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Exodus 6

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1 Men HE EN svarede Moses: "Nu skal du få at se, hvad jeg vil gøre ved Farao! Med Magt skal han blive tvunget til at lade dem rejse, og med Magt skal han blive tvunget til at drive dem ud af sit Land!"

2 Gud talede til Moses og sagde til ham: "Jer er HE EN!

3 For Abraham, Isak og Jakob åbenbarede jeg mig som Gud den Almægtige, men under mit Navn HE EN gav jeg mig ikke til Kende for dem.

4 Eftersom jeg har oprettet min Pagt med dem om at skænke dem Kana'ans Land, deres Udlændigheds Land, hvor de levede som fremmede,

5 har jeg nu hørt Israeliternes Klageråb over, at Ægypterne holder dem i Trældon, og jeg er kommet min Pagt i Hu.

6 Derfor skal du sige til Israeliterne: Jeg er HE EN, og jeg vil udfri eder fra det Trællearbejde, Ægypterne har pålagt eder, og frelse eder fra deres Trældom og udløse eder med udrakt Arm og med vældige Straffedomme;

7 og så vil jeg antage eder som mit Folk og være eders Gud, og I skal kende, at jeg er HE EN eders Gud, som udfrier eder fra Ægypternes Trællearbejde;

8 og jeg vil føre eder til det Land, jeg har svoret at ville skænke Abraham, Isak og Jakob, og give eder det i Eje. Jeg er HE EN!"

9 Moses kundgjorde nu dette for Israeliterne; men de hørte ikke på Moses, dertil var deres Modløshed for stor og deres Trællearbejde for hårdt

10 Da talede HE EN til Moses og sagde:

11 "Gå hen og sig til Farao, Ægyptens Konge, at han skal lade Israeliterne drage ud af, sit Land!"

12 Men Moses sagde for HE ENs Åsyn: "Israeliterne har ikke hørt på mig, hvor skulde da Farao gøre det, tilmed da jeg er uomskåren på Læberne?"

13 Da talede HE EN til Moses og Aron og sendte dem til Farao, Ægyptens Konge, for at føre Israeliterne ud af Ægypten.

14 Følgende var Overhovederne for deres Fædrenehuse: ubens, Israels førstefødtes, Sønner var: Hanok, Pallu, Hezron og Harmi; det er ubens Slægter.

15 Simeons. Sønner var Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar og Kana'anæerkvindens Søn Sjaul; det er Simeons Slægter.

16 Følgende er Navnene på Levis Sønner efter deres Nedstamning: Gerson, Kehat og Merari. Levis Levetid var 137 År.

17 Gersons Sønner var Libni og Sjimi efter deres Slægter.

18 Hehats Sønner var Amram, Jizhar, Hebon og Uzziel. Hehats Levetid var 133 År.

19 Meraris Sønner var Mali og Musji. Det er Levis Slægter efter deres Nedstamning.

20 Amram tog sin Faster Jokebed til Ægte; og hun fødte ham Aron og Moses. Amrams Levetid var 137 År.

21 Jizhars Sønner var Hora, Nefeg og Zikri.

22 Uzziels Sønner var Misjael, Elzafan og Sitri.

23 Aron tog Amminadabs Datter, Nahasjons Søster Elisjeba til Ægte; og hun fødte ham Nadab, Abibu, Eleazar og Itamar.

24 Koras Sønner var Assir, Elkana og Abiasaf; det er Koraiternes Slægter.

25 Arons Søn Eleazar tog en at Putiels Døtre til Ægte; og hun fødte ham Pinehas. Det er Overhovederne for Leviternes Fædrenehuse efter deres Slægter.

26 Det var Aron og Moses, som HE EN sagde til: "Før Israeliterne ud af Ægypten, Hærafdeling for Hærafdeling!"

27 Det var dem, der talte til Farao, Ægyptens Konge, om at føre Israeliterne ud af Ægypten, Moses og Aron.

28 Dengang HE EN talede til Moses i Ægypten,

29 talede HE EN til Moses således: "Jeg er HE EN! Forkynd Farao, Ægyptens Konge, alt, hvad jeg siger dig!"

30 Men Moses sagde for HE ENs Åsyn: "Se, jeg er uomskåren på Læberne, hvorledes skulde da Farao ville høre på mig?"

   


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Abraham

  
Représentation d'Abraham, by Joseph Villiet

Abraham (or Abram, as he was named in the beginning of his story) was the ancestor of all the Children of Israel, through his son Isaac, and of the Arabs, through his son Ishmael.

Abraham represents the Divine good or love. His story foreshadows the life of Jesus, and our spiritual lives, too.

His life can be usefully seen as being divided into three periods. The first period includes the unknown early years from his birth in Ur, and his later move to Haran with his father Terah. The second section starts with Abram's being called by Jehovah to go to Canaan. It includes the adventures he had there, and continues until the events of the 17th chapter of Genesis where he is said to be 99 years old, rich, and powerful - but without a son by his wife Sarai. Once again the Lord appears to him, promises that his progeny will become a great nation, institutes the rite of circumcision, and changes his name to Abraham, adding the "ah" sound from Jehovah. The third and last period of his life sees the birth of Isaac, the death of Sarah (whose name was also changed), and the finding of a wife for Isaac from among Abraham's relatives back in Mesopotamia. Abraham is said to be 175 years old when he dies, as recorded in the 25th chapter of Genesis.

What we are here interested in is the deep representation of Abraham because he prophesies or foreshadows the inmost part of Jesus' life after He is born to Mary centuries after the man Abraham lived on the earth. Abraham represents the Divine good or love. The internal sense of the Word tells us that God himself provided the life into an ovum within Mary, so she could provide a natural body and a natural heredity from the Jewish religion, while the soul of Jesus was kept as a direct possessor of divine life. During Jesus' early life, probably up to adolescence, Jesus lived out those representative actions of Abraham in the innermost parts of his mind and spirit. Abraham as he pastured his sheep and ran his large household had no idea at all that this was true, and early in Jesus' life He didn't realize it either. There must have been perceptions as Jesus grew up, witness his visit to the temple when He was 12, but not a complete understanding until He was fully grown. And further, it isn't only Abraham. When Abraham dies, the representation attaches to Isaac, who represents the rational level of the mind, and then to both Jacob and Esau who represent the natural mind as to truth and good in the mind respectively. And then the trials of the twelve tribes, the kings, and all the sayings of the prophets become that same representation. So Jesus could say to the two disciples that He met on the road to Emmaus, "O fools and slow of heart... and beginning at Moses and all the Prophets He expounded to them in all the scriptures all the things concerning Himself." (The following references are chronologic as Abraham gets older, and are in biblical sequence.) And furthermore, the progress of mental and spiritual life in each one of us is a dim and finite image of that represented by Abraham's life if, that is, we are trying to follow the Lord's laws and precepts to love one another. We too have within us a journey to the land of Canaan, a hardworking sojourn in Egypt, a struggle in the wilderness, and a Saul, a David, and an Ahab. We have our home-grown Amalekites and Philistines. The whole of the Old Testament is a picture of how our spiritual life works.

In Genesis 20:7, Abraham signifies celestial truth, or doctrine from a celestial origin. (Arcana Coelestia 2533)

In Genesis 12:4, As ABRAHAM he represents the Lord as to His Human and Divine Essence; as ABRAM he represents the Lord as to His human essence only. (Arcana Coelestia 1426)

In Genesis 17:5, The name was changed by adding the letter H, so that the Divine Human could he represented, for H is the only letter which involves the Divine: it means I AM, or BEING. (Arcana Coelestia 1416[2])

(Odkazy: Genesis 17, 25)