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2 Mose 14

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1 Und Jehova redete zu Mose und sprach:

2 Sprich zu den Kindern Israel, daß sie umkehren und sich lagern vor Pi-Hachiroth, zwischen Migdol und dem Meere; vor Baal-Zephon, ihm gegenüber, sollt ihr euch am Meere lagern.

3 Und der Pharao wird von den Kindern Israel sagen: Verwirrt irren sie im Lande umher, die Wüste hat sie umschlossen.

4 Und ich will das Herz des Pharao verhärten, daß er ihnen nachjage; und ich will mich verherrlichen an dem Pharao und an seiner ganzen Heeresmacht, und die Ägypter sollen erkennen, daß ich Jehova bin. Und sie taten also.

5 Und es wurde dem König von Ägypten berichtet, daß das Volk entflohen wäre; da verwandelte sich das Herz des Pharao und seiner Knechte gegen das Volk, und sie sprachen: Was haben wir da getan, daß wir Israel aus unserem Dienste haben ziehen lassen!

6 Und er spannte seinen Wagen an und nahm sein Volk mit sich.

7 Und er nahm sechshundert auserlesene Wagen und alle Wagen Ägyptens, und Wagenkämpfer auf jedem derselben.

8 Und Jehova verhärtete das Herz des Pharao, des Königs von Ägypten, und er jagte den Kindern Israel nach; und die Kinder Israel zogen aus mit erhobener Hand.

9 Und die Ägypter jagten ihnen nach, alle osse, Wagen (O. alle Wagenrosse) des Pharao und seine eiter und seine Heeresmacht, und erreichten sie, als sie sich am Meere gelagert hatten, bei Pi-Hachiroth, vor Baal-Zephon.

10 Und als der Pharao nahte, da hoben die Kinder Israel ihre Augen auf, und siehe, die Ägypter zogen hinter ihnen her; und die Kinder Israel fürchteten sich sehr und schrieen zu Jehova.

11 Und sie sprachen zu Mose: Hast du uns darum, weil in Ägypten keine Gräber waren, weggeholt, um in der Wüste zu sterben? Warum hast du uns das getan, daß du uns aus Ägypten herausgeführt hast?

12 Ist dies nicht das Wort, das wir in Ägypten zu dir geredet haben, indem wir sprachen: Laß ab von uns, daß wir den Ägyptern dienen? denn besser wäre es uns, den Ägyptern zu dienen, als in der Wüste zu sterben.

13 Und Mose sprach zu dem Volke: Fürchtet euch nicht! stehet und sehet die ettung Jehovas, die er euch heute schaffen wird; denn die Ägypter, die ihr heute sehet, die werdet ihr hinfort nicht mehr sehen ewiglich.

14 Jehova wird für euch streiten, und ihr werdet stille sein. (O. sollt schweigen)

15 Und Jehova sprach zu Mose: Was schreiest du zu mir? rede zu den Kindern Israel, daß sie aufbrechen.

16 Und du, erhebe deinen Stab und strecke deine Hand aus über das Meer und spalte es, daß die Kinder Israel mitten in das Meer hineingehen auf dem Trockenen.

17 Und ich, siehe, ich will das Herz der Ägypter verhärten, und sie werden hinter ihnen herkommen; und ich will mich verherrlichen an dem Pharao und an seiner ganzen Heeresmacht, an seinen Wagen und an seinen eitern.

18 Und die Ägypter sollen erkennen, daß ich Jehova bin, wenn ich mich verherrlicht habe an dem Pharao, an seinen Wagen und an seinen eitern.

19 Und der Engel Gottes, der vor dem Heere Israels herzog, brach auf und trat hinter sie; und die Wolkensäule brach auf von vorn (W.- von vor ihnen) und stellte sich hinter sie.

20 Und sie kam zwischen das Heer der Ägypter und das Heer Israels, und sie wurde dort Wolke und Finsternis, und erleuchtete hier die Nacht; und so nahte jenes diesem nicht die ganze Nacht.

21 Und Mose streckte seine Hand aus über das Meer, und Jehova trieb das Meer durch einen starken Ostwind hinweg, die ganze Nacht, und machte das Meer trocken, (Eig. zu trockenem Lande) und die Wasser wurden gespalten.

22 Und die Kinder Israel gingen mitten in das Meer hinein auf dem Trockenen, und die Wasser waren ihnen eine Mauer zur echten und zur Linken.

23 Und die Ägypter jagten ihnen nach und kamen hinter ihnen her, alle osse des Pharao, seine Wagen und seine eiter, mitten ins Meer.

24 Und es geschah in der Morgenwache, da schaute Jehova in der Feuer- und Wolkensäule auf das Heer der Ägypter und verwirrte das Heer der Ägypter.

25 Und er stieß die äder von seinen Wagen und ließ es fahren mit Beschwerde. Und die Ägypter sprachen: Laßt uns vor Israel fliehen, denn Jehova streitet für sie wider die Ägypter!

26 Und Jehova sprach zu Mose: Strecke deine Hand aus über das Meer, daß die Wasser über die Ägypter zurückkehren, über ihre Wagen und über ihre eiter.

27 Da streckte Mose seine Hand aus über das Meer, und das Meer kehrte beim Anbruch des Morgens zu seiner Strömung zurück; und die Ägypter flohen ihm entgegen; und Jehova stürzte die Ägypter mitten ins Meer.

28 Und die Wasser kehrten zurück und bedeckten die Wagen und die eiter der ganzen Heeresmacht des Pharao, die hinter ihnen her ins Meer gekommen waren; es blieb auch nicht einer von ihnen übrig.

29 Und die Kinder Israel gingen auf dem Trockenen mitten durch das Meer, und die Wasser waren ihnen eine Mauer zur echten und zur Linken.

30 So rettete Jehova Israel an selbigem Tage aus der Hand der Ägypter, und Israel sah die Ägypter tot am Ufer des Meeres.

31 Und Israel sah die große Macht, (W. Hand) die Jehova an den Ägyptern betätigt hatte; und das Volk fürchtete Jehova, und sie glaubten an Jehova und an Mose, seinen Knecht.

   

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4236. 'And Jacob said [when he saw them], This is God's camp' means heaven. 'God's camp' means heaven, for the reason that 'an army' means truths and goods, 3448, and goods and truths are arranged by the Lord in conformity with heavenly order. Hence the arrangement of them like armies when arrayed is meant by 'an encampment', and the heavenly order itself, which is heaven, by 'a camp'. This camp or order is such that it cannot in any way be broken apart by hell, despite the constant effort from hell to break it apart. This also is why this order, which is heaven, is referred to as 'a camp', and why truths and goods, that is, angels, who are arranged in conformity with that order are called 'armies'. From all this it is now evident how 'God's camp' comes to mean heaven. It is that actual order, and so heaven itself, which was represented by the encampments of the children of Israel in the wilderness; and their actual dwelling together there according to their tribes was referred to as 'the camp'. The Tabernacle pitched in the middle and around which they encamped represented the Lord Himself. Regarding the children of Israel's encampment in this manner, see Numbers 1:1-end, and 33:2-56; and regarding their encampment around the Tabernacle according to their tribes - Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun to the east; Reuben, Simeon, and Gad to the south; Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin to the west; Dan, Asher, and Naphtali to the north; and the Levites in the middle next to the Tabernacle - Numbers 2:2 and following verses.

[2] The tribes' means all goods and truths in their entirety, see 3858, 3862, 3926, 3939, 4060. Consequently when Balaam saw Israel dwelling according to tribes and the Spirit of God came upon him, he delivered the utterance,

How good your tabernacles are, O Jacob; your dwelling-places, O Israel! They are like valleys that are planted, like gardens beside a river. Numbers 24:2-3, 5-6.

It is quite plain that this prophecy did not mean the people named Jacob and Israel but that it was the Lord's heaven which was represented. This also is why in other places in the Word their ordered settlements in the wilderness, or encampments according to tribes, are called camps, and in those places 'a camp' in the internal sense means heavenly order and 'encampment' an arrangement in conformity with that order, that is to say, with the order in which goods and truths exist in heaven - as in Leviticus 4:12; 8:17; 13:46; 14:8; 16:26, 28; 24:14, 23; Numbers 3; 4:4 and following verses; 5:2-4; Numbers 9:17-end; 10:1-10, 28; 11:31-32; 12:14-15; 31:19-24; Deuteronomy 23:9-14.

[3] The meaning of 'God's camp' as heaven may also be seen in Joel,

The earth quaked before Him, the heavens trembled. The sun and the moon were darkened, and the stars gathered back their shining; and Jehovah gave voice before His army, for His camp is exceedingly many; for that which executes His word is uncountable. Joel 2:10-11.

In Zechariah,

I will encamp by My house with an army set against anyone passing through and against anyone leaving, so that the oppressor passes over them no more. Zechariah 9:8.

In John,

Gog and Magog went up over the breadth 1 of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city; but fire came down 2 from God and consumed them. Revelation 20:9.

'Gog and Magog' stands for people whose worship is external separated from internal - worship that has become idolatrous, 1151. 'The breadth of the earth' stands for truth possessed by the Church - 'breadth', or a plain, meaning truth that constitutes doctrinal teaching, 2450, and 'earth' the Church, 556, 662, 1066, 1067, 1850, 2117, 2118, 3355. 'The camp of the saints' stands for heaven or the Lord's kingdom on earth, which is the Church.

[4] Since most things in the Word also have a contrary sense, so too does the word 'camp'. In this case it means evils and falsities, and consequently hell, as in David,

Though the evil pitch camp against me, my heart will not fear. Psalms 27:3.

In the same author,

God has scattered the bones of those encamping against you; 3 you have put them to shame, for God has rejected them. Psalms 53:5.

The camp of Asshur in which the angel of Jehovah smote a hundred and eighty-five thousand, Isaiah 37:36, does not have any other meaning, nor likewise does the camp of the Egyptians, Exodus 14:19-20.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, the plain

2. The Latin means went up, but the Greek means came down, which Swedenborg has in another place where he quotes this verse.

3. The Latin means me, but the Hebrew means you.

  
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Numbers 3

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1 Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Yahweh spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.

2 These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office.

4 Nadab and Abihu died before Yahweh, when they offered strange fire before Yahweh, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the presence of Aaron their father.

5 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

6 "Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.

7 They shall keep his requirements, and the requirements of the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.

8 They shall keep all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and the obligations of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.

9 You shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons. They are wholly given to him on the behalf of the children of Israel.

10 You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death."

11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

12 "Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine:

13 for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made holy to me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and animal. They shall be mine. I am Yahweh."

14 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,

15 "Count the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families. You shall count every male from a month old and upward."

16 Moses numbered them according to the word of Yahweh, as he was commanded.

17 These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.

18 These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.

19 The sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, and Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

20 The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.

21 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites: these are the families of the Gershonites.

22 Those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those who were numbered of them were seven thousand five hundred.

23 The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.

24 The prince of the fathers' house of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.

25 The duty of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting shall be the tabernacle, and the Tent, its covering, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,

26 and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and around the altar, and its cords for all of its service.

27 Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.

28 According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary.

29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the south side of the tabernacle.

30 The prince of the fathers' house of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.

31 Their duty shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all its service.

32 Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the Levites, with the oversight of those who keep the requirements of the sanctuary.

33 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites. These are the families of Merari.

34 Those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred.

35 The prince of the fathers' house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They shall encamp on the north side of the tabernacle.

36 The appointed duty of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service,

37 the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords.

38 Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary for the duty of the children of Israel. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

39 All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of Yahweh, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.

40 Yahweh said to Moses, "Number all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.

41 You shall take the Levites for me (I am Yahweh) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the livestock of the children of Israel."

42 Moses numbered, as Yahweh commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.

43 All the firstborn males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those who were numbered of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.

44 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

45 "Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am Yahweh.

46 For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, who exceed the number of the Levites,

47 you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; after the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs):

48 and you shall give the money, with which the remainder of them is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons."

49 Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites;

50 from the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:

51 and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.