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Numbrid 20

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1 Ja Iisraeli lapsed, terve kogudus, tulid esimeses kuus Siini kõrbe ja rahvas asus Kaadesisse. Seal suri Mirjam ja ta maeti sinna.

2 Kogudusel aga ei olnud vett. Siis nad kogunesid Moosese ja Aaroni vastu.

3 Ja rahvas riidles Moosesega, nad rääkisid ning ütlesid nõnda: 'Oleksime ometi meiegi hinge heitnud, siis kui meie vennad hinge heitsid Issanda ees!

4 Miks tõite Issanda koguduse, meid ja meie loomad, siia kõrbe surema?

5 Miks tõite meid ära Egiptusest, tuues meid siia pahasse paika? Ei ole see vilja ega viigimarja, viinapuu ega granaatõuna paik, ja joomiseks ei ole vett!'

6 Aga Mooses ja Aaron tulid rahvakogu eest kogudusetelgi ukse ette ja heitsid silmili maha. Siis ilmutas ennast neile Issanda auhiilgus.

7 Ja Issand rääkis Moosesega, öeldes:

8 'Võta kepp ja kogu kokku kogudus, sina ja su vend Aaron, ja öelge nende nähes kaljule, et see annaks vett! Sina too neile kaljust vesi välja ning jooda kogudust ja nende loomi!'

9 Siis Mooses võttis Issanda eest kepi, nagu teda oli kästud.

10 Ja Mooses ja Aaron kogusid koguduse kalju ette; ja ta ütles neile: 'Kuulge nüüd, te vastupanijad! Kas peame tooma teile vee välja sestsamast kaljust?'

11 Siis Mooses tõstis oma käe üles ja lõi oma kepiga kaks korda kaljut, ja palju vett tuli välja ning kogudus ja nende loomad said juua.

12 Aga Issand ütles Moosesele ja Aaronile: 'Sellepärast et te ei uskunud minusse ega pidanud mind pühaks Iisraeli laste silme ees, ei saa teie viia seda kogudust sellele maale, mille mina neile annan!'

13 See oli Meriba vesi, kus Iisraeli lapsed riidlesid Issandaga ja tema näitas ennast neile pühana.

14 Kaadesist läkitas Mooses käskjalad Edomi kuninga juurde: 'Nõnda ütleb su vend Iisrael: Sina tead kõiki raskusi, mis meid on tabanud,

15 et meie vanemad läksid alla Egiptusesse ja me asusime kaua aega Egiptuses ja et egiptlased tegid kurja meile ja meie vanemaile.

16 Aga me kisendasime Issanda poole ja tema kuulis meie häält ning läkitas ingli, kes tõi meid Egiptusest välja. Ja vaata, me oleme Kaadesis, linnas su maa piiril.

17 Luba meid nüüd oma maast läbi minna! Me ei lähe läbi põldude ega viinamägede ja me ei joo kaevuvett. Me läheme kuningateed mööda ega pöördu paremat või vasakut kätt, kuni oleme läbinud su maa-ala.'

18 Aga Edom vastas temale: 'Sa ei tohi läbi minna! Muidu ma tulen mõõgaga su vastu.'

19 Ja Iisraeli lapsed ütlesid temale: 'Me läheme maanteed mööda ja kui me joome su vett, mina ja mu loomad, siis ma maksan selle eest. Ei midagi muud, kui et võiksin jala läbi minna!'

20 Aga tema vastas: 'Sa ei tohi läbi minna!' Ja Edom läks välja tema vastu hulga rahva ja kindla käega.

21 Kui Edom keeldus lubamast Iisraeli oma maa-alast läbi minna, siis Iisrael pöördus temast eemale.

22 Ja nad läksid teele Kaadesist. Ja Iisraeli lapsed, terve kogudus, tulid Hoori mäe juurde.

23 Ja Issand rääkis Moosese ja Aaroniga Hoori mäe juures Edomi maa piiril, öeldes:

24 'Aaron koristatakse oma rahva juurde, sest ta ei pääse sellele maale, mille ma annan Iisraeli lastele, sellepärast et te Meriba vee juures olite tõrksad mu käsu vastu.

25 Võta Aaron ja tema poeg Eleasar ja vii nad Hoori mäele!

26 Võta Aaronil riided seljast ja pane need selga ta pojale Eleasarile! Aaron koristatakse ära ja ta sureb seal.'

27 Ja Mooses tegi nõnda, nagu Issand käskis, ja nad läksid üles Hoori mäele terve koguduse nähes.

28 Ja Mooses võttis Aaronil riided seljast ning pani need selga ta pojale Eleasarile. Ja Aaron suri seal mäeharjal, aga Mooses ja Eleasar astusid mäelt alla.

29 Ja kui terve kogudus nägi, et Aaron oli hinge heitnud, siis nad nutsid Aaroni pärast kolmkümmend päeva, kogu Iisraeli sugu.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 4936

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4936. On several occasions spirits have appeared holding rods, who, I was told, were magicians. They are in front, a long way off on the right, deeply within caverns. Magicians who have been more malevolent ones are hidden more deeply than the rest within them. They seem to themselves to have rods, and by means of delusions they also produce many more kinds of rods, believing that they can use these to perform miracles. For they imagine that these rods have power within them, and they imagine this because the right hand and the arm, which by correspondence are embodiments of strength and power, support themselves on those rods. This has made it evident to me why people of old assigned rods to magicians, for the gentiles of old received this idea from the representative Ancient Church, in which rods, like the hand, meant power, see 4876. And because these meant power Moses was commanded, when miracles were performed, to stretch out his rod or his hand, Exodus 4:17, 20; 8:5-20; 9:23; 10:3-21; 14:21, 26-27; 17:5-6, 11-12; Numbers 20:7-10.

  
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Exodus 18

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1 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how that Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.

2 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,

3 and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land".

4 The name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, "My father's God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh's sword."

5 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the Mountain of God.

6 He said to Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her."

7 Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent.

8 Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them.

9 Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yahweh had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.

10 Jethro said, "Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

11 Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them."

12 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all of the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.

13 It happened on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.

14 When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, "What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?"

15 Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

16 When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws."

17 Moses' father-in-law said to him, "The thing that you do is not good.

18 You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.

19 Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.

20 You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

21 Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

22 Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.

23 If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all of these people also will go to their place in peace."

24 So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.

25 Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

26 They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard causes to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

27 Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.