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1 Ved denne Tid sagde HE EN til mig: Tilhug dig to Stentavler ligesom de forrige og stig op til mig på Bjerget; lav dig også en Ark af Træ!

2 Så vil jeg på Tavlerne skrive de Ord, der stod på de forrige Tavler, som du knuste, og du skal lægge dem ned i Arken!"

3 Da lavede jeg en Ark af Akacietræ og tilhuggede to Stentavler ligesom de forrige og steg op på Bjerget med de to Tavler i Hånden.

4 Og han skrev på Tavlerne det samme, som var skrevet første Gang, de ti Ord, som HE EN havde talt til eder på Bjerget ud fra Ilden, den Dag I var forsamlet. Og HE EN overgav mig dem.

5 Så vendte jeg mig bort og steg ned fra Bjerget og lagde Tavlerne i den Ark, jeg havde lavet, og der blev de liggende, som HE EN havde pålagt mig.

6 Og Israelitterne drog fra Be'erotbene-Ja'akan til Mosera. Der døde Aron, og der blev han jordet, og hans Søn Eleazar blev Præst i hans Sted.

7 Derfra drog de til Gudgoda og fra Gudgoda til Jotbata, en Egn med Vandløb.

8 På den Tid udskilte HE EN Levis Stamme til at bære HE ENs Pagts Ark og til at stå for HE ENs Åsyn og tjene ham og velsigne i hans Navn, som det sker den Dag i Dag.

9 Derfor fik Levi ikke Arvelod og Del sammen med sine Brødre; HE EN selv er hans Arvelod, som HE EN din Gud lovede ham.

10 Men jeg blev på Bjerget lige så længe som forrige Gang, fyrretyve Dage og fyrretyve Nætter, og HE EN bønhørte mig også denne Gang; HE EN vilde ikke tilintetgøre dig.

11 Da sagde HE EN til mig: " ejs dig og bryd op i Spidsen for Folket, for at de kan komme og tage det Land i Besiddelse, jeg tilsvor deres Fædre at ville give dem!"

12 Og nu, Israel! Hvad andet kræver HE EN din Gud af dig, end at du skal frygte HE EN din Gud, så du vandrer på alle hans Veje, og at du skal elske ham og tjene HE EN din Gud af hele dit Hjerte og hele din Sjæl,

13 så du holder HE ENs Bud og Anordninger, som jeg i Dag pålægger dig, for at det må gå dig vel.

14 Se, Himmelen og Himlenes Himle og Jorden med alt, hvad der er på den, tilhører HE EN din Gud;

15 men kun til dine Fædre fattede han Velbehag, så han elskede dem, og eder, deres Afkom, udvalgte han af alle Folkeslag, som det nu er kendeligt.

16 Så omskær nu eders Hjerters Forhud og gør ikke mer eders Nakker stive!

17 Thi HE EN eders Gud er Gudernes Gud og Herrernes Herre, den store, vældige, forfærdelige Gud, som ikke viser Personsanseelse eller lader sig købe,

18 som skaffer den faderløse og Enken et og elsker den fremmede og giver ham Brød og klæder.

19 Derfor skal I elske den fremmede, thi I var selv fremmede i Ægypten.

20 HE EN din Gud skal du frygte: ham skal du tjene, ved ham skal du holde fast, og ved hans Navn skal du sværge!

21 Han er din Lovsang, og han er din Gud, han, som har gjort disse store og forfærdelige Ting imod dig, som du med egne Øjne har set!

22 Halvfjerdsindstyve i Tal drog dine Fædre ned til Ægypten, og nu har HE EN din Gud gjort dig talrig som Himmelens Stjerner!

   


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730. 'Forty days and nights' means the duration of temptation. This is quite clear from the Word of the Lord. The reason 'forty' means the duration of temptation is the fact that the Lord allowed Himself to be tempted for forty days, as is clear in Matthew 4:1-2; Luke 4:2; Mark 1:13. And because every single requirement in the Jewish Church and in all other representative Churches before the Lord's Coming was merely a type and shadow of Him, so too were forty days and nights. In general they represented and meant all temptation, and in particular however long its duration. And since anyone undergoing temptation experiences vastation of all things that belong to the proprium and of things that are bodily - for things of the proprium and those that are bodily have to die, doing so indeed through conflict and temptation, before he is reborn a new man, that is, before he becomes spiritual and celestial - 'forty days and nights' therefore also means the duration of vastation. The same applies here where the subject is both the temptation of the member of the new Church called Noah and also the destruction of those who lived before the Flood.

[2] That 'forty' means not only the duration of temptation but also of vastation, whether long or short, is clear in Ezekiel,

You shall lie on your right side and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days, a day for each year I assign you. Ezekiel 4:6.

This stands for the duration of the vastation of the Jewish Church and also for a representation of the Lord's temptation, for it is said that he was 'to bear the iniquity of the house of Judah'. In the same prophet,

I will make the land of Egypt waste places, an utter desolation. The foot of man will not pass through it, and the foot of beast will not pass through it, and it will be uninhabited for forty years. And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated lands, and her cities in the midst of devastated cities will be a lonely place for forty years. Ezekiel 29:10-11.

This too stands for the duration of vastation and desolation. Here the meaning in the internal sense is not forty years but solely the desolation of faith in general, whether within a short or a long period of time. In John,

The court outside the Temple, leave that out and do not measure it, for it has been given over to the nations 1 who will trample over the holy city for forty-two months. Revelation 11:2.

[3] And in the same author,

The beast was given a mouth uttering great things and blasphemies, and it was given power to act for forty-two months. Revelation 13:5.

This stands for the duration of vastation, for a period of forty-two months is not meant at all, as anyone may see. In these quotations the number is in fact forty-two, but this has the same meaning as forty. It is obtained from 'seven days' meaning the finish of vastation and a new beginning, and from 'six' meaning labour because of the six days of labour or conflict. Consequently seven multiplied by six, which produces the number 'forty-two', means the duration of vastation and the duration of temptation, that is, the labour and conflict of someone who is to be regenerated, which period of time involves holiness. The round number forty however has been adopted instead of the less round number forty-two, as is clear in these quotations from the Book of Revelation.

[4] The people of Israel's being led about in the wilderness for forty years before being brought into the land of Canaan in a similar way represented and meant the duration of temptation, and also the duration of vastation - the duration of temptation by the fact that they were subsequently brought into the Holy Land, and the duration of vastation by the fact that, with the exception of Joshua and Caleb, all who were more than twenty years old when they left Egypt died in the wilderness. And temptations are also meant by the things they grumbled about so often, and vastations by the plagues and destruction they suffered so often. The fact that temptations and vastations are meant will in the Lord's Divine mercy be shown in their proper places. They are referred to in Moses as follows,

You shall remember all the way that Jehovah your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness to afflict you, to tempt you, to know what is in your heart, whether you will keep His commandments or not. Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 16.

Moses' forty days and forty nights on Mount Sinai similarly mean the duration of temptation - that is, the temptation of the Lord - as is clear in Moses,

He was on Mount Sinai for forty days and forty nights, eating no bread, drinking no water, pleading for the people not to be destroyed. Deuteronomy 9:9, 11, 18, Deuteronomy 9:25-end; Deuteronomy 10:10.

[See also]Numbers 14:33-35; 32:8-14

[5] The reason 'forty days' means the duration of temptation is, as has been stated, that the Lord allowed Himself to be tempted by the devil for forty days. Consequently in the days when all things were representatives of the Lord, whenever the idea of temptation existed with angels, that idea was represented in the world of spirits by such things as exist in the world - as happens with all angelic ideas when they come down into the world of spirits and manifest themselves there in a representative fashion. The same accordingly applies to the number forty, for the Lord was to be tempted for forty days. With the Lord, and consequently in the angelic heaven, the future and the present are one and the same, for what is future is already present, or what is to take place has taken place. This is the origin of the representation of temptations and also of vastations by forty in the representative Church. But these matters cannot as yet be understood satisfactorily because people do not know about the influx of the angelic heaven into the world of spirits or the nature of it.

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