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1 После сего Моисей и Аарон пришли к фараону и сказали: так говорит Господь, Бог Израилев: отпусти народ Мой, чтоб он совершил Мне праздник в пустыне.

2 Но фараон сказал: кто такой Господь, чтоб я послушался голоса Его и отпустил Израиля? я не знаю Господа и Израиля не отпущу.

3 Они сказали: Бог Евреев призвал нас; отпусти нас в пустыню на три дня пути принести жертву Господу,Богу нашему, чтобы Он не поразил нас язвою, или мечом.

4 И сказал им царь Египетский: для чего вы, Моисей и Аарон, отвлекаете народ от дел его? ступайте на свою работу.

5 И сказал фараон: вот, народ в земле сей многочислен, и вы отвлекаете его от работ его.

6 И в тот же день фараон дал повеление приставникам над народом и надзирателям, говоря:

7 не давайте впредь народу соломы для делания кирпича, как вчера и третьего дня, пусть они сами ходят и собирают себе солому,

8 а кирпичей наложите на них то же урочное число, какое они делали вчера и третьего дня, и не убавляйте; они праздны, потому икричат: пойдем, принесем жертву Богунашему;

9 дать им больше работы, чтоб они работали и не занимались пустыми речами.

10 И вышли приставники народа и надзиратели его и сказали народу: так говорит фараон: не даю вам соломы;

11 сами пойдите, берите себе солому, где найдете, а от работы вашей ничего не убавляется.

12 И рассеялся народ по всей земле Египетской собирать жниво вместосоломы.

13 Приставники же понуждали, говоря: выполняйте работу свою каждый день, как и тогда, когда была у вас солома.

14 А надзирателей из сынов Израилевых, которых поставили над ними приставники фараоновы, били, говоря: почему вы вчера и сегодня не изготовляете урочного числа кирпичей, как было до сих пор?

15 И пришли надзиратели сынов Израилевых и возопили к фараону, говоря: для чего ты так поступаешь с рабами твоими?

16 соломы не дают рабам твоим, а кирпичи, говорят нам, делайте. И вот, рабов твоих бьют; грех народу твоему.

17 Но он сказал: праздны вы, праздны, поэтому и говорите: пойдем, принесем жертву Господу.

18 Пойдите же, работайте; соломы не дадут вам, а положенное число кирпичей давайте.

19 И увидели надзиратели сынов Израилевых беду свою в словах: не убавляйте числа кирпичей, какое положено на каждый день.

20 И когда они вышли от фараона, то встретились с Моисеем и Аароном, которые стояли, ожидая их,

21 и сказали им: да видит и судит вам Господь за то, что вы сделали нас ненавистными в глазах фараона и рабов его и дали им меч в руки, чтобы убить нас.

22 И обратился Моисей к Господу и сказал: Господи! для чего Ты подвергнул такому бедствию народ сей, для чего послал меня?

23 ибо с того времени, как я пришел к фараону и стал говорить именем Твоим, он начал хуже поступать с народом сим; избавить же, – Ты не избавил народа Твоего.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #7124

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7124. 'And the taskmasters of the people and their officers went out' means the sending out [and presence] of those in the nearest position to molest and those in the nearest position to receive. This is clear from the meaning of 'going out' as a sending out, for those meant by 'the taskmasters' are sent out to serve as a channel of communication, as may be seen from what has been stated above in 7111 ('coming out' or 'going out' also means making oneself present before another in a form suited to this other, see 5337, and so means presence as well); from the meaning of 'the taskmasters' as those who are in the nearest position to molest, and from that of 'the officers' as those who are in the nearest position to receive the molestations and pass them on, both of which groups are dealt with in 7111.

  
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7111.'To the taskmasters over the people and to their officers, saying' means those in the nearest position to molest, and those in the nearest position to receive. This is clear from the meaning of 'the taskmasters' as those who compel people to serve, dealt with in 6852, and since they do so by means of molestations, 'the taskmasters' also means those who molest, but those in the nearest position to carry it out, who are dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'the officers' as those in the nearest position to receive. For the officers came from the children of Israel, but the taskmasters from the Egyptians, as is evident from what follows. Thus in the internal sense 'the officers' are those in the nearest position to receive, and 'the taskmasters' those in the nearest position to molest.

[2] Who exactly are meant may be recognized from those in the next life who molest, introducing falsities and evils, and those who receive these and pass them on. Those who molest, introducing falsities and evils, are the hells. But to achieve their purpose they send out from themselves emissaries through whom they act; and these make their appearance no great distance away from those who are molested. This is done for the reason that the thoughts and intentions of many may by focused through them; otherwise such thoughts and intentions would become diffuse. Those emissaries appear in particular places of their own in the world of spirits, and from the actual places where they appear one can recognize which hell they come from. Some appear overhead at varying heights and angles; others alongside the head, to the right or left as well as behind it; and others again below the head, on various levels in relation to the body, from the head right down to the soles of the feet. They flow in with the kinds of things that are emitted from hell, but a spirit or man can only feel them, and therefore only know of them, as things that are inside himself, as things that he himself thinks and intends. Those emissaries are called 'subordinates', see what has already been shown from experience regarding them in 4403, 5856, 5983-5989. Since these are in the nearest position to molest they are meant by 'the taskmasters'. But those who receive things from them and pass them on are 'the officers'; they are also intermediary spirits. For as stated above, the officers came from the children of Israel, but the taskmasters came from the Egyptians.

[3] Among the Israelite and Jewish people 'officers was a name given to those who were required to tell the people what they had to do, and who were to give orders. For this reason they also sat with the judges and elders in the gates, and told the people the judgements that had been made as well as the commands issued by the leader, as becomes clear from the following places: In Moses,

You shall appoint 1 judges and officers in all your gates according to your tribes, who will judge the people with righteous judgement. 2 Deuteronomy 16:18.

In the same author,

When they go out to war the priest shall speak to the people and warn them that they should not be afraid. After that the officers shall say that he who has built a house should go back, and also the fearful. Deuteronomy 20:1-3, 5, 8, 9.

In Joshua,

Joshua gave orders to the officers to say to the people that they should prepare provisions for the journey, before they crossed the Jordan. Joshua 1:10-11.

In the same book,

At the end of three days it happened, when the officers passed through the middle of the camp, that they gave orders [to the people, saying] that when they saw the ark of the covenant of Jehovah they too were to set out. Joshua 8:33.

The officers' were overseers of the people, distinct and separate from the princes or leaders of the people, see Deuteronomy 1:15. They were distinct and separate from the elders too, Deuteronomy 31:28, and also from the judges, Joshua 8:33.

Notes de bas de page:

1. literally, give

2. literally, the judgement of righteousness

  
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