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Deutéronome 10

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1 En ce temps-là l'Eternel me dit : Taille-toi deux Tables de pierre comme les premières, et monte vers moi en la montagne, et puis tu te feras une Arche de bois.

2 Et j'écrirai sur ces Tables les paroles qui étaient sur les premières Tables que tu as rompues, et tu les mettras dans l'Arche.

3 Ainsi je fis une Arche de bois de Sittim, et je taillai deux Tables de pierre comme les premières; et je montai en la montagne, ayant les deux Tables en ma main.

4 Et il écrivit dans ces Tables, comme il avait écrit la première fois, les dix paroles que l'Eternel vous avait prononcées sur la montagne, du milieu du feu, au jour de l'assemblée; puis l'Eternel me les donna.

5 Je m'en retournai, je descendis de la montagne; je mis les Tables dans l'Arche que j'avais faite, et elles y sont demeurées, comme l'Eternel me l'avait commandé.

6 r les enfants d'Israël partirent de Beéroth Béné-Jahakan pour aller à Moséra. Aaron mourut là, et y fut enseveli, et Eléazar son fils fut Sacrificateur en sa place.

7 De là ils tirèrent vers Gudgod, et de Gudgod ils [allèrent] vers Jotbath, qui est un pays de torrents d'eaux.

8 Or en ce temps-là l'Eternel avait séparé la Tribu de Lévi pour porter l'Arche de l'alliance de l'Eternel, pour se tenir devant la face de l'Eternel, pour le servir, et pour bénir en son Nom, jusqu'à ce jour.

9 C'est pourquoi Lévi n'a point de portion ni d'héritage avec ses frères; [mais] l'Eternel est son héritage, ainsi que l'Eternel ton Dieu lui [en] a parlé.

10 Je me tins donc sur la montagne, comme la première fois; durant quarante jours et quarante nuits; et l'Eternel m'exauça encore cette fois-là; [ainsi] l'Eternel ne voulut point te détruire.

11 Mais l'Eternel me dit : Lève-toi, va pour marcher devant ce peuple, afin qu'ils entrent au pays que j'ai juré à leurs pères de leur donner, et qu'ils le possèdent.

12 Maintenant donc, ô Israël! qu'est-ce que demande de toi l'Eternel ton Dieu, sinon que tu craignes l'Eternel ton Dieu, que tu marches dans toutes ses voies, que tu l'aimes, et que tu serves l'Eternel ton Dieu de tout ton cœur, et de toute ton âme?

13 En gardant les commandements de l'Eternel, et ses statuts, que je te commande aujourd'hui, afin que tu prospères.

14 Voici, les cieux, et les cieux des cieux appartiennent à l'Eternel ton Dieu; la terre aussi, et tout ce qui [est] en elle.

15 [Mais] l'Eternel a pris son bon plaisir en tes pères seulement, pour les aimer, et il vous a choisis, vous qui êtes leur postérité après eux, entre tous les peuples; comme [il paraît] aujourd'hui.

16 Circoncisez donc le prépuce de votre cœur, et ne roidissez plus votre cou.

17 Car l'Eternel votre Dieu est le Dieu des dieux, et le Seigneur des seigneurs, le Fort, le grand, le puissant, et le terrible ; qui n'a point d'égard à l'apparence des personnes, et qui ne prend point de présents;

18 Qui fait droit à l'orphelin et à la veuve, qui aime l'étranger, pour lui donner de quoi se nourrir, et de quoi se vêtir.

19 Vous aimerez donc l'étranger; car vous avez été étrangers au pays d'Egypte.

20 Tu craindras l'Eternel ton Dieu, tu le serviras, tu t'attacheras à lui, et tu jureras par son Nom.

21 C'est lui qui est ta louange, et c'est lui qui est ton Dieu; qui a fait en ta faveur ces choses grandes et terribles que tes yeux ont vues.

22 Tes pères sont descendus en Egypte au nombre de soixante-dix âmes; et maintenant l'Eternel ton Dieu t'a fait devenir comme les étoiles des cieux, tant tu es en grand nombre.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9416

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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.