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Shemot 32

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1 וירא העם כי־בשש משה לרדת מן־ההר ויקהל העם על־אהרן ויאמרו אליו קום עשה־לנו אלהים אשר ילכו לפנינו כי־זה משה האיש אשר העלנו מארץ מצרים לא ידענו מה־היה לו׃

2 ויאמר אלהם אהרן פרקו נזמי הזהב אשר באזני נשיכם בניכם ובנתיכם והביאו אלי׃

3 ויתפרקו כל־העם את־נזמי הזהב אשר באזניהם ויביאו אל־אהרן׃

4 ויקח מידם ויצר אתו בחרט ויעשהו עגל מסכה ויאמרו אלה אלהיך ישראל אשר העלוך מארץ מצרים׃

5 וירא אהרן ויבן מזבח לפניו ויקרא אהרן ויאמר חג ליהוה מחר׃

6 וישכימו ממחרת ויעלו עלת ויגשו שלמים וישב העם לאכל ושתו ויקמו לצחק׃ ף

7 וידבר יהוה אל־משה לך־רד כי שחת עמך אשר העלית מארץ מצרים׃

8 סרו מהר מן־הדרך אשר צויתם עשו להם עגל מסכה וישתחוו־לו ויזבחו־לו ויאמרו אלה אלהיך ישראל אשר העלוך מארץ מצרים׃

9 ויאמר יהוה אל־משה ראיתי את־העם הזה והנה עם־קשה־ערף הוא׃

10 ועתה הניחה לי ויחר־אפי בהם ואכלם ואעשה אותך לגוי גדול׃

11 ויחל משה את־פני יהוה אלהיו ויאמר למה יהוה יחרה אפך בעמך אשר הוצאת מארץ מצרים בכח גדול וביד חזקה׃

12 למה יאמרו מצרים לאמר ברעה הוציאם להרג אתם בהרים ולכלתם מעל פני האדמה שוב מחרון אפך והנחם על־הרעה לעמך׃

13 זכר לאברהם ליצחק ולישראל עבדיך אשר נשבעת להם בך ותדבר אלהם ארבה את־זרעכם ככוכבי השמים וכל־הארץ הזאת אשר אמרתי אתן לזרעכם ונחלו לעלם׃

14 וינחם יהוה על־הרעה אשר דבר לעשות לעמו׃ ף

15 ויפן וירד משה מן־ההר ושני לחת העדת בידו לחת כתבים משני עבריהם מזה ומזה הם כתבים׃

16 והלחת מעשה אלהים המה והמכתב מכתב אלהים הוא חרות על־הלחת׃

17 וישמע יהושע את־קול העם ברעה* ויאמר אל־משה קול מלחמה במחנה׃

18 ויאמר אין קול ענות גבורה ואין קול ענות חלושה קול ענות אנכי שמע׃

19 ויהי כאשר קרב אל־המחנה וירא את־העגל ומחלת ויחר־אף משה וישלך [כ= מידו] [ק= מידיו] את־הלחת וישבר אתם תחת ההר׃

20 ויקח את־העגל אשר עשו וישרף באש ויטחן עד אשר־דק ויזר על־פני המים וישק את־בני ישראל׃

21 ויאמר משה אל־אהרן מה־עשה לך העם הזה כי־הבאת עליו חטאה גדלה׃

22 ויאמר אהרן אל־יחר אף אדני אתה ידעת את־העם כי ברע הוא׃

23 ויאמרו לי עשה־לנו אלהים אשר ילכו לפנינו כי־זה משה האיש אשר העלנו מארץ מצרים לא ידענו מה־היה לו׃

24 ואמר להם למי זהב התפרקו ויתנו־לי ואשלכהו באש ויצא העגל הזה׃

25 וירא משה את־העם כי פרע הוא כי־פרעה אהרן לשמצה בקמיהם׃

26 ויעמד משה בשער המחנה ויאמר מי ליהוה אלי ויאספו אליו כל־בני לוי׃

27 ויאמר להם כה־אמר יהוה אלהי ישראל שימו איש־חרבו על־ירכו עברו ושובו משער לשער במחנה והרגו איש־את־אחיו ואיש את־רעהו ואיש את־קרבו׃

28 ויעשו בני־לוי כדבר משה ויפל מן־העם ביום ההוא כשלשת אלפי איש׃

29 ויאמר משה מלאו ידכם היום ליהוה כי איש בבנו ובאחיו ולתת עליכם היום ברכה׃

30 ויהי ממחרת ויאמר משה אל־העם אתם חטאתם חטאה גדלה ועתה אעלה אל־יהוה אולי אכפרה בעד חטאתכם׃

31 וישב משה אל־יהוה ויאמר אנא חטא העם הזה חטאה גדלה ויעשו להם אלהי זהב׃

32 ועתה אם־תשא חטאתם ואם־אין מחני נא מספרך אשר כתבת׃

33 ויאמר יהוה אל־משה מי אשר חטא־לי אמחנו מספרי׃

34 ועתה לך נחה את־העם אל אשר־דברתי לך הנה מלאכי ילך לפניך וביום פקדי ופקדתי עליהם חטאתם׃

35 ויגף יהוה את־העם על אשר עשו את־העגל אשר עשה אהרן׃ ס

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 10412

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10412. 'And Aaron made a proclamation and said, Tomorrow there will be a feast to Jehovah' means that this is the really essential thing of the Church which is to be celebrated and the truly Divine reality that is to be worshipped unceasingly. This is clear from the meaning of 'a feast' as the inclusion of celebration within the Church's worship, for feast days were times of celebration, so that 'proclaiming a feast' means the essential thing of the Church which is to be celebrated - the Divine essential reality that is to be worshipped being meant by the declaration that this feast was called 'a feast to Jehovah'; and from the meaning of 'tomorrow' as that which is eternal and unceasing, dealt with in 3998, 7140, 9939.

[2] Those furthermore whose interest lies in external things and not in what is internal wish to be worshipped as a god and to have what is theirs venerated as something Divine, so far as their fear of the common people will let them. From this one may deduce that at heart they refuse to recognize the Divine and are constantly yearning to rise to higher positions, and so far as nothing stands in their way to the highest, and so finally to the throne of God, as is plainly evident from those meant in the Word by Babel, who take all power in heaven and on earth away from the Lord and ascribe it to themselves. For they open heaven and close it just as they please. The fact that this is what they are like is clear in Isaiah,

You will declare this parable about the king of Babel, Hell beneath has been stirred up on account of you. How have you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer? You have been cut down to the earth, you have been weakened below the nations. And you said in your heart, I will go up the heavens, above the stars of God I will raise my throne, and I will sit on the mount of assembly; I will go up above the heights of the clouds, I will make myself like the Most High. But yet you have been sent down to hell. Isaiah 14:4, 9, 12-15.

[3] Also the king of Babel commanded that he should be worshipped as a god, as is clear in Daniel 6. 'Babel' is used to mean those who are outwardly holy but inwardly unholy, thus those who employ the holy things of the Church as means to the end that they themselves may be worshipped as gods. This also is what all those people do who by using the holy things of the Church as the means strive to rise to eminent positions over others and greater wealthiness than others as ends in themselves. Such people are just the same in the next life. There as well they refuse at heart to recognize the Divine and endeavour by means of unmentionable tricks to make themselves gods. They place themselves high up on mountains, proclaiming and adoring one of their number as a god. But when they engage in that unholy worship the mountain splits apart to reveal a deep chasm which swallows them up, and in this way they are thrown down into hell. I have been allowed several times to see that this is so.

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

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Isaiah 14

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1 For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.

2 The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in Yahweh's land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

3 It will happen in the day that Yahweh will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,

4 that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!"

5 Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,

6 who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.

7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out song.

8 Yes, the fir trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, "Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us."

9 Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the dead for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

10 They all will answer and ask you, "Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?"

11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.

12 How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

13 You said in your heart, "I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!

14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!"

15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.

16 Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms;

17 who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who didn't release his prisoners to their home?"

18 All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.

19 But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.

20 You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The seed of evildoers will not be named forever.

21 Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.

22 "I will rise up against them," says Yahweh of Armies, "and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son's son," says Yahweh.

23 "I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," says Yahweh of Armies.

24 Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, "Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

25 that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders.

26 This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.

27 For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?"

28 This burden was in the year that king Ahaz died.

29 Don't rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent's root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.

30 The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed.

31 Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted away, Philistia, all of you; for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.

32 What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.