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Joshua 3

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1 Niin Joosua nousi varhain seuraavana aamuna, ja he lähtivät liikkeelle Sittimistä ja tulivat Jordanille, hän ja kaikki israelilaiset; ja he olivat siellä yötä, ennenkuin menivät virran yli.

2 Mutta kolmen päivän kuluttua kulkivat päällysmiehet halki leirin

3 ja käskivät kansaa sanoen: "Kun te näette Herran, teidän Jumalanne, liitonarkin ja leeviläiset papit sitä kantamassa, niin lähtekää tekin liikkeelle paikoiltanne ja seuratkaa sitä.

4 Kuitenkin olkoon noin kahdentuhannen kyynärän välimatka teidän ja sen välillä-älkää menkö sitä lähelle-että tietäisitte tien, jota teidän on käytävä, sillä te ette ole ennen kulkeneet sitä tietä."

5 Ja Joosua sanoi kansalle: "Pyhittäytykää, sillä huomenna Herra on tekevä ihmeellisiä tekoja teidän keskuudessanne".

6 Mutta papeille Joosua sanoi näin: "Ottakaa liitonarkki ja kulkekaa kansan edellä". Niin he ottivat liitonarkin ja kulkivat kansan edellä.

7 Silloin Herra sanoi Joosualle: "Tästä päivästä alkaen minä teen sinut suureksi koko Israelin silmissä, jotta he tietäisivät, että niinkuin minä olin Mooseksen kanssa, niin minä olen sinunkin kanssasi.

8 Käske pappeja, jotka kantavat liitonarkkia, ja sano: 'Kun tulette Jordanin veden ääreen, niin pysähtykää Jordanin rantaan'."

9 Sitten Joosua sanoi israelilaisille: "Tulkaa tänne ja kuulkaa Herran, teidän Jumalanne, sanat".

10 Ja Joosua sanoi: "Tästä saatte tietää, että elävä Jumala on teidän keskellänne ja karkoittaa teidän tieltänne kanaanilaiset, heettiläiset, hivviläiset, perissiläiset, girgasilaiset, amorilaiset ja jebusilaiset:

11 katso, kaiken maan Herran liitonarkki kulkee teidän edellänne Jordanin poikki.

12 Ottakaa siis kaksitoista miestä Israelin sukukunnista, kustakin sukukunnasta yksi mies.

13 Niin pian kuin papit, jotka kantavat Herran, kaiken maan Herran, liitonarkkia, laskevat jalkansa Jordanin veteen, katkeaa Jordanin vesi, ylhäältä päin virtaava vesi, juoksussaan ja pysähtyy roukkioksi."

14 Kun kansa sitten lähti liikkeelle teltoistaan mennäksensä Jordanin poikki, liitonarkkia kantavien pappien käydessä kansan edellä,

15 ja niin pian kuin liitonarkin kantajat tulivat Jordanille ja liitonarkkia kantavien pappien jalat painuivat rantaveteen, niin vaikka Jordan koko elonleikkuuajan on tulvillaan yli kaikkien äyräidensä,

16 pysähtyi ylhäältä päin virtaava vesi ja seisoi yhtenä roukkiona hyvin kaukana Aadamin luona, sen kaupungin, joka on Saaretanin vieressä; ja se vesi, joka virtasi alaspäin Aromereen, Suolamereen, hävisi kokonaan. Niin kansa kulki virran yli Jerikon kohdalta.

17 Ja Herran liitonarkkia kantavat papit seisoivat alallaan kuivalla pohjalla keskellä Jordania, kaiken Israelin kulkiessa kuivaa myöten, kunnes koko kansa oli ehtinyt kulkea Jordanin yli.

   

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9416. 'And I will give you tablets of stone' means the book of the law, or the Word in its entirety. This is clear from the meaning of 'tablets' as objects on which matters of doctrine and life have been inscribed, in this instance matters of heavenly doctrine and of life in keeping with it. The reason why those tablets mean the book of the law or the Word in its entirety is that the things which had been inscribed on them contained in a general way all matters of life and of that heavenly doctrine. This also explains why the things inscribed on them are called the ten words, Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 10:4. For 'ten' in the internal sense means all, and 'words' means truths that are matters of doctrine and forms of good that are matters of life. For the meaning of 'ten' as all, see 3107, 4638, 8468, 8540, and for that of 'words' as truths and forms of good that are matters of life and doctrine, 1288, 4692, 5272. This is why those tablets mean the Word in its entirety, just as the Law does, which in a restricted sense means the things which had been inscribed on those tablets, in a less restricted sense the Word that was written through Moses, in a broad sense the historical section of the Word, and in the broadest sense the Word in its entirety, see what has been shown in 6752. Furthermore the things which had been inscribed on those tablets belonged to the first stage in the revelation of Divine Truth; they were also declared in actual words uttered by the Lord before all the Israelite people. What belongs to the first stage means all the rest in their proper order; and the fact that those things were declared in actual words uttered by the Lord means direct Divine inspiration in all other stages of revelation as well. The reason why those tablets were made of stone was that 'stone' means truth, 643, 1298, 3720, 6426, the lowest levels of truth, to be exact, 8609. The lowest levels of God's truth constitute the letter of the Word as it exists on this planet, 9360.

[2] There was not one tablet but two, to represent the joining of the Lord to the Church through the Word, and through the Church to the human race. This also is why they are called the tablets of the covenant, Deuteronomy 9:9, 11, 15, and why the words inscribed on them are called the words of the covenant, Exodus 34:27-28, also the covenant, Deuteronomy 4:13, 23. And the ark itself in which the tablets had been deposited was called the ark of the covenant, Numbers 10:33; 14:44; Deuteronomy 10:8; 31:9, 25-26; Joshua 3:3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17; 4:7, 9, 18; 6:6, 8; 8:33; Judges 20:27; 1 Samuel 4:3-5; 2 Samuel 15:24; 1 Kings 3:15; 6:19; 8:1, 6; Jeremiah 3:16. For a covenant is a joining together, 665, 666, 1023, 1038, 1864, 1996, 2003, 2021, 6804, 8767, 8778, 9396. This explains why those tablets were divided from each other yet were joined together by being laid alongside each other. The writing on them ran across continuously from one tablet onto the other, like the writing on a single tablet. It was not, as people ordinarily think, that some commandments were written on one tablet and some on the other. For a single object divided in two, and the two parts then brought together or given each to the other, means the Lord and man joined together. The establishment of covenants was therefore accomplished in similar ways, that with Abraham for example by parting down the middle a heifer, she-goat, and ram, and laying each part opposite the other, Genesis 15:9-12; in verses 6 and 8 of the present chapter by putting blood in bowls and then sprinkling it half over the altar and half over the people; and generally in all sacrifices by burning one part on the altar and giving the other part to the people to eat. The like was also represented by the Lord when He broke bread, Matthew 14:19; 15:36; 26:26; Mark 6:41; 8:6; 14:22; Luke 9:16; 22:19; 24:30-31, 35. Here also is the reason why 'two' in the Word means things joined together, 5194, 8423, here the Lord and heaven, or the Lord and the Church, joined together, thus also goodness and truth joined together, which is called the heavenly marriage. From all this it becomes clear why it is that there were two tablets and that both sides of them were written on, from edge to edge, Exodus 32:15-16.

[3] Furthermore when the writing and engraving on tablets is mentioned in the Word it means those things that must be imprinted in people's memory and on their life, and so remain there, as in Isaiah,

Write it on a tablet among them, and express it in a book, 1 so that it may be for time to come forever, even to eternity. Isaiah 30:8.

In Jeremiah,

The sin of Judah has been written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it has been engraved on the tablet of their heart, and at the horns of your altars. Jeremiah 17:1.

In Habakkuk,

Jehovah said, Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that one running by may read it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; if it tarries, wait for it, because it will surely come. Habakkuk 2:2-3.

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1. literally, on a book (i.e. on a scroll)

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.