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2 Mosebok 7

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1 Men HERREN sade till Mose: »Se, jag har satt dig att vara såsom en gud för Farao, och din broder Aron skall vara din profet.

2 Du skall tala allt vad jag bjuder dig; sedan skall din broder Aron tala med Farao om att han måste släppa Israels barn ut ur sitt land.

3 Men jag skall förhärda Faraos hjärta och skall göra många tecken och under i Egyptens land.

4 Farao skall icke höra på eder; men jag skall lägga min handEgypten och skall föra mina härskaror, mitt folk, Israels barn, ut ur Egyptens land, genom stora straffdomar.

5 Och egyptierna skola förnimma att jag är HERREN, när jag räcker ut min hand över Egypten och för Israels barn ut från dem.»

6 Och Mose och Aron gjorde så; de gjorde såsom HERREN hade bjudit dem.

7 Men Mose var åttio år gammal och Aron åttiotre år gammal, när de talade med Farao.

8 Och HERREN talade till Mose och Aron och sade:

9 »När Farao talar till eder och säger: 'Låten oss se något under', då skall du säga till Aron: 'Tag din stav och kasta den inför Farao', så skall den bliva en stor orm.»

10 Då gingo Mose och Aron till Farao och gjorde såsom HERREN hade bjudit. Aron kastade sin stav inför Farao och hans tjänare, och den blev en stor orm.

11 Då kallade också Farao till sig sina vise och trollkarlar; och dessa, de egyptiska spåmännen, gjorde ock detsamma genom sina hemliga konster:

12 de kastade var och en sin stav, och dessa blevo stora ormar. Men Arons stav uppslukade deras stavar.

13 Dock förblev Faraos hjärta förstockat, och han hörde icke på dem, såsom HERREN hade sagt.

14 Därefter sade HERREN till Mose: »Faraos hjärta är tillslutet, han vill icke släppa folket.

15 Gå till Farao i morgon bittida -- han går nämligen då ut till vattnet -- och ställ dig i hans väg, på stranden av Nilfloden. Och tag i din hand staven som förvandlades till en orm.

16 Och säg till honom: HERREN, hebréernas Gud, sände mig till dig och lät säga dig: 'Släpp mitt folk, så att de kunna hålla gudstjänst åt mig i öknen.' Men se, du har hitintills icke velat höra.

17 Därför säger nu HERREN så: 'Härav skall du förnimma att jag är HERREN: se, med staven som jag håller i min hand vill jag slå på vattnet i Nilfloden, och då skall det förvandlas till blod.

18 Och fiskarna i floden skola , och floden skall bliva stinkande, så att egyptierna skola vämjas vid att dricka vatten ifrån floden.'»

19 Och HERREN sade till Mose: »Säg till Aron: Tag din stav, och räck ut din hand över egyptiernas vatten, över deras strömmar, kanaler och sjöar och alla andra vattensamlingar, så skola de bliva blod; över hela Egyptens land skall vara blod, både i träkärl och i stenkärl.»

20 Och Mose och Aron gjorde såsom HERREN hade bjudit. Han lyfte upp staven och slog vattnet i Nilfloden inför Faraos och hans tjänares ögon; då förvandlades allt vatten floden till blod.

21 Och fiskarna i floden dogo, och floden blev stinkande, så att egyptierna icke kunde dricka vatten ifrån floden; och blodet var över hela Egyptens land.

22 Men de egyptiska spåmännen gjorde detsamma genom sina hemliga konster. Så förblev Faraos hjärta förstockat, och han hörde icke på dem, såsom HERREN hade sagt.

23 Och Farao vände om och gick hem och aktade icke heller på detta.

24 Men i hela Egypten grävde man runt omkring Nilfloden efter vatten till att dricka; ty vattnet i floden kunde man icke dricka.

25 Och så förgingo sju dagar efter det att HERREN hade slagit Nilfloden.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 300

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300. As regards the first arcanum, that 'Jehovah God' is used to mean the Lord and at the same time heaven, it should be recognized that in the Word, always for some hidden reason, the Lord is sometimes called simply Jehovah, sometimes Jehovah God, sometimes Jehovah and God interchangeably, sometimes the Lord Jehovah, sometimes the God of Israel, and sometimes simply God. In Genesis 1, for example, where again an utterance is made in the plural, 'Let Us make man in Our image', God is the only name used. Not until the next chapter, where the celestial man is the subject, is He called Jehovah God-Jehovah, because He alone has Being and is Living, and so from His essence; God, because of His ability to accomplish all things, and so from His power, as is clear in the Word where the two names are used separately, Isaiah 49:4-5; 55:7; Psalms 18:2, 28, 30-31; Psalms 38:15. Consequently any angel or spirit who spoke to a person, or who people thought had the ability to accomplish something, they called God, as is clear in David,

God stands in the assembly of God, in the midst of the Gods will He judge. Psalms 82:1.

And elsewhere in David,

Who in the sky will be compared to Jehovah? Who will be likened to Jehovah among the sons of gods? Psalms 89:6.

And elsewhere in the same,

Confess the God of Gods; confess the Lord of lords. Psalms 136:2-3

It is from power that even men are called 'gods', as in Psalms 82:6; John 10:34-35. And Moses is spoken of as 'a god to Pharaoh', Exodus 7:1. And this also is why [in Hebrew] the word for God, Elohim, is plural. But because angels have no power whatsoever from themselves, as they themselves also confess, but from the Lord only, and as there is but one God, Jehovah God is therefore used in the Word to mean the Lord alone. Yet when anything is accomplished through the ministry of angels He is spoken of in the plural, as in Genesis 1. In the present chapter too, since a celestial man, as man, did not bear comparison with the Lord, but with angels, it is therefore said that 'the man has become as one of Us in knowing good and evil', that is, become someone wise and having intelligence.

  
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Genesis 1

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1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

2 Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

3 God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

4 God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.

5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." There was evening and there was morning, one day.

6 God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."

7 God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.

8 God called the expanse "sky." There was evening and there was morning, a second day.

9 God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so.

10 God called the dry land "earth," and the gathering together of the waters he called "seas." God saw that it was good.

11 God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so.

12 The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.

13 There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

14 God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;

15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth;" and it was so.

16 God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.

17 God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,

18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

20 God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."

21 God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

22 God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

23 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

24 God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;" and it was so.

25 God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.

26 God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

27 God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.

28 God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

29 God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

30 To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;" and it was so.

31 God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.