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1 Mluvil pak Hospodin k Mojžíšovi na poušti Sinai, léta druhého po vyjití z země Egyptské, měsíce prvního, řka:

2 Slaviti budou synové Izraelští velikunoc v čas svůj vyměřený.

3 Čtrnáctého dne měsíce toho u večer budete ji slaviti jistým časem svým, vedlé všech ustanovení jejích, a podlé všech řádů jejích slaviti ji budete.

4 I mluvil Mojžíš k synům Izraelským, aby slavili Fáze.

5 Tedy slavili Fáze v měsíci prvním, čtrnáctého dne u večer na poušti Sinai; vedlé všeho toho, což přikázal Hospodin Mojžíšovi, tak učinili synové Izraelští.

6 I byli někteří muži, ješto se poškvrnili při mrtvém, kteříž nemohli slaviti Fáze toho dne. I přistoupili před Mojžíše a Arona v ten den,

7 A promluvili muži ti k němu: My jsme se poškvrnili nad mrtvým. Nebude-liž nám zbráněno obětovati oběti Hospodinu v jistý čas spolu s syny Izraelskými?

8 I řekl jim Mojžíš: Počekejte, až uslyším, co vám učiniti rozkáže Hospodin.

9 Mluvil pak Hospodin k Mojžíšovi, řka:

10 Mluv k synům Izraelským a rci: Kdož by koli byl poškvrněný nad mrtvým, aneb byl by na cestě daleké, buď z vás aneb z potomků vašich, budeť slaviti Fáze Hospodinu.

11 Měsíce druhého, čtrnáctého dne u večer slaviti budou je, s chleby nekvašenými, a s řeřichami jísti je budou.

12 Nezanechajíť ho nic až do jitra, a kosti v něm nezlámí; vedlé všelikého ustanovení Fáze budou je slaviti.

13 Ale člověk ten, kterýž by byl čistý, a nebyl na cestě, a však by zanedbal slaviti Fáze, vyhlazena bude duše ta z lidu svého; nebo oběti Hospodinu neobětoval v jistý čas její; hřích svůj ponese člověk ten.

14 Jestliže by s vámi bydlil příchozí, a slavil by Fáze Hospodinu, vedlé ustanovení Fáze, a vedlé řádu jeho bude je slaviti. Ustanovení jednostejné bude vám, tak příchozímu, jako obyvateli v zemi.

15 Toho pak dne, v kterémž vyzdvižen jest příbytek, přikryl oblak příbytek, a stál nad stánkem svědectví; u večer pak bývalo nad příbytkem na pohledění jako oheň až do jitra.

16 Tak bývalo ustavičně, oblak přikrýval jej ve dne, záře pak ohnivá v noci.

17 A když se zdvihl oblak od stánku, hned také hýbali se synové Izraelští; a na kterém místě pozůstal oblak, tu také kladli se synové Izraelští.

18 K rozkazu Hospodinovu hýbali se synové Izraelští, a k rozkazu Hospodinovu kladli se; po všecky dny, dokudž zůstával oblak nad příbytkem, i oni leželi.

19 Když pak trval oblak nad příbytkem po mnohé dny, tedy drželi synové Izraelští stráž Hospodinovu, a netáhli odtud.

20 A když oblak byl nad příbytkem po nemnohé dny, k rozkazu Hospodinovu kladli se, a k rozkazu Hospodinovu hýbali se.

21 Kdyžkoli byl oblak od večera až do jitra, a v jitře se vznesl, hned i oni šli; buď že trval přes den a noc, (jakž kdy vznášel se oblak, tak oni táhli,)

22 Buď že za dva dni, aneb za měsíc, aneb za rok prodléval oblak nad příbytkem, zůstávaje nad ním, synové Izraelští také leželi,a nehnuli se; když pak on vznášel se, též i oni táhli.

23 K rozkazu Hospodinovu kladli se, a k rozkazu Hospodinovu hýbali se, stráž Hospodinovu držíce podlé rozkazu jeho skrze Mojžíše.

   

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10135. 'And you shall offer the other lamb between the evenings' means a similar removal of evils in a state of light and love in the external man. This is clear from the meaning of 'offering a lamb', or sacrificing it, as being removed from evils by means of the good of innocence from the Lord, as immediately above in 10134; and from the meaning of 'between the evenings' as in a state of light and love in the external man. In the Word 'evening' means a state involving interior things when the truths of faith are set in obscurity, and forms of the good of love are in some coldness; for angels experience different states of love and light, just as in the world different times of day - morning, midday, evening, night or twilight prior to morning, and morning again - give way to one another. When the angels experience a state of love, to them it is morning, and the Lord appears before them as the rising Sun. When they experience a state of light, to them it is midday. When however they experience a state of light set in obscurity, to them it is evening; and when after this they experience a state of love set in obscurity or some coldness, for them it is night, or rather the twilight before morning.

[2] Such states experienced by the angels follow unceasingly one after another, and serve unceasingly to make them more perfect. But those changes are not due to the Sun there, to its rising and setting, but to the state of the interiors within the angels themselves; for as with people in the world they have a desire at one time to turn towards their internal interests, at another towards their external ones. When they turn towards internal interests they experience a state of love and consequently of light in clearness, and when they turn towards external interests they experience a state of love and consequently of light set in obscurity; for what is external is such, compared with what is internal. This is the origin of the changes of state experienced by angels. The reason why they have such states and such changes is that the Sun of heaven, which in that world is the Lord, is the Divine Love itself. Therefore the heat radiating from it is the good of love, and the light from it is the truth of faith. For everything radiating from that Sun has life, unlike the things radiating from the sun in the world, which are dead.

[3] From this it becomes clear what heavenly heat is and what heavenly light is, also why it is that 'heat', 'flame', and 'fire' in the Word mean the good of love, 'light' and its 'brightness' the truth of faith, and 'the sun' the Lord Himself in respect of Divine Love.

The Lord in heaven is the Sun, see 3636, 3643, 4321(end), 5097, 7078, 7083, 7171, 7173, 8812.

The heat from it is the good of love, 3338, 3339, 3636, 3693, 4018, 5215, 6032, 6314.

The light from that Sun is Divine Truth, the source of faith, intelligence, and wisdom, see the places referred to in 9548, 9684.

From all this it now becomes clear what 'morning' and what 'evening' mean.

[4] But it should be recognized that in the present verse 'the morning' implies midday as well, and evening early morning twilight as well; for when the words 'morning and evening' are used in the Word an entire day is meant, so that 'morning' includes midday, and 'evening' night or twilight. This explains why 'the morning' in the present verse means a state of love and also of light in clearness, that is, in the internal man, and 'the evening' a state of light, as well as of love in obscurity, that is, in the external man.

[5] The fact that 'between the evenings' is not used to mean the period of time between the evening of one day and the evening of the next day, but the time between evening and morning, thus all of the night or twilight, is evident from the consideration that the continual burnt offering of a lamb was presented not only in the evening but also in the morning. From this it becomes clear that something similar is meant elsewhere by 'between the evenings', for example, where it says that the Passover should be kept between the evenings, Exodus 12:6; Numbers 9:5, 11, which is explained in yet another place by the following words,

You shall sacrifice the Passover in the evening when the sun goes down, at the fixed time of the departure from Egypt. After that you shall cook and eat it in the place which Jehovah your God will have chosen; and in the morning you shall turn 1 and go into your tents. Deuteronomy 16:6-7.

[6] The fact that 'evening' in general means a state of light shining in obscurity is clear in Jeremiah,

Arise, and let us go up into the south. Woe to us, for the day goes away, for the shadows of evening are set at an angle! Arise, and let us go up at night, and let us destroy the palaces. Jeremiah 6:4-5.

Here 'evening' and 'night' mean the last times of the Church, when all matters of faith and love have been destroyed. In Zechariah,

There will be one day, which is known to Jehovah, when around evening time there will be light. On that day living waters will go out from Jerusalem. And Jehovah will be King over all the earth. Zechariah 14:7-9.

This refers to the Lord's Coming. The end of the Church is meant by 'evening time'; 'light' is the Lord's Divine Truth. A similar example occurs in Daniel,

The holy one said to me, Up to the evening, [when it is becoming] the morning, two thousand three hundred times. Daniel 8:13-14.

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