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5 Mosebok 10

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1 På samme tid sa Herren til mig: Hugg dig ut to stentavler likesom de første, og stig op på fjellet til mig, og gjør dig også en ark av tre;

2 så vil jeg skrive på tavlene de ord som stod på de første tavler, de som du slo i stykker, og du skal legge dem i arken.

3 Da gjorde jeg en ark av akasietre og hugg ut to stentavler likesom de første, og jeg gikk op på fjellet med de to tavler i min hånd.

4 Og han skrev på tavlene det samme som var skrevet første gang, de ti ord som Herren hadde talt til eder på fjellet midt ut av ilden den dag I var samlet der; og Herren gav mig dem.

5 Så vendte jeg mig og gikk ned av fjellet og la tavlene i den ark jeg hadde gjort; og der blev de liggende, således som Herren hadde befalt mig.

6 Så brøt Israels barn op fra Bene-Ja'akans brønner og kom til Mosera; der døde Aron, og der blev han begravet, og hans sønn Eleasar tjente som prest i hans sted.

7 Derfra drog de til Gudgoda, og fra Gudgoda til Jotbata, et land med mange bekker.

8 På den tid skilte Herren ut Levi stamme til å bære Herrens pakts-ark og til å stå for Herrens åsyn og tjene ham og velsigne i hans navn, som de har gjort til denne dag.

9 Derfor fikk Levi ingen del eller arv med sine brødre; Herren er hans arv, således som Herren din Gud har sagt til ham.

10 Så blev jeg da på fjellet likesom første gang i firti dager og firti netter; og Herren hørte mig også denne gang, Herren vilde ikke ødelegge dig.

11 Og Herren sa til mig: Stå op og gå avsted og dra frem foran folket, forat de kan komme inn i det land jeg har svoret deres fedre å ville gi dem, og ta det i eie.

12 Og nu, Israel, hvad krever Herren din Gud av dig uten at du skal frykte Herren din Gud og vandre på alle hans veier og elske ham og tjene Herren din Gud av alt ditt hjerte og av all din sjel,

13 så du tar vare på Herrens bud og hans lover, som jeg byder dig idag, forat det kan gå dig vel?

14 Se, Herren din Gud hører himlene til og himlenes himler, jorden og alt det som er på den.

15 Men bare i dine fedre fant Herren behag, så han elsket dem; og han utvalgte eder, deres efterkommere, fremfor alle andre folk, således som det kan sees på denne dag.

16 Så omskjær da eders hjertes forhud, og vær ikke mere så hårdnakkede!

17 For Herren eders Gud han er gudenes Gud og herrenes Herre, den store, den mektige og den forferdelige Gud, som ikke gjør forskjell på folk og ikke tar imot gaver,

18 som hjelper den farløse og enken til deres rett, og som elsker den fremmede, så han gir ham føde og klær.

19 Derfor skal også I elske den fremmede; I har selv vært fremmede i Egyptens land.

20 Herren din Gud skal du frykte, ham skal du tjene, og ham skal du holde fast ved, og ved hans navn skal du sverge.

21 Han er din ros, og han er din Gud, som har gjort disse store og forferdelige ting for dig som dine øine har sett.

22 Sytti i tallet drog dine fedre ned til Egypten; men nu har Herren din Gud gjort dig tallrik som himmelens stjerner.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9416

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9416. 'And I will give you tablets of stone' means the book of the law, or the Word in its entirety. This is clear from the meaning of 'tablets' as objects on which matters of doctrine and life have been inscribed, in this instance matters of heavenly doctrine and of life in keeping with it. The reason why those tablets mean the book of the law or the Word in its entirety is that the things which had been inscribed on them contained in a general way all matters of life and of that heavenly doctrine. This also explains why the things inscribed on them are called the ten words, Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 10:4. For 'ten' in the internal sense means all, and 'words' means truths that are matters of doctrine and forms of good that are matters of life. For the meaning of 'ten' as all, see 3107, 4638, 8468, 8540, and for that of 'words' as truths and forms of good that are matters of life and doctrine, 1288, 4692, 5272. This is why those tablets mean the Word in its entirety, just as the Law does, which in a restricted sense means the things which had been inscribed on those tablets, in a less restricted sense the Word that was written through Moses, in a broad sense the historical section of the Word, and in the broadest sense the Word in its entirety, see what has been shown in 6752. Furthermore the things which had been inscribed on those tablets belonged to the first stage in the revelation of Divine Truth; they were also declared in actual words uttered by the Lord before all the Israelite people. What belongs to the first stage means all the rest in their proper order; and the fact that those things were declared in actual words uttered by the Lord means direct Divine inspiration in all other stages of revelation as well. The reason why those tablets were made of stone was that 'stone' means truth, 643, 1298, 3720, 6426, the lowest levels of truth, to be exact, 8609. The lowest levels of God's truth constitute the letter of the Word as it exists on this planet, 9360.

[2] There was not one tablet but two, to represent the joining of the Lord to the Church through the Word, and through the Church to the human race. This also is why they are called the tablets of the covenant, Deuteronomy 9:9, 11, 15, and why the words inscribed on them are called the words of the covenant, Exodus 34:27-28, also the covenant, Deuteronomy 4:13, 23. And the ark itself in which the tablets had been deposited was called the ark of the covenant, Numbers 10:33; 14:44; Deuteronomy 10:8; 31:9, 25-26; Joshua 3:3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17; 4:7, 9, 18; 6:6, 8; 8:33; Judges 20:27; 1 Samuel 4:3-5; 2 Samuel 15:24; 1 Kings 3:15; 6:19; 8:1, 6; Jeremiah 3:16. For a covenant is a joining together, 665, 666, 1023, 1038, 1864, 1996, 2003, 2021, 6804, 8767, 8778, 9396. This explains why those tablets were divided from each other yet were joined together by being laid alongside each other. The writing on them ran across continuously from one tablet onto the other, like the writing on a single tablet. It was not, as people ordinarily think, that some commandments were written on one tablet and some on the other. For a single object divided in two, and the two parts then brought together or given each to the other, means the Lord and man joined together. The establishment of covenants was therefore accomplished in similar ways, that with Abraham for example by parting down the middle a heifer, she-goat, and ram, and laying each part opposite the other, Genesis 15:9-12; in verses 6 and 8 of the present chapter by putting blood in bowls and then sprinkling it half over the altar and half over the people; and generally in all sacrifices by burning one part on the altar and giving the other part to the people to eat. The like was also represented by the Lord when He broke bread, Matthew 14:19; 15:36; 26:26; Mark 6:41; 8:6; 14:22; Luke 9:16; 22:19; 24:30-31, 35. Here also is the reason why 'two' in the Word means things joined together, 5194, 8423, here the Lord and heaven, or the Lord and the Church, joined together, thus also goodness and truth joined together, which is called the heavenly marriage. From all this it becomes clear why it is that there were two tablets and that both sides of them were written on, from edge to edge, Exodus 32:15-16.

[3] Furthermore when the writing and engraving on tablets is mentioned in the Word it means those things that must be imprinted in people's memory and on their life, and so remain there, as in Isaiah,

Write it on a tablet among them, and express it in a book, 1 so that it may be for time to come forever, even to eternity. Isaiah 30:8.

In Jeremiah,

The sin of Judah has been written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it has been engraved on the tablet of their heart, and at the horns of your altars. Jeremiah 17:1.

In Habakkuk,

Jehovah said, Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that one running by may read it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; if it tarries, wait for it, because it will surely come. Habakkuk 2:2-3.

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1. literally, on a book (i.e. on a scroll)

  
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Genesis 15:9-12

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9 He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."

10 He brought him all of these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn't divide the birds.

11 The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

12 When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.