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Exodus 24

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1 Og han sagde til Moses: "Stig op til HE EN, du og Aron, Nadab og Abih og halvfjerdsindstyve af Israels Ældste, og tilbed i Frastand;

2 Moses alene skal træde hen til HE EN, de andre ikke, og det øvrige Folk må ikke følge med ham derop."

3 Derpå kom Moses og kundgjorde hele Folket alle HE ENs Ord og alle Lovbudene, og hele Folket svarede enstemmigt: "Alle de Ord, HE EN har talet, vil vi overholde."

4 Da skrev Moses alle HE ENs Ord op; og tidligt næste Morgen rejste han ved Foden af Bjerget et Alter og tolv Stenstøtter svarende til Israels tolv Stammer.

5 Derefter sendte han de unge Mænd blandt Israeliterne hen for at bringe Brændofre og slagte unge Tyre som Takofre til HE EN.

6 Og Moses tog den ene Halvdel af Blodet og gød det i Offerskålene, men den anden Halvdel sprængte han på Alteret.

7 Så tog han Pagtsbogen og læste den op i Folkets Påhør, og de sagde: "Vi vil gøre alt, hvad HE EN har talet, og lyde ham!"

8 Derpå tog Moses Blodet og sprængte det på Folket, idet han sagde: "Se, dette er Pagtens Blod, den Pagt, HE EN har sluttet med eder på Grundlag af alle disse Ord."

9 Og Moses, Aron, Nadab og Abihu og halvfjerdsindstyve af Israels Ældste steg op

10 og skuede Israels Gud; under hans Fødder var der ligesom Safirfliser, som selve Himmelen i Stråleglans.

11 Men han lagde ikke Hånd på Israeliternes ypperste Mænd. De skuede Gud, og de spiste og drak.

12 Og HE EN sagde til Moses: "Stig op til mig på Bjerget og bliv der, så vil jeg give dig Stentavlerne, Loven og Budet, som jeg har opskrevet til Vejledning for dem."

13 Da bød Moses og Josua, hans Medhjælper op, og Moses steg op på Guds Bjerg;

14 men til de Ældste sagde han: "Vent på os her, til vi kommer tilbage til eder. Se, Aron og Hur er hos eder; er der nogen, der har en etstrætte, kan han henvende sig til dem!"

15 Derpå steg Moses op på Bjerget. Da indhyllede Skyen Bjerget,

16 og HE ENs Herlighed nedlod sig på Sinaj Bjerg. Og Skyen indhyllede Sinaj Bjerg i seks Dage, men den syvende Dag råbte HE EN ud fra Skyen til Moses;

17 og medens HE ENs Herlighed viste sig for Israeliternes Øjne som en fortærende Ild på Bjergets Top,

18 gik Moses ind i Skyen og steg op på Bjerget. Og Moses blev på Bjerget i fyrretyve Dage og fyrretyve Nætter.

   


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9437. 'And Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights' means the instructions given and influx in their completeness. This is clear from the meaning of 'forty' as completeness. 'Forty' means completeness because 'four' means that which is complete, 9103, as similarly does 'ten', 3107, 4638, and forty is the product of four multiplied by ten. For compound numbers have a meaning similar to the simple numbers of which they are the product, 5291, 5335, 5708, 7973; and all numbers in the Word mean spiritual realities, see 575, 3252, 4264, 4495, 4670, 5265, 6175. All this goes to explain why Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights. The fact that 'forty' here means the instructions given and the influx in their completeness is evident from Chapters 25-32 which come next, recording the instructions Moses received, that is, instructions regarding the ark, Aaron, the urim and thummim, and sacrifices. The reason why influx in its completeness is also meant is that at that time Moses began to represent the outward holiness of the Word, which acted as the intermediary between the Lord and the people, and mediation is accomplished by means of influx through that holiness into the representative existing among that people, 9419.

[2] It was because 'forty' represented completeness that Moses remained on Mount Sinai forty days and forty nights not only this time but also on another occasion, Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 9:18, 25; 10:10. For the same reason the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness forty years until, as it says in Numbers 14:33-34; 32:13, all that generation had been consumed; Jonah told the Ninevites that their city would be overturned after forty days, Jonah 3:4; the prophet was commanded to lie on his right side and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days, Ezekiel 4:6; it says regarding Egypt that it would be made completely desolate for forty years, after which they would be gathered from the peoples, Ezekiel 29:11-13; and the earth was rained on forty days and forty nights, so that it was inundated with the flood, Genesis 7:4, 12, 17. From all this it is evident why the wicked person was to receive forty blows, Deuteronomy 25:3, for 'forty blows' meant the punishment in its completeness. It is also evident what should be understood in the prophecy of Deborah and Barak when it says that no shield or spear was seen among the forty thousand of Israel, Judges 5:8, 'among the forty thousand of Israel' meaning among them all. It is in addition evident why the temple built by Solomon was forty cubits long, 1 Kings 6:17, as was the new temple, according to Ezekiel 41:2; for in the highest sense 'the temple' means the Lord, and in the internal sense heaven and the Church, so that 'forty' means completeness in respect of representation. And it has a like meaning in other places.

  
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Exodus 24

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1 He said to Moses, "Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.

2 Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near, neither shall the people go up with him."

3 Moses came and told the people all the words of Yahweh, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, "All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do."

4 Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

5 He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to Yahweh.

6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

7 He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, "All that Yahweh has spoken will we do, and be obedient."

8 Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words."

9 Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.

10 They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.

11 He didn't lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.

12 Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the tables of stone with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them."

13 Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God's Mountain.

14 He said to the elders, "Wait here for us, until we come again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them."

15 Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

16 The glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

17 The appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.

18 Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.