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Cuộc di cư 2

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1 Vả, có một người trong họ Lê-vi đi cưới con gái Lê-vi làm vợ.

2 Nàng thọ thai, và sanh một con trai; thấy con ngộ, nên đem đi giấu trong ba tháng.

3 Nhưng giấu lâu hơn nữa không được, nàng bèn lấy một cái rương mây, trét chai và nhựa thông, rồi để đứa trẻ vào, đem thả trong đám sậy dựa mé sông.

4 Người chị đứa trẻ đứng xa nơi đó đặng cho biết nó sẽ ra sao.

5 Vả, bấy giờ, con gái Pha-ra-ôn xuống sông tắm, còn các con đòi đi dạo chơi trên mé sông; công chúa thấy cái rương mây đó giữa đám sậy, bèn sai con đòi mình đi vớt lên.

6 Công chúa mở rương ra, thấy đứa trẻ, là một đứa con trai nhỏ đương khóc, bèn động lòng thương xót mà rằng: Ấy là một đứa con của người Hê-bơ-rơ.

7 Người chị đứa trẻ bèn nói cùng công chúa rằng: Tôi phải đi kêu một người vú trong bọn đàn bà Hê-bơ-rơ đặng cho dứa trẻ chớ?

8 Công chúa đáp rằng: Hãy đi đi. Người gái trẻ đó kêu mẹ của đứa trẻ.

9 Công chúa nói rằng: Hãy đem đứa trẻ nầy về nuôi cho ta; ta sẽ trả tiền công cho. Người đàn bà ẵm đứa trẻ mà cho .

10 Khi lớn khôn rồi, người bèn dẫn nó vào cho công chúa, nàng nhận làm con, và đặt tên là Môi-se, vì nàng nói rằng: Ta đã vớt nó khỏi nước.

11 Vả, đang lúc đó, Môi-se đã lớn khôn rồi, ra đi đến cùng anh em mình, xem thấy công việc nhọc nhằn của họ; cũng thấy một người Ê-díp-tô đánh một người Hê-bơ-rơ trong vòng anh em mình;

12 ngó quanh quất chẳng thấy ai, bèn giết người Ê-díp-tô đem vùi trong cát.

13 Qua ngày sau, Môi-se đi ra nữa, thấy hai người Hê-bơ-rơ đánh lộn, bèn nói cùng người có lỗi rằng: Sao ngươi đánh người đồng loại mình?

14 Nhưng người đó đáp rằng: Ai đặt ngươi làm vua, làm quan án cho chúng ta? Có phải muốn giết ta như đã giết người Ê-díp-tô kia chăng? Môi-se sợ, nói rằng: Chắc thật, việc nầy phải lậu rồi.

15 Pha-ra-ôn hay việc đó, thì tìm giết Môi-se; nhưng người trốn đi khỏi mặt Pha-ra-ôn, dừng chân tại xứ Ma-đi-an, và ngồi gần bên một cái giếng.

16 Vả, thầy tế lễ xứ Ma-đi-an có bảy con gái; các nàng đó đến giếng xách nước đổ đầy máng đặng cho bầy chiên cha mình uống.

17 Nhưng các kẻ chăn chiên đến đuổi đi; Môi-se bèn đứng dậy, binh vực các nàng đó và cho những bầy chiên uống nước.

18 Khi mấy nàng trở về nhà ê -u-ên, cha mình, thì người hỏi rằng: Sao bữa nay các con về sớm vậy?

19 Thưa rằng: Một người Ê-díp-tô cứu chúng tôi ra khỏi tay bọn chăn chiên, và cũng có xách nước nhiều quá cho bầy chiên uống nữa.

20 Cha lại hỏi rằng: Người đó bây giờ ở đâu? Sao các con bỏ người đi? Hãy mời đến đặng ăn bánh.

21 Môi-se ưng ở cùng người nầy, người bèn gả Sê-phô-ra, con gái mình, cho Môi-se.

22 Nàng sanh một con trai; Môi-se đặt tên là Ghẹt-sôn vì nói rằng: Tôi kiều ngụ nơi ngoại bang.

23 Sau cách lâu, vua xứ Ê-díp-tô băng; dân Y-sơ-ra-ên than thở kêu van vì phải phục dịch khổ sở; tiếng kêu van lên thấu Ðức Chúa Trời.

24 Ngài nghe tiếng than thở chúng, nhớ đến sự giao ước mình kết lập cùng Áp-ra-ham, Y-sác và Gia-cốp.

25 Ðức Chúa Trời đoái lại dân Y-sơ-ra-ên, nhận biết cảnh ngộ của chúng.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 6723

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6723. 'And she took [for him] a box made of rush' means a container which, though crude, was nevertheless derived from truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'a box' or little ark as that which is a container or in which something is enclosed, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'rush' as that which is crude but nevertheless is derived from truth. The fact that 'rush' refers to something crude is self-evident; and the reason why it refers to something derived from truth is that 'rush' has that meaning, as is plain in Isaiah,

Woe to the land overshadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Cush, which sends ambassadors to the sea, and in vessels made of rush on the face of the waters! Isaiah 18:1-2.

'The land overshadowing with wings' stands for the Church which brings darkness to itself through the use of reasonings based on factual knowledge. 'Beyond the rivers of Cush' stands for turning to cognitions that are used to confirm false assumptions, 1164. 'Sending ambassadors to the sea' stands for resorting to factual knowledge, 28. 'In vessels made of rush over the face of the waters' stands for very crude receptacles of truth.

[2] The expression is used in the contrary sense in the same prophet,

The dry place will become a pond and the thirsty ground wellsprings of water; [there will be] grass instead of reed and rush. Isaiah 35:7.

'Grass instead of reed and rush' stands for the fact that there will be factual knowledge containing truth instead of such things as hold no truth within them. The meaning of 'grass' as factual knowledge containing truth is evident from places in the Word in which the expression appears.

[3] Since it had been preordained that Moses should represent the Lord in respect of the law of God or the Word, in particular the historical part of the Word, the incident therefore took place in which, when he was an infant, he was put in a box or little ark, though a crude one because that law was in its very earliest beginnings and because there was merely a representative of it lying there in the ark. But later on the real law of God, after it had flashed from Mount Sinai, was put in an ark, called the Ark of the Testimony. For the fact that the law of God was put inside the ark, see Exodus 40:20; 1 Kings 8:9, also the Books of Moses [placed to the side of it], Deuteronomy 31:24-26.

[4] The ark was therefore most holy because it represented the Lord's Divine Human in respect of the Divine Law; for from the Lord's Divine Human radiates the Divine Law or Divine Truth, which is the same as the Word spoken of in John,

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the Only Begotten from the Father. John 1:1, 14.

And since the ark represented something so very holy, the mercy seat with the cherubim was placed over the ark, and next to the veil concealing it there was the lampstand with lamps and the table of gold with loaves, both of which were signs of the Divine Love. This then is the reason why Moses, because he represented the law of God, was put in a little ark when he was an infant.

  
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Psalms 68

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1 Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him.

2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

3 But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God. Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.

4 Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides on the clouds: to Yah, his name! Rejoice before him!

5 A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

6 God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

7 God, when you went forth before your people, when you marched through the wilderness... Selah.

8 The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai-- at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

9 You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance, when it was weary.

10 Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.

11 The Lord announced the word. The ones who proclaim it are a great company.

12 "Kings of armies flee! They flee!" She who waits at home divides the spoil,

13 while you sleep among the campfires, the wings of a dove sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold.

14 When the Almighty scattered kings in her, it snowed on Zalmon.

15 The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains. The mountains of Bashan are rugged.

16 Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.

17 The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.

18 You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among men, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.

19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens, even the God who is our salvation. Selah.

20 God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

21 But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.

22 The Lord said, "I will bring you again from Bashan, I will bring you again from the depths of the sea;

23 That you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies."

24 They have seen your processions, God, even the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.

25 The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, in the midst of the ladies playing with tambourines,

26 "Bless God in the congregations, even the Lord in the assembly of Israel!"

27 There is little Benjamin, their ruler, the princes of Judah, their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.

28 Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.

29 Because of your temple at Jerusalem, kings shall bring presents to you.

30 Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war.

31 Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.

32 Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth! Sing praises to the Lord! Selah.

33 To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old; behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.

34 Ascribe strength to God! His excellency is over Israel, his strength is in the skies.

35 You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries. The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God! For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Lilies." By David.