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Deuteronoomia 10

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1 Tol korral ütles Issand minule: 'Raiu enesele kaks kivilauda, endiste sarnased, ja tule mu juurde üles mäele! Ja valmista enesele puulaegas!

2 Mina kirjutan laudadele need sõnad, mis olid endistel laudadel, mis sa puruks lõid, ja pane need laekasse!'

3 Siis ma valmistasin akaatsiapuust laeka ja raiusin kaks kivilauda, endiste sarnased; siis ma läksin üles mäele ja need kaks kivilauda olid mul käes.

4 Ja tema kirjutas laudadele endise kirja sarnaselt need kümme käsusõna, mis Issand oli kogunemispäeval teile kõnelnud mäe peal tule seest. Ja Issand andis need mulle.

5 Siis ma pöördusin ümber, tulin mäelt alla ja panin lauad laekasse, mille ma olin valmistanud, ja need jäid sinna, nagu Issand oli mulle käsu andnud.

6 Ja Iisraeli lapsed läksid teele Beerot-Bene-Jaakanist Mooserasse. Seal suri Aaron ja ta maeti sinna. Ja tema poeg Eleasar sai tema asemel preestriks.

7 Ja sealt läksid nad teele Gudgodasse, ja Gudgodast Jotbatasse, veeojade maale.

8 Sel ajal eraldas Issand Leevi suguharu kandma seaduselaegast, seisma Issanda palge ees, teenima teda ja õnnistama tema nimel kuni tänapäevani.

9 Sellepärast ei ole Leevil osa ega pärandit koos vendadega; Issand on tema pärisosa, nagu Issand, su Jumal, temale on öelnud.

10 Ja ma viibisin mäel niisama kaua kui eelmisel korral, nelikümmend päeva ja nelikümmend ööd, ja Issand kuulis mind ka seekord: Issand ei tahtnud sind hukata.

11 Ja Issand ütles mulle: 'Võta kätte, käi teele minnes rahva ees, et nad läheksid ja päriksid maa, mille ma vandega nende vanemaile olen tõotanud neile anda!'

12 Ja nüüd, Iisrael, mida nõuab Issand, su Jumal, sinult muud, kui et sa kardaksid Issandat, oma Jumalat, käiksid kõigil tema teedel ja armastaksid teda, ja et sa teeniksid Issandat, oma Jumalat, kõigest oma südamest ja kõigest oma hingest,

13 et sa peaksid Issanda käske ja seadusi, mis ma täna sulle annan, et su käsi hästi käiks?

14 Vaata, Issanda, su Jumala päralt on taevas ja taevaste taevas, maa ja kõik, mis seal on.

15 Üksnes sinu vanemaid on Issand eelistanud, armastades neid, ja on pärast neid valinud nende soo, see on teid, kõigi rahvaste seast, nagu see tänapäeval on.

16 Lõigake siis ümber oma südame eesnahk ja ärge enam tehke oma kaela kangeks,

17 sest Issand, teie Jumal, on jumalate Jumal ja isandate Isand, suur, vägev ja kardetav Jumal, kes ei vaata isiku peale ega võta vastu meelehead,

18 kes teeb õigust vaeslapsele ja lesknaisele ja kes armastab võõrast, andes temale leiba ja riiet.

19 Seepärast armastage võõrast, sest te olete ise olnud võõrad Egiptusemaal!

20 Issandat, oma Jumalat, pead sa kartma, teda pead sa teenima ja tema poole hoidma ning tema nime juures vanduma!

21 Tema on su kiitus ja tema on su Jumal, kes sulle on teinud neid suuri ja kohutavaid tegusid, mida su silmad on näinud.

22 Seitsmekümne hingega läksid su vanemad alla Egiptusesse, aga nüüd on Issand, su Jumal, teinud sind rohkuse poolest taevatähtede sarnaseks.

   

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9416. 'And I will give you tablets of stone' means the book of the law, or the Word in its entirety. This is clear from the meaning of 'tablets' as objects on which matters of doctrine and life have been inscribed, in this instance matters of heavenly doctrine and of life in keeping with it. The reason why those tablets mean the book of the law or the Word in its entirety is that the things which had been inscribed on them contained in a general way all matters of life and of that heavenly doctrine. This also explains why the things inscribed on them are called the ten words, Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 10:4. For 'ten' in the internal sense means all, and 'words' means truths that are matters of doctrine and forms of good that are matters of life. For the meaning of 'ten' as all, see 3107, 4638, 8468, 8540, and for that of 'words' as truths and forms of good that are matters of life and doctrine, 1288, 4692, 5272. This is why those tablets mean the Word in its entirety, just as the Law does, which in a restricted sense means the things which had been inscribed on those tablets, in a less restricted sense the Word that was written through Moses, in a broad sense the historical section of the Word, and in the broadest sense the Word in its entirety, see what has been shown in 6752. Furthermore the things which had been inscribed on those tablets belonged to the first stage in the revelation of Divine Truth; they were also declared in actual words uttered by the Lord before all the Israelite people. What belongs to the first stage means all the rest in their proper order; and the fact that those things were declared in actual words uttered by the Lord means direct Divine inspiration in all other stages of revelation as well. The reason why those tablets were made of stone was that 'stone' means truth, 643, 1298, 3720, 6426, the lowest levels of truth, to be exact, 8609. The lowest levels of God's truth constitute the letter of the Word as it exists on this planet, 9360.

[2] There was not one tablet but two, to represent the joining of the Lord to the Church through the Word, and through the Church to the human race. This also is why they are called the tablets of the covenant, Deuteronomy 9:9, 11, 15, and why the words inscribed on them are called the words of the covenant, Exodus 34:27-28, also the covenant, Deuteronomy 4:13, 23. And the ark itself in which the tablets had been deposited was called the ark of the covenant, Numbers 10:33; 14:44; Deuteronomy 10:8; 31:9, 25-26; Joshua 3:3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17; 4:7, 9, 18; 6:6, 8; 8:33; Judges 20:27; 1 Samuel 4:3-5; 2 Samuel 15:24; 1 Kings 3:15; 6:19; 8:1, 6; Jeremiah 3:16. For a covenant is a joining together, 665, 666, 1023, 1038, 1864, 1996, 2003, 2021, 6804, 8767, 8778, 9396. This explains why those tablets were divided from each other yet were joined together by being laid alongside each other. The writing on them ran across continuously from one tablet onto the other, like the writing on a single tablet. It was not, as people ordinarily think, that some commandments were written on one tablet and some on the other. For a single object divided in two, and the two parts then brought together or given each to the other, means the Lord and man joined together. The establishment of covenants was therefore accomplished in similar ways, that with Abraham for example by parting down the middle a heifer, she-goat, and ram, and laying each part opposite the other, Genesis 15:9-12; in verses 6 and 8 of the present chapter by putting blood in bowls and then sprinkling it half over the altar and half over the people; and generally in all sacrifices by burning one part on the altar and giving the other part to the people to eat. The like was also represented by the Lord when He broke bread, Matthew 14:19; 15:36; 26:26; Mark 6:41; 8:6; 14:22; Luke 9:16; 22:19; 24:30-31, 35. Here also is the reason why 'two' in the Word means things joined together, 5194, 8423, here the Lord and heaven, or the Lord and the Church, joined together, thus also goodness and truth joined together, which is called the heavenly marriage. From all this it becomes clear why it is that there were two tablets and that both sides of them were written on, from edge to edge, Exodus 32:15-16.

[3] Furthermore when the writing and engraving on tablets is mentioned in the Word it means those things that must be imprinted in people's memory and on their life, and so remain there, as in Isaiah,

Write it on a tablet among them, and express it in a book, 1 so that it may be for time to come forever, even to eternity. Isaiah 30:8.

In Jeremiah,

The sin of Judah has been written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it has been engraved on the tablet of their heart, and at the horns of your altars. Jeremiah 17:1.

In Habakkuk,

Jehovah said, Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that one running by may read it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; if it tarries, wait for it, because it will surely come. Habakkuk 2:2-3.

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1. literally, on a book (i.e. on a scroll)

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.