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2 Mózes 12

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1 Szólott vala pedig az Úr Mózesnek és Áronnak Égyiptom földén, mondván:

2 Ez a hónap legyen néktek a hónapok elseje; elsõ legyen ez néktek az esztendõ hónapjai között.

3 Szóljatok Izráel egész gyûlekezetének, mondván: E hónak tizedikén mindenki vegyen magának egy bárányt az atyáknak háza szerint, házanként egy bárányt.

4 Hogyha a háznép kevés a bárányhoz, akkor a házához közel való szomszédjával együtt vegyen a lelkek száma szerint; kit-kit ételéhez képest számítsatok a bárányhoz.

5 A bárány ép, hím, egy esztendõs legyen; a juhok közûl vagy a kecskék közûl vegyétek.

6 És legyen nálatok õrizet alatt e hónap tizennegyedik napjáig, és ölje meg Izráel községének egész gyülekezete estennen.

7 És vegyenek a vérbõl, és azokban a házakban, a hol azt megeszik, hintsenek a két ajtófélre és a szemöldökfára.

8 A húst pedig egyék meg azon éjjel, tûzön sütve, kovásztalan kenyérrel és keserû fûvekkel egyék meg azt.

9 Ne egyetek abból nyersen, vagy vízben fõtten, hanem tûzön sütve, a fejét, lábszáraival és belsejével együtt.

10 És ne hagyjatok belõle reggelre, vagy a mi megmarad belõle reggelre, tûzzel égessétek meg.

11 És ilyen módon egyétek azt meg: Derekaitokat felövezve, saruitok lábaitokon és pálczáitok kezetekben, és nagy sietséggel egyétek azt; mert az Úr páskhája az.

12 Mert általmégyek Égyiptom földén ezen éjszakán és megölök minden elsõszülöttet Égyiptom földén, az embertõl kezdve a baromig, és Égyiptom minden istene felett ítéletet tartok, én, az Úr.

13 És a vér jelül lesz néktek a házakon, a melyekben ti lesztek, s meglátom a vért és elmegyek mellettetek és nem lesz rajtatok a csapás veszedelmetekre, mikor megverem Égyiptom földét.

14 És legyen ez a nap néktek emlékezetül, és innepnek szenteljétek azt az Úrnak nemzetségrõl nemzetségre; örök rendtartás szerint ünnepeljétek azt.

15 Hét napig egyetek kovásztalan kenyeret; még az elsõ napon takarítsátok el a kovászt házaitokból, mert valaki kovászost ejéndik az elsõ naptól fogva a hetedik napig, az olyan lélek irtassék ki Izráelbõl.

16 Az elsõ napon pedig szent gyûléstek legyen és a hetedik napon is szent gyûléstek legyen; azokon semmi munkát ne tegyetek, egyedül csak a mi eledelére való minden embernek, azt el lehet készítenetek.

17 Megtartsátok a kovásztalan kenyér innepét; mert azon a napon hoztam ki a ti seregeiteket Égyiptom földérõl; tartsátok meg hát e napot nemzetségrõl nemzetségre, örök rendtartás szerint.

18 Az elsõ hónapban, a hónapnak tizennegyedik napján estve egyetek kovásztalan kenyeret, a hónap huszonegyedik napjának estvéjéig.

19 Hét napon át ne találtassék kovász a ti házaitokban; mert valaki kovászost ejéndik, az a lélek kiirtatik Izráel gyülekezetébõl, akár jövevény, akár az ország szülöttje legyen.

20 Semmi kovászost ne egyetek, minden lakóhelyeteken kovásztalan kenyeret egyetek.

21 Elõhívá tehát Mózes Izráel minden véneit és monda nékik: Fogjatok és vegyetek magatoknak bárányt családaitok szerint és öljétek meg a páskhát.

22 És vegyetek egy kötés izsópot és mártsátok a vérbe, a mely az edényben van, és hintsétek meg a szemöldökfát és a két ajtófelet abból a vérbõl, a mely az edényben van; ti közûletek pedig senki se menjen ki az õ házának ajtaján reggelig.

23 Mikor általmegy az Úr, hogy megverje az Égyiptombelieket és meglátja a vért a szemöldökfán és a két ajtófélen: elmegy az Úr az ajtó mellett és nem engedi, hogy a pusztító bemenjen öldökölni a ti házaitokba.

24 Megtartsátok azért ezt a dolgot, rendtartás gyanánt, magadnak és fiaidnak mindörökre.

25 És mikor bementek a földre, melyet az Úr ád néktek, a mint megmondotta vala: akkor tartsátok meg ezt a szertartást.

26 Mikor pedig a ti fiaitok mondandják néktek: Micsoda ez a ti szertartástok?

27 Akkor mondjátok: Páskha-áldozat ez az Úrnak, a ki elment az Izráel fiainak házai mellett Égyiptomban, mikor megverte az Égyiptombelieket, a mi házainkat pedig megoltalmazta. És a nép meghajtá magát és leborula.

28 És menének és úgy cselekedének az Izráel fiai, a mint megparancsolta vala az Úr Mózesnek és Áronnak; úgy cselekedének.

29 Lõn pedig éjfélkor, hogy megöle az Úr minden elsõszülöttet Égyiptomnak földén, a Faraónak elsõszülöttétõl fogva, a ki az õ királyi székiben ûl vala, a tömlöczbeli fogolynak elsõszülöttéig és a baromnak is minden elsõ fajzását.

30 És fölkele a Faraó azon az éjszakán és mind az õ szolgái és egész Égyiptom, és lõn nagy jajgatás Égyiptomban; mert egy ház sem vala, melyben halott ne lett volna.

31 És hívatá Mózest és Áront éjszaka és monda: Keljetek fel, menjetek ki az én népem közûl, mind ti, mind Izráel fiai és menjetek, szolgáljatok az Úrnak, a mint mondátok.

32 Juhaitokat is, barmaitokat is vegyétek, a mint mondátok és menjetek el és áldjatok engem is.

33 És az Égyiptombeliek erõsen rajta valának, hogy a népet mentül hamarább kiküldhessék az országból; mert [azt] mondják vala: mindnyájan meghalunk.

34 És a nép az õ tésztáját, minekelõtte megkelt volna, sütõteknõivel együtt ruhájába kötve, vállára veté.

35 Az Izráel fiai pedig Mózes beszéde szerint cselekedének és kérének az Égyiptombeliektõl ezüst edényeket és arany edényeket, meg ruhákat.

36 Az Úr pedig kedvessé tette vala a népet az Égyiptombeliek elõtt, hogy kérésökre hajlának és kifoszták az Égyiptombelieket.

37 És elindulának Izráel fiai Rameszeszbõl Szukhóthba, mintegy hatszáz ezeren gyalog, csupán férfiak a gyermekeken kívül.

38 Sok elegy nép is méne fel velök; juh is, szarvasmarha is, felette Sok barom.

39 És sütének a tésztából, melyet Égyiptomból hoztak vala, kovásztalan pogácsákat, mert meg nem kelhet vala, mivelhogy kiûzetének Égyiptomból és nem késhetének s még eleséget sem készítének magoknak.

40 Az Izráel fiainak lakása pedig, a míg Égyiptomban laknak, négyszáz harmincz esztendõ vala.

41 És lõn a négyszáz harmincz esztendõ végén, lõn pedig ugyanazon napon, hogy az Úrnak minden serege kijöve Égyiptomnak földérõl.

42 Az Úr tiszteletére rendelt éjszaka ez, a melyen kihozta õket Égyiptom földérõl; az Úr tiszteletére rendelt éjszaka Izráel minden fiai elõtt nemzetségrõl nemzetségre.

43 És monda az Úr Mózesnek és Áronnak: Ez a Páskha rendtartása: Egy idegen származású se egyék abból.

44 Akárkinek is pénzen vett szolgája akkor egyék abból, ha körûlmetélted.

45 A zsellér és a béres ne egyék abból.

46 Egy házban egyék meg; a házból ki ne vígy a húsból, és csontot se törjetek össze abban.

47 Izráel egész gyülekezete készítse azt.

48 És ha jövevény tartózkodik nálad, és páskhát akarna készíteni az Úrnak: metéltessék körûl minden férfia, és úgy foghat annak készítéséhez, és legyen olyan, mint az országnak szülötte. Egy körûlmetéletlen se egyék abból.

49 Egy törvénye legyen az ott születettnek és a jövevénynek, a ki közöttetek tartózkodik.

50 És Izráel fiai mindnyájan megcselekedék; a mint parancsolta vala az Úr Mózesnek és Áronnak, úgy cselekedének.

51 Ugyanazon napon hozá ki az Úr az Izráel fiait Égyiptomnak földérõl, az õ seregeik szerint.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9828

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9828. 'And a belt' means a common bond to ensure that everything has the same end in view. This is clear from the meaning of 'a belt' or girdle as a common bond; for it gathers together, encloses, holds in connection within itself, and strengthens everything within, which without it would fall apart and drift away. The reason why it is a common bond whose purpose is to ensure that everything has the same end in view is that in the spiritual world the end in view holds sway, so much so that everything there should be called an end. For the Lord's kingdom, which is a spiritual world, is a kingdom of useful services, and such services there are ends in view, so that it is a kingdom of ends. But the ends there follow one another in various order, and they also stand in association with one another. The ends which follow one another are called middle ends, but those which stand in association with one another are called associate ends. All these ends have been so linked together and made subordinate to one another that without exception they have one end in view. This end is the Lord; and in heaven, among those who accept it, it is a love of and faith in Him. Love there is the end in view of all the powers of the will there, and faith is the end in view of all the powers of thought, which are those of the understanding.

[2] When every single thing has the same end in view all things are then held in uninterrupted connection and make one; for everything is then under the eye, government, and providence of the One who, acting in accord with the laws of subordination and association, turns everyone towards Himself, and thereby joins them to Himself. At the same time He turns all to face their companions, and thereby joins them to one another. This explains why the faces of all who are in heaven are kept turned towards the Lord, who is the Sun there, and so is the centre point in front of everyone's eyes; and the marvel is that He is there in whatever direction angels turn round to face, 3638. And since the Lord is present within the good of mutual love and within the good of charity towards the neighbour - for all are loved by Him, and are joined to one another by Him through love - their regard for their companions, which that love gives them, also serves to turn them towards the Lord.

[3] Those things therefore on last and lowest levels, gathering others together and enclosing them so they may be held, every single one, in such connection, were represented by belts or girdles, which in the spiritual world are nothing other than the forms of good and the truths present on lowest or outermost levels which enclose more internal ones. Celestial forms of good on lowest or outermost levels were represented by girdles that went around the loins, and spiritual forms of good and truths on those levels by girdles that went around the thighs and also around the breast.

[4] Such things are meant by 'girdles around the loins' in the following places: In Jeremiah,

Jehovah said to the prophet, Buy yourself a linen girdle, and place it over your loins; but you are not to pass it through water. I therefore bought a girdle, and placed it over my loins. Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, Take the girdle, and go away to the Euphrates, and hide it in the cleft of a rock. At the end of many days I went away to the Euphrates, and took the girdle, and behold, it was ruined; it was profitable for nothing. Then Jehovah said, This people is evil, refusing to hear My words; and they have gone after other gods. Therefore they will be just like this girdle that is profitable for nothing. Jeremiah 13:1-12.

'A linen girdle' here is used to mean in the spiritual sense the Church's good, which encloses the truths there and holds them in connection within itself. The non-existence of the Church's good at that time, and the consequent dispersal of its truths, are the reason for its being said that the girdle was not to be passed through water; for 'water' means truth that purifies and thereby restores. 'The cleft of a rock' in which it was hidden is falsified truth; 'the Euphrates' is the full extent and boundary of the celestial realities that belong to good on its lowest level. Anyone unacquainted with the essential nature of the Word may think that the passage is no more than a comparison of the people and their ruination with a girdle and its ruination. But in the Word all comparisons and metaphorical ways of speaking are real correspondences, 3579, 8989. Unless each detail in this description were of a correspondential nature the prophet would never have been told not to pass the girdle through water, or to place it over his loins, or to go to the Euphrates and hide it there in the cleft of a rock. The reason why it says that the girdle should be placed over his loins is that by 'the loins', because of their correspondence, is meant the good of celestial love, 3021, 4280, 5050-5062. A girdle placed over the loins accordingly means being joined to the Lord through the good of love, the Word serving as the intermediary.

[5] The meaning of 'a girdle' as good that acts as a boundary and holds things together is also evident in Isaiah,

There will come forth a shoot from the trunk of Jesse. Righteousness will be the girdle of His loins, and truth the girdle of His thighs. Isaiah 11:1, 5.

This refers to the Lord. 'Righteousness' that will be 'the girdle of His loins' is the good of His love, which protects heaven and the Church. The requirement stated in Exodus 12:11 that when the children of Israel ate the Passover their loins were to be girded means that all things should be present in their proper order, made ready to receive good from the Lord and to take action, 7863. This explains why those who have been made ready are said to be 'girded', as is also said of the seven angels in the Book of Revelation,

Out of the temple came the seven angels having the seven plagues, clothed in linen, white and splendid, and girded around their breasts with golden girdles. Revelation 15:6.

[6] It is said of Elijah in 2 Kings 1:8 that he was a hairy man and wore a girdle of skin around his loins. Much the same is said of John,

John had a garment of camel hair and a skin girdle around his waist. Matthew 3:4.

The reason why Elijah and John were clothed and girded in this way was that both men represented the Word, and therefore their clothes mean the Word in its external sense, which is the natural sense. For 'hair' means the natural, 3301, 5247, 5569-5573, and 'camels' general facts within the natural, 3048, 3071, 3143, 3145. And 'skin' means the external, 3540, so that 'a girdle of skin' means that which collects together, encloses, and holds in connection the things within itself. For the representation of Elijah as the Word, see Preface to Genesis 18, and 2762, 5247 (end), and John the Baptist similarly, 9372.

[7] Since truths and forms of good are dissolved and dispersed by wicked deeds it says of Joab that after he had tricked and killed Abner he put the blood of war on his girdle that was on his loins, 1 Kings 2:5. This means that he dispersed and destroyed such truths and forms of good. This accounts for its being said, when truths have been dispersed and destroyed, that instead of a girdle there will be a falling apart, and instead of well-set hair, baldness, Isaiah 3:24. This refers to the daughters of Zion, by whom forms of good belonging to the celestial Church are meant. 'Instead of a girdle, a falling apart' stands for the dispersal of celestial good.

[8] It is also said in Ezekiel of Oholibah, who is Jerusalem, that when she looked at men portrayed on the wall, images of Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion, girded with girdles on their loins, she fell in love with them, Ezekiel 23:14-16. Here truths which have been rendered profane are meant, for 'the Chaldeans' are those who outwardly claim to believe in truths but inwardly repudiate them, and in so doing render them profane. 'Men portrayed on the wall' are the appearances of truth in outward things, as in like manner are 'images portrayed in vermilion'. 'Girdles' with which their loins were girded are the forms of good which they fake to induce belief in their truths.

[9] From all this it may now be clear what it was that girdles gathering garments into one served to mean in the representative Church. Yet the natural man can scarcely be brought to believe that such things were meant, because he finds it difficult to put aside the natural idea of a girdle, and in general of garments, and instead adopt a spiritual idea, which is that of good holding truths in connection within itself. For the natural level on which a person sees things holds the mind down on that level, and it is not removed from there unless the sight of the understanding is able to be raised right up into the light of heaven and the person is for this reason able to think on a level virtually divorced from natural things. When this happens to a person spiritual ideas of the truth of faith and of the good of love, which the merely natural man cannot understand, enter in.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 3048

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3048. 'The servant took ten camels from his master's camels, and went' means [Divine] general facts in the natural man. This is clear from the meaning of 'the servant' here as the natural man, dealt with above in 3019, 3020; from the meaning of 'ten' as remnants, which are the goods and truths stored away in a person by the Lord, see 468, 530, 560, 561, 660, 661, 1050, 1906, 2284 (though when 'ten' or remnants is used in reference to the Lord, the Divine things that the Lord acquired to Himself are meant, 1738, 1906); and from the meaning of 'camels' as general facts which, being Divine or things acquired by the Lord, are said to be 'ten' in number, and also to be 'camels from his master's camels'. The words 'he went' mean the introduction which was effected by means of those facts, which is dealt with in this chapter. The whole subject is the process by which truth was joined to good in the Lord's Divine Rational, the first thing to be described in this line of thought being the nature of the process of introduction, referred to in 3012, 3013. The present verse describes how the Lord separated those things in the natural man that came from Himself, that is, that were Divine, from those that came from the mother. Those that came from Himself, or were Divine, are the things through which the introduction was effected, and they are meant here by 'the ten camels from his master's camels'. This explains why much reference is made in subsequent verses to camels, such as that he made the camels kneel down outside the city, verse 11; that Rebekah also gave the camels a drink, verses 14, 19-20; that they were led into the house, and given straw and fodder, verses 31-32; and further on, that Rebekah and her maids rode on the camels, verse 61; and that Isaac saw the camels coming, and that when Rebekah saw Isaac she dropped down from the camel, verses 63-64. The reason they are mentioned so many times lies in the internal sense in which they mean the general facts that are present in the natural man and from which comes the affection for truth that had to be introduced to the affection for good within the rational, this being effected in the ordinary way, as shown above. For the rational as regards truth cannot possibly be born and perfected without facts and cognitions.

[2] That 'camels' means general facts is clear from other places in the Word where they are mentioned, as in Isaiah,

A prophecy of the beasts of the south. In the land of distress and anguish are the young lion and the old lion from them, the viper and the flying fiery-serpent. They carry their wealth on the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures on the backs of camels, to a people that do not profit them. And Egypt's help will be in vain and to no advantage. Isaiah 30:6-7.

'The beasts of the south' stands for those who possess cognitions or the light of cognitions but lead evil lives. 'Carrying their wealth on the shoulders of young asses' stands for the cognitions which belong to their rational, 'a young ass' being rational truth, see 2781. 'Their treasures on the backs of camels' stands for the cognitions which belong to their natural, 'the backs of camels' being the natural, 'camels' themselves the general facts there, 'treasures' the cognitions which they consider to be precious. The words 'Egypt's help will be in vain and to no advantage' mean that to them knowledge is of no use, 'Egypt' being knowledge, see 1164, 1165, 1186, 1462, 2588 (end). It is evident that camels are not meant by 'camels' here because it is said that the young lion and the old lion carry their treasures on the backs of camels. Anyone may see that some arcanum of the Church is meant by this description.

[3] In the same prophet,

The prophecy of the wilderness of the sea. Thus said the Lord, Go, set a watchman to point out what he sees. And he saw a chariot, a pair of horsemen, a chariot of asses, a chariot of camels, and he listened diligently. He answered and said, Fallen, fallen has Babel. Isaiah 21:1, 6-7, 9.

'The wilderness of the sea' stands for the hollowness of knowledge that serves no use. 'A chariot of asses' stands for a mass of specific facts, 'a chariot of camels' for a mass of general facts which are present in the natural man. It is the hollow reasonings found with people meant by Babel which are described in this fashion.

[4] In the same prophet,

Your heart will enlarge itself because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you, the wealth of the nations will come to you. A multitude of camels will cover you, dromedaries of Midian and Ephah, all those from Sheba will come. They will bring gold and frankincense, and will spread abroad the praises of Jehovah. Isaiah 60:5-6.

This refers to the Lord, and to the Divine celestial and spiritual things within His natural. 'The abundance of the sea' stands for a vast quantity of natural truth, 'the wealth of the nations' for a vast quantity of natural good. 'A multitude of camels' stands for general facts in abundance, 'gold and frankincense' for goods and truths which are 'the praises of Jehovah'. 'From Sheba' is from the celestial things of love and faith, see 113, 117, 1171. The queen of Sheba's coming to Solomon in Jerusalem with vast amounts of wealth, with camels carrying spices, and very much gold, and precious stones, 1 Kings 10:1-2, represented the wisdom and intelligence which came to the Lord, who in the internal sense of these verses is meant by Solomon. 'Camels carrying spices, gold, and precious stores' means matters of wisdom and intelligence in the natural man.

[5] In Jeremiah,

To Arabia and to the kingdoms of Hazor which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel smote: Arise and go up to Arabia, and lay waste the sons of the east. They will take their tents, their curtains, and all their vessels, and they will bear their camels away from them. Their camels will become booty, and the multitude of their flocks booty, and I will scatter them to every wind. Jeremiah 49:28-29, 32.

Here 'Arabia' and 'the kingdoms of Hazor', used in the contrary sense, stand for people who possess cognitions of celestial and spiritual things but whose only use for them is to be considered wise and intelligent in their own eyes and in those of the world. 'The camels that will be borne away from them to become booty and that will be scattered to every wind' means in general the factual knowledge of those people and their cognitions of good and truth, which will begin to be removed from these people in this life through their belief in things of a contrary nature, and in the next life removed altogether.

[6] In Zechariah,

The plague with which Jehovah will smite all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: It will be a plague of the horse, the mule, the camel, and the ass, and every beast. Zechariah 14:12, 15.

'A plague of the horse, the mule, the camel, the ass' stands for the removal of the powers of the understanding which follow one another in the same consecutive order, from rational concepts to natural images. What a horse is, see 2761, 2762; a mule, 2781; an ass, 2781. 'Camels' stands for general facts in the natural man. The pestilence in Egypt 'on the cattle in the field, on the horses, on the asses, on the camels, on the herd, and on the flock', Exodus 9:2-3, had a similar meaning.

From all these places it becomes clear that 'camels' in the internal sense of the Word means general facts which belong to the natural man. General facts are those which include within themselves many particular ones, while these include within themselves those that are specific. All these constitute in general the understanding part of the natural man.

  
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