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Exodus 1

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1 Dit nu zijn de namen der zonen van Israel, die in Egypte gekomen zijn, met Jakob; zij kwamen er in, elk met zijn huis.

2 Ruben, Simeon, Levi, en Juda;

3 Issaschar, Zebulon, en Benjamin;

4 Dan en Nafthali, Gad en Aser.

5 Al de zielen nu, die uit Jakobs heup voortgekomen zijn, waren zeventig zielen; doch Jozef was in Egypte.

6 Toen nu Jozef gestorven was, en al zijn broeders, en al dat geslacht,

7 Zo werden de kinderen Israels vruchtbaar en wiesen overvloedig, en zij vermeerderden, en werden gans zeer machtig, zodat het land met hen vervuld werd.

8 Daarna stond een nieuwe koning op over Egypte, die Jozef niet gekend had;

9 Die zeide tot zijn volk: Ziet, het volk der kinderen Israels is veel, ja, machtiger dan wij.

10 Komt aan, laat ons wijselijk tegen hetzelve handelen, opdat het niet vermenigvuldige, en het geschiede, als er enige krijg voorvalt, dat het zich ook niet vervoege tot onze vijanden, en tegen ons strijde, en uit het land optrekke.

11 En zij zetten oversten der schattingen over hetzelve, om het te verdrukken met hun lasten; want men bouwde voor Farao schatsteden, Pitom en Raamses.

12 Maar hoe meer zij het verdrukten, hoe meer het vermeerderde, en hoe meer het wies; zodat zij verdrietig waren vanwege de kinderen Israels.

13 En de Egyptenaars deden de kinderen Israels dienen met hardigheid.

14 Zodat zij hun het leven bitter maakten met harden dienst, in leem en in tichelstenen, en met allen dienst op het veld, met al hun dienst, dien zij hen deden dienen met hardigheid.

15 Daarenboven sprak de koning van Egypte tot de vroedvrouwen der Hebreinnen, welker ener naam Sifra, en de naam der andere Pua was;

16 En zeide: Wanneer gij de Hebreinnen in het baren helpt, en ziet haar op de stoelen; is het een zoon, zo doodt hem; maar is het een dochter, zo laat haar leven!

17 Doch de vroedvrouwen vreesden God, en deden niet, gelijk als de koning van Egypte tot haar gesproken had, maar zij behielden de knechtjes in het leven.

18 Toen riep de koning van Egypte de vroedvrouwen, en zeide tot haar: Waarom hebt gij deze zaak gedaan, dat gij de knechtjes in het leven behouden hebt?

19 En de vroedvrouwen zeiden tot Farao: Omdat de Hebreinnen niet zijn gelijk de Egyptische vrouwen; want zij zijn sterk; eer de vroedvrouw tot haar komt, zo hebben zij gebaard.

20 Daarom deed God aan de vroedvrouwen goed; en dat volk vermeerderde, en het werd zeer machtig.

21 En het geschiedde, dewijl de vroedvrouwen God vreesden, zo bouwde Hij haar huizen.

22 Toen gebood Farao aan al zijn volk, zeggende: Alle zonen, die geboren worden, zult gij in de rivier werpen, maar al de dochteren in het leven behouden.

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Arcana Coelestia # 7932

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7932. 'And it shall be, when you come to the land which Jehovah will give you' means when they reach heaven, given them by the Lord. This is clear from the meaning of 'the land', at this point the land of Canaan, which they will 'come to' as the Lord's kingdom, which is heaven, dealt with in 1607, 1866, 3078, 3481, 3705, 4116, 4240, 4447, 5757. The Children of Israel represented those belonging to the spiritual Church who lived in the world before the Lord's Coming, but could not be saved except by the Lord, on account of which they were preserved and held back on the lower earth, where they were in the meantime molested by the hells which were round about them. When therefore the Lord came into the world and made the Human within Him Divine, He then - when He rose again - delivered those who had been preserved and held back there. And after they had undergone temptations He raised them to heaven. These matters are what the internal sense of the second Book of Moses or Exodus contains. By 'the Egyptians' those who molested are meant; by 'being led away from them' deliverance is meant; by 'living forty years in the wilderness' temptations are meant; and by 'being led into the land of Canaan' being raised into heaven is meant. For what has been mentioned already about these meanings, see 6854, 6914, 7091 (end), 7828. From all this it is evident that 'when you come into the land' means when they reach heaven, given them by the Lord. 1

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1. [NCBS editor's note] From sections 7930 to 7932, there are some differences between the first and third Latin editions, regarding where the text should be divided into its sections. These differences have been carried over into the translations into English and other modern languages; different translators have made different decisions about it. The text is all there in each translation, but you may find what you are looking for in 7930, 7931, or 7932.

  
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4447. 'Hamor spoke to them, saying' means the good of the Church among the Ancients. This is clear from the representation of 'Hamor' as that which was received from the Ancients, dealt with in 4431, namely the good of the Church received from them, for the good of the Church is 'a father', and the truth derived from that good, meant here by 'Shechem', is 'a son' - which also is why 'father' in the Word means good, and 'son' truth. The expression 'the good of the Church among the Ancients' is used here, not the good of the Ancient Church, for the reason that the phrase 'the Church among the Ancients' is used to mean the Church that descended from the Most Ancient Church which existed before the Flood, whereas the Ancient Church is used to mean the Church which came into existence after the Flood. Those two Churches have been dealt with several times previous to this, when it has been shown that the Most Ancient Church which existed before the Flood was celestial whereas the Ancient Church which came into existence after the Flood was spiritual. The difference between the two has also been dealt with often.

[2] Remnants of the Most Ancient Church which was celestial were still in existence in the land of Canaan, especially among those in that land who were called Hittites and Hivites. The reason why such remnants did not exist anywhere else was that the Most Ancient Church, which was called Man or Adam, 478, 479, existed in the land of Canaan, where the garden of Eden, which meant the intelligence and wisdom of the members of that Church, 100, 1588, and the trees in it their perception, 103, 2163, 2722, 2972, was therefore situated. And because intelligence and wisdom were meant by that garden or paradise the Church itself is also meant by it. And because the Church is meant, so also is heaven; and because heaven is meant, so also in the highest sense is the Lord. So it is that in the highest sense the land of Canaan also means the Lord, in the relative sense heaven and also the Church, and in the personal sense the member of the Church, 1413, 1437, 1607, 3038, 3481, 3705. So it is too that the word 'land' standing by itself in the Word has a similar meaning, 566, 662, 1066, 1067, 1413, 1607, 3355; while a new heaven and a new earth mean a new Church, internally and externally, 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118 (end), 3355 (end). The Most Ancient Church was situated in the land of Canaan, see 567, and it was from this that places there became representative. It explains why Abram was commanded to go there, and also why the land was given to his descendants from Jacob, namely that the representatives connected with the places which were to be used in the composition of the Word might be perpetuated, 3686. This was why every place in that land, including mountains and rivers, and also all the borders surrounding it, became representative, 1585, 1866, 4240.

[3] From all these considerations one may see what the expression 'Church among the Ancients' is used to mean, namely remnants of the Most Ancient Church. And because those remnants existed among the Hittites and Hivites, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, with their wives, acquired a burial-place among the Hittites in their land, Genesis 23:1-end; Genesis 49:29-32; 50:13; and Joseph among the Hivites, Joshua 24:32. Hamor, Shechem's father, represented the remnants of that Church, and as a consequence means the good of the Church among the Ancients and therefore the origin of interior truth from a Divine stock, 4399. What the difference is between the Most Ancient Church which existed before the Flood and the Ancient Church which came into existence after the Flood, see 597, 607, 608, 640, 641, 765, 784, 895, 920, 1114-1128, 1238, 1327, 2896, 2897.

  
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