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Deuteronomy 10

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1 At that time Jehovah said to me, Carve·​·out for thee two tablets of stone like the first, and come·​·up to Me in the mountain, and make thee an ark of wood.

2 And I will write on the tablets the Words that were on the first tablets which thou didst break, and thou shalt set them in the ark.

3 And I made an ark of shittim* wood, and carved·​·out two tablets of stone like the first, and went·​·up to the mountain, and the two tablets were in my hand.

4 And He wrote on the tablets, according·​·to the first writing, the Ten Words*, which Jehovah spoke to you in the mountain out·​·of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and Jehovah gave them to me.

5 And I turned and came·​·down from the mountain, and set the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as Jehovah commanded me.

6 And the sons of Israel journeyed from Beeroth of the sons of Jaakan to Moserah; there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son was·​·a·​·priest in his stead.

7 From thence they journeyed to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of brooks of waters.

8 At that time Jehovah distinguished the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, to stand before Jehovah to minister to Him, and to bless in His name, even·​·to this day.

9 Therefore Levi has no part nor inheritance with his brothers; Jehovah is his inheritance, according as Jehovah thy God spoke to him.

10 And I stood in the mountain, as in the first days, forty days and forty nights; and Jehovah hearkened to me at that time also, and Jehovah was· not ·willing to destroy thee.

11 And Jehovah said to me, Arise, go to journey before the people, that they may go·​·in and possess the land, which I promised to their fathers to give to them.

12 And now, Israel, what does Jehovah thy God ask from thee, but to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

13 to keep the commandments of Jehovah, and His statutes, which I command thee today for thy good?

14 Behold, the heavens and the heavens of heavens are Jehovah’s thy God, the earth also, with all that is in it.

15 Only Jehovah delighted in thy fathers to love them, and He chose their seed after them, even you above all the peoples, as it is this day.

16 And circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and let your neck be hardened no more.

17 For Jehovah your God, He is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the Hero, and the Fearsome, who accepts not faces*, nor takes a bribe;

18 He makes judgment for the orphan and widow, and loves the sojourner, to give him bread and raiment.

19 And love ye the sojourner; for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

20 Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God; Him thou shalt serve, and to Him thou shalt stick, and promise by His name.

21 He is thy praise, and He is thy God, who has done for thee these great and fearsome things, which thine eyes have seen.

22 Thy fathers went·​·down into Egypt with seventy souls; and now Jehovah thy God has set thee as the stars of the heavens for multitude.

   


Thanks to the Kempton Project for the permission to use this New Church translation of the Word.

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Apocalypse Revealed # 101

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101. "'And you will have tribulation ten days.'" This symbolically means that this will continue the whole time, that is, as long as they wish to remain caught up in falsities.

Tribulation, which we discussed in nos. 33 and 95 above, here symbolizes infestation, thus temptation or trial; and ten days symbolize the duration of that state to its completion. Therefore the people of this church are told next, "Be faithful until death," which symbolizes their reception and acknowledgment of truths until their falsities have been set aside and seemingly abolished.

Ten days symbolize the duration of their state to its completion because a day symbolizes a state, and ten completeness. For intervals of time in the Word symbolize states (no. 947), and numbers add their character (no. 10).

[2] Since ten symbolizes completeness, it also symbolizes much or many, and every or all, as can be seen from the following passages:

...the men who have seen My glory... have put Me to the test... ten times... (Numbers 14:22)

...ten times you have reproached me. (Job 19:3)

(Daniel was found) ten times better than... the astrologers. (Daniel 1:20)

...ten women shall bake your bread in one oven... (Leviticus 26:26)

...ten men from every language of the nations shall grasp the sleeve of a Jewish man... (Zechariah 8:23)

Because ten symbolizes much and also all, therefore the precepts that Jehovah wrote upon the tablets of the Decalogue are called the Ten Commandments (Deuteronomy 4:13; 10:4). The Ten Commandments embody all truths, for they encompass them.

Moreover, because ten symbolizes all, therefore the Lord likened the kingdom of heaven to ten virgins (Matthew 25:1). And in a parable He said of a certain nobleman that the nobleman gave his servants ten minas with which to do business (Luke 19:12-27).

Much is also symbolically meant by the ten horns of the beast that came up from the sea in Daniel 7:7; by the ten horns and the ten jewels 1 upon the horns of the beast rising up from the sea in Revelation 13:1; by the ten horns of the dragon in Revelation 12:3; and by the ten horns of the scarlet beast with the woman sitting upon it in Revelation 17:3, 7, 12. The ten horns symbolize much power.

[3] From the symbolic meaning of ten as being complete, much, and all, it can be seen why it was instituted that a tenth part of all the produce of the earth be given to Jehovah, and by Jehovah in turn to Aaron and the Levites (Numbers 18:24, 28, Deuteronomy 14:22), and why Abram gave to Melchizedek a tithe of all (Genesis 14:18, 20). For this symbolically meant that everything they had therefore was from Jehovah and sanctified by Him (see Malachi 3:10).

It can be seen from this now that having tribulation ten days means, symbolically, that their temptation or trial will continue the whole time, that is, as long as they wish to remain caught up in falsities. For falsities are never taken from a person against his will, but in accord with it.

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1. The word translated as "jewels" here means diadems or crowns in the original Greek and Latin, but the writer's definitions of the term elsewhere make plain that he regularly and consistently interpreted it to mean jewels or gems.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.