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maastamuutto 24

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1 Ja hän sanoi Moosekselle: "Nouse Herran tykö, sinä ja Aaron, Naadab ja Abihu ynnä seitsemänkymmentä Israelin vanhinta; ja kumartukaa ja rukoilkaa taampana.

2 Mooses yksinään lähestyköön Herraa; muut älkööt lähestykö, ja kansa älköön nousko sinne hänen kanssansa."

3 Ja Mooses tuli ja kertoi kansalle kaikki Herran sanat ja kaikki hänen säädöksensä. Niin koko kansa vastasi yhteen ääneen ja sanoi: "Kaiken, mitä Herra on puhunut, me teemme".

4 Sitten Mooses kirjoitti kaikki Herran sanat. Ja hän nousi varhain seuraavana aamuna ja rakensi alttarin vuoren juurelle sekä pystytti kaksitoista patsasta Israelin kahdentoista sukukunnan mukaan.

5 Ja hän lähetti israelilaisten joukosta nuoria miehiä uhraamaan polttouhreja ja teurastamaan härkiä yhteysuhriksi Herralle.

6 Ja Mooses otti verestä puolet ja pani uhrimaljoihin, ja toisen puolen hän vihmoi alttarille.

7 Ja hän otti liitonkirjan ja luki sen kansan kuullen. Ja he sanoivat: "Kaikkea, mitä Herra on puhunut, me noudatamme ja tottelemme".

8 Niin Mooses otti veren ja vihmoi sitä kansan päälle ja sanoi: "Katso, tämä on sen liiton veri, jonka Herra on tehnyt teidän kanssanne kaikkien näiden sanojen perusteella".

9 Ja Mooses ja Aaron, Naadab ja Abihu ynnä seitsemänkymmentä Israelin vanhinta nousivat vuorelle.

10 Ja he näkivät Israelin Jumalan; ja hänen jalkainsa alla oli alusta, niinkuin safiirikivistä, kirkas kuin itse taivas.

11 Eikä hän kajonnut kädellänsä israelilaisten valittuihin, ja he katselivat Jumalaa, söivät ja joivat.

12 Ja Herra sanoi Moosekselle: "Nouse minun tyköni vuorelle ja ole siellä, niin minä annan sinulle kivitaulut ynnä lain ja käskyt, jotka minä olen kirjoittanut heille opetukseksi".

13 Silloin Mooses ja hänen palvelijansa Joosua lähtivät; ja Mooses nousi Jumalan vuorelle.

14 Mutta vanhimmille hän sanoi: "Odottakaa meitä täällä, kunnes palaamme teidän tykönne. Ja katso, Aaron ja Huur ovat teidän kanssanne; jolla on jotakin asiaa, kääntyköön heidän puoleensa."

15 Kun Mooses oli noussut vuorelle, peitti pilvi vuoren.

16 Ja Herran kirkkaus laskeutui Siinain vuorelle, ja pilvi peitti sen kuusi päivää; ja seitsemäntenä päivänä hän huusi Moosesta pilven keskeltä.

17 Ja Herran kirkkaus vuoren kukkulalla näytti israelilaisten silmissä kuluttavalta tulelta.

18 Ja Mooses meni pilven keskelle ja nousi vuorelle. Ja Mooses oli vuorella neljäkymmentä päivää ja neljäkymmentä yötä.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9433

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9433. 'From the middle of the cloud' means from the obscurity which existed before. This is clear from the meaning of 'the cloud' as the lowest level of the Word, which is obscure, comparatively so, dealt with above in 9430. 'The cloud' has this meaning because Divine Truth emanating from the Lord cannot possibly appear with the actual brightness it possesses. If it did a person would be destroyed; for his understanding would be completely blinded by the light of truth, and his will would be completely wiped out by the fire of good, so that everything composing his life would be annihilated. This explains why Divine Truth is adjusted to everyone's understanding and is covered as though by a cloud, even among angels, 6849. Among spirits that covering manifests itself as a cloud, the thick or thin texture of which is determined by the way each one receives that Truth.

[2] This is meant by the following in Isaiah,

Jehovah creates over every habitation of Mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud by day, and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be a covering. And there will be a hut for shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and hiding-place from deluge and rain. Isaiah 4:5-6.

'Habitation of Mount Zion' means heaven and the Church. 'Her assemblies' means forms of good and truths. 'A cloud by day', 'smoke by night', and 'a covering' mean the veiling of God's truth, thus the adjustment of it to the ability to understand it, 'the glory' over which the covering will lie meaning Divine Truth which comes from the Lord, see above in 9429. 'A hut' means the lowest level of God's truth which conceals more internal levels, the words 'will be for shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge from deluge and rain' meaning in order that a person may be safe from harm.

[3] Another description of the veiling of Divine Truth occurs in David,

O Jehovah my God, You are very great! You have put on glory and honour - He who covers Himself with light, as if with a garment, who lays the beams for His upper chambers on the waters, who makes the clouds His chariot, who sets the earth on its bases in order that it may never be moved. 1 You have covered it with the deep as if with a garment. You have set a boundary in order that they may not pass over. Psalms 104:1-6, 9.

'Glory and honour' which Jehovah, that is, the Lord, has put on is Divine Truth, 9429. 'Light' with which He covers Himself, as if with a garment, is Divine Truth as it exists in heaven and in the Church; for in the Word Divine Truth is meant by 'light', see the places quoted above in 9429. 'Upper chambers' for which He lays beams on the waters are heavenly communities; and 'the waters' are truths, 2702, 3058, 3424, 4976, 5668, 8568, 9323. 'The clouds' which He makes His chariot are the truths from which doctrinal teachings are formed, 'chariot' meaning doctrinal teachings, see 5321, 8215. 'The earth' which, it says, is set on its bases in order that it may never be moved is the Church; for 'the earth' in the Word means the Church, see the places quoted in 9325. 'The bases' on which it is set are truths on lowest levels, such as exist in the Word, in its literal sense; therefore it says 'in order that it may never be moved'. 'The deep' with which it is covered as if with a garment is factual knowledge of truth for the natural man, 6431, 8278; and from this it is evident what 'the boundary' set in order that they may not pass over is, namely the lowest level of God's truth in which interior things end and on which as their support and foundation they stand and rest, as has been stated.

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1. literally, that it may not be moved to eternity and perpetuity

  
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Exodus 24

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1 He said to Moses, "Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.

2 Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near, neither shall the people go up with him."

3 Moses came and told the people all the words of Yahweh, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, "All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do."

4 Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

5 He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to Yahweh.

6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

7 He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, "All that Yahweh has spoken will we do, and be obedient."

8 Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words."

9 Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.

10 They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.

11 He didn't lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.

12 Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the tables of stone with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them."

13 Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God's Mountain.

14 He said to the elders, "Wait here for us, until we come again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them."

15 Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

16 The glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

17 The appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.

18 Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.