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1 Ja Mooses vastas ning ütles: 'Aga kui nemad mind ei usu ja mu sõna ei kuula, vaid ütlevad: Issand ei ole ennast sulle ilmutanud?'

2 Siis Issand küsis: 'Mis see on, mis sul käes on?' Ta vastas: 'Kepp.'

3 Ja tema ütles: 'Viska see maha!' Ta viskas selle maha ja see muutus maoks. Ja Mooses põgenes selle eest.

4 Ja Issand ütles Moosesele: 'Siruta oma käsi ja haara temal sabast,' - ja ta sirutas oma käe ning võttis temast kinni, ja see muutus ta pihus kepiks -

5 'et nad usuksid, et sulle on ennast ilmutanud Issand, nende vanemate Jumal, Aabrahami Jumal, Iisaki Jumal ja Jaakobi Jumal!'

6 Ja Issand ütles temale veel: 'Pane oma käsi põue!' Ta pani oma käe põue ja tõmbas välja, ja vaata, käsi oli pidalitõvest valge nagu lumi.

7 Ja ta ütles: 'Pane oma käsi tagasi põue!' Ta pani oma käe põue ja tõmbas välja, ja vaata, see oli jälle nagu ta ihu.

8 'Kui nad sind ei usu ega kuula su sõna esimese imeteo põhjal, siis nad usuvad teise imeteo sõnumit.

9 Ja kui nad ka neid kahte imetegu ei usu ega kuula su sõna, siis võta Niiluse jõe vett ja vala kuivale maale! Vesi, mida sa Niiluse jõest võtad, muutub siis kuival maal vereks.'

10 Aga Mooses ütles Issandale: 'Oh Issand, mina ei ole sõnakas mees, ei varemast ajast ega ka mitte sellest peale, kui sa oma sulasega oled rääkinud, sest mul on raskevõitu suu ja raskevõitu keel.'

11 Siis Issand ütles temale: 'Kes on teinud inimesele suu, või kes teeb keeletu, kurdi, nägija või pimeda? Kas mitte mina, Issand?

12 Ja nüüd mine, ja mina olen abiks sinu suule ning õpetan sind, mida sa pead rääkima!'

13 Aga ta ütles: 'Oh Issand, läkita, keda läkitad, ainult mitte mind!'

14 Siis Issanda viha süttis põlema Moosese vastu ja ta ütles: 'Eks ole leviit Aaron sinu vend? Ma tean, et ta räägib hästi; ja vaata, ta tulebki sulle vastu. Kui ta sind näeb, siis ta rõõmutseb südamest.

15 Sina pead temaga rääkima ja temale sõnad suhu panema, aga mina olen sinu suuga ja tema suuga, ja ma õpetan teid, mida te peate tegema.

16 Tema rääkigu sinu asemel rahvaga ja see olgu nõnda: tema on sulle suuks ja sina oled temale Jumalaks.

17 Ja võta kätte see kepp, millega sa imetegusid teed!'

18 Siis Mooses läks ära ja tuli tagasi oma äia Jitro juurde ning ütles temale: 'Ma tahan minna tagasi oma vendade juurde, kes on Egiptuses, et näha, kas nad on veel elus!' Ja Jitro ütles Moosesele: 'Mine rahuga!'

19 Issand ütles Moosesele Midjanis: 'Pöördu tagasi Egiptusesse, sest kõik need mehed, kes nõudsid su hinge, on surnud!'

20 Ja Mooses võttis oma naise ja pojad ning pani need eesli selga ja läks tagasi Egiptusemaale; ja Mooses võttis Jumala kepi oma kätte.

21 Issand ütles Moosesele: 'Kui sa lähed ja tuled tagasi Egiptusesse, siis vaata, et sa teed vaarao ees kõik need imeteod, mis mina sinu kätte olen andnud. Aga mina teen ta südame kõvaks ja tema ei lase rahvast ära.

22 Kuid ütle vaaraole: Nõnda ütleb Issand: Iisrael on minu esmasündinud poeg.

23 Ja ma ütlen sulle: Saada mu poeg ära, et ta mind teeniks! Aga kui sa keeldud teda saatmast, vaata, siis ma tapan su esmasündinud poja!'

24 Aga kui ta oli teel öömajale, tuli Issand temale vastu ja püüdis teda surmata.

25 Siis Sippora võttis kivinoa ja lõikas ära oma poja eesnaha, puudutas sellega ta häbet ning ütles: 'Sa oled tõesti mu verepeigmees!'

26 Siis see jättis tema rahule; sel ajal öeldi verepeigmees ümberlõikamise tähenduses.

27 Ja Issand ütles Aaronile: 'Mine kõrbesse Moosesele vastu!' Ta läks ning kohtas teda Jumala mäe juures ja andis temale suud.

28 Ja Mooses tegi Aaronile teatavaks kõik Issanda sõnad, kes teda oli läkitanud, ja kõik imeteod, mis ta teda oli käskinud teha.

29 Siis Mooses läks koos Aaroniga ja nad kogusid kokku kõik Iisraeli laste vanemad.

30 Ja Aaron rääkis kõik need sõnad, mis Issand oli Moosesele rääkinud, ja ta tegi imetegusid rahva silma ees.

31 Ja rahvas uskus; kui nad kuulsid, et Issand oli tundnud muret Iisraeli laste pärast, ja et ta oli näinud nende viletsust, siis nad kummardasid ja heitsid silmili maha.

   

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6952. 'Put out your hand and take hold of the tail' means the power of raising something from the last part of the sensory level. This is clear from the meaning of 'hand' as power, dealt with above in 6947; and from the meaning of 'the serpent's tail' as the lowest part of the sensory level - 'a serpent' is the sensory level, see above in 6949, so that 'its tail' is the last or lowest part of it. Raising something is meant by 'putting out and taking hold', for a person who puts out his hand and takes hold of some creature crawling on the ground raises it up. Since 'a serpent' means the separated sensory level and the resulting reasoning based on the illusions of the senses regarding the truths of faith, 'the serpent's tail' means falsity itself, for this falsity constitutes the last and lowest part. A person ruled by falsity, thus by what is last and lowest, looks altogether downwards and outwards, that is, in a worldly and earthly direction, not upwards and inwards, that is, to heaven and the Lord.

[2] The fact that these kinds of things are meant by 'the serpent's tail' is clear in John,

The locusts had tails like scorpions, and stings were in their tails, and their power, in order that they might do people harm. Revelation 9:10.

'Tails like scorpions' and 'stings in the tails' are artful reasonings based on falsities by means of which they can convince and thereby damage people; and this is why it says that the power they have is 'to do people harm'.

[3] In the same author,

The horses' tails were like serpents, having heads; and by means of them they do harm. Revelation 9:19.

Here likewise 'tails like serpents' stands for reasonings based on falsities by means of which they cause harm, especially as it is said that such tails were those of horses and had heads. For 'horses' and also 'head' mean the area of understanding in the mind, and therefore 'tails' here means the more artful kinds of reasonings against truths that are based on illusions and consequent falsities. These reasonings are the lowest, for the more artful the reasonings against truths are, the lower they are.

[4] In the same author,

The dragon's tail drew a third part of the stars of heaven and cast them down to the earth. Revelation 12:4.

'The dragon's tail' stands in a similar way for reasonings based on falsities. 'The stars of heaven' stands for cognitions of goodness and truth, 'casting them down to the earth' for destroying them. The dragon is the serpent which uses reasonings based on falsities to lead people astray and which led astray in paradise 'the mother of living ones', who was Eve, because of the tree of knowledge, that is, by means of factual knowledge based on sensory evidence, thus on illusions. This is also made plain in John,

The great dragon was cast out, the serpent of old, who is called the devil and satan, who leads the whole world astray. Revelation 12:9.

[5] The fact that 'the tail' in general is the separated sensory level of the mind which does not look upwards but downwards, thus not in a heavenly but an earthly direction, and that consequently it means falsity is clear in Isaiah,

Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, the branch and the bulrush. The old and the honourable [in face] is the head, but the prophet, the teacher of a lie, is the tail. Isaiah 9:14-15.

Here 'tail' plainly stands for falsity, which the Word calls 'a lie'. In the same prophet,

There will not be for Egypt [any] work which the head and tail, branch and bulrush, may do. Isaiah 19:15.

'Bulrush' stands for that which is lowest. In Moses,

So Jehovah will give you to be the head, and not to be the tail, in order that you may be tending only upwards, but not be tending downwards, when you obey the commandments of your God. Deuteronomy 18:13.

[6] 'The tail' stands for the lowest part which looks downwards or outwards, that is, in a worldly and earthly direction and not towards heaven and the Lord. For the interior parts of the human mind together with sensory levels are raised upwards by the Lord when a person is governed by the good of faith and charity. But if he is governed by evil and falsity, then the interior parts together with the sensory levels look downwards and so solely to things in the world. As a consequence he sheds his human nature and assumes a beast-like nature, for wild beasts look downwards or solely to things on earth. The person who looks downwards wills what is evil and thinks what is false, but one whom the Lord raises upwards wills what is good and thinks what is true. A raising by the Lord does in actual fact take place and therefore a removal from evils and falsities. Angels have the actual feeling of being raised up; it is like the force drawing things towards the centre of attraction, the centre being where the Lord is within His Sun. Angels have their heads raised in this direction, but those in hell their feet, so that the angels look upwards but those in hell downwards, 3641, 3643. In the same book,

The foreigner who is in the midst of you will rise above you, upwards more and more, but you will go down, downwards more and more; he will be the head, but you will be the tail. Deuteronomy 28:43, 44.

Here the meaning is similar. In Isaiah,

Say to him, Beware, and be quiet; do not fear, and do not let your heart become soft on account of the two tails of these smoking firebrands, on account of the blazing anger of Rezin and Syria, and the son of Remaliah. Isaiah 7:4.

'Rezin king of Syria' stands for cognitions or knowledge of what is evil, 'Syria' meaning cognitions of what is good, see 1232, 1234, 3680, and so in the contrary sense cognitions of what is evil; and 'the son of Remaliah king of Samaria' stands for knowledge or cognitions of what is false. The latter and the former kinds of cognitions are 'tails' because they constitute what is lowest. 'Smoking firebrands' stands for blazing anger.

  
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