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1 モーセは言った、「しかし、彼らはわたしを信ぜず、またわたしの声に聞き従わないで言うでしょう、『はあなたに現れなかった』と」。

2 は彼に言われた、「あなたのにあるそれは何か」。彼は言った、「つえです」。

3 また言われた、「それを地に投げなさい」。彼がそれを地に投げると、へびになったので、モーセはそのから身を避けた。

4 モーセに言われた、「あなたのを伸ばして、そのを取りなさい。――そこでを伸ばしてそれを取ると、のなかでつえとなった。――

5 これは、彼らの先祖たちのアブラハムの、イサクの、ヤコブのであるが、あなたに現れたのを、彼らに信じさせるためである」。

6 はまた彼に言われた、「あなたのをふところに入れなさい」。彼がをふところに入れ、それを出すと、は、らい病にかかって、雪のように白くなっていた。

7 主は言われた、「をふところにもどしなさい」。彼はをふところにもどし、それをふところから出して見ると、回復して、もとののようになっていた。

8 主は言われた、「彼らがもしあなたを信ぜず、また初めのしるしを認めないならば、後のしるしは信じるであろう。

9 彼らがもしこのつのしるしをも信ぜず、あなたの声に聞き従わないならば、あなたはナイル川のを取って、かわいた地に注ぎなさい。あなたがナイル川から取ったは、かわいた地でとなるであろう」。

10 モーセに言った、「ああよ、わたしは以前にも、またあなたが、しもべにられてから後も、言葉の人ではありません。わたしはも重く、も重いのです」。

11 は彼に言われた、「だれが人にを授けたのか。おし、耳しい、目あき、目しいにだれがするのか。なるわたしではないか。

12 それゆえ行きなさい。わたしはあなたのと共にあって、あなたの言うべきことを教えるであろう」。

13 モーセは言った、「ああ、主よ、どうか、ほかの適当な人をおつかわしください」。

14 そこで、モーセにむかって怒りを発して言われた、「あなたの兄弟レビびとアロンがいるではないか。わたしは彼が言葉にすぐれているのを知っている。見よ、彼はあなたに会おうとして出てきている。彼はあなたを見て喜ぶであろう。

15 あなたは彼にって言葉をそのに授けなさい。わたしはあなたのと共にあり、彼のと共にあって、あなたがたのなすべきことを教え、

16 彼はあなたに代って民に語るであろう。彼はあなたのとなり、あなたは彼のために、に代るであろう。

17 あなたはそのつえをに執り、それをもって、しるしを行いなさい」。

18 モーセは妻の父エテロのところに帰って彼に言った、「どうかわたしを、エジプトにいる身うちの者のところに帰らせ、彼らがまだ生きながらえているか、どうかを見させてください」。エテロはモーセに言った、「安んじて行きなさい」。

19 はミデヤンでモーセに言われた、「エジプトに帰って行きなさい。あなたの命を求めた人々はみな死んだ」。

20 そこでモーセと子供たちをとり、ろばに乗せて、エジプトの地に帰った。モーセ神のつえを執った。

21 モーセに言われた、「あなたがエジプトに帰ったとき、わたしがあなたのに授けた不思議を、みなパロので行いなさい。しかし、わたしが彼のをかたくなにするので、彼は民を去らせないであろう。

22 あなたはパロに言いなさい、『はこう仰せられる。イスラエルはわたしの、わたしの長である。

23 わたしはあなたに言う。わたしのを去らせて、わたしに仕えさせなさい。もし彼を去らせるのを拒むならば、わたしはあなたの、あなたの長を殺すであろう』と」。

24 さてモーセが途中で宿っている時、は彼に会って彼を殺そうとされた。

25 その時チッポラは火打ち石の小刀を取って、その男のの前の皮を切り、それをモーセのにつけて言った、「あなたはまことに、わたしにとって花婿です」。

26 そこで、主はモーセをゆるされた。この時「花婿です」とチッポラが言ったのは割礼のゆえである。

27 はアロンに言われた、「荒野に行ってモーセに会いなさい」。彼は行って神のモーセに会い、これに口づけした。

28 モーセは自分をつかわされた主のすべての言葉と、命じられたすべてのしるしをアロンに告げた。

29 そこでモーセとアロンは行ってイスラエルの人々の長老たちをみな集めた。

30 そしてアロンはモーセられた言葉を、ことごとく告げた。また彼は民のでしるしを行ったので、

31 民は信じた。彼らはイスラエルの人々を顧み、その苦しみを見られたのを聞き、伏して礼拝した。

   

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7032. 'And I will harden his heart, and he will not send the people away' means obstinacy and so a failure to set free as yet. This is clear from the meaning of 'hardening' as obstinacy, and from the meaning of 'heart' is that a new perception is meant, as the will, dealt with in 2930, 3888, so that the words used here mean an obstinate determination that springs from the will, and therefore from a delight in doing what is evil since what is present in the will is that in which one takes delight, and that in which one takes delight springs from the love one has; and from the meaning of 'not sending the people away' as an obstinate unwillingness to set free, thus a failure to set free as yet. It says here and in places further on that Jehovah hardened Pharaoh's heart. Such wording is based on appearances and on the general idea about the Divine, that all things are brought about by Him. But this should be understood in exactly the same kind of way as the attribution to Jehovah or the Lord of evil, anger, fury, devastation, and many other things like these should be, 2447, 6071, 6991, 6997.

[2] As regards the obstinacy of those who are steeped in falsities and the resulting evils and in evils and the resulting falsities, it should be recognized that the nature of it is such that it defies description. They never leave off, unless they are deterred by harsh punishments and the fears these create; exhortations and threats have no effect whatever. The reason for this is that for them the delight of life consists in doing evil, a delight which they acquired while they lived in the world, chiefly because they loved solely themselves, not their neighbour, and so did not have any Christian charity. Because people like this do not allow themselves to be led by the Lord, their actions are motivated by their own selfish will, which is evil owing to heredity and also to the actual life they lead. And people whose actions are motivated by their own selfish will do what is evil from a love of evil, since what comes from the will comes from love. From love springs the delight they feel in doing evil, and in the measure that this delight reigns in them obstinacy reigns in them.

[3] It is not evident in the world that this is so, but that is because in the world they are restrained by self-love and love of the world, for they are afraid they would suffer loss of reputation, consequently of monetary gain and of position if they were to do evil openly. Laws and fear for their lives also serve to keep them in check. But if those restraints did not exist they would quickly seek to ruin all who are not favourably disposed towards them, plunder everyone's resources, and ruthlessly kill anyone. This is what the person is like inwardly, that is, as to his spirit, though he may not seem in the world to be like that, as may be seen perfectly clearly from those who are in the next life. Those who have been like that in the world have external things taken away from them and are left to [the desires of] their own will, thus to their own loves; and when they have been left to these nothing gives them greater delight than doing what is evil. They also do it with such obstinate determination that they never leave off, unless, as has been stated, they suffer punishments, after which they sink into hell. All this shows what a person is like who has no charity towards the neighbour, also that everyone's life awaits him, not his external life as a citizen which could be seen in the world, but his spiritual life, which was internal and unseen in the world.

  
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Exodus 4

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1 Moses answered, "But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, 'Yahweh has not appeared to you.'"

2 Yahweh said to him, "What is that in your hand?" He said, "A rod."

3 He said, "Throw it on the ground." He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.

4 Yahweh said to Moses, "Put forth your hand, and take it by the tail." He Put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand.

5 "That they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you."

6 Yahweh said furthermore to him, "Now put your hand inside your cloak." He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.

7 He said, "Put your hand inside your cloak again." He Put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.

8 "It will happen, if they will neither believe you nor listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

9 It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs, neither listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land."

10 Moses said to Yahweh, "O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue."

11 Yahweh said to him, "Who made man's mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn't it I, Yahweh?

12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak."

13 He said, "Oh, Lord, please send someone else."

14 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Moses, and he said, "What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he comes forth to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

15 You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.

16 He will be your spokesman to the people; and it will happen, that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.

17 You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs."

18 Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, "Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive." Jethro said to Moses, "go in peace."

19 Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead."

20 Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God's rod in his hand.

21 Yahweh said to Moses, "When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.

22 You shall tell Pharaoh, 'Thus says Yahweh, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

23 and I have said to you, "Let my son go, that he may serve me;" and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.'"

24 It happened on the way at a lodging place, that Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill him.

25 Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me."

26 So he let him alone. Then she said, "You are a bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision.

27 Yahweh said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." He went, and met him on God's mountain, and kissed him.

28 Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahweh with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had instructed him.

29 Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.

30 Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.

31 The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.