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Cuộc di cư 17

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1 Cả hội chúng Y-sơ-ra-ên đi từ đồng vắng Sin, đi từng trạm, tùy theo lịnh Ðức Giê-hô-va, đóng trại tại ê-phi-đim; ở đó chẳng có nước cho dân sự uống.

2 Dân sự bèn kiếm cớ cãi lộn cùng Môi-se mà rằng: Hãy cho chúng tôi nước uống. Môi-se đáp rằng: Sao các ngươi kiếm cớ cãi lộn cùng ta? Sao ướm thử Ðức Giê-hô-va vậy?

3 Dân sự ở đó không có nước, bị khát, nên oán trách Môi-se mà rằng: Sao người khiến chúng tôi ra xứ Ê-díp-tô, hầu cho chúng tôi, con và các bầy súc vật phải chịu chết khát thế nầy?

4 Môi-se bèn kêu cầu Ðức Giê-hô-va mà rằng: Tôi phải xử thế nào cùng dân nầy? Thiếu điều họ ném đá tôi!

5 Ðức Giê-hô-va đáp cùng Môi-se rằng: Hãy cầm gậy của ngươi đã đập dưới sông, dẫn theo những trưởng lão Y-sơ-ra-ên, rồi đi trước mặt dân sự.

6 Nầy ta sẽ đứng đằng trước ngươi, ở trên hòn đá tại Hô-rếp kia, ngươi hãy đập hòn đá, thì nước từ đó chảy ra, dân sự sẽ uống lấy. Môi-se bèn làm như vậy trước mặt các trưởng lão Y-sơ-ra-ên.

7 Người đặt tên nơi nầy là Ma-sa và Mê-ri-ba, vì cớ việc cãi lộn mà dân Y-sơ-ra-ên kiếm cớ gây cùng người, và vì họ đã ướm thử Ðức Giê-hô-va mà nói rằng: Có Ðức Giê-hô-va ở giữa chúng ta hay chăng?

8 Vả, khi đó, dân A-ma-léc đến khêu chiến cùng Y-sơ-ra-ên tại ê-phi-đim.

9 Môi-se bèn nói cùng Giô-suê rằng: Hãy chọn lấy tráng sĩ cho chúng ta, ra chiến đấu cùng dân A-ma-léc; ngày mai ta sẽ đứng nơi đầu nổng, cầm gậy của Ðức Chúa Trời trong tay.

10 Giô-suê bèn làm y như lời Môi-se nói, để cự chiến dân A-ma-léc; còn Môi-se, A-rôn và Hu-rơ lên trên đầu nổng.

11 Vả, hễ đang khi Môi-se giơ tay lên, thì dân Y-sơ-ra-ên thắng hơn; nhưng khi người xụi tay xuống, dân A-ma-léc lại thắng hơn.

12 Tay Môi-se mỏi, A-rôn và Hu-rơ bèn lấy đá kê cho người ngồi, rồi ở hai bên đỡ Tay người lên; Tay người chẳng lay động cho đến khi mặt trời lặn.

13 Giô-suê lấy lưỡi gươm đánh bại A-ma-léc và dân sự người.

14 Ðức Giê-hô-va bèn phán cùng Môi-se rằng: Hãy chép điều nầy trong sách làm kỷ niệm, và hãy nói cho Giô-suê biết rằng ta sẽ bôi sạch kỷ niệm về A-ma-léc trong thiên hạ.

15 Môi-se lập lên một bàn thờ, đặt tên là "Giê-hô-va cờ xí của tôi";

16 nói rằng: Bởi vì A-ma-léc có giơ tay lên nghịch cùng ngôi Ðức Giê-hô-va, nên Ðức Giê-hô-va chinh chiến với A-ma-léc từ đời nầy qua đời kia.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 8609

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8609. 'And they took a stone' means the lowest level of God's truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'a stone' as truth, 643, 1298, 3720, 3769, 3771, 3789, 3798, 6426, in this instance the lowest level of truth since it was put underneath him and he sat on it. An ordinary stone furthermore means a lower level of truth, while a precious stone means a higher or more internal level of truth. What the lowest level of truth is becomes clear from what has been stated above in 8603 about the levels of truth that follow one another in order; that is to say, there are interior truths and exterior truths, the lowest of which are meant by the lowest level of truth.

  
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Ezekiel 48

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1 Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar Enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath, (and they shall have their sides east [and] west), Dan, one [portion].

2 By the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, Asher, one [portion].

3 By the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west side, Naphtali, one [portion].

4 By the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one [portion].

5 By the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, Ephraim, one [portion].

6 By the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the west side, Reuben, one [portion].

7 By the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, Judah, one [portion].

8 By the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the offering which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand [reeds] in breadth, and in length as one of the portions, from the east side to the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in its midst.

9 The offering that you shall offer to Yahweh shall be twenty-five thousand [reeds] in length, and ten thousand in breadth.

10 For these, even for the priests, shall be the holy offering: toward the north twenty-five thousand [in length], and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south twenty-five thousand in length: and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in its midst.

11 [It shall be] for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my instruction, who didn't go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

12 It shall be to them an offering from the offering of the land, a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.

13 Answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.

14 They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy to Yahweh.

15 The five thousand that are left in the breadth, in front of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for suburbs; and the city shall be in its midst.

16 These shall be its measures: the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.

17 The city shall have suburbs: toward the north two hundred fifty, and toward the south two hundred fifty, and toward the east two hundred fifty, and toward the west two hundred fifty.

18 The remainder in the length, answerable to the holy offering, shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it shall be answerable to the holy offering; and its increase shall be for food to those who labor in the city.

19 Those who labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it.

20 All the offering shall be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand: you shall offer the holy offering foursquare, with the possession of the city.

21 The residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city; in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering toward the east border, and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand toward the west border, answerable to the portions, it shall be for the prince: and the holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in its midst.

22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, it shall be for the prince.

23 As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side, Benjamin, one [portion].

24 By the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon, one [portion].

25 By the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar, one [portion].

26 By the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun, one [portion].

27 By the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad, one [portion].

28 By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt], to the great sea.

29 This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, says the Lord Yahweh.

30 These are the exits of the city: On the north side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure;

31 and the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel, three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.

32 At the east side four thousand and five hundred [reeds], and three gates: even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.

33 At the south side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.

34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred [reeds], with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.

35 It shall be eighteen thousand [reeds] around: and the name of the city from that day shall be, Yahweh is there.