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Exodus 13

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1 Ja Issand rääkis Moosesega, öeldes:

2 'Pühitse mulle kõik esmasündinud, kõik Iisraeli laste emakodade avajad inimestest ja kariloomadest - need olgu minu!'

3 Ja Mooses ütles rahvale: 'Mõelge päevale, mil te tulite välja Egiptusest, orjusekojast, sest vägeva käega tõi Issand teid sealt välja! Sellepärast ei tohi hapnenut süüa!

4 Täna, aabibikuus, te lähete välja.

5 Ja kui Issand sind viib kaananlaste, hettide, emorlaste, hiivlaste ja jebuuslaste maale, mille ta vandega su vanemaile on tõotanud sulle anda, maale, mis piima ja mett voolab, siis pead sa selles kuus pidama seda teenistust.

6 Seitse päeva söö hapnemata leiba ja seitsmendal päeval olgu Issanda püha!

7 Hapnemata leiba söödagu seitse päeva; ärgu nähtagu su juures hapnenut ja ärgu nähtagu haputaignat kogu su maa-alal!

8 Ja sel päeval seleta oma pojale, öeldes: See on ühenduses sellega, mis Issand mulle tegi, kui ma Egiptusest lahkusin.

9 See olgu sulle nagu märgiks käe peal ja meeldetuletuseks silmade vahel, et Issanda Seadus oleks su suus; sest Issand tõi sind vägeva käega Egiptusest välja.

10 Seda seadlust pead sa täitma määratud ajal aastast aastasse!

11 Ja kui Issand sind on viinud kaananlaste maale, nagu ta sulle ja su vanemaile on vandunud, ja on andnud selle sulle,

12 siis vii Issandale kõik, kes avavad emakoja; ja kõik isased esmikud su kariloomade kandest olgu Issanda päralt!

13 Iga eesli esmik lunasta ühe tallega; aga kui sa teda ei lunasta, siis murra tal kael! Ja lunasta iga inimese esmasündinu oma poegade hulgas!

14 Ja kui su poeg sinult tulevikus küsib, öeldes: Mida see tähendab?, siis vasta temale: Vägeva käega tõi Issand meid välja Egiptusest, orjusekojast.

15 Siis kui vaarao oli kalgilt meie mineku vastu, tappis Issand kõik esmasündinud Egiptusemaal, inimeste esmasündinuist kariloomade esmasündinuteni. Seepärast ma ohverdan Issandale kõik emakoja avajad isased ja lunastan kõik oma poegade esmasündinud.

16 See olgu märgiks su käe peal ja naastuks su silmade vahel; sest vägeva käega tõi Issand meid Egiptusest välja!'

17 Aga kui vaarao oli lasknud rahva minna, siis ei viinud Jumal neid mööda vilistite maa teed, kuigi see oli ligem, sest Jumal mõtles, et sõda nähes rahvas kahetseb ja pöördub tagasi Egiptusesse,

18 vaid Jumal laskis rahva pöörduda kõrbeteed Kõrkjamere poole; ja võitlusvalmilt läksid Iisraeli lapsed Egiptusemaalt välja.

19 Ja Mooses võttis enesega kaasa Joosepi luud, sest tema oli Iisraeli lapsi vandega kohustanud, öeldes: 'Jumal hoolitseb kindlasti teie eest. Siis viige ka minu luud siit enestega kaasa!'

20 Ja nad läksid teele Sukkotist ning lõid leeri üles Eetamisse, kõrbe äärde.

21 Ja Issand käis nende ees, päeval pilvesambas juhatamas neile teed, ja öösel tulesambas, andes neile valgust, et nad said minna päeval ja öösel.

22 Ei lahkunud pilvesammas päeval ega tulesammas öösel rahva eest.

   

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Numbrid 9:15

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15 Päeval, kui elamu oli püstitatud, kattis elamut tunnistustelgi kohal pilv, aga õhtust hommikuni oli elamu kohal otsekui tulepaistus.

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8043. 'Whatever opens the womb' means which springs from charity. This is clear from the meaning of 'whatever opens the womb' as that which is born directly from someone who has been regenerated, thus which springs from charity, in accordance with what has been stated immediately above in 8042. For when a person is conceived anew he so to speak enters the womb again; and when a person is born anew he so to speak comes out of the womb again. But this time, what is conceived in and born from the womb is not the person as a person; rather it is faith, the offspring of charity. This faith gives the person a spiritual character; it so to speak remakes the person himself since his life is now begotten by it. From all this one may now see what is meant in the spiritual sense by 'whatever opens the womb'. Angels, whose ideas are solely spiritual ones, do not understand the expression in any other way. What 'the womb' means, and also what 'being in the womb' and 'coming out of the womb' mean, see 3293 (end), 3294, 3967, 4904, 4918, 4931, 5052, 5054, 6433.

[2] Since those things are meant by 'the womb', the Word speaks of the Lord as Him who 'formed from the womb', that is, who is the Regenerator, as in Isaiah,

Thus said Jehovah who made you and formed you from the womb, who helps you, Fear not, O My servant Jacob, and Jeshurun whom I have chosen, for I will pour out water upon thirsty land, and streams upon the dry I will pour out My spirit upon your seed, and blessing upon your sons. Isaiah 44:2-3.

The Lord is spoken of as Him who 'made and formed from the womb' because He regenerates a person, making a spiritual person out of one who is natural. Since regeneration is accomplished through truth and good it says that He will pour out water upon thirsty land and spirit upon his seed; for 'water' means the truth of faith, 2702, 3058, 3424, 4976, 5668, 7307, and 'spirit' means the good of charity, in the same way as 'water' and 'spirit' do in John,

Jesus said to Nicodemus, Truly, truly I say to you, Unless a person is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus said to Him, How can a person be born when he is old? Can he come a second time into his mother's womb? Jesus answered, Truly, truly I say to you, Unless a person has been born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which has been born of the flesh is flesh, but that which has been born of the spirit is spirit. Are you a teacher in Israel, and do not know this? John 3:3-6, 10.

[3] The Lord is again called the One who 'formed from the womb' elsewhere in Isaiah,

Thus said Jehovah, your Redeemer, and He who formed you from the womb, I am Jehovah who makes all things, who spreads out the heavens Alone, and who stretches out the earth by Myself. Isaiah 44:24.

'The heavens' and 'the earth' are used to mean in a general sense the internal and the external Church, 82, 1411, 1733, 1850, 3355, 4535, and in a particular sense the internal and the external aspects of the Church with a person who has been regenerated; and 'spreading out' and 'stretching out' mean making or creating by the use of Divine power, 7673. This is why the Lord as Regenerator is referred to as Maker and Creator, and why regeneration is referred to as a new creation.

[4] 'Womb' is used in a similar way in the same prophet,

Hearken to Me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel who have been carried from the belly who have been borne from the womb. Isaiah 46:3.

And in David,

On You, O Lord Jehovih, I have been laid from the womb; You brought me out of my mother's bowels; You are my praise continually Psalms 71:6.

From all this one may now see what is meant in the internal sense by 'whatever opens the womb' and consequently by 'the firstborn'.

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