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1 Но Моисей въ отвјтъ сказалъ: а можетъ быть, они ее повјрятъ мнј, и не послушаютъ гласа моего, и скажутъ: не явился тебј Іегова?

2 На сіе сказалъ ему Іегова: что это въ рукј у тебя? онъ сказалъ: посохъ.

3 Іегова сказалъ: брось его на землю: онъ бросилъ его на землю, и посохъ превратился въ змјя, и Моисей побјжалъ отъ него.

4 И сказалъ Іегова Моисею: простри руку твою, и возьми его за хвостъ. Онъ простеръ руку свою и взялъ его, и онъ сталъ посохомъ въ рукј его.

5 Это дла того, чтобы повјрили, что явился тебј Іегова, Богъ отцевъ ихъ, Богъ Авраамовъ, Богъ Исааковъ и Богъ Іаковлевъ.

6 Еще сказалъ ему Іегова: положи руку свою къ себј въ пазуху: и онъ положилъ руку свою къ себј въ пазуху. Вынулъ ее, и вотъ, рука его прокаженна какъ снјгъ.

7 И сказалъ Іегова: положи опять руку свою къ себј въ пазуху; и онъ положилъ руку свою къ себј въ пазуху. Вынулъ ее изъ пазухи своей, и вотъ, она опять стала такою же, какъ тјло его.

8 Если они не повјрятъ тебј, и не послушаютъ гласа перваго знаменія, то повјрятъ гласу другаго знаменія.

9 Если же не повјрятъ и двумъ симъ знаменіямъ, и не послушаютъ гласа твоего: то возми воды изъ рјки и вылей на сушу; и вода, взятая изъ рјки, сдјлается кровью на сушј.

10 Но Моисей сказалъ Іеговј: о! Господи! я человјкъ нерјчистый, и таковъ былъ и вчера и третьяго дня, и когда Ты началъ говорить съ рабомъ Твоимъ, я тяжело говорю п косноязыченъ.

11 И сказалъ ему Іегова: кто далъ уста человјку? кто дјлаетъ нјмымъ, или глухимъ, или зрячимъ, или слјпымъ? не Я ли Іегова?

12 Итакъ поди: и Я буду съ устами твоими, и научу тебя, что тебј говорить.

13 Моисей сказалъ: Господи! пошли другаго, кого можешь послать.

14 И возгорјлся гнјвъ Іеговы на Моисея, и Онъ сказалъ: развј нјтъ у тебя Аарона брата Левитянина? Я знаю, что онъ можетъ хорошо говорить; и вотъ, онъ выйдетъ на встрјчу тебј, и увидјвъ тебя, возрадуется въ сердцј своемъ.

15 Ты будешь ему говорить и влагать слова въ уста его: а Я буду съ устами твоими, и съ устами его, и буду учить васъ, что вамъ дјлать.

16 Онъ будетъ говорить вмјсто тебя къ народу. Такимъ образомъ онъ будетъ твоими устами; а ты будешь ему вмјсто Бога.

17 И посохъ сей возми въ руку твою, чтобы творить имъ знаменія.

18 Моисей пошелъ, возвратился къ Іоѕору тестю своему, и сказалъ ему: пойду я, и возвращусь къ братьямъ моимъ, которые въ Египтј, и посмотрю живы ли еще они? И сказалъ Іоѕоръ Моисею: поди съ миромъ.

19 И сказалъ Іегова Моисею въ землј Мадіамской: поди, возвратись въ Египетъ: ибо умерли всј искавшіе души твоей.

20 И взялъ Моисей жену свою и сыновей своихъ, посадилъ ихъ на ословъ, и отправился въ землю Египетскую. Посохъ же Божій Моисей взялъ въ руку свою.

21 И сказалъ Іегова Моисею: когда пойдешь и возвратишься въ Египетъ: смотри, всј чудеса, которыя Я вручилъ тебј, сдјлай предъ лицемъ Фараоновымъ. А Я ожесточу сердце его, и онъ не будетъ отпускать народа.

22 И скажи Фараону: такъ говоритъ Іегова: Израиль есть сынъ Мой, первенецъ Мой.

23 Я тебј говорю: отпусти сына Моего, чтобъ онъ совершилъ Мнј служеніе; а если не отпустишь его, то вотъ, Я убью сына твоего, первенца твоего.

24 Дорогою на ночлегј случилось, что встрјтилъ его Іегова и хотјлъ умертвить его.

25 Тогда Циппора, взявши ножъ, обрјзала крайнюю плоть сына своего, и бросивъ къ ногамъ его, сказала: ты женихъ крови у меня.

26 И отошелъ отъ него Іегова. Сказала же она: женихъ крови, въ отношеніи къ обрјзанію.

27 Между тјмъ Іегова сказалъ Аарону: поди навстрјчу Моисею въ пустыню. И онъ пошелъ и встрјтился съ нимъ при горј Божіей и облобызалъ его.

28 И извјстилъ Моисей Аарона о всјхъ словахъ Іеговы, Который его послалъ, и о всјхъ знаменіяхъ, которыя Онъ повелјлъ ему сдјлать.

29 И пошелъ Моисей съ Аарономъ и собрали всјхъ старјйшинъ сыновъ Израилевыхъ;

30 и пересказалъ Ааронъ всј слова, которыя говорилъ Іегова Моисею, и сдјлалъ Моисей знаменіе предъ глазами народа.

31 Народъ повјрилъ; и услышали, что Іегова посјтилъ сыновъ Израилевыхъ, и что узрјлъ страданіе ихъ, и пали, и поклонились.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 7038

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7038. 'And let him serve Me' means being raised into heaven to perform useful services from there. This is clear from the meaning of 'serving Jehovah (or the Lord)' as performing useful services; and being raised into heaven, to perform useful services from there is meant by 'they shall serve Me' for the following reason: Those who belong to the spiritual Church and have been saved by the Lord's Coming are the subject, in particular those who were on the lower earth before the Lord's Coming but were later raised into heaven, 6854, 6914, and therefore came into a state in which they performed useful services. The reason why performing useful services is meant by 'serving the Lord' is that true worship consists in the performance of such services, thus in the exercise of charity. Anyone who thinks that serving the Lord consists solely in going to church regularly, listening to the preaching there, and saying his prayers, and that that is sufficient, is much mistaken. True worship of the Lord consists in performing useful services; and such services during a person's life in the world lie in a proper fulfillment of his function by each person, whatever his own position, that is, in serving his country, its communities, and his neighbour with all his heart. They also lie in honest dealings with fellow human beings and in the diligent discharge of duties, with full regard for each person's character. These useful deeds are the principal ways of exercising charity and the principal means of worshipping the Lord. Going to church regularly, listening to sermons, and saying one's prayers are also necessary; but without the useful deeds they have no value at all, for they do not constitute a person's life but teach what that life ought to be like. The angels in heaven get nothing but happiness out of being useful; and they receive it in proportion to their usefulness. So true is this that to them usefulness is what makes heaven.

[2] It is in keeping with Divine order that usefulness should determine the measure of happiness, as may be recognized from the different aspects of a person and the things they correspond to in the Grand Man, such as the external senses - sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch - which, as shown at the ends of quite a number of chapters, correspond in that way. Associated with these senses therefore are delights, which are determined completely by the functions they perform. The greatest is the sensory delight associated with conjugial love, because of the very great use it performs, for it leads to the propagation of the human race, which populates heaven. After this comes the delight linked with taste, which possesses so great a delight because it helps to nourish the body and keep it healthy, on which healthy mental activity depends. The delight linked with smell is a lesser delight because it serves merely to reinvigorate and so also help to keep a person healthy. The delight associated with hearing and that associated with sight come in last place because they only receive impressions which will be of future usefulness, and because they serve the understanding part of the mind but not so much the will part.

[3] From these and other considerations like them it becomes evident that useful services are the determining factor in the happiness imparted by the Lord in heaven, and that those services are the chief way in which the Lord is worshipped. This goes to explain why John reclined at table on the Lord's breast, and why the Lord loved him more than the rest. It was not on account of John himself, but because he represented times when charity is exercised, that is, useful services are performed. Regarding John's representation of those things, see the Prefaces to Chapters 18, 22 of Genesis, and 3974.

7038a 'And [if] you refuse to send him away' means obstinacy right to the last. This is clear from the meaning of 'refusing to send him away' as a failing to set free owing to obstinate determination, as above in 7032.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.