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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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10422. They have gone back suddenly from the way which I commanded them. That this signifies that they have removed themselves from Divine truth, is evident from the signification of “going back from the way,” as being to remove themselves from truths; for “to go back” denotes to remove, because those who are in external things separate from what is internal remove themselves; and “way” denotes truth (of which in what follows). That it is Divine truth from which they remove themselves, is because it is said, “from the way which Jehovah commanded them.”

[2] That “way” denotes truth is from the appearance in the spiritual world, where also there are ways and paths; and in the cities, there appear streets and avenues, and spirits go nowhere else than to those with whom they are consociated by love. From this it is that the quality of the spirits there in regard to truth is known from the way in which they go; for all truth leads to its own love, because that is called truth which confirms what is loved. From this it is that in common human speech “way” denotes truth; for the speech of man has derived this, like many other things, from the spiritual world.

[3] From this then it is that in the Word by “way,” “path” [semita], “path” [trames], “track” [orbitam], “street” [plateam], and “lane” [vicum] are signified truths, and in the opposite sense falsities, as is plain from the following passages, in Jeremiah:

Stand ye beside the ways and see, ask ye for the ways of an age, which way is the best (Jeremiah 6:16).

Make your ways good, and your works; trust ye not upon the words of a lie (Jeremiah 7:3-5).

Learn ye not the way of the nations (Jeremiah 10:2).

I will give to every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his works (Jeremiah 17:10).

They have caused them to stumble in their ways, in the paths of an age, that they might go away in the paths, in a way not paved (Jeremiah 18:15).

I will give them one heart and one way (Jeremiah 32:39).

Make known to me Thy ways, O Jehovah; teach me Thy paths; lead me in Thy truth (Psalms 25:4-5).

In the days of Jael the ways ceased, and those going in the paths went through crooked ways (Judges 5:6).

Go ye back from the way, cause ye to turn aside from the path. Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, This is the way, go ye in it (Isaiah 30:11, 21).

The ways have been laid waste; he that passeth through the way hath ceased (Isaiah 33:8).

A path shall be there, and a way, which shall be called the way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass through it, but it shall be for those; he that walketh in the way, and fools, shall not err (Isaiah 35:8).

[4] The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, make plain in the solitude a path for our God. With whom took He counsel, that he might teach Him the way of judgment, and show Him the way of intelligence? (Isaiah 40:3, 14).

To say to them that are in darkness, Be ye revealed; they shall feed on the ways. I will make all My mountains a way; and My paths shall be exalted (Isaiah 49:9, 11).

The way of peace they have not known; and there is no judgment in their tracks; they have perverted their paths for themselves; whosoever treadeth on it shall not know peace (Isaiah 59:8).

Prepare ye the way for the people; pave ye, pave ye, the path; say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold thy salvation cometh (Isaiah 62:10-11).

I put a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters; I will put a way in the wilderness (Isaiah 43:16, 19).

Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander in the way (Deuteronomy 27:18).

Go ye unto the outlets of the ways, and whomsoever ye shall find, call ye to the wedding (Matthew 22:9).

Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6).

In these passages, and in many others, by “way” is signified truth, and in the opposite sense falsity.

  
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Exodus 32

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1 When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him."

2 Aaron said to them, "Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me."

3 All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

4 He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, "These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt."

5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, "Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yahweh."

6 They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

7 Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!

8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"

9 Yahweh said to Moses, "I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

10 Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation."

11 Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

12 Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.

13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.'"

14 Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.

15 Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.

16 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tables.

17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "There is the noise of war in the camp."

18 He said, "It isn't the voice of those who shout for victory, neither is it the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear."

19 It happened, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses' anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.

20 He took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.

21 Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?"

22 Aaron said, "Don't let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

23 For they said to me, 'Make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.'

24 I said to them, 'Whoever has any gold, let them take it off:' so they gave it to me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf."

25 When Moses saw that the people had broken loose, (for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies),

26 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "Whoever is on Yahweh's side, come to me!" All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.

27 He said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.'"

28 The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

29 Moses said, "Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, yes, every man against his son, and against his brother; that he may bestow on you a blessing this day."

30 It happened on the next day, that Moses said to the people, "You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin."

31 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold.

32 Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin--and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written."

33 Yahweh said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.

34 Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin."

35 Yahweh struck the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.