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4 Mózes 36

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1 Járulának pedig Mózeshez az atyák fejei a Gileád fiainak nemzetségébõl, a ki Mákirnak, Manasse fiának fia vala, a József fiainak nemzetségébõl, és szólának Mózes elõtt és Izráel fiai atyáinak fejedelmei elõtt.

2 És mondának: Az én uramnak megparancsolta az Úr, hogy sors által adja ezt a földet örökségül Izráel fiainak; de azt is megparancsolta az Úr az én Uramnak, hogy a mi atyánkfiának, Czélofhádnak örökségét adja oda az õ leányainak.

3 És ha Izráel fiai közül valamely más törzs fiaihoz mennek feleségül: elszakasztatik az õ örökségök a mi atyáink örökségétõl, és oda csatoltatik az annak a törzsnek örökségéhez, a melynél [feleségül] lesznek; a mi örökségünk pedig megkisebbedik.

4 És mikor Izráel fiainál a kürtzengés ünnepe lesz, az õ örökségök akkor is annak a törzsnek örökségéhez csatoltatik, a melynél [feleségül] lesznek. Eképen a mi atyáink törzseinek örökségébõl vétetik el azok öröksége.

5 Parancsot ada azért Mózes Izráel fiainak az Úr rendelése szerint, mondván: A József fiainak törzse igazat szól.

6 Ez az, a mit parancsolt az Úr a Czélofhád leányai felõl, mondván: A kihez jónak látják, ahhoz menjenek feleségül, de csak az õ atyjok törzsének háznépébõl valóhoz menjenek feleségül,

7 Hogy át ne szálljon Izráel fiainak öröksége egyik törzsrõl a másik törzsre; hanem Izráel fiai közül kiki ragaszkodjék az õ atyái törzsének örökségéhez.

8 És minden leányzó, a ki örökséget kap Izráel fiainak törzsei közül, az õ atyja törzsebeli háznépbõl valóhoz menjen feleségül, hogy Izráel fiai közül kiki megtartsa az õ atyáinak örökségét.

9 És ne szálljon az örökség egyik törzsrõl a másik törzsre, hanem Izráel fiainak törzsei közül kiki ragaszkodjék az õ örökségéhez.

10 A miképen megparancsolta vala az Úr Mózesnek, a képen cselekedtek vala a Czélofhád leányai.

11 Mert Makhla, Thircza, Hogla, Milkha és Nóa, a Czélofhád leányai, az õ nagybátyjok fiaihoz mentek vala feleségül;

12 A József fiának, Manassé fiainak nemzetségébõl valókhoz mentek vala feleségül; és lõn azoknak öröksége az õ atyjok nemzetségének törzsénél.

13 Ezek a parancsolatok és végzések, a melyeket Mózes által parancsolt az Úr Izráel fiainak, Moáb mezõségén a Jordán mellett, Jérikhó ellenében.

   

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Moses

  

At the inmost level, the story of Moses -- like all of the Bible -- is about the Lord and his spiritual development during his human life as Jesus. Moses's role represents establishing forms of worship and to make the people obedient. As such, his primary representation is "the Law of God," the rules God gave the people of Israel to follow in order to represent spiritual things. This can be interpreted narrowly as the Ten Commandments, more broadly as the books of Moses, or most broadly as the entire Bible. Fittingly, his spiritual meaning is complex and important, and evolves throughout the course of his life. To understand it, it helps to understand the meaning of the events in which he was involved. At a more basic level, Moses's story deals with the establishment of the third church to serve as a container of knowledge of the Lord. The first such church -- the Most Ancient Church, represented by Adam and centered on love of the Lord -- had fallen prey to human pride and was destroyed. The second -- the Ancient Church, represented by Noah and the generations that followed him -- was centered on love of the neighbor, wisdom from the Lord and knowledge of the correspondences between natural and spiritual things. It fell prey to the pride of intelligence, however -- represented by the Tower of Babel -- and at the time of Moses was in scattered pockets that were sliding into idolatry. On an external level, of course, Moses led the people of Israel out of Egypt through 40 years in the wilderness to the border of the homeland God had promised them. Along the way, he established and codified their religious system, and oversaw the creation of its most holy objects. Those rules and the forms of worship they created were given as containers for deeper ideas about the Lord, deeper truth, and at some points -- especially when he was first leading his people away from Egypt, a time before the rules had been written down -- Moses takes on the deeper representation of Divine Truth itself, truth from the Lord. At other times -- especially after Mount Sinai -- he has a less exalted meaning, representing the people of Israel themselves due to his position as their leader. Through Moses the Lord established a third church, one more external than its predecessors but one that could preserve knowledge of the Lord and could, through worship that represented spiritual things, make it possible for the Bible to be written and passed to future generations.

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Arcana Coelestia # 9435

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9435. 'And Moses went into the midst of the cloud' means the Word in its outward sense. This is clear from the representation of 'Moses' as the Word, at this point the Word in its outward sense since it says that he went 'into the midst of the cloud', and 'the cloud' means the outward sense of the Word. For the representation of 'Moses' as the Word, see above in 9414, and for the meaning of 'the cloud' as its outward sense, in 9430. Moses remained at the foot of the mountain for six days, and then on the seventh day he received the call and went into the cloud, up into the mountain. This happened in order that he might represent that which acted as an intermediary between the people and the Lord, in keeping with what has been stated above in 9414. Degrees of ascent from the people to the Lord are described by this. When Moses went eventually into the mountain he first represented the outward holiness of the Word, which acted as an intermediary; for that mountain means heaven, where holiness dwells. But he was allowed no further in than the outermost part of heaven, where the outward holiness of the Word comes to an end. His being allowed only that far in has been demonstrated to me in a representative manner by means of a spirit, the upper part of whose face down to the chin appeared in the light of heaven, while the lower part from the chin downwards, together with the whole of the body, was in a cloud. This showed me how much of the outward holiness, which acted as an intermediary, Moses represented. The reason why the six days that Moses remained at the foot of the mountain has meant the state of truth, and the seventh day when he went up into the mountain means the state of good, in keeping with the explanation above in 9431, 9432, is that those who are being regenerated by the Lord mount by like degrees of ascent from the world into heaven. The person is raised from outward things to inward ones, because he is raised from the level of natural man, where outward things exist, to that of the spiritual man, where inward things exist. This kind of raising or ascent was also represented by Moses when he took on the representation of the outward holiness that acted as an intermediary. For the outward holiness of the Word is the gateway to the state of good, and so to heaven.

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