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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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4882. 'And went' means life. This is clear from the meaning of 'going' as living, dealt with in 3335, 3690. This meaning of 'going' in the internal sense as living does indeed seem quite remote from or unrelated to ideas man has which constitute his thought. The reason for this is that man dwells within space and time, and with these has formed the ideas comprising his thought, such as the idea of going, advancing, setting out, sojourning, or moving on. Now because these actions occur within both space and time, and as a consequence space and time have become embedded in ideas of those actions, man therefore finds it difficult to grasp that states of life are meant. But when his idea of those actions is relieved or divested of spatial and temporal elements the spiritual reality that is meant leaps out. For in the spiritual world or heaven nothing at all spatial or temporal enters the ideas they have, but instead aspects of a state of life, 1274, 1382, 2625, 2788, 2837, 3356, 3404, 3827, 4814. It does indeed appear to spirits and angels that they too move about, going from one place to another, and indeed exactly in the same way as it appears so to men. All the same, it is the changes taking place in their state of life that are responsible for this appearance. To them also, no less than to men, the appearance is that they live self-dependently, when in fact they do not live self-dependently but are dependent on the Lord's Divine, the source of every spark of life. Among angels these appearances are called real ones, because they seem in all reality to exist.

[2] I have on occasions spoken to spirits about these appearances, but those who are not governed by good, nor consequently by truth, do not wish to listen when told it is but an appearance that they live self-dependently; for their wish is to live self-dependently. But in addition to showing them from actual experience that they do not lead self-dependent lives and that every advance made from one place to another is a change to, and an advance made in, their state of life, I have also told them that for them it may be sufficient for them to know no other than that they live self-dependently, and that their life would be life no more if they did not live self-dependency. It would nevertheless be better for them to know what the situation really is, for in that case they would have the truth; and if they have the truth they also dwell in the light of heaven, since the light of heaven is the truth itself which flows from the Lord's Divine. Furthermore, if the truth existed with them in this way they would not claim that good was their own, nor would evil cling to them. Angels possessing that truth do not merely know it; they also have a perception of it.

[3] Intervals of time and space in the spiritual world are states of life, and every spark of life has its origin in the Lord, as the following experience may show. Each spirit and angel sees on his right those who are good and on his left those who are evil; this is so in whatever direction he turns himself. If he turns and looks eastwards he sees the good to the right and the evil to the left. The same happens if he turns and looks to the west, and likewise to the south or the north. This is the case with every spirit or angel, so that if there were two, and one of these turned and looked to the east and the other did so to the west, each would still see the good on his right and the evil on his left. Those far removed from, even behind the backs of, those who behold them are seen in those unchanging positions. From these considerations one may deduce clearly that every spark of life has its origin in the Lord, that is, that the Lord is within the life of everyone; for in the spiritual world the Lord is seen as the Sun, the good or sheep being on His right, and the evil or goats on His left. The same is therefore the case with each spirit or angel, for the reason, as stated, that the Lord exists in every spark of life. This is bound to look like a paradox to man, for as long as he is in the world man has ideas that are formed from worldly things, and therefore from what is spatial and temporal. But as stated above, in the spiritual world no ideas are formed from what is spatial and temporal but from the state belonging to affections and the thoughts flowing from these. It is for this reason also that the intervals of space and time in the Word mean states.

  
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