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Exodus 13

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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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8099. 'The Sea Suph' means the damnation which they first had to pass through. This is clear from the meaning of 'the Sea Suph' as the hell where those spirits are who are governed by faith separated from charity and lead a life of evil; and since 'the Sea Suph' means hell it also means damnation. The reason why they first had to pass through damnation is this: There were people belonging to the spiritual Church who were held back on the lower earth until the Lord's Coming, where they were molested by those governed by faith separated from charity. These have been the subject in the preceding chapters. When those people were delivered from that place they were not raised to heaven immediately. Before this they were led into a second state - a state of purification, which is a state of temptations. For truths and forms of the good of faith can be neither firmly accepted nor bonded together without temptations; and until these had been firmly accepted and bonded together those people could not be raised into heaven. These things were represented by the children of Israel, by their not being led straightaway into the land of Canaan but living first in the wilderness, where they remained for forty years, undergoing various temptations, which are described in the books of Moses.

[2] In regard to this matter, that they first passed through the Sea Suph, which means the hell of those who are governed by separated faith and lead an evil life, thus that they first passed through the middle of damnation, it should be recognized that this hell is situated deep down out in front beneath the adulterers' hells, stretching rather widely towards the left. It is separated from the adulterers' hells by waters like those of the sea on the right there, but higher up, is the place where those governed by the truth of faith but not by the good of faith are gathered - those meant by 'the Philistines', who are referred to just above in 8096. But the lower earth, the region where those who suffer molestation are, is beneath the soles of the feet, slightly out in front. Those who are delivered from molestation are not led towards the right since the ones meant by the Philistines are there. Instead they are led towards the left, through the midst of the hell that has been mentioned and they come out on the left, where there is a kind of wilderness. I have been allowed on two occasions to see that this is the way which they pass through when rescued from molestations. As they pass through they are protected by the Lord in such a way that nothing bad at all can touch them, let alone any damnation. For they are encompassed by a pillar of angels with whom the Lord is present.

[3] This is represented by the passage of the children of Israel through the Sea Suph. Such was also meant by the following in Isaiah,

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah. Were You not that which dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, which made the deep places of the sea a road, in order that the redeemed might pass through? Isaiah 51:9-10.

'The arm of Jehovah' is the Lord's Divine Human. 'The waters of the great deep' and 'the depths of the sea' are the hell in which those live who are governed by faith separated from charity and lead a life of evil. The waters like those of the sea beneath which they live are falsities; for in the next life falsities appear as thick, dark clouds, and also as deluges of water, 739, 4423, 7307. The redeemed who were to pass through them are those whom the Lord has delivered.

[4] In the same prophet,

Jehovah remembered the days of old, Moses, [and] His people, [saying,] Where is He who caused them to come up out of the sea with the shepherd of His flock? Where is He who put the spirit of His holiness in the midst of them? Isaiah 63:11.

In this prophetic utterance 'Moses' is used to mean the Lord, who is also 'the shepherd of the flock'. 'The people whom He caused to come up out of the sea' are those who were delivered from damnation. In Jeremiah,

At the noise of their fall the earth shook; [as for their] cry, the noise of it was heard in the Sea Suph. Jeremiah 49:21.

'The Sea Suph' stands for hell, for Edom and its damnation is the subject there. It says that the noise of it was heard coming out of the Sea Suph, when yet they were not the ones who were drowned in that sea but the Egyptians. From this it is evident that 'the Sea Suph' means hell and damnation 'Edom' there means those who are led by the evil of self-love to reject the truths taught by doctrine and to embrace falsities, 3322.

From all this one may now see what is meant in the representative internal sense by 'the sea Suph', and what is meant by the passage through it of the children of Israel and the drowning in it of the Egyptians, events described in the next chapter.

  
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