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Exode 24

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1 Dieu dit à Moïse: Monte vers l'Eternel, toi et Aaron, Nadab et Abihu, et soixante-dix des anciens d'Israël, et vous vous prosternerez de loin.

2 Moïse s'approchera seul de l'Eternel; les autres ne s'approcheront pas, et le peuple ne montera point avec lui.

3 Moïse vint rapporter au peuple toutes les paroles de l'Eternel et toutes les lois. Le peuple entier répondit d'une même voix: Nous ferons tout ce que l'Eternel a dit.

4 Moïse écrivit toutes les paroles de l'Eternel. Puis il se leva de bon matin; il bâtit un autel au pied de la montagne, et dressa douze pierres pour les douze tribus d'Israël.

5 Il envoya des jeunes hommes, enfants d'Israël, pour offrir à l'Eternel des holocaustes, et immoler des taureaux en sacrifices d'actions de grâces.

6 Moïse prit la moitié du sang, qu'il mit dans des bassins, et il répandit l'autre moitié sur l'autel.

7 Il prit le livre de l'alliance, et le lut en présence du peuple; ils dirent: Nous ferons tout ce que l'Eternel a dit, et nous obéirons.

8 Moïse prit le sang, et il le répandit sur le peuple, en disant: Voici le sang de l'alliance que l'Eternel a faite avec vous selon toutes ces paroles.

9 Moïse monta avec Aaron, Nadab et Abihu, et soixante-dix anciens d'Israël.

10 Ils virent le Dieu d'Israël; sous ses pieds, c'était comme un ouvrage de saphir transparent, comme le ciel lui-même dans sa pureté.

11 Il n'étendit point sa main sur l'élite des enfants d'Israël. Ils virent Dieu, et ils mangèrent et burent.

12 L'Eternel dit à Moïse: Monte vers moi sur la montagne, et reste là; je te donnerai des tables de pierre, la loi et les ordonnances que j'ai écrites pour leur instruction.

13 Moïse se leva, avec Josué qui le servait, et Moïse monta sur la montagne de Dieu.

14 Il dit aux anciens: Attendez-nous ici, jusqu'à ce que nous revenions auprès de vous. Voici, Aaron et Hur resteront avec vous; si quelqu'un a un différend, c'est à eux qu'il s'adressera.

15 Moïse monta sur la montagne, et la nuée couvrit la montagne.

16 La gloire de l'Eternel reposa sur la montagne de Sinaï, et la nuée la couvrit pendant six jours. Le septième jour, l'Eternel appela Moïse du milieu de la nuée.

17 L'aspect de la gloire de l'Eternel était comme un feu dévorant sur le sommet de la montagne, aux yeux des enfants d'Israël.

18 Moïse entra au milieu de la nuée, et il monta sur la montagne. Moïse demeura sur la montagne quarante jours et quarante nuits.

   

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Joshua

  
Joshua commanding the sun to stand still, by John Martin

Initially, Joshua represents truth from the Bible fighting against evil, assisting Moses. Joshua then takes on this complete representation when Moses dies. When a person decides to leave behind what is merely natural and looks for something deeper, that person might find something he didn't expect. His or her mind is populated by selfish loves that don't want to think internally about heavenly love. Though the person can subdue these, he or she must fight to do what's right, and finds that they are never fully conquered so as to be absolutely gone. Joshua continues to represent the truths from the Bible that we know and that we use to fight against the evils in ourselves. All the wars in the Bible represent this same battle.

In Exodus 17:9, he signifies fighting truth. (Arcana Coelestia 8595)

In Exodus 32:17, he later signifies the truth of the Word surveying and observing. (Arcana Coelestia 10454)

(Odkazy: Exodus 17; Matthew 10, 10:35, Matthew 10:36)


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Exodus 17

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1 All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to Yahweh's commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.

2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink." Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?"

3 The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"

4 Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me."

5 Yahweh said to Moses, "Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go.

6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink." Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

7 He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, "Is Yahweh among us, or not?"

8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

9 Moses said to Joshua, "Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God's rod in my hand."

10 So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

11 It happened, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

12 But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset.

13 Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

14 Yahweh said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky."

15 Moses built an altar, and called its name Yahweh our Banner.

16 He said, "Yah has sworn: 'Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.'"