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1 И сказал Господь Моисею, говоря:

2 сделай себе две серебряные трубы, чеканные сделай их, чтобы онислужили тебе для созывания общества и для снятия станов;

3 когда затрубят ими, соберется к тебе все общество ко входу скиниисобрания;

4 когда одною трубою затрубят, соберутся к тебе князья и тысяченачальники Израилевы;

5 когда затрубите тревогу, поднимутся станы, становящиеся к востоку;

6 когда во второй раз затрубите тревогу, поднимутсястаны, становящиеся к югу; тревогу пусть трубят при отправлении их в путь;

7 а когда надобно собрать собрание, трубите, но нетревогу;

8 сыны Аароновы, священники, должны трубить трубами: это будет вам постановлением вечным в роды ваши;

9 и когда пойдете на войну в земле вашей против врага, наступающего на вас, трубите тревогу трубами, – и будете воспомянуты пред Господом, Богом вашим, и спасены будетеот врагов ваших;

10 и в день веселия вашего, и в праздники ваши, и в новомесячия ваши трубите трубами при всесожжениях ваших и при мирных жертвах ваших, – и это будет напоминанием о вас пред Богом вашим. ЯГосподь, Бог ваш.

11 Во второй год, во второй месяц, в двадцатый день месяца поднялось облако от скинии откровения;

12 и отправились сыны Израилевы по станам своим из пустыни Синайской, и остановилось облако в пустыне Фаран.

13 И поднялись они в первый раз, по повелению Господню, данномучрез Моисея.

14 Поднято было во-первых знамя стана сынов Иудиных по ополчениям их; над ополчением их Наассон, сын Аминадава;

15 и над ополчением колена сынов Иссахаровых Нафанаил, сын Цуара;

16 и над ополчением колена сынов Завулоновых Елиав, сын Хелона.

17 И снята была скиния, и пошли сыны Гирсоновы и сыны Мерарины, носящие скинию.

18 И поднято было знамя стана Рувимова по ополчениям их; и над ополчением его Елицур, сын Шедеура;

19 и над ополчением колена сынов Симеоновых Шелумиил, сын Цуришаддая;

20 и над ополчением колена сынов Гадовых Елиасаф, сын Регуила.

21 Потом пошли сыны Каафовы, носящие святилище; скиния же была поставляема до прихода их.

22 И поднято было знамя стана сынов Ефремовых по ополчениям их; и над ополчением их Елишама, сын Аммиуда;

23 и над ополчением колена сынов Манассииных Гамалиил, сын Педацура;

24 и над ополчением колена сынов Вениаминовых Авидан, сын Гидеония.

25 Последним из всех станов поднято было знамя стана сынов Дановых с ополчениями их; и над ополчением их Ахиезер, сын Аммишаддая;

26 и над ополчением колена сынов Асировых Пагиил, сын Охрана;

27 и над ополчением колена сынов Неффалимовых Ахира, сын Енана.

28 Вот порядок шествия сынов Израилевых по ополчениям их. И отправились они.

29 И сказал Моисей Ховаву, сыну Рагуилову, Мадианитянину, родственнику Моисееву: мы отправляемся в то место, о котором Господь сказал: вам отдам его; иди с нами, мы сделаем тебе добро, ибо Господь доброе изрек об Израиле.

30 Но он сказал ему: не пойду; я пойду в свою землю и на свою родину.

31 Моисей же сказал: не оставляй нас, потому что ты знаешь, как располагаемся мы станом в пустыне, и будешь для нас глазом;

32 если пойдешь с нами, то добро, которое Господь сделает нам, мы сделаем тебе.

33 И отправились они от горы Господней на три дня пути, и ковчегзавета Господня шел пред ними три дня пути, чтоб усмотреть им место, где остановиться.

34 И облако Господне осеняло их днем, когда они отправлялись из стана.

35 Когда поднимался ковчег в путь, Моисей говорил: восстань, Господи, и рассыплются враги Твои, и побегут отлица Твоего ненавидящие Тебя!

36 А когда останавливался ковчег, он говорил: возвратись, Господи, к тысячам и тьмам Израилевым!

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 10038

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10038. 'You shall burn with fire outside the camp' means that those things must be banished to hell and be consumed by the evils of self-love. This is clear from the meaning of 'burning with fire' as consuming by means of the evils of self-love, for 'burning' means consuming or devouring and 'fire' the evil of self-love (for these meanings of 'burning' and 'fire', see 1297, 5071, 5215, 6314, 6832, 7324, 7575, 9141, 9434); and from the meaning of 'the camp' as heaven and the Church, and in the contrary sense the place where heaven and the Church do not exist, thus where hell exists, dealt with below. The reason why 'being burned with fire' means being consumed by the evils of self-love is that that love consumes every good or truth of faith. Scarcely anyone at the present day knows that self-love does this, nor consequently that this love constitutes hell with a person and that it is what should be understood by hell-fire.

[2] There are two fires of life that exist with a person; one is self-love, the other is love to God. Those in whom self-love predominates cannot be governed by love to God, for those loves are opposites. They are opposites because self-love gives rise to all evils, which are contempt for others in comparison with self, enmity towards those who do not treat oneself favourably, and in the end to hatred, vengeance, brutality, and cruelty; and these evils act in total opposition to Divine influx, consequently annihilate truths and forms of the good of faith and charity, these being the things that flow in from the Lord. Anybody who stops to reflect may know that everyone's love is the fire of his life - for without love there is no life, and the character of the love determines that of the life - and therefore that self-love gives rise to evils of every kind, doing so in the measure that he has only himself in view, that is, self-love reigns in him. The worst kind of self-love is the love of dominion over others for selfish reasons, that is, the love of possessing dominion solely for the sake of position and gain. Those in whom that love predominates may, it is true, make profession of faith and charity, but they do so with their lips, not with their heart; indeed the worst among them look on the things that belong to faith and charity, thus the holy things of the Church, as means to their own ends. But self-love and all the different types of it, also the evils that gush out of it, and the condition of the selfish in the next life, must in the Lord's Divine mercy be stated in detail somewhere else. They have been referred to here to enable people to know what 'being burned with fire outside the camp' means.

[3] The fact that 'the camp' where the children of Israel were encamped represented heaven and the Church, and therefore that 'outside the camp' represented the place where heaven and the Church did not exist, thus where hell was, becomes clear from those places in the Word which mention the camp and the encampment of the children of Israel in the wilderness, such as the following in Moses,

The children of Israel shall camp, [every] man by his own camp, and [every] man by his own standard, according to their armies. And the Levites shall camp around the dwelling-place of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel. Numbers 1:52-53; 2:2.

In addition, Numbers 2:1-end says that the tribes of Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun encamped to the east; the tribes of Reuben, Simeon, and Gad to the south; the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin to the west; and the tribes of Dan, Asher, and Naphtali to the north. But the Levites were in the middle of their camps. The like applied when they set out on their journeys, Numbers 2:17; 10:1-end. The reason why their encampments were arranged in that kind of order was so that they might represent heaven and the Church, 9320 (end). Moreover the tribes according to which the children of Israel set up their camps represented all the forms of good and all the truths in their entirety that belonged to heaven and the Church, 3858, 3926, 3939, 4060, 6335, 6337, 6397, 6640, 7836, 7891, 7996, 7997. This explains why it says that Jehovah dwells in the middle of the camps, Numbers 5:3, and that He walks in the middle of them and they will therefore be holy, Deuteronomy 23:14, and why, in the prophecy uttered by Balaam, when he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes, he said, How good are your tabernacles, O Jacob, and your dwelling-places, O Israel! Numbers 24:2-3, 5.

[4] Since heaven and the Church was represented by the camp it follows that 'outside the camp' meant the place where neither heaven nor the Church existed, thus where hell was. That is why everyone who was unclean and also anyone who was guilty was sent out there, as may be recognized from the following,

You shall send out of the camp everyone who is leprous, and everyone suffering a discharge, and everyone unclean on account of a soul 1 . Whether they are male or female 2 you shall send them outside the camp, so that they may not defile the camps, in the middle of which Jehovah dwells. Numbers 5:2-3; Leviticus 13:45-46.

A man who is not clean by reason of an accident in the night shall go outside the camp and not come into the middle of the camp. When he has washed himself with water and the sun has set he shall enter the camp. There shall be a space for you outside the camp where you may go out, and you shall cover your excrement by means of a spade 3 , since Jehovah walks in the middle of the camp. Therefore the camp shall be holy. Deuteronomy 23:10-14.

And the stoning of people was done outside the camp, Leviticus 24:14; Numbers 15:35-36.

From all this it is now clear that 'you shall burn with fire the flesh, skin, and dung of the young bull, outside the camp' means that evils, meant by these things, must be banished to hell.

[5] The same thing as was represented by the camp and the area outside it was also represented by the land of Canaan and the lands around it after that land had been divided up as inheritances among the children of Israel. This is why in the Word 'the land of Canaan' or simply 'the land' means heaven and the Church, and 'the children of Israel' those who are in heaven and the Church. For the meaning of 'the land' as heaven and the Church, see the places referred to in 9325; and for that of 'the children of Israel' as those who are there, 9340.

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1. i.e. unclean through contact with a dead body

2. literally, From male even to female

3. literally, peg or nail

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