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1 Og HE EN talede til Moses og sagde:

2 "Du skal hellige mig alt det førstefødte, alt, hvad der åbner Moders Liv hos Israeliterne både af Mennesker og Kvæg; det skal tilhøre mig!"

3 Og Moses sagde til Folket: "Kom denne Dag i Hu, på hvilken I vandrer ud af Ægypten, af Trællehuset, thi med stærk Hånd førte HE EN eder ud derfra! Og der må ikke spises syret Brød.

4 I Dag vandrer I ud, i Abib Måned.

5 Når nu HE EN fører dig til Kana'anæernes, Hetiternes, Amoriternes, Hivviternes og Jebusiternes Land, som han tilsvor dine Fædre at ville give dig, et Land, der flyder med Mælk og Honning, så skal du overholde denne Skik i denne Måned.

6 I syv Dage skal du spise usyret Brød, og på den syvende Dag skal der være Højtid for HE EN.

7 I disse syv Dage skal der spises usyret Brød, og der må hverken findes syret Brød eller Surdejg hos dig nogetsteds inden dine Landemærker.

8 Og du skal på den Dag fortælle din Søn, at dette sker i Anledning af, hvad HE EN gjorde for dig, da du vandrede ud af Ægypten!

9 Det skal være dig som et Tegn på din Hånd og et Erindringsmærke på din Pande, for at HE ENs Lov må være i din Mund, thi med stærk Hånd førte HE EN dig ud af Ægypten.

10 Og du skal holde dig denne Anordning efterrettelig til den fastsatte Tid, År efter År.

11 Og når HE EN fører dig til Kana'anæernes Land, således som han tilsvor dig og dine Fædre, og giver dig det,

12 da skal du overlade HE EN alt, hvad der åbner Moders Liv; alt det førstefødte, som falder efter dit Kvæg, for så vidt det er et Handyr, skal tilhøre HE EN.

13 Men alt det førstefødte af Æslerne skal du udløse med et Stykke Småkvæg, og hvis du ikke udløser det, skal du sønderbryde dets Hals; og alt det førstefødte af Mennesker blandt dine Sønner skal du udløse.

14 Og når din Søn i Fremtiden spørger dig: Hvad betyder dette? skal du svare ham: Med stærk Hånd førte HE EN os ud af Ægypten, af Trællehuset;

15 og fordi Farao gjorde sig hård og ikke vilde lade os drage bort, ihjelslog HE EN alt det førstefødte i Ægypten både af Folk og Fæ; derfor ofrer vi HE EN alt, hvad der åbner Moders Liv, for så vidt det er et Handyr, og alt det førstefødte blandt vore Sønner udløser vi!

16 Og det skal være dig som et Tegn på din Hånd og et Erindringsmærke på din Pande, thi med stærk Hånd førte HE EN os ud af Ægypten."

17 Da Farao lod Folket drage bort, førte Gud dem ikke ad Vejen til Filisterlandet, som havde været den nærmeste, thi Gud sagde: "Folket kunde komme til at fortryde det, når de ser, der bliver Krig, og vende tilbage til Ægypten."

18 Men Gud lod Folket gøre en Omvej til Ørkenen i etning af det røde Hav. Israeliterne drog nu væbnede ud af Ægypten.

19 Og Moses tog Josefs Ben med sig, thi denne havde taget Israels Sønner i Ed og sagt: "Når Gud ser til eder, skal I føre mine Ben med eder herfra!"

20 De brød op fra Sukkot og lejrede sig i Etam ved anden af Ørkenen.

21 Men HE EN vandrede foran dem, om dagen i en Skystøtte for at vise dem Vej og om Natten i en Ildstøtte for at lyse for dem; så kunde de rejse både Dag og Nat.

22 Og Skystøtten veg ikke fra Folket om Dagen, ej heller Ildstøtten om Natten.

   


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24 og for at bringe Offer efter det, som er sagt i Herrens Lov, et Par Turtelduer eller to unge Duer.


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2625. 'At the appointed time' means when the Rational was such that it was receptive. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'time'. There are two things which appear to be indispensable while a person lives in the world because they exist as essential elements of the natural order - those two things being space and time. Living in the world or natural order therefore is living in space and time. But these two cease to have any existence in the next life. They do, it is true, appear to exist to some extent in the world of spirits, the reason for this being that spirits recently arrived from life in the body bring with them mental pictures of natural things. But subsequently they perceive that space and time do not exist in that life but states instead, and that states in the next life correspond to extensions of space and of time within the natural order - states in respect to Being corresponding to those of space, and in respect to Manifestation to those of time. Regarding space or place, see 1274, 1379, 1380, 1382.

[2] From this anyone may see what kind of mental pictures a person is able to have while in the world or natural order regarding things which belong to the next life and about many arcana of faith. He may see that such a person is unwilling to believe those things unless he can take them in by means of objects that exist in the world, indeed by sensory evidence. For he cannot do other than suppose that if he were to divest himself of his mental pictures that have been formed from space and time, more so to divest himself of space and time themselves, he would cease to be anything at all and so would have nothing left to him from which he could perceive with his senses or have thoughts of anything apart from that which was unintelligible to him. But in actual fact quite the reverse is the case: the life of angels is such that it is the wisest and happiest of all.

[3] This is the reason why people's ages mentioned in the Word do not in the internal sense mean ages but states, so that in this verse 'old age' does not mean old age. Nor does any number mean a number but some specific state, as in the case of 'a hundred years' mentioned further on. From this it now becomes clear that 'the appointed time' means the state when the rational was such that it was receptive.

[4] As regards the specific teaching presented here - that the Divine Rational received being and was given manifestation from the Lord's Divine spiritual united to His Divine celestial, when the days had been completed for him to cast off the human and when the Rational was such that it was receptive (meant in the internal sense by 'Sarah conceived and bore to Abraham a son in his old age, at the appointed time') - the following needs to be known:

The human has its beginnings in the inmost part of the rational, see 2106, 2194. The Lord advanced gradually towards the union of the Human Essence with the Divine Essence, and of the Divine Essence with the Human Essence, 1864, 2033, 2523.

He did so by His own power, 1921, 2025, 2026, 2083, through continuing temptations and repeated victories, 1690, 1737, 1813, and through receiving revelations repeatedly from His own Divine, 1616, 2500, till at length He cast out the whole human from the mother, 1414, 1444, 2574.

And in this way He made His Human - as to the Rational - Divine, as taught by the things that occur in this verse.

From all this it is evident how the explanation 'when the days had been completed for Him to cast off the human and when the Rational was such that it was receptive' is to be understood.

[5] Some idea of this matter may be had from what happens to people who are being regenerated. The celestial things of love, and the spiritual things of faith, are instilled into them by the Lord not all at once but gradually; and when by means of those things a person's rational has become such that it is able to be receptive, he is for the first time becoming regenerate, mostly by means of temptations in which he overcomes. While these experiences are taking place the days are being completed to cast off the old man and put on the new. Regarding man's regeneration, see 677, 679, 711, 848, 986, 1555, 2475.

  
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