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1 Então disse o Senhor a Moisés: Lavra duas tábuas de pedra, como as primeiras; e eu escreverei nelas as palavras que estavam nas primeiras tábuas, que tu quebraste.

2 Prepara-te para amanhã, e pela manhã sobe ao monte Sinai, e apresenta-te a mim ali no cume do monte.

3 Mas ninguém suba contigo, nem apareça homem algum em todo o monte; nem mesmo se apascentem defronte dele ovelhas ou bois.

4 Então Moisés lavrou duas tábuas de pedra, como as primeiras; e, levantando-se de madrugada, subiu ao monte Sinai, como o Senhor lhe tinha ordenado, levando na mão as duas tábuas de pedra.

5 O Senhor desceu numa nuvem e, pondo-se ali junto a ele, proclamou o nome Jeová.

6 Tendo o Senhor passado perante Moisés, proclamou: Jeovã, Jeová, Deus misericordioso e compassivo, tardio em irar-se e grande em beneficência e verdade;

7 que usa de beneficência com milhares; que perdoa a iniqüidade, a transgressão e o pecado; que de maneira alguma terá por inocente o culpado; que visita a iniqüidade dos pais sobre os filhos e sobre os filhos dos filhos até a terceira e quarta geração.

8 Então Moisés se apressou a inclinar-se à terra, e adorou,

9 dizendo: Senhor, se agora tenho achado graça aos teus olhos, vá o Senhor no meio de nós; porque este é povo de dura cerviz:; e perdoa a nossa iniqüidade e o nosso pecado, e toma-nos por tua herança.

10 Então disse o Senhor: Eis que eu faço um pacto; farei diante de todo o teu povo maravilhas quais nunca foram feitas em toda a terra, nem dentro de nação alguma; e todo este povo, no meio do qual estás, verá a obra do Senhor; porque coisa terrível é o que faço contigo.

11 Guarda o que eu te ordeno hoje: eis que eu lançarei fora de diante de ti os amorreus, os cananeus, os heteus, os perizeus, os heveus e os jebuseus.

12 Guarda-te de fazeres pacto com os habitantes da terra em que hás de entrar, para que isso não seja por laço no meio de ti.

13 Mas os seus altares derrubareis, e as suas colunas quebrareis, e os seus aserins cortareis

14 (porque não adorarãs a nenhum outro deus; pois o Senhor, cujo nome é Zeloso, é Deus zeloso),

15 para que não faças pacto com os habitantes da terra, a fim de que quando se prostituirem após os seus deuses, e sacrificarem aos seus deuses, tu não sejas convidado por eles, e não comas do seu sacrifício;

16 e não tomes mulheres das suas filhas para os teus filhos, para que quando suas filhas se prostituírem após os seus deuses, não façam que também teus filhos se prostituam após os seus deuses.

17 Não farás para ti deuses de fundição.

18 A festa dos pães ázimos guardarás; sete dias comerás pães ázimos, como te ordenei, ao tempo apontado no mês de abibe; porque foi no mês de abibe que saíste do Egito.

19 Tudo o que abre a madre é meu; até todo o teu gado, que seja macho, que abre a madre de vacas ou de ovelhas;

20 o jumento, porém, que abrir a madre, resgatarás com um cordeiro; mas se não quiseres resgatá-lo, quebrar-lhe-ás a cerviz. Resgatarás todos os primogênitos de teus filhos. E ninguém aparecerá diante de mim com as mãos vazias.

21 Seis dias trabalharás, mas ao sétimo dia descansarás; na aradura e na sega descansarás.

22 Também guardarás a festa das semanas, que é a festa das primícias da ceifa do trigo, e a festa da colheita no fim do ano.

23 Três vezes no ano todos os teus varões aparecerão perante o Senhor Jeová, Deus do Israel;

24 porque eu lançarei fora as nações de diante de ti, e alargarei as tuas fronteiras; ninguém cobiçará a tua terra, quando subires para aparecer três vezes no ano diante do Senhor teu Deus.

25 Não sacrificarás o sangue do meu sacrifício com pão levedado, nem o sacrifício da festa da páscoa ficará da noite para a manhã.

26 As primeiras das primícias da tua terra trarás à casa do Senhor teu Deus. Não cozerás o cabrito no leite de sua mãe.

27 Disse mais o Senhor a Moisés: Escreve estas palavras; porque conforme o teor destas palavras tenho feito pacto contigo e com Israel.

28 E Moisés esteve ali com o Senhor quarenta dias e quarenta noites; não comeu pão, nem bebeu água, e escreveu nas tábuas as palavras do pacto, os dez mandamentos.

29 Quando Moisés desceu do monte Sinai, trazendo nas mãos as duas tsbuas do testemunho, sim, quando desceu do monte, Moisés não sabia que a pele do seu rosto resplandecia, por haver Deus falado com ele.

30 Quando, pois, Arão e todos os filhos de Israel olharam para Moisés, eis que a pele do seu rosto resplandecia, pelo que tiveram medo de aproximar-se dele.

31 Então Moisés os chamou, e Arão e todos os príncipes da congregação tornaram a ele; e Moisés lhes falou.

32 Depois chegaram também todos os filhos de Israel, e ele lhes ordenou tudo o que o Senhor lhe falara no monte Sinai.

33 Assim que Moisés acabou de falar com eles, pôs um véu sobre o rosto.

34 Mas, entrando Moisés perante o Senhor, para falar com ele, tirava o véu até sair; e saindo, dizia aos filhos de Israel o que lhe era ordenado.

35 Assim, pois, viam os filhos de Israel o rosto de Moisés, e que a pele do seu rosto resplandecia; e tornava Moisés a pôr o véu sobre o seu rosto, até entrar para falar com Deus.

   

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4818. 'And there Judah saw the daughter of a man, a Canaanite' means the affection for evil begotten by falsity springing from evil. This is clear from the meaning of 'the daughter' as the affection for good, dealt with in 2362, and in the contrary sense as the affection for evil, 3024; from the meaning of 'a man' as one who has intelligence and, in the abstract sense, as truth, but in the contrary sense as one who has no intelligence and as falsity, dealt with just above in 4816; and from the meaning of 'a Canaanite' as evil, dealt with in 1573, 1574. From these meanings it is evident that 'the daughter of a man, a Canaanite' means evil begotten by falsity springing from evil. What evil begotten by falsity springing from evil is will be stated below.

[2] Here the origins of the tribe of Judah must be stated first, since these are the subject in this chapter. That tribe, or the Jewish nation, has three origins, the first being Shelah, Judah's son by his Canaanite wife, the second and third being Perez and Zerah, Judah's sons by his daughter-in-law. The descent of the whole Jewish nation from these three sons of Judah is evident from the list of Jacob's sons and grandsons who accompanied him into Egypt, Genesis 46:12, and also from the grouping of them into families, referred to in Moses,

The sons of Judah according to their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Parzites; of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites. Numbers 26:20; 1 Chronicles 4:21.

From this the nature of that nation's origin is evident; that is to say, a third of them were descended from a Canaanite mother and two thirds from a daughter-in-law. They were all therefore the product of an illicit union, because marriages to daughters of the Canaanites were strictly forbidden - as may be seen in Genesis 24:3; Exodus 34:16; Deuteronomy 7:3; 1 Kings 11:2; and Chapters 9, 10 of Ezra - while lying with a daughter-in-law was a capital offence, as is evident in Moses,

As regards a man who has lain with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be killed; they have committed perversion; 1 their blood shall be upon them. Leviticus 20:12.

What Judah and his daughter-in-law had done together was linked by him to the law regarding leviratical marriages, which lays down the duty of a brother but never of a father, as is evident from verse 26 of the present chapter. Judah's linking of their deed together to this law implies that the sons of Tamar were to be recognized as the sons of Er the firstborn, who was born from the Canaanite mother, and who was evil in Jehovah's eyes and was therefore made to die, verse 7. For initially those born in a leviratical marriage did not belong to the one from whom they had been conceived but to him whose seed was being raised up, as is clear from Deuteronomy 25:5-6, and also from verses 8 and 9 of the present chapter. Furthermore, the sons whom Tamar bore were the result of whoredom, for when Judah went in to her he thought she was a prostitute, verses 15-16, 21. From all this one can see the origin of the Jewish nation and what kind of origin this was; and one can see that their words in John were founded on a lie,

The Jews said to Him, We were not born of whoredom. John 8:41.

[3] As regards what that origin implies and what it represents, this is evident from what follows. That is to say, those people's interiors were the same or had the same origin. Judah's marriage to a Canaanite implies and represents an origin that consisted in evil begotten by falsity springing from evil, for this is what is meant in the internal sense by 'the daughter of a man, a Canaanite'. And his lying through whoredom with his daughter-in-law implies and represents condemnation due to truth falsified by evil, for throughout the Word 'whoredom' means the falsification of truth, see 3703. 2 Evil begotten by falsity springing from evil is an evil life resulting from a false teaching hatched by the evil of self-love - that is, by those governed by this evil - and backed up by a use of the sense of the letter of the Word. This is what the origin of the evil in the Jewish nation is like, and what the origin of the evil is like in the Christian world, especially among those meant in the Word by Babel. The nature of that evil is such that it closes every path leading into the internal man, closing every path so completely that no conscience at all can be formed there. For if any evil done by a person is due to a false teaching, he believes that this is good because he believes that it is true. He accordingly does it, because he has warrant to do so, with a sense of freedom and delight. All this being so, heaven is closed so completely against him that it cannot be opened.

[4] As an example to explain what this evil is like, take those who from the evil of self-love believe the following: One nation alone is Jehovah's chosen people, in comparison with whom all the rest of mankind are slaves. The rest, they believe, are so base that they may be killed at will and may be treated in a cruel fashion. Such ideas, likewise backed up by a use of the sense of the letter of the Word, were the beliefs of the Jewish nation, as they are also of the Babylonish 3 nation at the present day. Whatever kind of evil done by the latter that is the result of that false teaching, and of any other false teachings built on that one as their foundation, is evil begotten by falsity springing from evil. It destroys the internal man and shuts out even the possibility of any conscience being formed there. These people are referred to in the Word as those immersed in bloodshed; for they treat in savage ways the entire human race because it does not venerate what they believe and so themselves too, and because it does not present its gifts on their altars.

[5] Take another example - those who from the evil of self-love and love of the world believe in the necessity for someone to act as the Lord's vicar on earth. They believe that this person has power to open and close heaven, and so to control everyone's mind and conscience, and they back up this falsity by a use of the sense of the letter of the Word. In their case whatever kind of evil they perform as a result of these ideas is evil begotten by falsity springing from evil, which similarly destroys the internal man in those who are led by that evil to lay claim to that power and so control others. That evil destroys the internal man so completely that people cease to know any longer what the internal man is, or to know of the existence of conscience in anyone, with the result that they cease to believe any longer in a life after death, or in the existence of hell and of heaven, however much they talk about these.

[6] The nature of this evil is such that people in the world cannot tell it apart from other evils; but in the next life angels recognize it quite clearly. For in the next life the countless differences in the essential nature and the origin of evils and falsities are in full view; and it is also the genera and species to which these evils and falsities belong that mark off the hells from one another. Of these countless differences man knows scarcely anything. He believes in the existence of evil but has no knowledge of its essential nature, for the simple reason that he does not know what good is, and does not know what good is because he does not know what charity is. If he knew what the good of charity was he would also know its opposites, which are evils, and also their differences.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, confusion

2. Reading 3703 for 3708

3. i. e. Papal

  
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