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Exodus 34

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1 I řekl Hospodin k Mojžíšovi: Vyteš sobě dvě dsky kamenné podobné prvním, a napíši na dskách těch slova, kteráž byla na dskách prvních, kteréž jsi rozrazil.

2 Budiž tedy hotov ráno, a vstoupíš v jitře na horu Sinai, a staneš přede mnou na vrchu hory té.

3 Žádný ať nevstupuje s tebou, aniž také kdo vidín bude na vší hoře; ani ovce neb volové pásti se budou naproti hoře této.

4 Tedy Mojžíš vytesal dvě dsky kamenné podobné prvním, a vstav ráno, vstoupil na horu Sinai, jakž mu přikázal Hospodin, a vzal v ruku svou dvě dsky kamenné.

5 I sstoupil Hospodin v oblaku, a stál s ním tam, a zavolal ze jména: Hospodin.

6 Nebo pomíjeje Hospodin tvář jeho, volal: Hospodin, Hospodin, Bůh silný, lítostivý a milostivý, dlouhočekající a hojný v milosrdenství a pravdě,

7 Milosrdenství čině tisícům, odpouštěje nepravost a přestoupení i hřích, a kterýž nikoli neospravedlňuje vinného, navštěvuje nepravost otců na synech, a na synech synů do třetího i čtvrtého pokolení.

8 Mojžíš pak rychle sklonil hlavu k zemi, a poklonu učinil.

9 A řekl: Prosím, našel-li jsem milost v očích tvých, Pane, nechť jde, prosím, Pán u prostřed nás, nebo lid jest tvrdé šíje, a milostiv buď nepravosti naší a hříchu našemu, a měj nás za dědictví.

10 Kterýžto řekl: Aj, já učiním smlouvu přede vším lidem tvým. Učiním divné věci, kteréž nejsou učiněny na vší zemi a ve všech národech, a viděti bude všecken lid, (mezi nimiž jsi,) skutky Hospodinovy; nebo hrozné bude to, což já učiním s tebou.

11 Zachovej to, což já dnes tobě přikazuji. Aj, já vyženu před tváří tvou Amorea a Kananea, Hetea a Ferezea, Hevea a Jebuzea.

12 Varuj se pak, abys nečinil smlouvy s obyvateli země té, do kteréž vejdeš, ať by nebyli osídlem u prostřed tebe.

13 Ale zboříte oltáře jejich, a modly jejich polámete, a jejich háje posekáte.

14 Nebo nebudeš se klaněti Bohu jinému, proto že Hospodin jest, jméno má horlivý, Bůh silný, horlivý jest.

15 Nevcházej v smlouvu s obyvateli země té, aby když by smilnili, jdouce po bozích svých, a obětovali bohům svým, nepovolali tě, a jedl bys z oběti jejich.

16 A abys nebral ze dcer jeho synům svým, i smilnily by dcery jejich, jdouce po bozích svých, a naučily by smilniti syny tvé, jdouce po bozích svých.

17 Bohů slitých neuděláš sobě.

18 Slavnost přesnic zachovávati budeš. Za sedm dní jísti budeš chleby nekvašené, jakž jsem přikázal tobě, v čas vyměřený měsíce Abib; nebo měsíce toho vyšel jsi z Egypta.

19 Všecko což otvírá život, mé jest, i všeliký samec v dobytku tvém, prvorozený z volů a ovcí.

20 Ale prvorozené osle vyplatíš dobytčetem; pakli bys nevyplatil, šíji zlomíš jemu. Každého prvorozeného z synů svých vyplatíš, aniž ukáží se přede mnou prázdní.

21 Šest dní pracovati budeš, dne pak sedmého přestaneš; v čas orání i žně přestaneš.

22 A učiníš sobě slavnost téhodnů, svátek prvotin žně pšeničné a slavnost klizení po vyjití každého roku.

23 Třikrát v roce ukáže se každý z vás pohlaví mužského před oblíčejem Panovníka Hospodina, Boha Izraelského.

24 Nebo vyvrhu národy od tváři tvé a rozšířím meze tvé, aniž kdo sáhne na zemi tvou, když vstoupíš, abys se ukázal před Hospodinem Bohem svým třikrát v roce.

25 Nebudeš obětovati krve oběti mé, dokavadž u tebe kvas jest, aniž zůstane do jitra obět slavnosti Fáze.

26 Prvotiny prvních úrod země své přinášeti budeš do domu Hospodina Boha svého. Nebudeš vařiti kozelce v mléce matky jeho.

27 I řekl Hospodin Mojžíšovi: Napiš sobě slova tato; nebo podlé slov těch učinil jsem smlouvu s tebou a s Izraelem.

28 Byl pak tam s Hospodinem čtyřidceti dní a čtyřidceti nocí, chleba nejedl a vody nepil; a napsal na dskách slova té smlouvy, totiž deset slov.

29 I stalo se, když sstupoval Mojžíš s hory Sinai, (a měl dvě dsky svědectví v rukou svých, když sstupoval s hory), nevěděl, že by se stkvěla kůže tváři jeho, když mluvil s ním.

30 A viděl Aron i všickni synové Izraelští Mojžíše, a aj, stkvěla se kůže tváři jeho, a nesměli přistoupiti k němu.

31 Ale Mojžíš zavolal jich, a navrátili se k němu Aron i všecka knížata shromáždění toho, a mluvil Mojžíš s nimi.

32 Potom přišli také k němu všickni synové Izraelští, jimžto přikázal všecko, což s ním mluvil Hospodin na hoře Sinai.

33 Dokudž pak mluvil Mojžíš s nimi, měl zástěru na tváři své.

34 Ale když vcházel Mojžíš před tvář Hospodina, aby mluvil s ním, odjímal zástěru, dokudž nevyšel. Vyšed pak, mluvil synům Izraelským, což mu bylo rozkázáno.

35 Tedy viděli synové Izraelští tvář Mojžíšovu, že se stkvěla kůže tváři jeho. A kladl zase Mojžíš zástěru na tvář svou, dokudž nevcházel, aby mluvil s ním.

   

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4299. 'For I have seen God face to face, and my soul is delivered' means that He suffered the severest temptations, seemingly attributable to the Divine. This is clear from the meaning of 'seeing God' as going closer to Him by means of interior things, that is to say, by means of goods and truths, and consequently as presence, dealt with in 4198; and from the meaning of 'the face' as interior things, dealt with in 1999, 2434, 3527, 3573, 4066, and so as thoughts and affections, for affections and thoughts are interior things because they belong to the disposition and mind (animus et mens) and reveal themselves in the face; and from the meaning of 'my soul is delivered' as suffering God's presence. The fact that all these words mean that He suffered the severest temptations seemingly attributable to the Divine, cannot be seen from anything else than the immediate causes and the remote causes of temptations. The evils and falsities present with a person which lead him into temptations, and therefore the evil spirits and genii who instill them are the immediate causes, 4249. Nevertheless, no one can be tempted, that is, undergo any spiritual temptation, except him who has a conscience. Indeed spiritual temptation is nothing else than the torture of a person's conscience, and consequently none can be tempted but those who are governed by celestial and spiritual good. For the latter have conscience, but all others do not; indeed they do not even know what conscience is.

[2] Conscience is a new will and a new understanding received from the Lord, and so is the Lord's presence with a person, a presence which becomes all the closer the more the person is stirred by the affection for good or for truth. If the closeness of the Lord's presence exceeds the amount of affection for good or for truth in him, he enters into temptation. The reason why is that the evils and falsities which reside with him, and which are moderated by the goods and truths residing with him, cannot suffer that closer presence. This becomes clear from the following things that happen in the next life: Evil spirits cannot by any means move towards any heavenly community without starting to feel distress and torment; also, evil spirits cannot stand angels looking at them because they are instantly tormented and collapse unconscious. And in addition there is the fact that hell is remote from heaven, for the reason that it cannot suffer heaven, that is, the Lord's presence in heaven. This explains why in the Word it is said in reference to evil spirits,

Then they will begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us. Luke 23:30.

And elsewhere,

They will say to the mountains and rocks, Rush down on us and hide us from the face of Him who is seated on the throne. Revelation 6:16.

Also the sphere of cloud and thick darkness which emanates from the evils and falsities of those in hell looks like a mountain or rock beneath which they are hidden, see 1265, 1267, 1270.

[3] From these considerations it can now be recognized that 'I have seen God face to face and my soul is delivered' means the severest temptations, seemingly attributable to the Divine. Temptations and torments do seem to be attributable to the Divine because they arise, as has been stated, through the Lord's Divine presence. Yet they do not originate in the Divine or the Lord but in the evils and falsities residing with the person who is being tempted or tormented. From the Lord nothing else proceeds but a holiness which is good and true and merciful, and it is this holiness - which is good, true, and merciful - that those subject to evils and falsities cannot suffer; for such evils and falsities are opposite or contrary to it. Evils, falsities, and lack of mercy are bent all the time on doing violence to those qualities belonging to holiness; and in the measure they assail these, they themselves suffer torment. And when they assail them and consequently suffer torment they imagine that it is the Divine who torments them. These are the considerations meant by 'seemingly attributable to the Divine'.

[4] It was well known to the ancients that no one can see Jehovah face to face and live, and from them knowledge of the same came down to the descendants of Jacob. This explains why they were so glad when they saw any angel and remained alive, as in the Book of Judges,

Gideon saw that he was the angel of Jehovah, therefore Gideon said, O Lord Jehovih! Inasmuch as I have seen the angel of Jehovah face to face. And Jehovah said to him, Peace be to you; do not fear, for you will not die. Judges 6:22-23.

In the same book, Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, for we have seen God. Judges 13:22.

And in Moses, Jehovah said to Moses, You cannot see My face, for no man will see Me and live. Exodus 33:20.

[5] The reason why it is said of Moses that he spoke to Jehovah face to face, Exodus 33:11, and that Jehovah knew him face to face, Deuteronomy 34:10, is that He showed Himself to him in a human form suited to his reception, which was an external form - as a bearded old man sitting with him, as I have learned from angels. For the same reason the Jews had no other idea of Jehovah than of one who was very old with a long white beard, who was better able to perform miracles than other gods. They did not have the idea of His being the most holy because they did not know what holiness was, let alone that they could not in any way see the holiness proceeding from Him because they were governed by bodily and earthly love devoid of internal holiness, 4289, 4293.

  
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Genesis 27

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1 It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am."

2 He said, "See now, I am old. I don't know the day of my death.

3 Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.

4 Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die."

5 Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.

6 Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, "Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,

7 'Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.'

8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

9 Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.

10 You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death."

11 Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

12 What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing."

13 His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me."

14 He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.

15 Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.

16 She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.

17 She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

18 He came to his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"

19 Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me."

20 Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He said, "Because Yahweh your God gave me success."

21 Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not."

22 Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."

23 He didn't recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau's hands. So he blessed him.

24 He said, "Are you really my son Esau?" He said, "I am."

25 He said, "Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless you." He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.

26 His father Isaac said to him, "Come near now, and kiss me, my son."

27 He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, "Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.

28 God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

29 Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you."

30 It happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

31 He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, "Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that your soul may bless me."

32 Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" He said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."

33 Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed."

34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, my father."

35 He said, "Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing."

36 He said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?"

37 Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then will I do for you, my son?"

38 Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father." Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

39 Isaac his father answered him, "Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.

40 By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck."

41 Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob."

42 The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.

43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.

44 Stay with him a few days, until your brother's fury turns away;

45 until your brother's anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?"

46 Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?"