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Exodus 31

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1 I mluvil Hospodin k Mojžíšovi, řka:

2 Hle, povolal jsem ze jména Bezeleele, syna Uri, syna Hur, z pokolení Judova.

3 A naplnil jsem ho duchem Božím, moudrostí a rozumností, i uměním všelijakého řemesla,

4 Aby vtipně smysliti uměl, což by koli řemeslně uděláno býti mohlo z zlata a z stříbra i z mědi.

5 I v řezání kamení drahého k vsazování, i v umělém vysazování na dřevě aby dělal všelijaké dílo.

6 A aj, já přidal jsem jemu Aholiaba, syna Achisamechova, z pokolení Dan. A v srdci každého vtipného složil jsem moudrost, aby spravili vše, což jsem přikázal tobě:

7 Stánek úmluvy a truhlu svědectví, a slitovnici, kteráž má býti na ní, i všelijaké nádobí stánku;

8 Stůl také a nádoby k němu, i svícen čistý se všemi nádobami jeho, a oltář pro kadění;

9 Též oltář k zápalům se všemi nádobami jeho, a umyvadlo s podstavkem jeho;

10 I roucha k službě, i roucha svatá Aronovi knězi, i roucha synů jeho, aby mi úřad kněžský konali;

11 I olej pomazání a kadidlo vonné do svatyně. Všecko tak, jakž jsem přikázal tobě, udělají.

12 Mluvil také Hospodin k Mojžíšovi, řka:

13 Ty pak mluv k synům Izraelským a rci: A však sobot mých ostříhati budete. Nebo to znamením jest mezi mnou a vámi po rodech vašich, aby známo bylo, že já jsem Hospodin, kterýž vás posvěcuji.

14 Protož ostříhati budete soboty, nebo svatá jest vám. Kdož by ji poškvrnil, smrtí umře; a kdo by koli dělal v ní dílo, vyhlazena bude ta duše z prostředku lidu svého.

15 Šest dní děláno bude dílo, ale v den sedmý sobota odpočinutí jest, svatost Hospodinu. Každý, kdož by dělal dílo v den sobotní, smrtí umře.

16 Protož ostříhati budou synové Izraelští soboty, tak aby světili sobotu po rodech svých smlouvou věčnou.

17 Mezi mnou a syny Izraelskými za znamení jest na věčnost; nebo šest dní činil Hospodin nebe i zemi, v den pak sedmý přestal a odpočinul.

18 I dal Pán Mojžíšovi po dokonání těchto řečí s ním na hoře Sinai dvě dsky svědectví, dsky kamenné, psané prstem Božím.

   

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10607. 'And no one shall come up with you' means that the Israelite nation is incapable of standing in Divine Truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'not coming up', in this instance of not coming up with Moses onto Mount Sinai, as not going into heaven from which Divine Truth is revealed, thus as being incapable of standing in Divine Truth. For 'Mount Sinai' means heaven, from which the revelation of Divine Truth comes, see 8805, 8931, 9420, 10605; and 'Moses' represents the outward form taken by the Church, worship, and the Word, which is where Divine Truth is received. The fact that the Israelite nation is meant is self-evident, for the prohibitions 'no one shall come up with you' and 'no one shall be seen on all the mountain' refer to members of that nation.

[2] The fact that 'Moses' at this point represents the outward form taken by the Word, the Church, and worship, which is where Divine Truth is received, is clear from all the details in the present chapter, such as these:

1. The requirement that Moses should go up onto Mount Sinai and stand there at the top of it, and that the people should be moved back from it.

2. Jehovah's talking to Moses, in the verses that follow, as if He were doing so only to him and not to the people 1 - All the people in whose midst you are will see that this is a marvel which I am doing with you, verse 10. Observe that which I command you this day. Behold, I am driving out from your face, verse 11. Take care, lest by chance you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land onto which you come, verse 12. You shall not bow down to any other god, verse 14. Lest by chance you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they call you, and you eat of their sacrifice, verse 15. You are not to take their daughters for your sons, verse 16. And so on in verses after these.

3. The gleaming of the skin on Moses' face, described later on in this chapter, and the people's fear to approach him, so that he put a veil over his face whenever he talked to the people.

[3] From all these details it is evident that in the present chapter Moses represents the outward form taken by the Word, the Church, and worship, which is where Divine Truth is received and so is that through which the Divine Truth within shines out. The fact that Moses represents that outward form and not what it holds within it is likewise evident from all the details in the present chapter, such as the reference to Jehovah's descending in the cloud and His standing with him (for 'the cloud means the outward form which the Word takes) and then His commanding him what the external observances of the Church and worship were to be, but not what the internal ones were. Something similarly external or outward was represented by Moses in the previous chapter, as is evident in verses 7-11 and verses 17-23, see 10563, 10571. But an external unreceptive of anything internal existed among the Israelite nation.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. you and your in the quotations that follow are singular, as are the imperatives Observe and Take care.

  
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