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Eliro 16

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1 Ili elmovigxis el Elim, kaj la tuta komunumo de la Izraelidoj venis en la dezerton Sin, kiu trovigxas inter Elim kaj Sinaj, en la dek-kvina tago de la dua monato, post sia eliro el la lando Egipta.

2 Kaj la tuta komunumo de la Izraelidoj ekmurmuris kontraux Moseo kaj Aaron en la dezerto.

3 Kaj la Izraelidoj diris al ili:Ho, ni dezirus morti per la mano de la Eternulo en la lando Egipta, sidante super la potoj kun viando, mangxante panon gxissate! vi elkondukis nin en cxi tiun dezerton, por mortigi cxi tiun tutan komunumon per malsato.

4 Tiam la Eternulo diris al Moseo:Jen Mi pluvigos por vi panon el la cxielo; kaj la popolo eliru kaj kolektu cxiutage tiom, kiom gxi bezonas por la tago, por ke Mi esploru gxin, cxu gxi sekvos Mian legxon aux ne.

5 Sed en la sesa tago ili preparu tion, kion ili devas enporti, kaj tiam estos duobla porcio kompare kun tio, kion ili kolektas cxiutage.

6 Kaj Moseo kaj Aaron diris al cxiuj Izraelidoj:Vespere vi sciigxos, ke la Eternulo elkondukis vin el la lando Egipta.

7 Kaj matene vi vidos la gloron de la Eternulo; cxar Li auxdis vian murmuradon kontraux la Eternulo. Sed kio estas ni, ke vi murmuras kontraux ni?

8 Kaj Moseo diris:La Eternulo donos al vi vespere viandon por mangxi kaj matene panon por satigxi; cxar la Eternulo auxdis vian murmuradon, kiun vi murmuris kontraux Li. Sed ni, kio ni estas? ne kontraux ni estas via murmurado, sed kontraux la Eternulo.

9 Kaj Moseo diris al Aaron:Diru al la tuta komunumo de la Izraelidoj:Alproksimigxu antaux la Eternulon, cxar Li auxdis vian murmuradon.

10 Kaj dum Aaron estis parolanta al la tuta komunumo de la Izraelidoj, ili turnigxis al la dezerto, kaj jen la gloro de la Eternulo aperis en nubo.

11 Kaj la Eternulo parolis al Moseo, dirante:

12 Mi auxdis la murmuradon de la Izraelidoj; diru al ili jenon:En la komenco de la vespero vi mangxos viandon, kaj matene vi satigxos per pano, kaj vi sciigxos, ke Mi estas la Eternulo, via Dio.

13 Kiam venis la vespero, alflugis koturnoj kaj kovris la tendaron, kaj matene estis tavolo da roso cxirkaux la tendaro.

14 Kiam la tavolo da roso forlevigxis, tiam montrigxis, ke sur la suprajxo de la dezerto kusxas io delikata, sensxela, delikata kiel prujno sur la tero.

15 Kiam la Izraelidoj ekvidis, ili diris unuj al la aliaj:Kio gxi estas? cxar ili ne sciis, kio gxi estas. Kaj Moseo diris al ili:GXi estas la pano, kiun la Eternulo donis al vi por mangxi.

16 Jen estas tio, kion ordonis la Eternulo:Kolektu gxin cxiu en tia kvanto, kiom li bezonas por mangxi; prenu po unu omero por cxiu kapo, laux la nombro de viaj animoj, kiujn cxiu havas en sia tendo.

17 Kaj tiel faris la Izraelidoj, kaj ili kolektis, unu pli, alia malpli.

18 Kaj oni mezuris per omero; kaj kiu kolektis pli, ne havis superflue, kaj kiu kolektis malpli, ne havis mankon; cxiu kolektis tiom, kiom li povis mangxi.

19 Kaj Moseo diris al ili:Neniu restigu iom el gxi gxis la mateno.

20 Sed ili ne obeis Moseon, kaj kelkaj restigis iom el gxi gxis la mateno; kaj aperis en gxi vermoj, kaj gxi malbonodorigxis; kaj Moseo ekkoleris ilin.

21 Ili kolektadis gxin cxiumatene, cxiu tiom, kiom li bezonis por mangxi; kaj kiam la suno farigxis pli varma, tio fandigxadis.

22 Kiam venis la sesa tago, ili kolektis duoble da pano, po du omeroj por cxiu; kaj cxiuj cxefoj de la komunumo venis kaj diris tion al Moseo.

23 Kaj li diris al ili:Jen estas, kion diris la Eternulo:ripozo de sankta sabato de la Eternulo estas morgaux; kion vi estas bakontaj, baku, kaj kion vi estas kuirontaj, kuiru; sed cxion superfluan formetu, por ke gxi estu konservata gxis la mateno.

24 Kaj ili formetis gxin gxis la mateno, kiel ordonis Moseo, kaj gxi ne malbonodorigxis, kaj vermoj ne aperis en gxi.

25 Kaj Moseo diris:Mangxu gxin hodiaux, cxar hodiaux estas sabato de la Eternulo; hodiaux vi ne trovos gxin sur la kampo.

26 Dum ses tagoj kolektu gxin, sed la sepa tago estas sabato, en tiu tago gxi ne trovigxos.

27 En la sepa tago eliris kelkaj el la popolo, por kolekti, sed ili ne trovis.

28 Kaj la Eternulo diris al Moseo:GXis kiam vi rifuzos observi Miajn ordonojn kaj Mian instruon?

29 Rigardu, la Eternulo donis al vi la sabaton, tial Li donas al vi en la sesa tago panon por du tagoj; restu cxiu hejme, neniu eliru for de sia loko en la sepa tago.

30 Kaj la popolo ripozis en la sepa tago.

31 Kaj la domo de Izrael donis al gxi la nomon manao; gxi estis kiel la semo de koriandro, blanka, kaj gxia gusto estis kiel blankpaneto kun mielo.

32 Kaj Moseo diris:Jen estas tio, kion ordonis la Eternulo:Plenigu per gxi omeron, ke gxi estu konservata en viaj generacioj, por ke oni vidu la panon, kiun Mi mangxigis al vi en la dezerto, kiam Mi elkondukis vin el la lando Egipta.

33 Kaj Moseo diris al Aaron:Prenu unu vazon kaj enmetu tien plenan omeron da manao kaj starigu gxin antaux la Eternulo, por ke gxi estu konservata en viaj generacioj.

34 Kiel la Eternulo ordonis al Moseo, Aaron starigis gxin antaux la Atesto, por konservigxi.

35 Kaj la Izraelidoj mangxis la manaon dum kvardek jaroj, gxis ili venis en landon logxeblan; la manaon ili mangxis, gxis ili venis al la limo de la lando Kanaana.

36 Kaj omero estas dekono de efo.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 8413

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8413. 'To kill all this congregation with hunger' means that they were perishing owing to the lack of delight and of good. This is clear from the meaning of 'killing' as depriving of life, at this point life made up of delight and good, for a person's life consists in these, dealt with in 3607, 6767; from the meaning of 'congregation' as those belonging to the spiritual Church, dealt with in 7843; and from the meaning of 'hunger' or 'famine' as a lack of good, dealt with in 5893, at this point the good of lower pleasures, meant by 'bread' in 8410. For when that which nourishes spiritual life, or the life of the spirit, is taken away, hunger or famine occurs.

[2] A brief statement showing the nature of all this needs to be made. When the good of charity, which is to constitute a spiritual life, is to be instilled, the delight belonging to lower pleasures, which has constituted a natural life, is taken away. And when this delight is taken away the person enters into temptation. The person thinks that if he is deprived of the delight which belongs to those pleasures he is deprived of all life; for the life of his natural has consisted in that delight or good as he calls it. But he does not know that when this delight in which his life has consisted is taken away the Lord instills spiritual delight and good instead; and this good is what is meant by 'the manna'. The previous kind of good or delight is meant by 'flesh and bread in the land of Egypt', and the deprivation of it by 'hunger'.

[3] But it should be thoroughly understood that a person undergoing regeneration is not deprived of the delight belonging to bodily and mental pleasures, for after regeneration he has full enjoyment of such delight, fuller than he had before, but in inverse proportion. Before regeneration the delight that belongs to lower pleasures was the all of that life; but after regeneration the good of charity becomes the all of life, and when it does so the delight belonging to lower pleasures serves as a means, as something embodying spiritual good and the happiness and bliss that go with it. When therefore order is to be inverted, the previous delight belonging to lower pleasures fades away and ceases to be anything, and a new delight from a spiritual origin is instilled instead.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 6767

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6767. 'Do you intend to kill me . . .' means, Do you wish to destroy my faith ... This is clear from the meaning of 'killing' as destroying, dealt with below; and from the meaning of a Hebrew man, to whom 'me' refers here, as one who belongs to the Church. Faith too is accordingly meant, for faith goes together with the Church, and the two are so bound up with each other that a person who destroys the faith present with someone destroys the Church with him. This is also 'to kill him', for by taking faith away he takes spiritual life away, the life that remains being a life that is called death. From this it is evident that 'Do you intend to kill me?' means, Do you wish to destroy my faith?

[2] The fact that 'killing' is taking away spiritual life is evident from many places in the Word, as in Jeremiah,

Drag them away like sheep for the slaughter, and destine them to the day of killing. How long will the land mourn and the plant of every field wither, on account of the wickedness of those who dwell in it? The beasts and the birds will be devoured. Jeremiah 12:3-4.

'The day of killing' stands for the time that the Church is laid waste, when there is no longer any faith because there is no charity. 'The land which will mourn' stands for the Church; 'the plant of every field' stands for all the facts known to the Church that hold truth within them; 'the beasts and the birds will be devoured' stands for the fact that forms of good and truths will be destroyed. For the meaning of 'the land' as the Church, see 566, 662, 1067, 1262, 1413, 1607, 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118 (end), 2928, 3755, 4447, 4535, 5577. The meaning of 'the plant' as factual knowledge holding truth within it is clear from places in the Word where plant is mentioned. And for the meaning of 'the field' as that which is of the Church, see 2971, 3710, 3766, of 'the beasts' as affections for good, thus forms of good, 45, 46, 142, 143, 246, 714, 715, 719, 1823, 2179, 2180, 3218, 3519, 5198, and of 'the birds' as affections for truth, 5149. From all this one may recognize what the meaning of these words is, and also that the spiritual sense is present in every detail there. Anyone can see that without the inner meaning there could be no understanding of what 'the day of killing' is, or of what is described by the details 'will the land mourn', 'the plant of every field wither, on account of the wickedness of those who dwell in it', and 'the beasts and the birds will be devoured'.

[3] In Zechariah,

Thus said Jehovah my God, Feed the sheep for killing, whose owners kill them. Zechariah 11:4-5.

'The sheep for killing' plainly stands for people whose faith is destroyed by those who are their owners. In Ezekiel,

You have desecrated Me among My people for handfuls of barley and for crusts of bread, to kill souls that ought not to die, and to keep alive souls that ought not to live. Ezekiel 13:19.

Here also 'killing' plainly stands for destroying spiritual life, that is, charity and faith. In Isaiah,

What will you do on the day of visitation and vastation? They will fall beneath the bound and beneath the killed. Isaiah 10:3-4.

Here 'the killed' stands for those who are in hell, thus for those immersed in evils and falsities.

[4] In the same prophet,

You are cast out from your sepulchre like an abominable branch, [like] a garment of the killed, [like] those pierced with the sword. You will not be united with them in the sepulchre, for you have destroyed your land, you have killed your people. Isaiah 14:19-20.

'The killed' stands for those who have been deprived of spiritual life; 'you have killed your people' stands for his destruction of forms of the truth and good of faith. In John,

The thief does not come except in order to steal, kill, and destroy. I have come in order that they may have life. John 10:10.

'Killing' stands for destroying the life of faith, and therefore it says, 'I have come in order that they may have life'. In Mark,

Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his children, and the children will rise up against parents and kill them. Mark 13:12.

This refers to the last days of the Church when there is no longer any charity and therefore no faith either. 'Brother', 'children', and 'parents' in the internal sense are the Church's forms of good and its truths; and 'killing' is destroying them.

[5] Because one who had been 'killed' meant a person who had been deprived of spiritual life, and 'the field' meant the Church, it had therefore been decreed in the representative church that if anyone on the surface of the field touched somebody who had been pierced with the sword, or who had been killed, he would be unclean for seven days, Numbers 19:16. 'Slain with the sword' means truth wiped out by falsity, see 4507; for 'the sword' is falsity that wipes out truth, 2799, 4499, 653. It was likewise decreed that if anyone was found killed in the land which was their inheritance, lying on the field, and it was not known who had killed him, the elders and judges were to measure the distances to the cities which were round about. Having found out by doing this which was the nearest city, they were to take a heifer and break its neck at a fast-flowing river, and to do many other things, Deuteronomy 21:1-10.

  
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