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1 Ja Herra sanoi Mosekselle: mene Pharaon tykö; sillä minä paadutin hänen ja hänen palveliainsa sydämet, tehdäkseni nämät minun ihmeeni heidän seassansa.

2 Ja että sinä ilmoittaisit sinun lastes, ja sinun lastes lasten korviin, mitä minä tehnyt olen Egyptissä, ja minun ihmeeni, jotka minä tein heidän seassansa, että te tietäisitte, että minä olen Herra.

3 Niin menivät Moses ja Aaron Pharaon tykö, ja sanoivat hänelle: näin sanoo Herra Hebrealaisten Jumala: kuinka kauan et sinä tahdo nöyryyttää itsiäs minun edessäni? Päästä minun kansani palvelemaan minua;

4 Sillä jos sinä estelet päästää minun kansani; katso, niin minä huomenna tuotan heinäsirkat kaikkiin sinun maas ääriin,

5 Niin että heidän pitää peittämän maan, niin ettei maa pidä näkymän; ja heidän pitää syömän tähteet, mitkä teille on jääneet rakeilta, ja pitää syömän kaikki vihottavaiset puut teidän kedollanne,

6 Ja täyttämän sinun huonees, ja kaikkein sinun palveliais huoneet, ja koko Egyptin huoneet; jonka kaltaisia sinun isäs ja isäisisät ei nähneet ole, siitä päivästä kuin he maan päällä olleet ovat tähän päivään asti. Ja hän käänsi itsensä ja meni ulos Pharaon tyköä.

7 Niin sanoivat Pharaon palveliat hänelle: kuinka kauvan pitää hänen oleman meille paulaksi? Päästä kansa palvelemaan Herraa Jumalaansa: etkös vielä tiedä Egyptiä hävitetyksi?

8 Niin Moses ja Aaron palautettiin jällensä Pharaon tykö, joka sanoi heille: menkäät ja palvelkaat Herraa teidän Jumalaanne; vaan kutka ne ovat jotka menevät?

9 Ja Moses sanoi: me menemme meidän nuorten ja vanhain kanssa, poikinemme ja tyttärinemme, lammastemme ja karjamme kanssa; sillä meillä on Herran juhla.

10 Ja hän sanoi heille: ikään niin, olkoon Herra teidän kanssanne. Pitäiskö minun päästämän teidät ja teidän lapsenne? Katsokaat, jollei teillä jotakin pahaa sydämessänne ole?

11 Ei niin, mutta menkäät te miehet ja palvelkaat Herraa; sillä sitä te olette pyytäneetkin. Ja he ajoivat heidät pois Pharaon edestä.

12 Niin sanoi Herra Mosekselle: ojenna kätes Egyptin maan ylitse heinäsirkkain tähden, että he tulisivat Egyptin maan päälle, ja söisivät kaiken maan vihannon, kaikki mitä rakeilta jäänyt on.

13 Moses ojensi sauvansa Egyptin maan ylitse, ja Herra antoi tulla itätuulen sille maalle kaiken sen päivän ja kaiken sen yön; ja aamulla nosti itätuuli heinäsirkat.

14 Ja tulivat heinäsirkat koko Egyptin maan päälle, laskivat itsensä joka paikkaan Egyptin maalle, niin epälukuiset, ettei heidän kaltaisiansa heinäsirkkoja ennen ollut, eikä tästedes tule.

15 Ja he peittivät kaiken maan, ja maa tuli mustaksi. Ja söivät kaikki maan vihannon, ja kaikki puiden hedelmät kuin jääneet olivat rakeilta, ja ei jäänyt ensinkään viheriäistä puihin ja kedon ruohoihin koko Egyptin malla.

16 Niin kutsui Pharao kiiruusti Moseksen ja Aaronin, ja sanoi: minä olen pahaa tehnyt Herraa teidän Jumalaanne, ja teitä vastaan.

17 Niin anna nyt minulle anteeksi minun rikokseni vielä tällä erällä, ja rukoilkaat Herraa teidän Jumalaanne, että hän ottais minulta pois vielä tämän kuoleman.

18 Ja hän meni pois Pharaon tyköä, ja rukoili Herraa.

19 Niin Herra käänsi tuulen aivan tuimaksi länsituuleksi, ja nostatti heinäsirkat ja heitti heidät Punaiseen mereen, niin ettei yhtäkään heinäsirkkaa jäänyt koko Egyptin maan ääriin.

20 Mutta Herra paadutti Pharaon sydämen, ja ei hän päästänyt Israelin lapsia.

21 Ja Herra sanoi Mosekselle: ojenna kätes taivaaseen päin, että pimeys tulis Egyptin maan päälle, niin että pimeyteen ruveta taidettaisiin.

22 Ja Moses ojensi kätensä taivaaseen päin, niin tuli synkiä pimeys koko Egyptin maan päälle kolmeksi päiväksi.

23 Niin ettei toinen toistansa nähnyt, eikä myös noussut paikastansa kolmena päivänä. Mutta kaikilla Israelin lapsilla oli valkeus heidän asuinsioissansa.

24 Niin kutsui Pharao Moseksen, ja sanoi: menkäät ja palvelkaat Herraa; ainoastansa teidän lampaanne ja karjanne jääkään tänne: teidän lapsenne menkään myös teidän kanssanne.

25 Moses sanoi: sinun pitää myös salliman minun käsiini uhrini, ja polttouhrin, jota meidän pitää tekemän Herralle meidän Jumalallemme.

26 Meidän karjamme pitää myös menemän meidän kanssamme, ja ei yhtäkään sorkkaa jäämän; sillä siitä meidän pitää ottaman ja tekemän palveluksen Herralle meidän Jumalallemme: ja emme tiedä, millä me palvelemme Herraa, siihenasti kuin me sinne tulemme.

27 Mutta Herra paadutti Pharaon sydämen, ja ei hän tahtonut päästää heitä.

28 Ja Pharao sanoi hänelle: mene pois minun tyköäni, ja karta ettes enempi silleen tule minun kasvoini eteen; sillä jona päivänä sinä tulet minun eteeni, pitää sinun kuoleman.

29 Moses vastasi: niinkuin sinä sanonut olet, en tule minä enempi sinun kasvois eteen.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 7726

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7726. 'You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings' means that they must leave alone all the means through which worship must be offered. This is clear from the meaning of 'giving into the hand' as leaving alone, for 'hand' means power, and therefore 'giving into the hand' means surrendering to their power, thus leaving them alone; and from the meaning of 'sacrifices and burnt offerings' as worship in general, thus the whole of worship, dealt with in 923, 6905. The reason why' sacrifices and burnt offerings' means the whole of worship is that sacrifices were the chief means through which Divine worship was offered, as becomes clear from the Books of Moses. For what has been shown already regarding sacrifices, see 922, 923, 1128, 1343, 1823, 2165, 2180, 2187, 2776, 2784, 2805, 2807, 2812, 2818, 2830, 3519, 6905.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 3519

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3519. 'And take for me from there two good kids of the she-goats' means truths born from that good. This is clear from the meaning of 'kids of the she-goats' as truths born from good, dealt with below. The reason for having 'two' was that as in the rational so in the natural there are things of the will and those of the understanding. Things in the natural that belong to the will are delights, while those that belong to the understanding are facts. These two have to be joined together if they are to be anything at all.

[2] As regards 'kids of the she-goats' meaning truths born from good, this becomes clear from those places in the Word where kids and she-goats are mentioned. It should be recognized that all gentle and useful beasts mentioned in the Word mean in the genuine sense celestial things, which are forms of good, and spiritual things, which are forms of truth, see 45, 46, 142, 143, 246, 714, 715, 776, 2179, 2180, 2781, 3218. And since there are various genera of celestial things or forms of good, and consequently there are various genera of spiritual things or forms of truth, one beast has a different meaning from another; that is to say, a lamb has one meaning, a kid another, and a sheep, she-goat, ram, he-goat, young bull, or ox another, while a horse or a camel has yet another meaning. Birds have a different meaning again, as also do beasts of the sea, such as sea monsters, and fish. The genera of celestial and spiritual things, and consequently of forms of good and truth, are more than anyone can number, even though when that which is celestial or good is mentioned, and also when that which is spiritual or truth, this is not envisaged as being anything complex, consisting of many parts, but as a single entity. Yet how complex both of these are, that is, how countless the genera are of which they consist, may be seen from what has been stated about heaven in 3241, to the effect that it is distinguished into countless separate communities, according to the genera of celestial and spiritual things, that is, of goods of love and of derivative truths of faith. Furthermore each genus of good and each genus of truth has countless species into which the communities of each genus are separated. And each species in a similar way has separate sub-species.

[3] The commonest genera of good and truth are what the living creatures offered as burnt offerings and sacrifices represented. And because the genera are quite distinct and separate, people were explicitly commanded to use those living creatures and no others, that is to say, in some sacrifices lambs and ewe-lambs, and also kids and female kids of she-goats were to be used, in other sacrifices rams and sheep, and also he-goats, were to be used, while in other sacrifices again, calves, young bulls, and oxen, or else pigeons and doves, were to be used, see 992, 1823, 2180, 2805, 2807, 2830, 3218. What kids and she-goats meant however becomes clear both from the sacrifices in which they used to be offered and from other places in the Word. These show that lambs and ewe-lambs meant innocence belonging to the internal or rational man, and kids and she-goats innocence belonging to the external or natural man, and so the truth and the good of the latter.

[4] The fact that truth and good present in the innocence that belongs to the external or natural man is meant by a kid and a she-goat is clear from the following places in the Word: In Isaiah,

The wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the kid, the calf also and the young lion and the sheep together; and a little child will lead them. Isaiah 11:6.

This refers to the Lord's kingdom and to the state there in which people have no fear of evil, that is, no dread of hell, because they are with the Lord. 'The lamb' and 'the kid' stand for people who have innocence within them, and who, being the most secure of all, are mentioned first.

[5] When all the firstborn of Egypt were smitten the people were commanded to kill from among the lambs or among the kids a male without blemish, and to put some of the blood on the doorposts and on the lintel of their houses; and so the destroyer would not strike them with the plague, Exodus 12:5, 7, 13. 'The firstborn of Egypt' means the good of love and charity that was wiped out, 3325. 'The lambs' and 'the kids' are states of innocence, in which those with whom these exist are secure from evil. Indeed all in heaven are kept secure by the Lord through states of innocence. That security was represented by the killing of the lamb or kid, and putting the blood on the doorposts and on the lintel of the houses. .

[6] To avert his own death when a person saw Jehovah manifested as an angel he would sacrifice 'a kid of the she-goats', as Gideon did when he saw Him, Judges 6:19, and also Manoah, Judges 13:15-16, 19. The reason they offered a kid was that Jehovah or the Lord cannot appear to anybody, not even to an angel, unless the one to whom He appears is in a state of innocence. Therefore as soon as the Lord is present people are brought into a state of innocence, for the Lord enters in by way of innocence, even with angels in heaven. Consequently no one is able to enter heaven unless he has a measure of innocence, according to the Lord's words recorded in Matthew 18:3; Mark 10:15; Luke 18:17. Regarding people's belief that they would die when Jehovah appeared to them if they did not offer such a burnt offering, see Judges 13:22-23.

[7] Since genuine conjugial love is innocence itself, 2736, it was customary in the representative Church for a man to go to his wife with the gift of a kid of the she-goats, as one reads of Samson in Judges 15:1, and also of Judah when he visited Tamar, Genesis 38:17, 20, 23. The fact that 'a kid' and 'a she-goat' meant innocence is also evident from the sacrifices made as guilt offerings that a person would offer if he had sinned through error, Leviticus 1:10; 4:28; 5:6. Sinning through error is sinning through ignorance that has innocence within it. The same is evident from the following Divine command in Moses,

You shall bring the first of the firstfruits of your land to the house of Jehovah your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk. Exodus 23:19; 34:26.

Here the requirement 'to bring the firstfruits of the land to the house of Jehovah' means the state of innocence which exists in early childhood; and 'not boiling a kid in its mother's milk' means that they were not to destroy the innocence of early childhood. This being their meaning, the one command, in both places referred to, follows directly after the other. In the literal sense there seems to be no connection at all between them as there is in the internal sense.

[8] Because kids and she-goats, as has been stated, meant innocence it was also required that the curtains over the tabernacle should be made from she-goat hair, Exodus 25:4; 26:7; 35:5-6, 23, 26; 36:14, as a sign that all the holy things represented in it depended for their very being on innocence. 'She-goat hair' means the last or outermost degree of innocence present in ignorance, such as exists with gentiles who in the internal sense are meant by the curtains of the tabernacle. These considerations now show what truths born of good are, and what the nature of these is, meant by the two good kids of the she-goats which Rebekah his mother spoke about to Jacob. That is to say, they are truths belonging to innocence or early childhood, meant also by the things which Esau was to bring to Isaac his father, dealt with in 3501, 3508. They were not in fact such truths, but initially they appeared to be. Thus it was that Jacob pretended by means of them to be Esau.

  
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