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Exodus 34

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1 Ja Issand ütles Moosesele: 'Raiu enesele kaks kivilauda, esimeste sarnased, ja ma kirjutan laudade peale sõnad, mis olid esimestel laudadel, mis sa purustasid!

2 Ole hommikuks valmis! Mine hommikul üles Siinai mäele ja seisa seal mu ees mäetipus!

3 Aga ükski ei tohi koos sinuga üles tulla ja kogu mäel ärgu nähtagu ka mitte kedagi, isegi lambaid, kitsi ja veised ei tohi selle mäe ees karjas olla!'

4 Siis Mooses raius kaks kivilauda, esimeste sarnased. Ja Mooses tõusis hommikul vara ning läks üles Siinai mäele, nõnda nagu Issand teda oli käskinud, ja võttis kätte need kaks kivilauda.

5 Ja Issand laskus alla pilve sees. Mooses astus seal tema juurde ja hüüdis Issanda nime.

6 Ja Issand möödus tema eest ning hüüdis: 'Issand, Issand on halastaja ja armuline Jumal, pika meelega ja rikas heldusest ning tõest,

7 kes säilitab heldust tuhandeile, annab andeks ülekohtu ja üleastumised ning patu, aga kes siiski ei jäta süüdlast karistamata, vaid nuhtleb vanemate patud lastele ja lastelastele kolmanda ja neljanda põlveni!'

8 Siis Mooses kummardas kiiresti maani, heitis silmili maha

9 ja ütles: 'Issand, kui ma nüüd olen armu leidnud sinu silmis, siis käigu Issand meie keskel! Kuigi see on kangekaelne rahvas, anna siiski andeks meie pahateod ja patt ja võta meid oma pärisosaks!'

10 Ja tema vastas: 'Vaata, ma teen lepingu; ma teen kogu su rahva ees imetegusid, milliseid ei ole tehtud ühelgi maal ega ühegi rahva juures. Kogu see rahvas, kelle keskel sa oled, saab näha Issanda tegu, ja kui hirmuäratav on see, mis ma sulle teen.

11 Pane tähele, mida ma täna käsin sind teha! Vaata, ma ajan su eest ära emorlased, kaananlased, hetid, perislased, hiivlased ja jebuuslased.

12 Hoia, et sa ei tee lepingut selle maa elanikega, kuhu sa tuled, et nad ei saaks püüdepaelaks teie keskel,

13 vaid lammutage nende altarid, purustage sambad ja raiuge maha viljakustulbad,

14 sest sa ei tohi kummardada teist jumalat, sellepärast et Issanda nimeks on 'Püha viha'! Ta on püha vihaga Jumal.

15 Sellepärast ära tee lepingut maa elanikega, sest need käivad hoora viisil oma jumalate järel, ohverdavad oma jumalatele ja kutsuvad sindki sööma nende ohvreist!

16 Ja kui sa oma poegadele võtad naisi nende tütreist ja nende tütred käivad hoora viisil oma jumalate järel, siis nad mõjustavad ka sinu poegi käima hoora viisil nende jumalate järel.

17 Sa ei tohi enesele teha valatud jumalaid!

18 Pea hapnemata leibade püha: seitse päeva söö hapnemata leiba, nõnda nagu ma sind olen käskinud, määratud ajal aabibikuus, sest aabibikuus tulid sa Egiptusest välja!

19 Kõik, kes avavad emakoja, on minu päralt; samuti kõik su isased kariloomad, veiste ja lammaste esmikud.

20 Aga eesli esmik lunasta ühe tallega; kui sa ei lunasta, siis murra tal kael! Lunasta kõik oma esmasündinud pojad! Ja tühje käsi ei tohi tulla mu palge ette!

21 Kuus päeva tee tööd, aga seitsmendal päeval puhka! Ka künni- ja lõikusajal pea puhkust!

22 Pea nädalatepüha, kui lõikad uudsenisu, ja vilja kokkupanemise püha aasta lõpus!

23 Kolm korda aastas peab kogu su meessugu tulema Issanda, Iisraeli Jumala palge ette!

24 Jah, ma ajan rahvad ära sinu eest ja laiendan su maa-ala, ja ükski ei himusta su maad, kui sa lähed, et tulla kolm korda aastas Issanda, oma Jumala palge ette.

25 Sa ei tohi ohverdada mu tapaohvri verd haput leiba süües, ja paasapüha tapaohver ei tohi seista üle öö hommikuni!

26 Parim osa oma põllu uudseviljast vii Issanda, oma Jumala kotta! Ära keeda kitsetalle ta ema piimas!'

27 Ja Issand ütles Moosesele: 'Kirjuta enesele üles need sõnad, sest nende sõnade põhjal annan ma seaduse sinule ja Iisraelile!'

28 Ja ta oli seal Issanda juures nelikümmend päeva ja nelikümmend ööd leiba söömata ja vett joomata, ja ta kirjutas laudade peale seaduse sõnad, need kümme käsusõna.

29 Ja kui Mooses astus alla Siinai mäelt ja Moosesel oli tulles käes kaks tunnistuslauda, siis Mooses ise ei teadnudki, et ta palge nahk hiilgas kõneluse tõttu Issandaga.

30 Kui Aaron ja kõik Iisraeli lapsed nägid Moosest, vaata, siis hiilgas tema palge nahk ja nad kartsid temale ligineda.

31 Aga Mooses hüüdis neid; siis Aaron ja kõik koguduse ülemad tulid jälle tema juurde ja Mooses rääkis nendega.

32 Seejärel kõik Iisraeli lapsed tulid lähedale ja ta käskis neid teha kõike, mida Issand temale oli öelnud Siinai mäel.

33 Kui Mooses oli lõpetanud nendega kõnelemise, siis ta pani katte oma näo ette.

34 Ja iga kord, kui Mooses läks Issanda palge ette temaga rääkima, pani ta katte ära kuni väljatulekuni; ja olles välja tulnud, rääkis ta Iisraeli lastele, mida oli kästud.

35 Siis Iisraeli lapsed vaatasid Moosese palet, sest Moosese palge nahk hiilgas. Aga Mooses pani jälle katte oma näo ette, kuni ta läks sisse, et temaga rääkida.

   

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2342. 'And he baked unleavened bread' means purification. This is clear from the meaning of 'unleavened' or without yeast. In the Word 'bread' means in general every celestial and spiritual food, and so in general everything celestial and spiritual, see 276, 680, 1798, 2165, 2177. The need for the latter to be free of all impurities or unholiness was represented by 'unleavened bread'; for 'yeast' means the evil and falsity by means of which celestial and spiritual things are rendered impure and profane. On account of this representation those who belonged to the representative Church were forbidden in sacrifices to offer any bread or minchah other than bread without yeast, that is, unleavened, as is clear in Moses,

Every minchah which you bring to Jehovah shall be made without yeast. Leviticus 2:11. In the same author,

You shall not sacrifice the blood of My sacrifice with that made with yeast. Exodus 23:18; 34:25.

[2] They were also forbidden therefore to eat any other bread during the seven days of the Passover than bread without yeast, that is, which was unleavened. This prohibition occurs in the following verses in Moses,

For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even on the first day you shall remove yeast from your houses, for anyone eating that made with yeast, that soul shall be cut off from Israel, from the first day until the seventh. In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month, in the evening. For seven days no yeast shall be found in your houses, for anyone eating that made with yeast, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether a settler or one born in the land. Exodus 12:15, 19-20.

The same prohibition appears in other places as well, such as Exodus 13:6-7; 23:15; 34:18; Deuteronomy 16:3-4. Consequently the Passover is called the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Leviticus 23:6; Numbers 28:16-17; Matthew 26:17; Luke 22:1, 7.

[3] That the Passover represented the glorification of the Lord and so the conjunction of the Divine with the human race will in the Lord's Divine mercy be shown elsewhere. And because the conjunction of the Lord with the human race is effected by means of love and charity, and by means of the faith deriving from these, celestial and spiritual things were represented by the unleavened bread which they were to eat each day during the Passover. Consequently to prevent the defilement of those things by anything unholy they were strictly forbidden to eat anything made with yeast, so strictly that any who did so were to be cut off; for those who profane celestial and spiritual things inevitably perish. Anyone may see that but for this arcanum within it that observance, together with so harsh a penalty, would never have been introduced.

[4] Everything that was commanded in that Church represented some arcanum, even the actual cooking, as with every instruction which the children of Israel carried out when they were leaving Egypt, namely that they were to eat that night flesh roasted by fire, and unleavened bread on bitter herbs; they were not to eat it raw or cooked in water; the head had to be on its legs; they were to let none of it remain until the morning; they were to burn what was left over with fire, Exodus 12:8-10. Every detail of these instructions was representative - eating it at night; flesh roasted by fire; unleavened bread on bitter herbs; the head on the legs; not raw; not cooked in water; not leaving any until the morning; and burning what was left with fire. But the arcana represented are in no way apparent unless they are disclosed by means of the internal sense. That sense alone shows that all these details are Divine.

[5] Something similar was done in the ritual for the taking of a Nazirite vow. The priest was to take the cooked shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and he was to place them on the palms of the Nazirite after he had shaved his consecrated head, Numbers 6:19. Anyone who does not know that a Nazirite represented the celestial man himself does not know either that every detail of these instructions embodies celestial things, and so arcana, which are not apparent in the letter, namely the instructions to take the cooked shoulder of a ram, an unleavened cake, an unleavened wafer, and to shave off his hair. This also shows what kind of opinion regarding the Word can be gained by people who do not believe in the existence of an internal sense, for without the internal sense such details are of no consequence at all. But when the ceremonial or ritualistic element has been stripped away everything becomes Divine and holy. Everything else has a deeper meaning, as does 'unleavened bread' which means the holiness of love, or what is most holy, as it is also called in Moses,

The unleavened bread that was left over was to be eaten by Aaron and his sons in a holy place, for it was most holy. Leviticus 6:16-17.

'Unleavened bread' therefore means pure love, and 'the baking of that which is unleavened' purification.

  
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