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5 Mosebog 7

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1 Når HE EN din Gud fører dig ind i det Land, du skal ind og tage i Besiddelse, og driver store Folk bort foran dig, Hetiterne, Girgasjiterne, Amoriterne, Kana'anæerne, Periiterne, Hivviterne og Jebusiterne, syv Folk, der er større og mægtigere end du,

2 og når HE EN din Gud giver dem i din Magt, og du overvinder dem, så skal du lægge Band på dem. Du må ikke slutte Pagt med dem eller vise dem Skånsel.

3 Du må ikke besvogre dig med dem, du må hverken give en af deres Sønner din datter eller tage en af deres Døtre til din Søn;

4 thi så vil de få din Søn til at falde fra HE EN, så han dyrker andre Guder, og HE ENs Vrede vil blusse op imod eder, og han vil udrydde dig i Hast.

5 Men således skal I gøre ved dem: Deres Altre skal I nedbryde, deres Stenstøtter skal I sønderslå, deres Asjerastøtter skal I omhugge, og deres Gudebilleder skal I opbrænde.

6 Thi du er et Folk, der er helliget HE EN din Gud; dig har HE EN din Gud udvalgt til sit Ejendomsfolk blandt alle Folk på Jorden.

7 Det er ikke, fordi I er større end alle de andre Folk, at HE EN har fattet Velbehag til eder og udvalgt eder, thi I er det mindste af alle Folk;

8 men fordi HE EN elskede eder, og fordi han vilde holde den Ed, han tilsvor eders Fædre, derfor var det, at HE EN med stærk Hånd førte eder ud og udløste dig af Trællehuset, af Ægypterkongen Faraos Hånd;

9 så skal du vide, at HE EN din Gud er den sande Gud, den trofaste Gud, der i tusinde Slægtled holder fast ved sin Pagt og sin Miskundhed mod dem, der elsker ham og holder hans Bud,

10 men bringer Gengældelse over den, der hader ham, så han udrydder ham, og ikke tøver over for den, der hader ham, men bringer Gengældelse over ham.

11 Derfor skal du omhyggeligt handle efter det Bud, de Anordninger og Lovbud, jeg i Dag giver dig!

12 Når I nu hører disse Lovbud og holder dem og handler efter dem, så skal HE EN din Gud til Løn derfor holde fast ved den Pagt og den Miskundhed, han tilsvor dine Fædre.

13 Han skal elske dig, velsigne dig og gøre dig mangfoldig, han skal velsigne Frugten af dit Moderliv og Frugten af din Jord, dit Korn, din Most og din Olie, Tillægget af dine Okser og dine Fårs Yngel i det Land, han tilsvor dine Fædre at ville give dig!

14 Velsignet skal du være fremfor alle andre Folk; ingen Mand eller Kvinde hos dig skal være ufrugtbar, ej heller noget af dit Kvæg;

15 og HE EN vil holde alle Sygdomme fra dig; ingen af Ægyptens onde Farsoter, som du jo kender, vil han påføre dig, men han vil lægge dem på alle dem, der hader dig.

16 Og alle de Folk, som HE EN din Gud giver dig, skal du fortære uden Skånsel; du må ikke dyrke deres Guder, thi det vilde blive en Snare for dig.

17 Og skulde du sige ved dig selv: "Disse Folk er større end jeg, hvor kan jeg drive dem bort?"

18 frygt ikke for dem, men kom i Hu, hvad HE EN din Gud gjorde ved Farao og hele Ægypten,

19 de store Prøvelser, du selv så, Tegnene og Underne, den stærke Hånd og den udstrakte Arm, hvormed HE EN din Gud førte dig ud; således vil HE EN din Gud gøre ved alle de Folkeslag, du frygter for.

20 Ja, også Gedehamse vil HE EN din Gud sende imod dem, indtil de, der er tilbage og holder sig skjult for dig, er udryddet.

21 Vær ikke bange for dem, thi HE EN din Gud er i din Midte, en stor og frygtelig Gud.

22 HE EN din Gud skal lidt efter lidt drive disse Folkeslag bort foran dig. Det går ikke an, at du udrydder dem i Hast, thi så bliver Markens vilde Dyr dig for talrige.

23 Men HE EN din Gud skal give dem i din Magt, og han skal slå dem med stor ædsel, indtil de er udryddet.

24 Og han skal give deres Konger i din Hånd, og du skal udrydde deres Navn under Himmelen; ingen skal kunne holde Stand over for dig, til du har udryddet dem.

25 Deres Gudebilleder skal I opbrænde; du må ikke lade dig friste til at tage Sølvet eller Guldet på dem, for at du ikke skal lokkes i en Snare derved, thi det er HE EN din Gud en Vederstyggelighed,

26 og du må ikke føre nogen Vederstyggelighed ind i dit Hus, for at du ikke skal hjemfalde til Band ligesom den, nej, du skal nære Afsky og Gru for den, thi den er hjemfaldet til Band!

   


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8364. 'I will not put on you any sickness that I put on the Egyptians' means that they are to be withheld from the evils present among those who uphold separated faith and lead a life of evil. This is clear from the meaning of 'sickness' as evil, dealt with below; from the representation of 'the Egyptians' as those who uphold separated faith and lead a life of evil, dealt with in 7097, 7317, 7926, 8148; and from the meaning of 'not putting on you' - when used in association with 'sickness', which means evil - as withholding from evil. For Jehovah, that is, the Lord, does not take away evil but withholds a person from it and maintains him in good, 929, 1581, 2256, 2406, 4564, 8206. So it is that 'not putting a sickness on them' means that they are to be withheld from evils.

[2] The reason why 'sickness' means evil is that in the internal sense the kinds of things that attack spiritual life are meant. The sicknesses which attack it are evils, and they are called evil desires and cravings; and the components of spiritual life are faith and charity. That life is sick when falsity exists instead of the truth of faith and evil instead of the good of charity, because they lead to the death of that life, which is called spiritual death and is damnation, just as sicknesses lead to the death of natural life. This is why in the internal sense 'sickness' means evil, and 'the sicknesses of the Egyptians' means the evils which those upholding separated faith and leading a life of evil cast themselves into, and which they used to molest the upright. Those evils have been dealt with in what has gone before, where the plagues in Egypt were the subject.

[3] Evils are again meant by 'sicknesses' elsewhere in the Word, as in Moses,

If you keep the commandments and the statutes and the judgements which I am commanding you today, Jehovah will take away all sickness from you, and will not put on you any of the evil diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on [all] who hate you. Deuteronomy 7:11, 15.

In the same author,

If you will not obey the voice of Jehovah your God, taking care to do all His commandments and His statutes, Jehovah will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, 1 until you are destroyed, because of the wickedness of your deeds by which you have forsaken Me. Jehovah will make the pestilence cling to you, until He has consumed you from upon the land. Jehovah will strike you with consumption, and hot fever, and burning fever, and raging fever, and drought, and blight, and mildew, which will pursue you until you perish. Jehovah will strike you with the sores of Egypt, and with hemorrhoids, and the scab, and the itch, so that you cannot be healed. Jehovah will strike you with madness, and blindness, and stupefaction. 2 You will be made mad by what your eyes will see 3 . Jehovah will strike you with evil sores on the knees and on the thighs, from which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head. He will throw back onto you every disease of Egypt, also every sickness and every plague that is not written in the book of this Law. Jehovah will give you a trembling heart, failing 4 of eyes, and distress of soul. Deuteronomy 28:15, 20-22, 27-28, 34-35, 60-61, 65.

All the sicknesses mentioned here mean spiritual sicknesses, which are evils destructive of the life of a will desiring what is good and falsities destructive of the life of an understanding seeing what is true, in short things destructive of spiritual life composed of faith and charity. Natural sicknesses also correspond to such things, for every sickness present among the human race has its origin in spiritual ones, because each exists as a result of sin, 5712, 5726. Each sickness furthermore corresponds to its own evil. The explanation for this is that everything composing a person's life originates in the spiritual world. If therefore his spiritual life is sick, evil spreads from it into his natural life and becomes a sickness there. See what has been stated from experience in 5711-5727 about the correspondence of sicknesses with evils.

[4] The same things are meant by 'sicknesses' elsewhere, as in Moses,

You shall worship Jehovah your God, in order that He may bless your bread and your water; and I will take sickness out of your midst. Exodus 23:25.

In the same author,

If you despise My statutes, and if your soul abhors My judgements, so that you do not do all My commandments, while you make void My covenant, I will appoint terror over you, along with consumption, and burning fever, which will consume the eyes and torment the soul. Leviticus 26:15-16.

'Consumption' stands for the decrease of truth and the increase of falsity, 'burning fever' for the desire for evil. Further still, in Isaiah,

Why will you also defect? 5 The whole head [departs] into sickness, and the whole heart is diseased. From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it, but wounds, and scars, and recent blows. They are not pressed out, nor bound up, nor softened with oil. Isaiah 1:5-6.

Here nobody can fail to see that 'sickness', 'wounds', 'scars', and 'blows' are used to mean sins. Similarly in Ezekiel,

Woe to the shepherds of Israel! The weak sheep you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, and the broken you have not bound up. Ezekiel 34:2, 4.

In David,

My iniquities have gone over my head. My wounds have become putrid, they have rotted away because of my foolishness. For my intestines are full of burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh. Psalms 38:4-7.

[5] Since the disorders and evils of spiritual life are meant by 'sicknesses', the various kinds of disorders and evils of that life are meant by the various kinds of sicknesses. 'Pestilence' means the vastation or laying waste of goodness and truth, see 7102, 7505; and 'leprosy' means the profanation of truth, 6963. In general 'sicknesses' means sins, as may also be seen in Isaiah,

... a man of sorrows, and acquainted with sickness, on account of which as it were men hid their faces from Him. He was despised, so that we did not esteem Him. Nevertheless He has borne our sicknesses and carried our sorrows, and through His wounds healing has been given to us. Isaiah 53:3-5.

This refers to the Lord.

[6] Since sicknesses represented the unrighteous ways and the evils of spiritual life the sicknesses which the Lord healed have as their meaning deliverance from the different kinds of evil and falsity that were molesting the Church and human race and that would have brought spiritual death. Divine miracles are distinguishable from other miracles by the fact that they involve and have regard to states of the Church and the heavenly kingdom; and this is why the Lord's miracles were primarily healing of sicknesses. These miracles are meant by the Lord's words addressed to the disciples sent by John,

Tell John the things which you hear and see: the blind see and the lame walk; lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead rise again and the poor hear the gospel. Matthew 11:4-5.

This is why it says so many times that the Lord healed every sickness and every disease among the people, Matthew 4:23; 9:35; 14:14, 35-36; Luke 4:40; 5:15; 6:17; 7:21; Mark 1:32-34; 3:10.

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1. literally, in every sending of your hand which you shall do

2. literally, astonishment of heart

3. literally, by the sight of your eyes

4. literally, consumption

5. literally, Why will you add to a going back?

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