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Exodus 11

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1 Yahweh said to Moses, "Yet one plague more will I bring on Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. When he lets you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether.

2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold."

3 Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.

4 Moses said, "This is what Yahweh says: 'About midnight I will go out into the midst of Egypt,

5 and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of livestock.

6 There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been, nor shall be any more.

7 But against any of the children of Israel a dog won't even bark or move its tongue, against man or animal; that you may know that Yahweh makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.

8 All these your servants shall come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, "Get out, with all the people who follow you;" and after that I will go out.'" He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

9 Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh won't listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt."

10 Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Israel go out of his land.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 7566

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7566. Verses 22-26 And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand towards heaven, and there will be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man and on beast, and on every plant of the field in the land of Egypt. And Moses stretched out his rod towards heaven, and Jehovah gave forth voices 1 and hail, and fire ran down to the earth; and Jehovah caused hail to rain onto the land of Egypt. And there was hail, and at the same time fire running down 2 in the midst of the hail, extremely heavy, of which there had not been the like in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. And the hail struck in all the land of Egypt everything that was in the field, from man and even to beast; and the hail struck every plant of the field, and broke every tree of the field. Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.

'And Jehovah said to Moses' means a command. 'Stretch out your hand towards heaven' means attention drawn to heaven, which would then come nearer. 'And there will be hail in all the land of Egypt' means destructive falsity in the natural mind. 'On man and on beast' means interior and exterior good. 'And on every plant of the field in the land of Egypt' means every truth of the Church in the natural mind. 'And Moses stretched out his rod towards heaven' means communication with heaven. 'And Jehovah gave forth voices' means the departure and severance of communication with those governed by good and guided by truth. 'And hail' means those destructive falsities. 'And fire ran down to the earth' means evil desires. 'And He caused hail to rain onto the land of Egypt' means the natural mind, which falsities arising from evil took possession of. 'And there was hail, and at the same time fire running down in the midst of the hail, extremely heavy' means firm beliefs in what is false together with desires for evil. 'Of which there had not been the like in all the land of Egypt' means that such a state of the natural mind did not exist in any others. 'Since it became a nation' means from the day on which it happened that it was able to admit goodness and therefore truth into itself. 'And the hail struck in all the land of Egypt' means that that falsity destroyed the things which were in the natural mind. 'Everything that was in the field' means whatever was an attribute of the Church. 'From man and even to beast' means its good, interior and exterior. 'And the hail struck every plant of the field' means that those falsities destroyed all of the Church's truth. 'And broke every tree of the field' means that they also destroyed all the Church's cognitions of truth and good. 'Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail' means that they did not destroy anything where those who belonged to the spiritual Church were.

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1. i.e. there were claps of thunder

2. Swedenborg appears to have misread a Hebrew word here.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.