Arcana Coelestia # 10496
10496. Verses 30-35 And it happened on the next day, that Moses said to the people, You have committed a great sin. And now I shall go up to Jehovah; perhaps I shall make expiation for your sin. And Moses returned to Jehovah and said, I implore You; this people has committed a great sin, and they have made gods of gold for themselves. And now, if You forgive their sin - and if not, blot me out, I beg You, from Your book which You have written. And Jehovah said to Moses, The one who has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book. And now, go! lead the people to what I have spoken of to you. Behold, My angel will go before you; and on the day of My visitation I will visit their sin upon them 1 . And Jehovah struck the people because they made the calf which Aaron made.
'And it happened on the next day' means the duration of such worship right to the end of the Church. 'That Moses said to the people, You have committed a great sin' means a total turning away and alienation. 'And now I shall go up to Jehovah' means the raising of more internal things to the Lord. 'Perhaps I shall make expiation for your sin' means the possibility owing to the Lord's Divine Power for this to come about among those who have so turned themselves away. 'And Moses returned to Jehovah' means a joining together. 'And said, I implore You; this people has committed a great sin' means that even though that nation has completely turned away and removed itself from the Divine ... 'And they have made gods of gold for themselves' means, and they cultivate a hellish delight. 'And now, if You forgive their sin' means, nevertheless this turning away from the Divine will not be an impediment. 'And if not, blot me out, I beg You, from Your book which You have written' means that the internal side of the Word, the Church, and worship will not be destroyed. 'And Jehovah said, The one who has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book' means the reply, that they will be destroyed who turn themselves away from the Divine. 'And now, go! lead the people to what I have spoken of to you' means bringing this nation to represent the Church, and does not mean that the Church was to exist among them. 'Behold, My angel will go before you' means that Divine Truth will still be the leader. 'And on the day of My visitation I will visit their sin upon them' means their final state in particular and in general, when judgement takes place. 'And Jehovah struck the people' means the ruination of truth and good among the Israelite nation. 'Because they made the calf' means on account of the worship brought about by hellish love. 'Which Aaron made' means that it exists as a result of the external things which alone they love.
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1. i.e. on the day when I come to punish I will punish them for their sin
Exodus 33
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Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your seed.'
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I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
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to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way."
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When the people heard this evil news, they mourned: and no one put on his jewelry.
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Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.'"
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The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.
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Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it "The tent of Meeting." It happened that everyone who sought Yahweh went out to the tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp.
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It happened that when Moses went out to the Tent, that all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their Tent door, and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent.
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It happened, when Moses entered into the Tent, that the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and spoke with Moses.
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All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their Tent door.
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Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn't depart out of the Tent.
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Moses said to Yahweh, "Behold, you tell me, 'Bring up this people:' and you haven't let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.'
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Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight: and consider that this nation is your people."
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He said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."
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He said to him, "If your presence doesn't go with me, don't carry us up from here.
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For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn't it in that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?"
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Yahweh said to Moses, "I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name."
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He said, "Please show me your glory."
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He said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of Yahweh before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy."
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He said, "You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live."
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Yahweh also said, "Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock.
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It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by;
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then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen."
