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1 Y habló el SEÑOR a Moisés en el desierto de Sinaí, en el segundo año de su salida de la tierra de Egipto, en el mes primero, diciendo:

2 Los hijos de Israel harán la pascua a su tiempo determinado .

3 El décimocuarto día de este mes, entre las dos tardes, la haréis a su tiempo determinado ; conforme a todo su ordenanza, y conforme a todas sus leyes la haréis.

4 Y habló Moisés a los hijos de Israel, para que hiciesen la pascua.

5 E hicieron la pascua en el mes primero, a los catorce días del mes, entre las dos tardes, en el desierto de Sinaí; conforme a todas las cosas que mandó el SEÑOR a Moisés, así hicieron los hijos de Israel.

6 Y hubo varones que estaban inmundos a causa de muerto, y no pudieron hacer la pascua aquel día; y llegaron delante de Moisés y delante de Aarón aquel día;

7 y le dijeron aquellos hombres: Nosotros somos inmundos por causa de muerto; ¿por qué seremos impedidos de ofrecer ofrenda al SEÑOR a su tiempo determinado entre los hijos de Israel?

8 Y Moisés les respondió: Esperad, y oiré qué mandará el SEÑOR acerca de vosotros.

9 Y el SEÑOR habló a Moisés, diciendo:

10 Habla a los hijos de Israel, diciendo: Cualquier varón de vosotros o de vuestras generaciones, que fuere inmundo por causa de muerto o estuviere de viaje lejos, hará pascua al SEÑOR.

11 En el mes segundo, a los catorce días del mes, entre las dos tardes, la harán; con panes cenceños y hierbas amargas la comerán.

12 No dejarán de él para la mañana, ni quebrarán hueso en él; conforme a toda la ordenanza de la pascua la harán.

13 Mas el que estuviere limpio, y no estuviere de viaje, si dejare de hacer la pascua, la tal persona será cortada de entre su pueblo; por cuanto no ofreció a su tiempo determinado la ofrenda del SEÑOR, el tal hombre llevará su pecado.

14 Y si morare con vosotros algún extranjero, e hiciere la pascua al SEÑOR, conforme a la ordenanza de la pascua y conforme a sus leyes, así la hará; una misma ordenanza tendréis, así el extranjero como el natural de la tierra.

15 Y el día que el tabernáculo fue levantado, la nube cubrió el tabernáculo sobre la tienda del testimonio; y a la tarde había sobre el tabernáculo como una apariencia de fuego, hasta la mañana.

16 Así era continuamente: la nube lo cubría, y de noche la apariencia de fuego.

17 Y según que se alzaba la nube del tabernáculo, los hijos de Israel partían; y en el lugar donde la nube paraba, allí acampaban los hijos de Israel.

18 Al dicho del SEÑOR los hijos de Israel partían; y al dicho del SEÑOR asentaban el campamento; todos los días que la nube estaba sobre el tabernáculo, ellos quedaban reposados.

19 Y cuando la nube se detenía sobre el tabernáculo muchos días, entonces los hijos de Israel guardaban la ordenanza del SEÑOR y no partían.

20 Y era que cuando la nube estaba sobre el tabernáculo determinado número de días, al dicho del SEÑOR acampaban, y al dicho del SEÑOR partían.

21 Y era que cuando la nube se detenía desde la tarde hasta la mañana, y a la mañana la nube se levantaba, ellos partían; o si había estado el día, y a la noche la nube se levantaba, entonces partían.

22 O si dos días, o un mes, o un año, mientras la nube se detenía sobre el tabernáculo quedándose sobre él, los hijos de Israel se estaban acampados y no se movían; mas cuando ella se alzaba, ellos se movían.

23 Al dicho del SEÑOR asentaban campamento , y al dicho del SEÑOR partían, aguardando al SEÑOR, como lo había dicho el SEÑOR por medio de Moisés.

   

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2405. When the dawn arose. That this signifies when the Lord’s kingdom is approaching, is evident from the signification in the Word of the “dawn” or “morning.” As in this chapter the subject treated of is the successive states of the church, that which is done in the evening is first treated of, next that which is done in the night, and there now follows that which is done in the morning twilight, and presently that which is done after the sun is gone forth. The twilight is here expressed by “when the dawn arose,” and it denotes the time when the upright are being separated from the evil; which separation is treated of in this verse, and as far as verse 22, by Lot together with his wife and daughters being led out and saved. That separation precedes Judgment is evident from the Lord’s words in Matthew:

Before Him shall be gathered all nations, and He shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats (Matthew 25:32).

[2] This time or state is called in the Word the “dawn,” because the Lord then comes; or what is the same, His kingdom then approaches. The case is similar with the good, for at such a time there shines out with them a semblance of the morning twilight or dawn; and therefore in the Word the advent of the Lord is compared to the “morning,” and is also called the “morning.” As in Hosea:

After two days Jehovah will revive us, on the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live before Him; and we shall know, and we shall follow on to know Jehovah; His going forth is as the dawn (Hosea 6:2-3

“Two days” denotes the time and state which precedes; the “third day” denotes the Judgment, or the advent of the Lord, and therefore the approach of His kingdom (n. 720, 901), which advent or approach is compared to the “dawn.”

[3] In Samuel:

The God of Israel is as the light of the morning, the sun riseth, a morning without clouds; from the brightness, from the rain, there is a growth from the earth (2 Samuel 23:4).

The “God of Israel” denotes the Lord; for no other God of Israel was meant in that church, and He was represented in each and all things of it.

In Joel:

The day of Jehovah cometh, for it is nigh at hand; a day of darkness and of thick darkness, a day of cloud and obscurity; as the dawn spread upon the mountains (Joel 2:1-2).

Here also the Lord’s advent and His kingdom are treated of; it is said a “day of darkness and of thick darkness,” because the good are then being separated from the evil, as here Lot from the men of Sodom; and after the good have been separated, the evil perish.

[4] That the Lord’s advent or the approach of His kingdom, is not merely compared to the “morning,” but is actually called the “morning,” may be seen in Daniel:

A holy one said, How long shall be the vision, the continual sacrifice, and the transgression that maketh waste? He said unto me, Until evening and morning, two thousand three hundred, then shall the holy one be justified. The vision of the evening and the morning which hath been told is truth (Daniel 8:13-14, 26).

“morning” here manifestly denotes the Lord’s advent.

In David:

Thy people are willing offerings in the day of thy strength, in honors of holiness, from the womb of the dawn thou hast the dew of thy youth 1 (Psalms 110:3).

In this whole Psalm the subject treated of is the Lord, and His victories in temptations, which are the “day of His strength,” and the “honors of His holiness;” “from the womb of the dawn,” denotes Himself, thus the Divine love from which He fought.

[5] In Zephaniah:

Jehovah in the midst of her is righteous, He will not do perversity; in the morning, in the morning will He give judgment for light (Zeph. 3:5).

The “morning” denotes the time and state of Judgment, which is the same as that of the Lord’s advent; and this is the same as the approach of His kingdom.

[6] Because the “morning” signified these things, in order that the same might be represented, it was commanded that:

Aaron and his sons should light up the lamp, and should order it from evening until morning before Jehovah (Exodus 27:21).

The “evening” here denotes the twilight before the morning (n. 2323). In like manner it was commanded that the fire upon the altar should be kindled every morning (Leviticus 6:5); also that nothing of the paschal lamb and of the sanctified things of the sacrifices should be left till the morning (Exodus 12:10; 23:18; 34:25; Leviticus 22:29-30; Numbers 9:12); by which was signified that when the Lord came, sacrifices should cease.

[7] In a general sense it is called “morning” both when the dawn appears, and when the sun rises; and in this latter case “morning” denotes the Judgment as it concerns both the good and the evil, as in this chapter:

The sun was gone forth upon the earth, and Lot came unto Zoar; and Jehovah caused it to rain upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire (Genesis 19:23-24).

In like manner insofar as regards the Judgment upon the evil; in David:

In the mornings will I destroy all the wicked of the land, to cut off from the city of Jehovah all the workers of iniquity (Psalms 101:8).

And in Jeremiah:

Let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and He repenteth not; and let him hear a cry in the morning (Jeremiah 20:16).

As in the proper sense the “morning” signifies the Lord, His advent, and thus the approach of His kingdom, it is evident what it signifies besides, namely, the rise of a new church (for this is the Lord’s kingdom on earth), and this both in general and in particular, and even in the least particular; in general, when any church on the globe is being raised up anew; in particular, when a man is being regenerated, and being made new (for then the Lord’s kingdom is arising in him, and he is becoming a church); and in the least particular, whenever the good of love and faith is working in him; for in this consists the advent of the Lord. Hence the Lord’s resurrection on the third day in the morning (Mark 16:2, 9; Luke 24:1; John 20:1) involves all these things (even in the particular and the least particular) in regard to His rising again in the minds of the regenerate every day, and even every moment.

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1. Nativitatis; but juventutis elsewhere, as T.C.R. 764. [Rotch ed.]

  
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