabernacle - Numbers 2:2 and following verses.

[2] The tribes' means all goods and truths in their entirety, see 3858, 3862, 3926, 3939, 4060. Consequently when Balaam saw Israel dwelling according to tribes and the Spirit of God came upon him, he delivered the utterance,

How good your tabernacles are, O Jacob; your dwelling-places, O Israel! They are like valleys that are planted, like gardens beside a river. Numbers 24:2-3, 5-6.

It is quite plain that this prophecy did not mean the people named Jacob and Israel but that it was the Lord's heaven which was represented. This also is why in other places in the Word their ordered settlements in the wilderness, or encampments according to tribes, are called camps, and in those places 'a camp' in the internal sense means heavenly order and 'encampment' an arrangement in conformity with that order, that is to say, with the order in which goods and truths exist in heaven - as in Leviticus 4:12; 8:17; 13:46; 14:8; 16:26, 28; 24:14, 23; Numbers 3; 4:4 and following verses; 5:2-4; Numbers 9:17-end; 10:1-10, 28; 11:31-32; 12:14-15; 31:19-24; Deuteronomy 23:9-14.

[3] The meaning of 'God's camp' as heaven may also be seen in Joel,

The earth quaked before Him, the heavens trembled. The sun and the moon were darkened, and the stars gathered back their shining; and Jehovah gave voice before His army, for His camp is exceedingly many; for that which executes His word is uncountable. Joel 2:10-11.

In Zechariah,

I will encamp by My house with an army set against anyone passing through and against anyone leaving, so that the oppressor passes over them no more. Zechariah 9:8.

In John,

Gog and Magog went up over the breadth 1 of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city; but fire came down 2 from God and consumed them. Revelation 20:9.

'Gog and Magog' stands for people whose worship is external separated from internal - worship that has become idolatrous, 1151. 'The breadth of the earth' stands for truth possessed by the Church - 'breadth', or a plain, meaning truth that constitutes doctrinal teaching, 2450, and 'earth' the Church, 556, 662, 1066, 1067, 1850, 2117, 2118, 3355. 'The camp of the saints' stands for heaven or the Lord's kingdom on earth, which is the Church.

[4] Since most things in the Word also have a contrary sense, so too does the word 'camp'. In this case it means evils and falsities, and consequently hell, as in David,

Though the evil pitch camp against me, my heart will not fear. Psalms 27:3.

In the same author,

God has scattered the bones of those encamping against you; 3 you have put them to shame, for God has rejected them. Psalms 53:5.

The camp of Asshur in which the angel of Jehovah smote a hundred and eighty-five thousand, Isaiah 37:36, does not have any other meaning, nor likewise does the camp of the Egyptians, Exodus 14:19-20.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, the plain

2. The Latin means went up, but the Greek means came down, which Swedenborg has in another place where he quotes this verse.

3. The Latin means me, but the Hebrew means you.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.