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1 Y el SEÑOR habló a Moisés, diciendo:

2 Hazte dos trompetas de plata; de obra de martillo las harás, las cuales te servirán para convocar la congregación, y para hacer mover el campamento.

3 Y cuando las tocaren, toda la congregación se juntará a ti a la puerta del tabernáculo del testimonio.

4 Mas cuando tocaren sólo una, entonces se congregarán a ti los príncipes, las cabezas de los millares de Israel.

5 Y cuando tocareis júbilo, entonces moverán el campamento de los que están alojados al oriente.

6 Y cuando tocareis júbilo la segunda vez, entonces moverán el campamento de los que están alojados al mediodía; júbilo tocarán a sus partidas.

7 Pero cuando hubiereis de juntar la congregación, tocaréis, mas no con sonido de júbilo.

8 Y los hijos de Aarón, los sacerdotes, tocarán las trompetas; y las tendréis por estatuto perpetuo por vuestras generaciones.

9 Y cuando saliereis a la guerra en vuestra tierra contra el enemigo que os molestare, tocaréis júbilo con las trompetas; y seréis en memoria delante del SEÑOR vuestro Dios, y seréis salvos de vuestros enemigos.

10 También en el día de vuestra alegría, y en vuestras solemnidades, y en los principios de vuestros meses, tocaréis las trompetas sobre vuestros holocaustos, y sobre los sacrificios de vuestra paz, y os serán por memoria delante de vuestro Dios: Yo soy el SEÑOR vuestro Dios.

11 Y fue en el año segundo, en el mes segundo, a los veinte del mes, que la nube se alzó del tabernáculo del testimonio.

12 Y se movieron los hijos de Israel por sus partidas del desierto de Sinaí; y paró la nube en el desierto de Parán.

13 Y se movieron la primera vez al dicho del SEÑOR por mano de Moisés.

14 Y la bandera del campamento de los hijos de Judá comenzó a marchar primero, por sus escuadrones; y Naasón, hijo de Aminadab, era sobre su ejército.

15 Y sobre el ejército de la tribu de los hijos de Isacar era Natanael hijo de Zuar.

16 Y sobre el ejército de la tribu de los hijos de Zabulón, Eliab hijo de Helón.

17 Y el tabernáculo era ya desarmado, y se movieron los hijos de Gersón y los hijos de Merari, que lo llevaban.

18 Luego comenzó a marchar la bandera del campamento de Rubén por sus escuadrones; y Elisur, hijo de Sedeur, era sobre su ejército.

19 Y sobre el ejército de la tribu de los hijos de Simeón, Selumiel hijo de Zurisadai.

20 Y sobre el ejército de la tribu de los hijos de Gad, Eliasaf hijo de Deuel.

21 Luego comenzaron a marchar los coatitas llevando el santuario; y entre tanto que ellos llegaban, los otros asentaron el tabernáculo.

22 Después comenzó a marchar la bandera del campamento de los hijos de Efraín por sus escuadrones; y Elisama, hijo de Amiud, era sobre su ejército.

23 Y sobre el ejército de la tribu de los hijos de Manasés, Gamaliel hijo de Pedasur.

24 Y sobre el ejército de la tribu de los hijos de Benjamín, Abidán hijo de Gedeoni.

25 Luego comenzó a marchar la bandera del campamento de los hijos de Dan por sus escuadrones, recogiendo todos los campamentos; y Ahiezer, hijo de Amisadai, era sobre su ejército.

26 Y sobre el ejército de la tribu de los hijos de Aser, Pagiel hijo de Ocrán.

27 Y sobre el ejército de la tribu de los hijos de Neftalí, Ahira hijo de Enán.

28 Estas son las partidas de los hijos de Israel por sus ejércitos; y así partían.

29 Entonces dijo Moisés a Hobab, hijo de Ragüel madianita, su suegro: Nosotros partimos para el lugar del cual el SEÑOR ha dicho: Yo os lo daré. Ven con Nosotros, y te haremos bien; porque el SEÑOR ha hablado bien respecto a Israel.

30 Y él le respondió: Yo no iré, sino que me marcharé a mi tierra y a mi natural.

31 Y él le dijo: Te ruego que no nos dejes; porque tú sabes nuestros campamentos en el desierto, y nos serás en lugar de ojos.

32 Y será, que si vinieres con nosotros, cuando tuviéremos el bien que el SEÑOR nos ha de hacer, nosotros te haremos bien.

33 Así partieron del monte del SEÑOR, camino de tres días; y el arca del pacto del SEÑOR fue delante de ellos camino de tres días, buscándoles reposo.

34 Y la nube del SEÑOR iba sobre ellos de día, desde que partieron del campamento.

35 Y fue, que al mover el arca, Moisés decía: Levántate, oh SEÑOR, y sean disipados tus enemigos, y huyan delante de tu rostro los que te aborrecen.

36 Y al asentar a ella, decía: Vuelve, oh SEÑOR, a los millares de millares de Israel.

   

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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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