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1 L'Eternel parla à Moïse, et dit:

2 Sache que j'ai choisi Betsaleel, fils d'Uri, fils de Hur, de la tribu de Juda.

3 Je l'ai rempli de l'Esprit de Dieu, de sagesse, d'intelligence, et de savoir pour toutes sortes d'ouvrages,

4 je l'ai rendu capable de faire des inventions, de travailler l'or, l'argent et l'airain,

5 de graver les pierres à enchâsser, de travailler le bois, et d'exécuter toutes sortes d'ouvrages.

6 Et voici, je lui ai donné pour aide Oholiab, fils d'Ahisamac, de la tribu de Dan. J'ai mis de l'intelligence dans l'esprit de tous ceux qui sont habiles, pour qu'ils fassent tout ce que je t'ai ordonné:

7 la tente d'assignation, l'arche du témoignage, le propitiatoire qui sera dessus, et tous les ustensiles de la tente;

8 la table et ses ustensiles, le chandelier d'or pur et tous ses ustensiles, l'autel des parfums;

9 l'autel des holocaustes et tous ses ustensiles, la cuve avec sa base;

10 les vêtements d'office, les vêtements sacrés pour le sacrificateur Aaron, les vêtements de ses fils pour les fonctions du sacerdoce;

11 l'huile d'onction, et le parfum odoriférant pour le sanctuaire. Ils se conformeront à tous les ordres que j'ai donnés.

12 L'Eternel parla à Moïse, et dit:

13 Parle aux enfants d'Israël, et dis-leur: Vous ne manquerez pas d'observer mes sabbats, car ce sera entre moi et vous, et parmi vos descendants, un signe auquel on connaîtra que je suis l'Eternel qui vous sanctifie.

14 Vous observerez le sabbat, car il sera pour vous une chose sainte. Celui qui le profanera, sera puni de mort; celui qui fera quelque ouvrage ce jour-là, sera retranché du milieu de son peuple.

15 On travaillera six jours; mais le septième jour est le sabbat, le jour du repos, consacré à l'Eternel. Celui qui fera quelque ouvrage le jour du sabbat, sera puni de mort.

16 Les enfants d'Israël observeront le sabbat, en le célébrant, eux et leurs descendants, comme une alliance perpétuelle.

17 Ce sera entre moi et les enfants d'Israël un signe qui devra durer à perpétuité; car en six jours l'Eternel a fait les cieux et la terre, et le septième jour il a cessé son oeuvre et il s'est reposé.

18 Lorsque l'Eternel eut achevé de parler à Moïse sur la montagne de Sinaï, il lui donna les deux tables du témoignage, tables de pierre, écrites du doigt de Dieu.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 10481

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10481. 'That those rising up against them would annihilate them' means being left without any power to withstand evils [and falsities] that come from hell. This is clear from the meaning of 'being annihilated' as being deprived of all power to withstand evils and falsities, for in the spiritual world being deprived of that power is having no power at all; and from the meaning of 'those rising up', or enemies, as evils and resulting falsities, these being the enemies that rise up in the spiritual sense. Therefore also such evils and falsities are meant in the Word by 'enemies' and 'those rising up', 2851, 8289, 9255, 9314, as in David,

O Jehovah, how much my enemies have multiplied! Many are those rising up against me, saying regarding my soul, There is no salvation for him in God. Psalms 3:1-2.

In the same author,

Make Your mercy wonderful, O You who by Your right hand save those trusting [in You] from those rising up against them 1 . Guard me from the wicked who lay me waste, from my enemies who surround me against my soul. Psalms 17:7-9.

In the same author,

Do not deliver me to the desire of my enemies, for false witnesses have risen against me, and he who breathes out violence, unless 2 I believed I would see goodness in the land of life. Psalms 27:12-13.

In the same author,

O God, command the salvation 3 of Jacob. Through You we will strike our enemies; in Your name we will trample those rising up against us. Psalms 44:4-5.

In the same author,

Foreigners have risen up against me, and violent ones have sought my soul; they have not set God before them. The Lord is with those supporting my soul. Psalms 54:3-4.

In the same author,

Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; raise me up from those rising up against me. Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Behold, they lie in wait for my soul. Psalms 59:1-3.

In these and very many other places 'enemies' and 'those rising up' mean evils and falsities which come from hell. The expression 'those rising up' is used because evils and falsities rise up against forms of good and truths, but not vice versa.

[2] Those whose interest lies in external things separated from what is internal have no power at all to withstand evils and falsities which come from hell because all power to withstand them comes from the Divine. Those therefore who are separated from what is internal, being separated from the Divine as well, have no power; as a result they are borne along by evils and falsities, wherever hell takes them, like fluff or a straw in the wind, as is plainly evident from the evil who enter the next life from the world. This was also represented by the Israelite nation, in that they were victorious over their enemies as long as they kept to the kind of worship which they had been commanded, but were defeated by them every time they forsook that worship, thus whenever they were ruled by evil, according to the following in Moses,

If you despise My statutes, the sound of a driven leaf will pursue you, and you will flee, like flight from the sword, and you will fall without [anyone] pursuing. They will stumble over one another 4 , as though before the sword, when no one is pursuing. Leviticus 26:15, 36-37.

And elsewhere,

One will pursue a thousand, and two ten thousand; for their Rock sold them, and Jehovah shut them up. Deuteronomy 32:30.

From all this it is evident what the meaning is of 'those rising up would annihilate them'.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. The Latin means against me, which Swedenborg derives from the Latin version of Psalms translated by Sebastian Schmidt. No equivalent of the two words exists in the Hebrew.

2. Reading ni (unless) for ne (lest)

3. literally, salvations. The plural word in the Hebrew is thought to mean victories or else deliverance.

4. literally, They will stumble a man on his brother

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