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4 Mosebok 34

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1 Och HERREN talade till Mose och sade:

2 Bjud Israels barn och säg till dem: När I kommen till Kanaans land, då är detta det land som skall tillfalla eder såsom arvedel: Kanaans land, så långt dess gränser nå.

3 Edert land skall på södra sidan sträcka sig från öknen Sin utmed Edom; och eder södra gräns skall i öster begynna vid ändan av Salthavet.

4 Sedan skall eder gräns böja sig söder om Skorpionhöjden och gå fram till Sin och gå ut söder om Kades-Barnea. Och den skall gå vidare ut till Hasar-Addar och fram till Asmon.

5 Och från Asmon skall gränsen böja sig mot Egyptens bäck och gå ut vid havet.

6 Och eder gräns i väster skall vara Stora havet; det skall utgöra gränsen. Detta skall vara eder gräns i väster.

7 Och detta skall vara eder gräns i norr: Från Stora havet skolen I draga eder gränslinje fram vid berget Hor.

8 Från berget Hor skolen I draga eder gränslinje dit där vägen går till Hamat, och gränsen skall gå ut vid Sedad.

9 Sedan skall gränsen gå till Sifron och därifrån ut vid Hasar-Enan. Detta skall vara eder gräns i norr.

10 och såsom eder gräns i öster skolen I draga upp en linje från Hasar-Enan fram till Sefam.

11 Och från Sefam skall gränsen gå ned till Haribla, öster om Ain, och gränsen skall gå vidare ned och intill bergsluttningen vid Kinneretsjön, österut.

12 Sedan skall gränsen gå ned till Jordan och ut vid Salthavet. Detta skall vara edert land, med dess gränser runt omkring.

13 Och Mose bjöd Israels barn och sade: Detta är det land som I genom lottkastning skolen utskifta såsom arvedel åt eder, det land om vilket HERREN har bjudit att det skall givas åt de nio stammarna och den ena halva stammen.

14 Ty rubeniternas barns stam, efter dess familjer, och gaditernas barns stam, efter dess familjer, och den andra hälften av Manasse stam, dessa hava redan fått sin arvedel.

15 Dessa två stammar och denna halva stam hava fått sin arvedel på andra sidan Jordan mitt emot Jeriko, österut mot solens uppgång.

16 Och HERREN talade till Mose och sade:

17 Dessa äro namnen på de män som skola åt eder utskifta landet i arvslotter: först och främst prästen Eleasar och Josua, Nuns son;

18 vidare skolen I taga en hövding ur var stam till att utskifta landet,

19 och dessa äro de männens namn: av Juda stam Kaleb, Jefunnes son;

20 av Simeons barns stam Samuel Ammihuds son;

21 av Benjamins stam Elidad, Kislons son;

22 av Dans barns stam en hövding, Bucki, Joglis son;

23 av Josefs barn: av Manasse barns stam en hövding, Hanniel, Efods son,

24 och av Efraims barn stam en hövding, Kemuel, Siftans son;

25 av Sebulons barns stam en hövding, Elisafan, Parnaks son;

26 av Isaskars barns stam en hövding, Paltiel, Assans son;

27 av Asers barns stam en hövding, Ahihud, Selomis son;

28 av Naftali barns stam en hövding, Pedael, Ammihuds son.

29 Dessa äro de som HERREN bjöd att utskifta arvslotterna åt Israels barn i Kanaans land.

   

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1585. And saw all the plain of Jordan. That this signifies those goods and truths that were in the external man, is evident from the signification of a “plain,” and of “Jordan.” In the internal sense “the plain of Jordan” signifies the external man as to all its goods and truths. That “the plain of Jordan” signifies this, is because the Jordan was a boundary of the land of Canaan. The land of Canaan, as before said and shown, signifies the Lord’s kingdom and church, and in fact the celestial and the spiritual things thereof; on which account it has also been called the Holy Land, and the Heavenly Canaan; and because it signifies the Lord’s kingdom and church, it signifies in the supreme sense the Lord Himself, who is the all in all of His kingdom and of His church.

[2] Hence all things that were in the land of Canaan were representative. Those which were in the midst of the land, or which were the inmost, represented the Lord’s internal man-as Mount Zion and Jerusalem, the former the celestial things, the latter the spiritual things. Those which were further distant from the center, represented the things more remote from the internals. Those which were the furthest off, or which were the boundaries, represented the external man. The boundaries of Canaan were several; in general, the two rivers Euphrates and Jordan, and also the sea. Hence the Euphrates and the Jordan represented the externals. Here, therefore, “the plain of Jordan,” signifies, as it represents, all things that are in the external man. The case is similar when the expression “land of Canaan” is applied to the Lord’s kingdom in the heavens, or to the Lord’s church on earth, or again to the man of His kingdom or church, or, abstractly, to the celestial things of love, and so on.

[3] Hence it is that almost all the cities, and even all the mountains, hills, valleys, rivers, and other things, in the land of Canaan, were representative. It has already been shown (n. 120) that the river Euphrates, being a boundary, represented the things of sense and knowledge that belong to the external man. That the case is similar with the Jordan, and the plain of Jordan, may be seen from passages that now follow.

In David:

O my God, my soul is bowed down within me; therefore will I remember Thee from the land of Jordan, and the Hermons, from the mountain of littleness (Psalms 42:6); where “the land of Jordan” denotes that which is low, thus that which is distant from the celestial, as man’s externals are from his internals.

[4] That the sons of Israel crossed the Jordan when they entered the land of Canaan, and that it was then divided, likewise represented the access to the internal man through the external, and also man’s entrance into the Lord’s kingdom, besides other things. (See Josh. 3:14; 4:1 to 24 e end.) And because the external man continually fights against the internal, and desires dominion, the “pride” or “swelling” of Jordan became a prophetic expression. As in Jeremiah:

How shalt thou offer thyself a match for horses? And in a land of peace thou art confident; but how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan? (Jeremiah 12:5).

“The swelling of Jordan” denotes the things that belong to the external man, which rise up and desire to dominate over the internal man, as reasonings do—which here are the “horses”— and the confidence that is from them.

[5] In the same:

Edom shall be for a desolation; behold he shall come up like a lion from the pride of Jordan to the habitation of Ethan (Jeremiah 49:17, 19);

“the pride of Jordan” denotes the rising of the external man against the goods and truths of the internal.

In Zechariah:

Howl, O fir tree, for the cedar is fallen, because the magnificent ones are laid waste. Howl, O ye oaks of Bashan, for the defensed forest is come down. A voice of the howling of the shepherds, for their magnificence is laid waste; a voice of the roaring of young lions, for the swelling of Jordan is laid waste (Zech. 11:2-3).

That the Jordan was a boundary of the land of Canaan, is evident from Numbers 34:12; and of the land of Judah toward the east, from Joshua 15:5.

  
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