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1 Og nu, Israel! Hør de Anordninger og Lovbud, som jeg vil lære eder at holde, for at I kan blive i Live og komme ind og tage det Land i Besiddelse, som HE EN, eders Fædres Gud, vil give eder.

2 I må hverken lægge noget til eller trække noget fra, hvad jeg byder eder, men I skal holde HE EN eders Guds Bud, som jeg pålægger eder.

3 I har med egne Øjne set, hvad HE EN gjorde i Anledning af Ba'al Peor: Hver eneste Mand, som fulgte Ba'al Peor, udryddede HE EN din Gud af din Midte.

4 Men I, som holdt fast ved HE EN eders Gud, er alle i Live den Dag i Dag.

5 Se, jeg har lært eder Anordninger og Lovbud, således som HE EN min Gud har pålagt mig, for at I skal handle derefter i det Land, I skal ind og tage i Besiddelse;

6 hold dem og følg dem! Thi det skal være eders Visdom og eders Kløgt i de andre Folks Øjne. Når de hører om alle disse Anordninger, skal de sige: "Sandelig, det er et vist og klogt Folk, dette store Folk!"

7 Thi hvor er der vel et stort Folk, som har Guder, der kommer til det, således som HE EN vor Gud gør det, når vi kalder på ham;

8 og hvor er der vel et stort Folk, der har så retfærdige Anordninger og Lovbud som hele denne Lov, jeg forelægger eder i Dag?

9 Kun skal du vogte dig og omhyggeligt tage Vare på dig selv, at du ikke glemmer, hvad du med egne Øjne har set, og at det ikke viger fra dit Hjerte, så længe du lever; og du skal fortælle dine Sønner og dine Sønners Sønner derom.

10 Glem ikke den Dag, du stod for HE EN din Guds Åsyn ved Horeb, da HE EN sagde til mig: "Kald mig Folket sammen, for at jeg kan kundgøre dem mine Ord, så de kan lære at frygte mig, så længe de lever på Jorden, og lære deres Sønner det samme!"

11 Da trådte I frem og stod ved Bjergets Fod, medens Bjerget brændte i lys Lue helt ind i Himmelen, hylet i Mørke, Skyer og Mulm;

12 og da HE EN talede til eder ud fra Ilden, hørte I kun Ordene, men nogen Skikkelse så I ikke, kun en øst fornam I.

13 Da kundgjorde han eder sin Pagt, som han bød eder at holde, de ti Ord, og han skrev dem på to Stentavler.

14 Og mig bød HE EN dengang at lære eder Anordninger og Lovbud, som I skulde overholde idet Land, I nu skal over og tage i Besiddelse.

15 Eftersom I ikke så nogen Skikkelse, dengang HE EN talede til eder på Horeb ud fra Ilden, så vogt eder nu omhyggeligt for

16 at handle så ryggesløst, at I laver eder et Gudebillede, en Stenstøtte i en eller anden Skikkelse, enten det nu er et Afbillede af en Mand eller en Kvinde

17 eller et Afbillede af et eller andet Dyr, der lever på Jorden, eller et Afbillede af en eller anden vinget Fugl, der flyver under Himmelen,

18 eller et Afbillede af et eller andet Kryb, der kryber på Jorden, eller et Afbillede af en eller anden Fisk i Vandet under Jorden;

19 og når du løfter dit Blik til Himmelen og ser Solen og Månen og Stjernerne, hele Himmelens Hær, så vogt dig for at lade dig forføre til at tilbede og dyrke dem. Thi HE EN din Gud har tildelt alle de andre Folk under hele Himmelen dem;

20 men eder tog HE EN og førte ud af Smelteovnen, af Ægypten, for at I skulde være hans Ejendomsfolk, som I nu er.

21 Men HE EN blev vred på mig for eders Skyld og svor, at jeg ikke skulde komme over Jordan ind i det herlige Land, som HE EN din Gud vil give dig i Eje,

22 thi jeg skal i Landet her; jeg skal ikke komme over Jordan, men I skal komme over og tage dette herlige Land i Besiddelse.

23 Så vogt eder for at glemme HE EN eders Guds Pagt, som han sluttede med eder, og for at lave eder noget Gudebillede i Skikkelse af noget som helst, HE EN din Gud har forbudt dig

24 Thi HE EN din Gud er en fortærende Ild, en nidkær Gud!

25 Når du får Børn og Børnebørn, og I bliver gamle i Landet, og I da handler så ryggesløst, at I laver eder Gudebilleder i en eller anden Skikkelse og gør, hvad der er ondt i HE EN din Guds Øjne, så at I fortørner ham,

26 så kalder jeg i Dag Himmelen og Jorden til Vidne imod eder på, at I hastigt skal blive udryddet af det Land, I skal over Jordan og tage i Besiddelse; I skal ikke få noget langt Liv der, men visselig gå til Grunde;

27 og HE EN vil splitte eder mellem Folkene, og kun nogle få af eder skal blive tilbage blandt de Folkeslag, HE EN driver eder hen iblandt.

28 Der skal I komme til at dyrke Guder, der er Menneskehænders Værk, Træ og Sten, som hverken kan se eller høre, spise eller lugte!

29 Der skal I så søge HE EN din Gud, og du skal finde ham, når du søger ham af hele dit Hjerte og hele din Sjæl.

30 I de kommende Dage, når du er i Nød, og alle disse Ting kommer over dig, skal du vende om til HE EN din Gud og adlyde hans øst.

31 Thi en barmhjertig Gud er HE EN din Gud; han slipper dig ikke og lader dig ikke gå til Grunde og glemmer ikke Pagten med dine Fædre, som han tilsvor dem.

32 Thi gransk dog i de henfarne Tider, der gik forud for dig, lige fra den Tid af da Gud skabte Menneskene på Jorden, og fra den ene Ende af Himmelen til den anden, om der er sket noget så stort som dette, eller om dets Lige er hørt.

33 Har noget Folk hørt Guds øst ud fra Ilden, således som du hørte det, og levet?

34 Eller har nogen Gud søgt at komme og hente sig et Folk midt ud af et andet Folk ved Prøvelser, Tegn og Undere, ved Krig, med stærk Hånd og udstrakt Arm og store ædsler, således som du med egne Øjne så HE EN eders Gud gøre med eder i Ægypten?

35 Du fik det at se, for at du skulde vide, af HE EN og ingen anden er Gud.

36 Fra Himmelen lod han dig høre sin øst for at undervise dig, og på Jorden lod han dig se sin store Ild, og hans Ord hørte du ud fra Ilden.

37 Og fordi han elskede dine Fædre og udvalgte deres Afkom efter dem og selv førte dig ud af Ægypten ved sin store Vælde

38 for at drive Folk bort foran dig, der er større og mægtigere end du selv, og lade dig komme ind i deres Land og give dig det i Eje, som det nu er sket,

39 derfor skal du i Dag vide og lægge dig på Sinde, at HE EN og ingen anden er Gud oppe i Himmelen og nede på Jorden.

40 Og du skal holde hans Anordninger og Bud, som jeg pålægger dig i Dag, for at det kan gå dig og dine Børn efter dig vel, og for at du alle Dage kan leve længe i det Land, HE EN din Gud giver dig!

41 På den Tid udskilte Moses tre Byer hinsides Jordan, på den østre Side,

42 som Tilflugtsteder for Manddrabere, der uforsætligt slår et andet Menneske ihjel uden i Forvejen at have båret Nag til ham, for at de kan redde Livet ved at ty til en af disse Byer,

43 nemlig Bezer i Ørkenen på Højsletten for ubeniterne, amot i Gilead for Gaditerne og Golan i Basan for Manassiterne.

44 Dette er den Lov, Moses forelagde Israelitterne.

45 Dette er de Vidnesbyrd, Anordninger og Lovbud, Moses kundgjorde Israelitterne, da de drog bort fra Ægypten,

46 hinsides Jordan i Dalen lige for Bet Peor i det Land, der havde tilhørt Amoriterkongen Sihon, som boede i Hesjbon, og som Moses og Israelitterne havde slået, da de drog bort fra Ægypten.

47 De havde erobret hans og Kong Og af Basans Land, de to Amoriterkonger hinsides Jordan, på den østre Side,

48 fra Aroer ved Arnonflodens Bred til Sirjons Bjerg, det er Hermon,

49 tillige med hele Arabalavningen hinsides Jordan, på den østre Side, lige til Arabahavet neden for Pisgas Skrænter.

   


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9396. 'And he took the book of the covenant' means the Word in the letter to which the Word in heaven was joined. This is clear from the meaning of 'the book' as the Word in its entirety, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'the covenant' as a joining together, dealt with in 665, 666, 1023, 1038, 1864, 1996, 2003, 2021, 6804, 8767, 8778. 'The book of the covenant' is used here to mean everything the Lord spoke from Mount Sinai, for verse 4 just above says, And Moses wrote all Jehovah's words. In a restricted sense therefore 'the book of the covenant' is used to mean the Word revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai, and in a broad sense to mean the Word in its entirety since this is the Divine Truth revealed by the Lord. And since it is through this Truth that the Lord joins Himself to a member of the Church, that Truth too is meant by 'the book of the covenant'; for 'a covenant' is a joining together.

[2] But the nature of the Lord's being joined to a member of the Church through the Word is unknown at the present day because heaven at the present day is closed. Scarcely anyone today talks to angels or spirits and therefore knows the way in which they understand the Word. But this was well known to the ancients, and especially to the most ancients; for talking to spirits and angels was common among them. The reason for this was that people in ancient and especially in most ancient times were more internal, for they thought in the spirit virtually separated from the body, whereas people today are more external and think in the body virtually separated from the spirit. So it is that heaven has seemingly forsaken mankind, for heaven's contact is with the internal man when this can be unshackled from the body, but not directly with the external man. This explains why the nature of the Lord's being joined to a person through the Word is unknown at the present day.

[3] Those whose thought is based on what the body perceives with the senses and not on what the spirit perceives with the senses cannot possibly do other than think that the meaning the Word has in heaven is like the meaning it has in the world, that is, in the letter. If it were said that the meaning the Word has in heaven is like the thought of the internal man, which is free from material ideas, that is, from worldly, bodily, and earthly ideas, this would be considered an absurdity at the present day, especially if it were said that the meaning the Word has in heaven is as different from the meaning it has in the world or in the letter as a heavenly paradise is from an earthly paradise, or as heavenly food and drink are from earthly food and drink. How great that difference is may be seen from the consideration that the heavenly paradise consists in intelligence and wisdom, heavenly food in every good of love and charity, and heavenly drink in every truth of faith rooted in that good. Is there anyone at the present day who would not be astounded to hear that when a paradise, garden, or vineyard is mentioned in the Word those in heaven do not perceive a paradise, garden, or vineyard but instead such things as are attributes of intelligence and wisdom coming from the Lord? Or that when food and drink are mentioned, for instance bread, flesh, wine, or water, those in heaven perceive instead such things as are aspects of the good of love and the truth of faith received from the Lord? Or that this perception of the Word comes about not as a result of interpretations of its statements nor by seeing them as comparisons, but that it is due to correspondences and is their actual and real perception of it? For the heavenly virtues of wisdom, intelligence, the good of love, and the truth of faith correspond in actual reality to those worldly objects. In the same way the internal man has been created to correspond to the external man, and so therefore has heaven, which resides in the internal man, to correspond to the world, which resides in the external man. The same is so with everything generally. The truth that the Word is understood and perceived in heaven according to correspondences, and that this level of meaning is the internal sense, has been shown everywhere in the explanations prior to this.

[4] Anyone who grasps what has just been stated is capable of knowing and in some manner perceiving that a person is joined by means of the Word to heaven and through heaven to the Lord, and that without the Word no such joining together would be possible. See what has been shown many times about these matters, in 2143, 7153, 7381, 8920, 9094 (end), 9212 (end), 9216 (end), 9357, and elsewhere. From all this it is now clear why Moses took the book of the covenant and read it in front of the people, and then sprinkled the blood over the people and said, Behold, the blood of the covenant. And the reason why all this was done was that in heaven 'the blood of a sacrifice' is Divine Truth emanating from the Lord, which on our planet is the Word, see 9393. Since 'the covenant' means a joining together, and since Divine Truth emanating from the Lord, that is, the Word, is the means by which the joining together is accomplished, everything that belongs to Divine Truth from the Lord or belongs to the Word is called 'the covenant', such as the tablets on which the Ten Commandments were written, also the judgements, statutes, and all else that is contained in the Books of Moses, and in general that is contained both in the Old Testament Word and in the New.

[5] The Tablets on which the Ten Commandments were written [were called the Covenant].

This may be seen in Moses,

Jehovah wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten words. Exodus 34:28.

In the same author,

I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which Jehovah made with you. Jehovah gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. I came down from the mountain, when the mountain was burning with fire; the two tablets of the covenant however were on my two hands. Deuteronomy 9:9, 11, 15.

And in the same author,

Jehovah declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, the ten words which He wrote on tablets of stone. Take care, lest you forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which He made with you. Deuteronomy 4:13, 23.

Because the two tablets had been laid up in the ark, which was in the middle or inmost part of the tabernacle, the ark was called the ark of the covenant, Numbers 10:33; 14:44; Deuteronomy 10:8, 31:9, 25-26; Joshua 3:3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17; 4:7, 9, 18; 6:6, 8; 8:33; Judges 20:27; 1 Samuel 4:3-5; 2 Samuel 15:24; 1 Kings 3:15; 6:19; 8:1, 6; Jeremiah 3:16.

[6] The Books of Moses were called the Book of the Covenant

This is clear from the ones found in the temple by Hilkiah the [high] priest, about which the following things are said in the second Book of Kings,

Hilkiah the high priest found the book of the law in the house of Jehovah.

And they read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant found in the house of Jehovah. 2 Kings 22:8; 23:2.

[7] The Old Testament Word was called the Covenant

This may be seen in Isaiah,

To those holding fast to My covenant I will give in My house and within My walls a place and a name better than sons and daughters. Isaiah 56:4-5.

In Jeremiah,

Hear the words of this covenant. Cursed is the man who will not hear the words of this covenant which I commanded your fathers. Obey My voice, and do those things, according to all that I command you. Jeremiah 11:2-4.

In David,

All the ways of Jehovah are mercy and truth to those keeping His covenant and His testimonies. Psalms 25:10.

In the same author,

The mercy of Jehovah is from eternity to eternity on those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children's children, to those keeping His covenant, and to those remembering His commandments. Psalms 103:17-18.

And in the same author,

They did not keep God's covenant and refused to walk in His law. Psalms 78:10.

Here 'God's covenant' is called God's law. 'The law' is used in a broad sense to mean the whole Word, in a narrower sense to mean the historical section of the Word, in a restricted sense the Word that was written through Moses, and in a very restricted sense the Ten Commandments, see 6752.

[8] The New Testament Word too is the Covenant

This may be seen in Jeremiah,

Behold, the days are coming in which I will make with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant. This is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days: I will put My law in the midst of them, and will write it on their heart. Jeremiah 31:31-33.

'The house of Israel' stands for the spiritual Church, and 'the house of Judah' for the celestial Church. And in David,

I will also make Him the Firstborn, supreme over the kings of the earth; and My covenant will stand fast with Him. I will not profane 1 My covenant, and the utterance of My lips I will not alter. Psalms 89:27-28, 34.

This refers to the Lord. 'My covenant will stand fast with Him' stands for the union of the Divine Himself and the Divine Human, thus also for the Word since the Lord's Divine Human was the Word made flesh, that is, made man (homo), John 1:1-3, 14.

[9] The reason why Divine Truth or the Word is a covenant or joining together is that the Word is the Divine from the Lord, thus is the Lord Himself; and this being so, when the Word is received by a person the Lord Himself is received. From this it is evident that it is through the Word that the Lord is joined to a person; and since the Lord is joined to the person, so too is heaven joined to that person. For heaven is called heaven by virtue of the Divine Truth emanating from the Lord and therefore from the Divine. This explains why those in heaven are said to be 'in the Lord'. Regarding the truth that the Divine joins Himself to those who love the Lord and keep His Word, see John 14:23.

[10] From all this it becomes clear that 'the blood of the covenant' means the Lord joined through heaven to a person by means of the Word, as also in Zechariah,

I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow will be cut off; on the other hand He will speak peace to the nations; His dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. As for you also, through the blood of your covenant I will let out your bound ones from the pit in which there is no water. Zechariah 9:10-11.

[11] A person with no knowledge at all of the internal sense cannot see in these verses anything other than such things as are implied in their literal meaning, that is to say, that the chariot from Ephraim, horse from Jerusalem, and battle bow were going to be cut off, and in the final words that through 'the blood of the covenant' - meaning the Lord's blood - those buried in sins were going to be delivered, various ways being used to explain who exactly are meant by 'bound ones in the pit in which there is no water'. But a person who knows the internal sense of the Word sees that these verses refer to Divine Truth, and that after it has been laid waste, that is, is no longer received in belief and heart by anyone, it will be restored through God's truth emanating from the Lord's Divine Human, and that those who believe and do it will be joined by means of it to the Lord Himself. All this becomes clearer still from the inner meaning of individual words in these verses, for example from the meaning of 'chariot' as doctrine taught by the Church, 2760, 5321, 5945, 8215, and of 'Ephraim' as the Church's enlightened understanding, 5354, 6222, 6238; from the meaning of 'horse' as an understanding of the Word, 2760-2762, 3217, 5321, 6125, 6534, 8029, 8146, 8148, 2 and of 'Jerusalem' as the spiritual Church, 2117, 3654, 9166; from the meaning of 'bow' as the doctrine of truth, 2686, 2709, and of 'battle' or 'war' as conflict involving truths, 1664, 2686, 8295.

[12] From these meanings it is evident that 'cutting off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow' means God's truth laid waste so far as any understanding of it in the Church is concerned, and that 'through the blood of the covenant those bound in the pit in which there is no water were going to be let out' means a restoration effected through Divine Truth emanating from the Lord's Divine Human. The meaning of 'blood' as Divine Truth and of 'the covenant' as a joining together has been shown above; and for the meaning of 'those bound in the pit' as members of the spiritual Church who were saved by the Lord's Coming into the world, see 6854. The description 'pit where there is no water' is used because 'water' means truth, 2702, 3058, 3424, 4976, 5668, 7307, 8137, 8138, 8568, 9323.

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1. literally, make vile

28146, 8148 refer mainly to the meaning of chariot.

  
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