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Izlazak 5

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1 A posle izađoše Mojsije i Aron pred Faraona, i rekoše mu: Ovako veli Gospod Bog Izrailjev: Pusti narod moj da mi praznuju praznik u pustinji.

2 Ali Faraon reče: Ko je Gospod da poslušam glas njegov i pustim Izrailja? Ne znam Gospoda, niti ću pustiti Izrailja.

3 A oni rekoše: Bog jevrejski srete nas; molimo ti se da otidemo tri dana hoda u pustinju da prinesemo žrtvu Gospodu Bogu svom, da ne pošalje na nas pomor ili mač.

4 A car misirski reče im: Mojsije i Arone, zašto odvlačite narod od rada njegovog? Idite na svoj posao.

5 Još reče Faraon: Eto, naroda je mnogo u zemlji; a vi još hoćete da ostavlja svoje poslove.

6 I u isti dan zapovedi Faraon nastojnicima nad narodom i upraviteljima njegovim, i reče:

7 Od sad nemojte davati narodu plevu za opeke kao do sada, neka idu sami i kupe sebi plevu.

8 A koliko su opeka do sad načinjali toliko izgonite i od sad, niti šta smanjite; jer besposliče, i zato viču govoreći: Da idemo da prinesemo žrtvu Bogu svom.

9 Valja navaliti poslove na te ljude, pa će raditi i neće slušati lažljive reči.

10 I izašavši nastojnici narodni i upravitelji rekoše narodu govoreći: Tako veli Faraon: Ja vam neću davati plevu.

11 Idite sami i kupite sebi plevu gde nađete, a od posla vam se neće popustiti ništa.

12 I raziđe se narod po svoj zemlji misirskoj da čupa strnjiku mesto pleve.

13 A nastojnici navaljivahu govoreći: Svršujte poslove svoje koliko dolazi na dan, kao kad je bilo pleve.

14 I upravitelji sinova Izrailjevih, koje postaviše nad njima nastojnici Faraonovi, dopadahu boja, i govoraše im se: Zašto ni juče ni danas ne načiniste onoliko opeka koliko vam je određeno, kao pre?

15 I otidoše upravitelji sinova Izrailjevih, i povikaše k Faraonu govoreći: Zašto činiš tako slugama svojim?

16 Pleva se ne daje slugama tvojim, pa opet kažu nam: Gradite opeke. I evo biju sluge tvoje, a kriv je tvoj narod.

17 A on reče: Besposličite, besposličite, i zato govorite: Da idemo da prinesemo žrtvu Gospodu.

18 Nego idite, radite; pleva vam se neće davati, a opeke da dajete na broj.

19 I upravitelji sinova Izrailjevih videše da je zlo po njih što im se kaza: Da ne bude opeka manje na dan.

20 I otišavši od Faraona sretoše Mojsija i Arona, koji iziđoše pred njih.

21 Pa im rekoše: Gospod neka vas vidi i sudi, što nas omraziste Faraonu i slugama njegovim, i dadoste im mač u ruku da nas pobiju.

22 I Mojsije se vrati ka Gospodu i reče: Gospode, zašto si navukao to zlo na narod? Zašto si me poslao?

23 Jer otkako iziđoh pred Faraona i progovorih u tvoje ime, još gore postupa s narodom ovim, a Ti ne izbavi narod svoj.

   

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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.