Bible

 

Исход 19

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1 Въ третій мјсяцъ по изшествіи сыновъ Израиля изъ земли Египетской, въ самый день новолунія, пришли они въ пустыню Синайскую.

2 Отправившись изъ Рефидима, пришли въ пустыню Синайскую, и расположились станомъ въ пустынј; и поставилъ тамъ Израиль станъ противъ горы.

3 Моисей взошелъ къ Богу; и Іегова воззвалъ къ нему съ горы, говоря: Такъ скажи дому Іаковлеву И возвјсти сынамъ Израилевымъ:

4 Вы видјли, что Я сдјлалъ Египтянамъ; и какъ Я поднялъ васъ на орлиныхъ крылъяхъ, и принесъ васъ къ Себј,

5 Итакъ, если вы будете слушать гласа Моего, и соблюдать завјтъ Мой, то будете Моею драгоцјнностію изъ всјхъ народовъ; ибо вся земля Моя.

6 Вы будете у Меня царствомъ священниковъ и народомъ святымъ. Вотъ слова, которыя ты скажешь сынамъ Израилевымъ.

7 Моисей пришелъ и созвалъ старјйшинъ народа, и предложилъ имъ всј сіи слова, которыя заповјдалъ ему Іегова.

8 Весь народъ отвјчалъ единогласно, говоря: все, что сказалъ Іегова, исполнимъ. И донесъ Моисей слова народа Іеговј.

9 Іегова сказалъ Моисею: вотъ, Я приду къ тебј въ густомъ облакј, дабы слышалъ народъ, какъ Я буду говорить съ тобою, и повјрилъ тебј навсегда. Моисей опять донесъ слова народа Іеговј.

10 И сказалъ Іегова Моисею: поди къ народу, и освяти его сегодня и завтра; пусть вымоютъ одежду свою,

11 и будутъ готовы къ третьему дню: ибо въ третій день Іегова предъ очами всего народа сойдетъ на гору Синай.

12 И положи для народа черту со всјхъ сторонъ, и скажи: берегитесь восходить на гору, и прикасаться къ подошвј ея; всякой, кто прикоснется къ горј, преданъ будетъ смерти.

13 Рука не прикоснется къ нему, а побьютъ его камнями, или застрјлятъ стрјлами; скотъ ли то, или человјкъ, не останется въ живыхъ. Во время протяжнаго трубнаго звука могутъ они взойдти на гору.

14 Моисей сошелъ съ горы къ народу, и освятилъ народъ, и они вымыли одежду свою.

15 И сказалъ народу: будьте готовы къ третьему дню: не прикасайтесь къ женамъ.

16 На третій день при наступленіи утра были громы, молніи, густое облако надъ горою, и трубный звукъ, весьма сильный, и вострепеталъ весь народъ бывшій въ станј.

17 И вывелъ Моисей народъ изъ стана въ срјтеніе Богу, и стали у подошвы горы.

18 Гора же Синай вся дымилась отъ того, что Іегова сошелъ на нее въ огнј; отъ ней восходилъ дымъ, какъ дымъ пещи, и вся Гора сильно колебалась.

19 Гласъ трубный усиливался болје и болје, Моисей говорилъ, а Богъ отвјтствовалъ ему гласомъ.

20 И сошелъ Іегова на гору Синай, на вершину горы, и призвалъ Іегова Моисея на вершину горы, и взошелъ Моисей.

21 И сказалъ Іегова Моисею: сойди, подтверди народу, чтобы онъ не порывался къ Іеговј, дабы видјть; иначе падутъ многіе изъ него.

22 Самые священники, приближающіеся къ Іеговј, должны освятить себя, чтобы не поразилъ ихъ Іегова.

23 И сказалъ Моисей Іеговј: не можетъ народъ взойдти на гору Синай; потому что Ты приказалъ намъ, говоря: положи черту вокругъ горы, и освяти ее.

24 И сказалъ ему Іегова: поди, сойди; потомъ взойди ты и съ тобою Ааронъ: а священники и народъ да не дерзаютъ восходить къ Іеговј, чтобы не поразилъ ихъ.

25 Моисей сошелъ къ народу и пересказалъ ему.

   

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Moses

  

At the inmost level, the story of Moses -- like all of the Bible -- is about the Lord and his spiritual development during his human life as Jesus. Moses's role represents establishing forms of worship and to make the people obedient. As such, his primary representation is "the Law of God," the rules God gave the people of Israel to follow in order to represent spiritual things. This can be interpreted narrowly as the Ten Commandments, more broadly as the books of Moses, or most broadly as the entire Bible. Fittingly, his spiritual meaning is complex and important, and evolves throughout the course of his life. To understand it, it helps to understand the meaning of the events in which he was involved. At a more basic level, Moses's story deals with the establishment of the third church to serve as a container of knowledge of the Lord. The first such church -- the Most Ancient Church, represented by Adam and centered on love of the Lord -- had fallen prey to human pride and was destroyed. The second -- the Ancient Church, represented by Noah and the generations that followed him -- was centered on love of the neighbor, wisdom from the Lord and knowledge of the correspondences between natural and spiritual things. It fell prey to the pride of intelligence, however -- represented by the Tower of Babel -- and at the time of Moses was in scattered pockets that were sliding into idolatry. On an external level, of course, Moses led the people of Israel out of Egypt through 40 years in the wilderness to the border of the homeland God had promised them. Along the way, he established and codified their religious system, and oversaw the creation of its most holy objects. Those rules and the forms of worship they created were given as containers for deeper ideas about the Lord, deeper truth, and at some points -- especially when he was first leading his people away from Egypt, a time before the rules had been written down -- Moses takes on the deeper representation of Divine Truth itself, truth from the Lord. At other times -- especially after Mount Sinai -- he has a less exalted meaning, representing the people of Israel themselves due to his position as their leader. Through Moses the Lord established a third church, one more external than its predecessors but one that could preserve knowledge of the Lord and could, through worship that represented spiritual things, make it possible for the Bible to be written and passed to future generations.