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Exodus 13

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1 Toen sprak de HEERE tot Mozes, zeggende:

2 Heilig Mij alle eerstgeborenen; wat enige baarmoeder opent onder de kinderen Israels, van mensen en van beesten, dat is Mijn.

3 Verder zeide Mozes tot het volk: Gedenkt aan dezen zelfden dag, op welken gijlieden uit Egypte, uit het diensthuis, gegaan zijt; want de HEERE heeft u door een sterke hand van hier uitgevoerd; daarom zal het gedesemde niet gegeten worden.

4 Heden gaat gijlieden uit, in de maand Abib.

5 En het zal geschieden, als u de HEERE zal gebracht hebben in het land der Kanaanieten, en der Hethieten, en der Amorieten, en der Hevieten, en der Jebusieten, hetwelk Hij uw vaderen gezworen heeft u te geven, een land vloeiende van melk en honig; zo zult gij dezen dienst houden in deze maand.

6 Zeven dagen zult gij ongezuurde broden eten, en aan den zevenden dag zal den HEERE een feest zijn.

7 Zeven dagen zullen ongezuurde broden gegeten worden, en het gedesemde zal bij u niet gezien worden, ja, er zal geen zuurdeeg bij u gezien worden, in al uw palen.

8 En gij zult uw zoon te kennen geven te dienzelven dage, zeggende: Dit is om hetgeen de HEERE mij gedaan heeft, toen ik uit Egypte uittoog.

9 En het zal u zijn tot een teken op uw hand, en tot een gedachtenis tussen uw ogen, opdat de wet des HEEREN in uw mond zij, omdat u de HEERE door een sterke hand uit Egypte uitgevoerd heeft.

10 Daarom onderhoudt deze inzetting ter bestemder tijd, van jaar tot jaar.

11 Het zal ook geschieden, wanneer u de HEERE in het land der Kanaanieten zal gebracht hebben, gelijk Hij u en uw vaderen gezworen heeft, en Hij het u zal gegeven hebben;

12 Zo zult gij tot den HEERE doen overgaan alles, wat de baarmoeder opent; ook alles, wat de baarmoeder opent van de vrucht der beesten, die gij hebben zult; de mannetjes zullen des HEEREN zijn.

13 Doch al wat de baarmoeder der ezelin opent, zult gij lossen met een lam; wanneer gij het nu niet lost, zo zult gij het den nek breken; maar alle eerstgeborenen des mensen onder uw zonen zult gij lossen.

14 Wanneer het geschieden zal, dat uw zoon u morgen zal vragen, zeggende: Wat is dat? zo zult gij tot hem zeggen: De HEERE heeft ons door een sterke hand uit Egypte, uit het diensthuis, uitgevoerd.

15 Want het geschiedde, toen Farao zich verhardde ons te laten trekken, zo doodde de HEERE alle eerstgeborenen in Egypteland, van des mensen eerstgeborene af, tot den eerstgeborene der beesten; daarom offer ik den HEERE de mannetjes van alles, wat de baarmoeder opent; doch alle eerstgeborenen mijner zonen los ik.

16 En het zal tot een teken zijn op uw hand, en tot voorhoofdspanselen tussen uw ogen; want de HEERE heeft door een sterke hand ons uit Egypte uitgevoerd.

17 En het is geschied, toen Farao het volk had laten trekken, zo leidde hen God niet op den weg van het land der Filistijnen, hoewel die nader was; want God zeide: Dat het den volke niet rouwe, als zij den strijd zien zouden, en wederkeren naar Egypte.

18 Maar God leidde het volk om, langs den weg van de woestijn der Schelfzee. De kinderen Israels nu togen bij vijven uit Egypteland.

19 En Mozes nam de beenderen van Jozef met zich; want hij had met een zwaren eed de kinderen Israels bezworen, zeggende: God zal ulieden voorzeker bezoeken; voert dan mijn beenderen met ulieden op van hier!

20 Alzo reisden zij uit Sukkoth; en zij legerden zich in Etham, aan het einde der woestijn.

21 En de HEERE toog voor hun aangezicht, des daags in een wolkkolom, dat Hij hen op den weg leidde, en des nachts in een vuurkolom, dat Hij hen lichtte, om voort te gaan dag en nacht.

22 Hij nam de wolkkolom des daags, noch de vuurkolom des nachts niet weg van het aangezicht des volks.

   

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8098. 'And God led the people around by the way of the wilderness' means that under Divine guidance they were led by means of temptations to a firm acceptance of the truths and forms of the good of faith. This is clear from the meaning of 'God led' as providence, as above in 8093, or what amounts to the same thing, as Divine guidance; and from the meaning of 'by the way of the wilderness' as a way that leads people to undergo temptations and so to reach a firm acceptance of the truths and forms of the good of faith since temptations are the means by which they become firmly accepted. 'The wilderness' means a place which is uninhabited and uncultivated, dealt with in 2708, in the spiritual sense a situation in which there is no good or truth, and also a situation in which truth has not yet been bonded to good. That being so, 'the wilderness' means the state of those with whom the two are to be bonded together; but since the bonding is not accomplished except by means of temptations, these also are meant. Temptations are meant when the number forty is included, which can be forty years, forty months, or forty days. For 'forty' means temptations and their duration, however long that may be, 730, 862, 2272, 2273. These things are meant by the travels of the children of Israel in the wilderness for forty years; the temptations they underwent are also described. The fact that they were led into the wilderness to undergo temptations and in so doing to represent them is evident from the following words in Moses,

You shall remember all the way in which Jehovah your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order that He might afflict you, in order that He might tempt you, in order that He might know what is in your heart. He fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, in order that He might afflict you, in order that He might tempt you, to do good to you in your descendants. Deuteronomy 8:2, 16.

Because 'forty' meant temptations and their durations, and 'the wilderness' meant the states of people undergoing them, the Lord too, when He was tempted, went out into the wilderness and was there for forty days, Matthew 4:1-2, and following verses; Luke 4:1-2, and following verses; Mark 1:12-13.

  
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2454. That 'his wife looked back behind him' means that truth turned away from good and looked towards matters of doctrine is clear from the meaning of 'looking back behind him' and from the meaning of 'a wife'. Looking back behind him means looking towards matters of doctrine, which have a relationship with truth, and not towards life in accordance with them, which has a relationship with good, as stated above in 2417. That which is secondary is referred to as 'behind him' and that which is primary as 'before him'. The fact that truth is secondary and good primary has been shown quite often. For truth belongs to good, since the essence and life of truth is good. 'Looking behind him' therefore means looking towards truth which constitutes doctrinal teaching, and not towards good which constitutes life in accordance with doctrinal teaching. That these points are what is meant becomes quite clear from the Lord's words, where also, referring to the final period of the Church or close of the age, He says in Luke,

On that day, whoever will be on the housetop with his vessels in the house, let him not come down to take them away; and whoever is in the field, let him likewise not turn back to behind him. Remember Lot's wife. Luke 17:31-32.

[2] These words of the Lord are by no means intelligible without the internal sense, and so are unintelligible unless one knows what is meant by 'being on the housetop', by 'vessels in the house', by 'coming down to take them away', by 'the field', and lastly by 'turning back to behind him'. According to the internal sense 'being on the housetop' means resting on good; for 'a house' means good, see 710, 2231, 2233. 'Vessels in the house' means truths which belong to good; for truths are the vessels for good, see 1496, 1832, 1900, 2063, 2269. 'Going down to take them away' means, as is evident, turning away from good towards truth, for since good is primary it is also higher, while truth, being secondary, is also lower. That 'the field' is the Church, so called from the seed which it receives, and consequently that those people are 'fields' in whom there is the good taught by doctrine, is clear from many places in the Word. These considerations show what 'turning back to behind him' means, namely turning away from good and looking towards matters of doctrine. And it is because these things are meant by the expression 'Lot's wife', that 'remember Lot's wife' is added. The reason it is not said that she looked 'behind herself' but 'behind him' is that 'Lot' means good, see 2324, 2351, 2371, 2399. This explains why, when Lot was told what to do, verse 17, the words used were, 'Do not look back behind you'.

[3] The reason why in Luke it is said 'let him not turn back to behind him' and not 'to the things behind him' is that celestial people are unwilling even to mention anything that is a matter of doctrine, see 202, 337. This is why no such thing is mentioned in Luke, only the words 'to behind him'.

[4] These same matters are described in Matthew as follows,

When you see the abomination of desolation, foretold by the prophet Daniel, then let those who are in Judea flee into the mountains. Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything away out of his house; and let him who is in the field not return back to take his clothes. Matthew 24:15-17.

Here 'the abomination of desolation' is the state of the Church when there is no love and no charity. When these have been destroyed abominable things predominate. 'Judea' means the Church, and in particular the celestial Church, as is evident from both the historical and prophetical sections throughout the Old Testament Word, while 'the mountains into which they were to flee' means love to the Lord and consequent charity towards the neighbour, see 795, 1430, 1691. 'He who is on the housetop' means good flowing from love, as stated just above. 'Going down to take anything away out of his house' means turning away from good towards truth, as has also been stated above, while 'he who is in the field' means members of the spiritual Church, as is evident from the meaning of 'field' in the Word. 'Let him not return back to take his clothes' means not turning away from good towards truth that constitutes doctrinal teaching - 'clothes' meaning truths, for truths clothe good like garments, see 1073. Anyone may see that all those things which the Lord has said in that section about the close of the age mean things altogether different and embody arcana, such as that those in Judea were to flee into the mountains, that the one on the housetop was not to go down and bring anything out of the house, and that the one in the field was not to return back to take his clothes. Similar to this is the statement in verse 17 that Lot was not to look back behind him, and that made here that his wife did look back behind him and became a pillar of salt. In addition this matter is clear from the meaning of 'a wife' as truth, dealt with in 915, 1468, and from the meaning of 'Lot' as good, dealt with in 2324, 2351, 2371, 2399; hence the words 'after him'.

[5] Truth is said to turn away from good and look towards matters of doctrine when the member of the Church no longer takes to heart what kind of life he leads, only what kind of doctrine he possesses. Yet it is life according to doctrine, not doctrine separate from life, that makes anyone a member of the Church; for when doctrine is separated from life, then because good, in which life consists, has been vastated, truth as well, in which doctrine consists, is vastated, that is, it becomes 'a pillar of salt'. This is something anyone who looks to doctrine alone and not to life may know, by considering whether, even though doctrine teaches such things, he in fact believes in the resurrection, heaven, hell, and indeed the Lord, and so in everything else which doctrine teaches.

  
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