8659. Verses 6-7 And he said to Moses, I your father-in-law Jethro come to you, and your wife, and her two sons with her. And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed down, and kissed him; and they asked, a man his companion, as regards peace; ¹ and they came into the tent.

'And he said to Moses' means influx and resulting perception. 'I your father-in-law Jethro come to you, and your wife, and her two sons with her' means levels of God's good in their order. 'And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law' means God's truth being brought to Divine Good. 'And bowed down' means being brought into contact with it. 'And kissed him' means being joined to it. 'And they asked, a man his companion, as regards peace' means the mutual, Divine celestial state. 'And they came into the tent' means the holiness of union.

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8103. 'And they travelled from Succoth and encamped in Etham' means the second state after they were delivered. This is clear from the consideration that the travels and encampments of the children of Israel after they had departed from Egypt mean the spiritual states of those delivered by the Lord, who have been the subject above. A change of state is meant by each journey from one place to another, and by each stopping-place. The second state is meant here by travelling from Succoth to Etham, since the first state was meant by travelling from Rameses to Succoth, 7972. Also by 'travels' in the internal sense of the Word states and established patterns of life are meant, 1293, 3335, 5605, and arrangements of truth and good which have to do with life by 'encampments', 4236.