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Isus Navin 14

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1 A ovo je što dobiše nasledstvo sinovi Izrailjevi u zemlji hananskoj, što razdeliše u nasledstvo Eleazar sveštenik i Isus sin Navin i poglavari porodica otačkih po plemenima sinova Izrailjevih,

2 Žrebom deleći im nasledstvo, kao što zapovedi Gospod preko Mojsija, među devet plemena i polovinu plemena.

3 Jer Mojsije dade nasledstvo dvema plemenima i polovini plemena s ove strane Jordana, a Levitima ne dade nasledstvo među njima.

4 Jer sinova Josifovih behu dva plemena: Manasijino i Jefremovo, i Levitima ne daše deo u zemlji, osim gradova u kojima će živeti i podgrađa njihovih za stoku njihovu i za blago njihovo.

5 Kako beše zapovedio Gospod Mojsiju, tako učiniše sinovi Izrailjevi i podeliše zemlju.

6 A sinovi Judini dođoše k Isusu u Galgal, i reče mu Halev sin Jefonijin Kenezej: Ti znaš šta je kazao Gospod Mojsiju sluzi Božjem za me i za te u Kadis-Varniji.

7 Bilo mi je četrdeset godina kad me posla Mojsije sluga Gospodnji iz Kadis-Varnije da uhodim zemlju, i javih mu stvar, kako mi je bilo u srcu.

8 A braća moja što iđoše sa mnom uplašiše srce narodu; ali se ja jednako držah Gospoda Boga svog.

9 I zakle se Mojsije onaj dan govoreći: Zaista zemlja po kojoj si hodio nogama svojim, dopašće tebi u nasledstvo i sinovima tvojim doveka; jer si se sasvim držao Gospoda Boga mog.

10 A sada, eto, sačuva me Gospod u životu, kao što je rekao; ima većčetrdeset i pet godina kako to reče Gospod Mojsiju, kad Izrailj iđaše po pustinji; i sad, eto, ima mi danas osamdeset i pet godina.

11 I danas sam jošte krepak, kao što sam bio kad me je Mojsije slao; krepost mi je i sad onakva kakva je bila onda za boj i da odlazim i dolazim.

12 Zato daj mi sada ovu goru, za koju je govorio Gospod u onaj dan; jer si čuo u onaj dan da su onde Enakimi i gradovi veliki i tvrdi; da ako bude Gospod sa mnom, te ih isteram, kao što je Gospod kazao.

13 I Isus ga blagoslovi, i dade Hevron Halevu sinu Jefonijinom u nasledstvo.

14 Zato pripade Hevron Halevu sinu Jefonijinom Kenezeju u nasledstvo do današnjeg dana, jer se jednako držao Gospoda Boga Izrailjevog.

15 A ime Hevronu beše pre Kirijat-Arva, a Arva beše velik čovek među Enakimima. I zemlja počinu od rata.

   

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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.