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1 Moses svarte: De vil visst ikke tro mig og ikke høre på mig, de vil si: Herren har ikke åpenbaret sig for dig.

2 Da sa Herren til ham: Hvad er det du har i hånden? Han svarte: En stav.

3 Da sa han: Kast den på jorden! Og han kastet den på jorden, og den blev til en slange; og Moses flyktet for den.

4 Og Herren sa til Moses: ekk ut din hånd og grip den i halen! Så rakte han ut hånden og grep fatt i den, og den blev til en stav i hans hånd.

5 Så må de vel tro at Herren, deres fedres Gud, Abrahams Gud, Isaks Gud og Jakobs Gud, har åpenbaret sig for dig.

6 Og Herren sa fremdeles til ham: Stikk din hånd i barmen! Og han stakk sin hånd i barmen; og da han drog den ut, se, da var hans hånd spedalsk, som sne.

7 Og han sa: Stikk din hånd i barmen igjen! Og han stakk igjen sin hånd i barmen; og da han drog den ut av sin barm, se, da var den igjen blitt som hans legeme ellers.

8 Om de nu ikke tror dig eller akter på det første tegn, så vil de da visst tro på det andre tegn.

9 Men tror de ikke engang på disse to tegn, og vil de ikke høre på dig, da skal du ta vann av elven og helle det ut på jorden, og det vann du tar av elven, det skal bli til blod på jorden.

10 Men Moses sa til Herren: Hør mig, Herre! Jeg har aldri vært nogen ordets mann, hverken før, eller siden du begynte å tale til din tjener; jeg er tung i mæle og tung i tale.

11 Men Herren sa til ham: Hvem har gitt mennesket munn, og hvem gjør stum eller døv eller seende eller blind? Er det ikke jeg, Herren?

12 Gå nu du, og jeg vil være med din munn og lære dig hvad du skal tale.

13 Men han sa: Hør mig, Herre! Send bud med hvem du ellers vil!

14 Da optendtes Herrens vrede mot Moses, og han sa: Har du ikke din bror Aron, levitten? Han, vet jeg, kan tale; og nu kommer han dig også i møte, og når han ser dig, blir han glad.

15 Og du skal tale til ham og legge ordene i hans munn, og jeg skal være med din munn og med hans munn og lære eder hvad I skal gjøre.

16 Og han skal tale til folket for dig; han skal være din munn, og du skal være Gud for ham.

17 Og du skal ta denne stav i din hånd; med den skal du gjøre tegnene.

18 Så gikk Moses, og da han kom tilbake til Jetro, sin svigerfar, sa han til ham: Kjære, la mig få dra tilbake til mine brødre i Egypten og se om de ennu er i live. Og Jetro sa til Moses: Dra bort i fred!

19 Og Herren sa til Moses i Midian: Dra avsted og vend tilbake til Egypten! Nu er de døde alle de som stod dig efter livet.

20 Så tok Moses sin hustru og sine sønner og satte dem på asenet og vendte tilbake til Egyptens land; og Moses tok Guds stav i sin hånd.

21 Og Herren sa til Moses: Når du nu vender tilbake til Egypten, så se til at du gjør alle de under som jeg har gitt dig makt til å gjøre, for Faraos øine; men jeg vil forherde hans hjerte, så han ikke lar folket fare.

22 Da skal du si til Farao: Så sier Herren: Min sønn, min førstefødte, er Israel,

23 og jeg sa til dig: La min sønn fare, så han kan tjene mig, men du vilde ikke la ham fare; derfor vil jeg nu slå ihjel din sønn, din førstefødte.

24 Underveis, på et hvilested, hendte det at Herren kom imot ham og søkte å ta hans liv.

25 Da tok Sippora en skarp sten og skar bort sin sønns forhud og kastet den for hans føtter og sa: Sannelig, du er mig en blodbrudgom.

26 Så lot han ham være; da sa hun: En blodbrudgom for omskjærelsens skyld.

27 Og Herren sa til Aron: Gå Moses i møte i ørkenen! Og han gikk og traff ham ved Guds berg og kysset ham.

28 Og Moses forkynte Aron alt hvad Herren, som sendte ham, hadde talt, og alle de tegn han hadde pålagt ham å gjøre.

29 Så gikk Moses og Aron; og de samlet alle de eldste av Israels barn.

30 Og Aron bar frem alle de ord Herren hadde talt til Moses, og han gjorde tegnene for folkets øine.

31 Og folket trodde; og da de hørte hvorledes Herren hadde sett til Israels barn og gitt akt på deres nød, bøide de sig og tilbad.

   

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7045. 'And cut off the foreskin of her son' means the removal of filthy kinds of love, as a result of which the internal is laid bare. This is clear from the meaning of 'cutting off' as removing; from the meaning of 'the foreskin' as earthly and bodily love which defiles spiritual and celestial love, dealt with in 3412, 4462; and from the meaning of 'son' as the truth which the representative Church possesses. For the meaning of 'son' as truth, see 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2623, 3773; and the reason why the truth which that Church possesses is meant here is that 'Zipporah' represents that Church and calls him 'her son'. She also uses him to show the actual nature of that nation and consequently the actual nature of its worship. 'The foreskin' means filthy kinds of love for the following reason: The loins and genital organs correspond to conjugial love, 5050-5062; and since they correspond to conjugial love they also correspond to every kind of celestial and spiritual love, 686, 4277, 4280, 5054. The foreskin therefore corresponds to the kinds of love that are very much external, which are called bodily and earthly loves. If these loves are devoid of the internal kinds of love that are called spiritual and celestial loves, they are filthy, as they were with that nation which had externals without an internal. The words 'without an internal' are used, and by this is meant no acknowledgement of truth and no affection for good, thus no faith and no charity; for these are qualities that belong to the internal man and from them spring ways of exercising charity, which are external forms of good. The Lord speaks of that internal, when it is devoid of faith and charity and yet full of evils and falsities, as that which is 'empty', in Matthew 12:43-45. This is what 'external without an internal' serves to describe. So then 'the foreskin' means the kinds of love that are very much external; therefore when those kinds of love have been removed, meant by Zipporah's cutting off the foreskin, the actual nature of them is seen, and the internal is accordingly laid bare.

  
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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.