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1 Moseo pasxtis la sxafojn de Jitro, sia bopatro, pastro Midjana. Kaj li forkondukis la sxafojn en malproksiman parton de la dezerto kaj venis al la Dia monto HXoreb.

2 Kaj aperis al li angxelo de la Eternulo en flama fajro el la mezo de arbetajxo. Kaj li vidis, ke jen la arbetajxo brulas en la fajro, kaj tamen la arbetajxo ne forbrulas.

3 Kaj Moseo diris:Mi iros kaj rigardos tiun grandan fenomenon, kial la arbetajxo ne forbrulas.

4 La Eternulo vidis, ke li iras, por rigardi, kaj Dio vokis al li el la mezo de la arbetajxo, kaj diris:Moseo, Moseo! Kaj tiu diris:Jen mi estas.

5 Kaj Li diris:Ne alproksimigxu cxi tien; deprenu viajn sxuojn de viaj piedoj, cxar la loko, sur kiu vi staras, estas tero sankta.

6 Ankoraux Li diris:Mi estas la Dio de via patro, la Dio de Abraham, la Dio de Isaak, kaj la Dio de Jakob. Kaj Moseo kovris sian vizagxon, cxar li timis rigardi Dion.

7 Kaj la Eternulo diris:Mi vidis la mizeron de Mia popolo, kiu estas en Egiptujo, kaj Mi auxdis gxian kriadon kauxze de gxiaj premantoj; Mi scias gxiajn suferojn.

8 Kaj Mi malsupreniris, por savi gxin el la manoj de la Egiptoj kaj elirigi gxin el tiu lando en landon bonan kaj vastan, en landon, en kiu fluas lakto kaj mielo, sur la lokon de la Kanaanidoj kaj la HXetidoj kaj la Amoridoj kaj la Perizidoj kaj la HXividoj kaj la Jebusidoj.

9 Nun la krioj de la Izraelidoj venis al Mi; kaj Mi vidis la turmentojn, per kiuj la Egiptoj turmentas ilin.

10 Iru do, Mi sendos vin al Faraono, kaj elkonduku Mian popolon la Izraelidojn el Egiptujo.

11 Kaj Moseo diris al Dio:Kiu mi estas, ke mi iru al Faraono kaj mi elkonduku la Izraelidojn el Egiptujo?

12 Kaj Li diris:Mi estos kun vi; kaj tio estu por vi signo, ke Mi vin sendis:kiam vi estos elkondukinta Mian popolon el Egiptujo, vi faros servon al Dio sur cxi tiu monto.

13 Kaj Moseo diris al Dio:Jen mi venos al la Izraelidoj, kaj diros al ili:La Dio de viaj patroj sendis min al vi; tiam ili diros al mi:Kia estas Lia nomo? Kion mi diru al ili?

14 Kaj Dio diris al Moseo:MI ESTAS, KIU ESTAS. Kaj Li diris:Tiel diru al la Izraelidoj:La Estanto sendis min al vi.

15 Kaj plue Dio diris al Moseo:Tiel diru al la Izraelidoj:La Eternulo, la Dio de viaj patroj, la Dio de Abraham, la Dio de Isaak, kaj la Dio de Jakob, sendis min al vi. Tia estas Mia nomo por eterne, kaj tia estas memorajxo pri Mi por cxiuj generacioj.

16 Iru, kaj kunvenigu la cxefojn de Izrael, kaj diru al ili:La Eternulo, la Dio de viaj patroj, aperis al mi, la Dio de Abraham, Isaak, kaj Jakob, kaj Li diris:Mi atentis vin, kaj tion, kio estas farita al vi en Egiptujo.

17 Kaj Mi diris:Mi elirigos vin el la mizero de Egiptujo en la landon de la Kanaanidoj kaj la HXetidoj kaj la Amoridoj kaj la Perizidoj kaj la HXividoj kaj la Jebusidoj, en landon, en kiu fluas lakto kaj mielo.

18 Kaj ili auxskultos vian vocxon, kaj vi venos, vi kaj la cxefoj de Izrael, al la regxo de Egiptujo, kaj vi diros al li:La Eternulo, la Dio de la Hebreoj, vokis nin; lasu do nin iri vojon de tri tagoj en la dezerton, por ke ni faru oferon al la Eternulo, nia Dio.

19 Sed Mi scias, ke la regxo de Egiptujo ne permesos al vi iri, se ne devigos lin forta mano.

20 Kaj Mi etendos Mian manon, kaj Mi batos Egiptujon per cxiuj Miaj mirakloj, kiujn Mi faros meze de gxi; kaj poste li lasos vin iri.

21 Kaj Mi donos al tiu popolo favoron de la Egiptoj; kaj kiam vi iros, vi ne iros kun malplenaj manoj.

22 CXiu virino petos de sia najbarino kaj de sia samdomanino vazojn argxentajn kaj vazojn orajn kaj vestojn; kaj vi metos tion sur viajn filojn kaj sur viajn filinojn, kaj vi senhavigos la Egiptojn.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 4289

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4289. 'Let me go, for the dawn is coming up' means that the genuine representative role would depart from the descendants of Jacob before they entered into the representatives connected with the land of Canaan. This becomes clear from the train of thought in the internal historical sense in which the descendants of Jacob are the subject. Their state in regard to things of the Church is also described in the Word as evening, night, and morning or dawn - dawn being used to describe the time when they entered the land of Canaan and as a consequence into that which was a representative of the Church in that land. The implications of this are as follows: A representative of the Church could not be established among them until they had been completely vastated, that is, until no knowledge of internal things existed with them. For if knowledge of internal things had existed with them it would have been possible for them to have an affection for them, in which case they would have profaned them. For the ability to profane holy things, that is, internal truths and goods, exists with those who know and acknowledge them, more so with those who have an affection for them, but not with those who do not acknowledge them. But see what has been stated and shown already about profanation:

People who know and acknowledge holy things are able to profane them, but not those who do not know and acknowledge them, 593, 1008, 1010, 1059, 3398, 3898.

People inside the Church are capable of profaning holy things, but not those outside, 2051.

Therefore all who are unable to remain steadfast in goodness and truth are kept as far as possible from an acknowledgement of and faith in them, 3398, 3402; and they are kept in ignorance to prevent their profanation of them, 301-303.

What danger comes from profaning holy things, 571, 582.

Worship becomes external to prevent what is internal being profaned, 1327, 1328.

Therefore internal truths were not disclosed to the Jews, 3398.

[2] The Lord therefore made provision so that anything genuinely representative of the Church, that is, any internal representation of it, would have departed from the descendants of Jacob before they entered into the representatives connected with the land of Canaan. It so departed that they did not know anything at all about the Lord. They knew, it is true, that the Messiah was to come into the world, but they supposed that the reason for His coming would be to promote them to glory and pre-eminence over all nations in the whole world, but not that He would save their souls for ever. Neither indeed did they know anything whatever about the heavenly kingdom, nor anything about the life after death, nor even anything about charity and faith. To reduce them to such ignorance they were kept for several centuries in Egypt, and when summoned from there did not even know the actual name Jehovah, Exodus 3:12-14. What is more, they had lost all the worship of the representative Church, so much so that a month after the Ten Commandments had been publicly declared in their presence from mount Sinai they reverted to Egyptian worship, which was that of the golden calf, Exodus 32.

[3] And this being the nature of the nation which had been brought out of Egypt they all died in the wilderness. For nothing more was required of them than to keep ordinances and commands in the outward form these took, because to keep these in their outward form was to play the part of a representative of the Church. Those who had grown up in Egypt however could not be fitted for that part, but their children could, though with difficulty, at first by means of miracles and after that by terrors and captivities, as is evident from the Books of Joshua and Judges. From this it becomes clear that the entire genuine or internal representative of the Church had departed from them before they entered the land of Canaan where the full form of an external representative of the Church was begun among them; for the land of Canaan was the actual land where the representatives of the Church could be introduced. For all the places and all the boundaries had, since ancient times, been representative in that land, see 3686.

  
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Exodus 32

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1 When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him."

2 Aaron said to them, "Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me."

3 All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

4 He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, "These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt."

5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, "Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yahweh."

6 They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

7 Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!

8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"

9 Yahweh said to Moses, "I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

10 Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation."

11 Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

12 Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.

13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.'"

14 Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.

15 Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.

16 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tables.

17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "There is the noise of war in the camp."

18 He said, "It isn't the voice of those who shout for victory, neither is it the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear."

19 It happened, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses' anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.

20 He took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.

21 Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?"

22 Aaron said, "Don't let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

23 For they said to me, 'Make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.'

24 I said to them, 'Whoever has any gold, let them take it off:' so they gave it to me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf."

25 When Moses saw that the people had broken loose, (for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies),

26 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Whoever is on Yahweh's side, come to me!" All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.

27 He said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.'"

28 The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

29 Moses said, "Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, yes, every man against his son, and against his brother; that he may bestow on you a blessing this day."

30 It happened on the next day, that Moses said to the people, "You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin."

31 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold.

32 Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin--and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written."

33 Yahweh said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.

34 Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin."

35 Yahweh struck the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.