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1 モーセに言われた、

2 イスラエルの人々に告げ、引き返して、ミグドルととの間にあるピハヒロテの、バアルゼポンのに宿営させなさい。あなたがたはそれにむかって、のかたわらに宿営しなければならない。

3 パロはイスラエルの人々について、『彼らはその地で迷っている。荒野は彼らを閉じ込めてしまった』と言うであろう。

4 わたしがパロのをかたくなにするから、パロは彼らのあとを追うであろう。わたしはパロとそのすべての勢を破って誉を得、エジプトびとにわたしがであることを知らせるであろう」。彼らはそのようにした。

5 民の逃げ去ったことが、エジプトの王に伝えられたので、パロとその家来たちとは、民に対する考えを変えて言った、「われわれはなぜこのようにイスラエルを去らせて、われわれに仕えさせないようにしたのであろう」。

6 それでパロは戦車を整え、みずからその民を率い、

7 また、えり抜きの戦車と、エジプトのすべての戦車およびすべての指揮者たちを率いた。

8 エジプトの王パロのをかたくなにされたので、彼はイスラエルの人々のあとを追った。イスラエルの人々は意気揚々と出たのである。

9 エジプトびとは彼らのあとを追い、パロのすべてのと戦車およびその騎兵と勢とは、バアルゼポンのにあるピハヒロテのあたりで、のかたわらに宿営している彼らに追いついた。

10 パロが近寄った時、イスラエルの人々はを上げてエジプトびとが彼らのあとに進んできているのを見て、非常に恐れた。そしてイスラエルの人々はにむかって叫び、

11 かつモーセに言った、「エジプトがないので、荒野で死なせるために、わたしたちを携え出したのですか。なぜわたしたちをエジプトから導き出して、こんなにするのですか。

12 わたしたちがエジプトであなたに告げて、『わたしたちを捨てておいて、エジプトびとに仕えさせてください』と言ったのは、このことではありませんか。荒野死ぬよりもエジプトびとに仕える方が、わたしたちにはよかったのです」。

13 モーセは民に言った、「あなたがたは恐れてはならない。かたく立って、がきょう、あなたがたのためになされる救を見なさい。きょう、あなたがたはエジプトびとを見るが、もはや永久に、二度と彼らを見ないであろう。

14 があなたがたのために戦われるから、あなたがたは黙していなさい」。

15 モーセに言われた、「あなたは、なぜわたしにむかって叫ぶのか。イスラエルの人々に語って彼らを進み行かせなさい。

16 あなたはつえを上げ、の上にさし伸べてそれを分け、イスラエルの人々にの中のかわいた地を行かせなさい。

17 わたしがエジプトびとのをかたくなにするから、彼らはそのあとを追ってはいるであろう。こうしてわたしはパロとそのすべての勢および戦車と騎兵とを打ち破って誉を得よう。

18 わたしがパロとその戦車とその騎兵とを打ち破って誉を得るとき、エジプトびとはわたしがであることを知るであろう」。

19 このとき、イスラエルの部隊のに行く神の使は移って彼らのうしろに行った。も彼らのから移って彼らのうしろに立ち、

20 エジプトびとの部隊とイスラエルびとの部隊との間にきたので、そこにとやみがありもすがら、かれとこれと近づくことなく、がすぎた。

21 モーセの上にさし伸べたので、もすがら強い東をもってを退かせ、を陸地とされ、は分かれた。

22 イスラエルの人々はの中のかわいた地を行ったが、は彼らの右と左に、かきとなった。

23 エジプトびとは追ってきて、パロのすべてのと戦車と騎兵とは、彼らのあとについての中にはいった。

24 暁の更に、のうちからエジプトびとの軍勢を見おろして、エジプトびとの軍勢を乱し、

25 その戦車の輪をきしらせて、進むのに重くされたので、エジプトびとは言った、「われわれはイスラエルを離れて逃げよう。が彼らのためにエジプトびとと戦う」。

26 そのときモーセに言われた、「あなたのの上にさし伸べて、エジプトびとと、その戦車と騎兵との上に流れ返らせなさい」。

27 モーセの上にさし伸べると、夜明けになってはいつもの流れに返り、エジプトびとはこれにむかって逃げたが、エジプトびとをの中に投げ込まれた。

28 は流れ返り、イスラエルのあとを追ってにはいった戦車と騎兵およびパロのすべての勢をおおい、ひとりも残らなかった。

29 しかし、イスラエルの人々はの中のかわいた地を行ったが、は彼らの右と左に、かきとなった。

30 このように、はこのイスラエルエジプトびとのから救われた。イスラエルエジプトびとがべに死んでいるのを見た

31 イスラエルはまた、エジプトびとに行われた大いなるみわざを見た。それで民は恐れとそのしもべモーセとを信じた。

   

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8227. 'And the Egyptians were fleeing to meet it' means that they plunged themselves into the falsities arising from evil. This is clear from the meaning of 'fleeing to meet the sea' as plunging themselves into falsities arising from evil, which are meant by the waters of that sea, 8226. The situation is that a person who is ignorant of causes lying on more internal levels inevitably believes that the bad things which happen to the evil, such as their undergoing punishment, vastation, and damnation, and finally being cast into hell, are attributable to the Divine. That is exactly how it seems to him, since such things occur at the presence of the Divine, 8137, 8138, 8188. Even so, no such thing happening to them is attributable to the Divine, only to themselves. The Divine and His presence have one end alone in view, namely the protection and salvation of the good. When the Divine is present with them, protecting them from those who are evil, the evil feel all the more antagonistic towards them, and all the more antagonistic towards the Divine Himself; for they hate Him most of all. Those who hate good hate most of all the Divine. So they rush to the attack, and in the measure that they do so they subject themselves, in keeping with the law of order, to punishment, vastation, and damnation, and at length cast themselves into hell. From all this it becomes clear that the Divine, that is, the Lord, does only what is good and does nothing bad to anyone; rather, those ruled by evil subject themselves to such miseries. This is what is meant when it says that the Egyptians fled to meet the sea; that is, they plunged themselves into the falsities arising from evil.

[2] On this subject something further must be said. The belief also exists that bad things are attributable to the Divine because He allows them and does not take them away. And one who allows something and does not take it away when he has the power to do so appears to will it and so to be the cause of it. But the Divine allows it because He cannot prevent it or take it away. The Divine wills only what is good; if therefore He were to prevent or remove bad things, that is to say, the miseries of punishment, vastation, persecution, temptation, and the like, He would be willing something bad. For then the people who must suffer them could not have their faults corrected and evil would increase until it held sway over good. The situation is like that with a king who acquits the guilty. He is the cause of the ill done by them subsequently in his kingdom, and he is the cause of the resulting lawlessness of others, not to mention that the evil person becomes more deeply immersed in evil. Therefore although a good and righteous king has the power to cancel punishments, yet he cannot, for if he cancels them he does not do what is good but what is bad. It should be recognized that all forms of punishment as well as of temptation in the next life have good as their end in view.

  
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Exodus 2

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1 A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife.

2 The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.

3 When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank.

4 His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him.

5 Pharaoh's daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her handmaid to get it.

6 She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."

7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?"

8 Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." The maiden went and called the child's mother.

9 Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." The woman took the child, and nursed it.

10 The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."

11 It happened in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.

12 He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

13 He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, "Why do you strike your fellow?"

14 He said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?" Moses was afraid, and said, "Surely this thing is known."

15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

17 The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

18 When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, "How is it that you have returned so early today?"

19 They said, "An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock."

20 He said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."

21 Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.

22 She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land."

23 It happened in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

24 God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

25 God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them.