10482. Verses 26-29 And Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Whoever is for Jehovah, [come] to me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves to him. And he said to them, Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, Put everyone [his] sword on his thigh; go to and fro ¹ from gate to gate in the camp, and kill [every] man his brother, and [every] man his companion, and [every] man his neighbour. And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of the people on that day up to three thousand men. And Moses said, Fill your hand ² today to Jehovah (for [every] man has been against his son and against his brother), so that He may bestow a blessing on you today.

'And Moses stood in the gate of the camp' means where the opening to hell is situated. 'And said, Whoever is for Jehovah, [come] to me' means those whose concern for external things springs from what is internal. 'And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves to him' means those in possession of truths springing from good. 'And he said to them' means exhortation. 'Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel' means from the Lord. ['Put everyone his sword on his thigh' means truth springing from good engaged in conflict against falsity arising from evil.] 'Go to and fro from gate to gate in the camp' means wherever anything lies open from what is internal into what is external. 'And kill [every] man his brother, and [every] man his companion, and [every] man his neighbour' means a shutting off to prevent any reception and transmission of inflowing goodness and truth, and of the things touching on them. 'And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses' means put into effect by those in possession of truths springing from good. 'And there fell of the people on that day up to three thousand men' means a complete shutting off of what is internal. 'And Moses said, Fill your hand today to Jehovah' means the transmission and the reception of Divine Truth in the heavens. 'For [every] man has been against his son and against his brother' means when the internal has been shut off to prevent the entrance into the external of truth and good from heaven. 'So that He may bestow a blessing on you today' means the reception of Divine Truth from the Word, and being joined thereby to the Lord.

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8289. 'The enemy said' means the thought of those ruled by evils and the falsities arising from them, before the Lord's Coming. This is clear from the meaning of 'said' as thought, as in 3395, 7244, 7937; and from the meaning of 'the enemy' as those ruled by evils and falsities, since no others are meant in the spiritual sense by 'the enemy', 8282. The reason why their thought before the Lord's Coming is meant is that the hellish crew were prowling around at that time in almost complete freedom, molesting all who were there and trying to place them in subjection. Their thought at that time is described in the present verse by 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my soul will be filled. I will unsheathe the sword, my hand will drive them out'. But when the Lord came into the world their boasting was changed to lamentation, described in the verse immediately following by 'You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them over; they sought a deep place like lead in the mighty waters'. Regarding their change of state brought about by the Lord's Coming, see 6854, 6914, 7091, 7828, 7932, 8018, 8054.