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2 Mose 23

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1 Du sollst falscher Anklage nicht glauben, daß du einem Gottlosen Beistand tust und ein falscher Zeuge seiest.

2 Du sollst nicht folgen der Menge zum Bösen und nicht antworten vor Gericht, daß du der Menge nach vom Rechten weichest.

3 Du sollst den Geringen nicht schmücken in seiner Sache.

4 Wenn du deines Feindes Ochsen oder Esel begegnest, daß er irret, so sollst du ihm denselben wieder zuführen.

5 Wenn du des, der dich hasset, Esel siehest unter seiner Last liegen, hüte dich und laß ihn nicht, sondern versäume gerne das Deine, um seinetwillen

6 Du sollst das Recht deines Armen nicht beugen in seiner Sache.

7 Sei ferne von falschen Sachen. Den Unschuldigen und Gerechten sollst du nicht erwürgen; denn ich lasse den Gottlosen nicht recht haben.

8 Du sollst nicht Geschenke nehmen; denn Geschenke machen die Sehenden blind und verkehren die Sachen der Gerechten.

9 Die Fremdlinge sollt ihr nicht unter, drücken; denn ihr wisset um der Fremdlinge Herz, dieweil ihr auch seid Fremdlinge in Ägyptenland gewesen.

10 Sechs Jahre sollst du dein Land besäen und seine Früchte einsammeln.

11 Im siebenten Jahr sollst du es ruhen und liegen lassen, daß die Armen unter deinem Volk davon essen; und was über bleibet, laß das Wild auf dem Felde essen. Also sollst du auch tun mit deinem Weinberge und Ölberge.

12 Sechs Tage sollst du deine Arbeit tun, aber des siebenten Tages sollst du feiern, auf daß dein Ochse und Esel ruhen und deiner Magd Sohn und Fremdling sich erquicken.

13 Alles, was ich euch gesagt habe, das haltet. Und anderer Götter Namen sollt ihr nicht gedenken, und aus eurem Munde sollen sie nicht gehöret werden.

14 Dreimal sollt ihr mir Fest halten im Jahr.

15 Nämlich das Fest der ungesäuerten Brote sollst du halten, daß du sieben Tage ungesäuert Brot essest (wie ich dir geboten habe) um die Zeit des Monden Abib; denn in demselbigen bist du aus Ägypten gezogen. Erscheinet aber nicht leer vor mir!

16 Und das Fest der ersten Ernte der Früchte, die du auf dem Felde gesäet hast. Und das Fest der Einsammlung im Ausgang des Jahrs, wenn du deine Arbeit eingesammelt hast vom Felde.

17 Dreimal im Jahr sollen erscheinen vor dem HERRN, dem HERRSCher, alle deine Mannsbilde.

18 Du sollst das Blut meines Opfers nicht neben dem Sauerteig opfern, und das Fette von meinem Fest soll nicht bleiben bis auf morgen.

19 Das Erstling von der ersten Frucht auf deinem Felde sollst du bringen in das Haus des HERRN, deines Gottes. Und sollst das Böcklein nicht kochen, dieweil es an seiner Mutter Milch ist.

20 Siehe, ich sende einen Engel vor dir her, der dich behüte auf dem Wege und bringe dich an den Ort, den ich bereitet habe.

21 Darum hüte dich vor seinem Angesicht und gehorche seiner Stimme und erbittere ihn nicht; denn er wird euer Übertreten nicht vergeben, und mein Name ist in ihm.

22 Wirst du aber seine Stimme hören und tun alles, was ich dir sagen werde, so will ich deiner Feinde Feind und deiner Widerwärtigen Widerwärtiger sein.

23 Wenn nun mein Engel vor dir hergehet und dich bringet an die Amoriter, Hethiter, Pheresiter, Kanaaniter, Heviter und Jebusiter, und ich sie vertilge,

24 so sollst du ihre Götter nicht anbeten noch ihnen dienen und nicht tun, wie sie tun, sondern du sollst ihre Götzen umreißen und zerbrechen.

25 Aber dem HERRN, eurem Gott, sollt ihr dienen, so wird er dein Brot und dein Wasser segnen, und ich will alle Krankheit von dir wenden.

26 Und soll nichts Unträchtiges noch Unfruchtbares sein in deinem Lande, und will dich lassen alt werden.

27 Ich will mein Schrecken vor dir hersenden und alles Volk verzagt machen, dahin du kommst; und will dir geben alle deine Feinde in die Flucht.

28 Ich will Hornissen vor dir hersenden, die vor dir her ausjagen die Heviter, Kanaaniter und Hethiter.

29 Ich will sie nicht auf ein Jahr ausstoßen vor dir, auf daß nicht das Land wüste werde, und sich wilde Tiere wider dich mehren.

30 Einzeln nacheinander will ich sie vor dir her ausstoßen, bis daß du wachsest und das Land besitzest.

31 Und will deine Grenze setzen das Schilfmeer und das Philistermeer und die Wüste bis an das Wasser. Denn ich will dir in deine Hand geben die Einwohner des Landes, daß du sie sollst ausstoßen vor dir her.

32 Du sollst mit ihnen oder mit ihren Göttern keinen Bund machen,

33 sondern laß sie nicht wohnen in deinem Lande, daß sie dich nicht verführen wider mich. Denn wo du ihren Göttern dienest, wird dir's zum Ärgernis geraten.

   

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9320. 'For you shall utterly destroy them' means that evils must be completely removed. This is clear from the meaning of 'destroying' - when it has reference to evils and falsities, meant by the nations of the land of Canaan and their gods - as removing. The reason why 'destroying' means removing is that those governed by goodness and truth never destroy those ruled by evil and falsity, but merely move them away. This they do because good, not evil, governs their actions, and good comes from the Lord, who never destroys anyone. Those ruled by evil however and consequently by falsity try to destroy, and so far as they can they do destroy those governed by good. This they do because evil rules their actions. But since, when they try to do so, they make their attack on good which comes from the Lord, thus on what is of God, they destroy themselves, that is, they hurl themselves into damnation and into hell. Such is the law of order. And why it is such, see 4299, 7643, 7679, 7710, 7926, 7989, 8137, 8146, 8265, 8945, 8946.

[2] The reason why the Israelites and Jews were to destroy the nations of the land of Canaan was that they themselves represented spiritual and heavenly realities, while the nations represented hellish and devilish things, which can never exist together with those realities since they are opposites. The reason why they were allowed to destroy the nations was that no Church existed among them, only a representative of the Church, so that the Lord was not present among them either except through things of a representative nature, 4307. For they were interested in outward forms but not their inner substances, that is, in the worship that represented goodness and truth but not goodness and truth themselves. People like this are allowed to destroy, kill, and consign to slaughter and complete destruction. But people who are interested in outward forms and at the same time in their inner substance are not allowed to do those things, since their actions must be governed by good, and good comes from the Lord.

[3] The fact that the Jews and Israelites were such is declared explicitly by Moses,

Do not say in your heart, when Jehovah your God has thrust out the nations before you, Because of my righteousness Jehovah has brought me in to possess this land. It is not because of your righteousness and because of the uprightness of your heart; for you are a stiff-necked people. Deuteronomy 9:4-6.

And elsewhere,

They are a nation from whom counsel has perished, nor is there intelligence in them. From the vine of Sodom comes their vine, and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison, they have clusters of bitterness. The poison of snakes (draco) is their wine, and the cruel poison of asps. Is not this hidden away with Me, sealed up in My treasuries? Deuteronomy 32:28, 32-34.

'The vine' in the internal sense means the Church, 1069, 5113, 6375, 6376, 9277; 'grapes' and 'clusters' mean the internal forms and the external forms of that Church's good, 1071, 5117, 6378; and 'wine' means that Church's internal truth, 1071, 1798, 6377. From this one may see what is meant by the assertions that their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah, that their grapes are grapes of poison and clusters of bitterness, and that their wine is the poison of snakes and the cruel poison of asps. The fact that all this was known to Jehovah, that is, to the Lord, is meant by the remarks about its being hidden away with Him and sealed up in His treasuries.

[4] In John,

Jesus said to the Jews, You are from your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth. John 8:44.

This is why they are called a wicked and adulterous generation, Matthew 12:39, as well as a brood of vipers, Matthew 3:7; 12:34; 23:33; Luke 3:7. That they were like this is also described by the Lord in His parables in Matthew 21:33-45; Mark 12:1-9; Luke 14:16-24; 20:9ff.

Regarding that nation, that it was the worst nation; that in their worship they were interested in outward forms but not their inner substance; that no Church existed among them, only a representative of the Church; but that nevertheless they were able to represent the internal realities of the Church, see 3398, 3479, 3480, 3732 (end), 3881 (end), 4208, 4281, 4288-4290, 4293, 4307, 4314, 4316, 4317, 4429, 4433, 4444, 4500, 4503, 4680, 4815, 4818, 4820, 4825, 4832, 4837, 4844, 4847, 4865, 4868, 4874, 4899, 4903, 4911-4913, 5057, 5998, 6304, 6832, 6877, 7048, 7051, 7248, 7401, 7439, 8301, 8588, 8788, 8806, 8814, 8819, 8871, 8882, 9284.

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

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Exodus 20

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1 God spoke all these words, saying,

2 "I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

3 "You shall have no other gods before me.

4 "You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

5 you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

6 and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

7 "You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

8 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

9 You shall labor six days, and do all your work,

10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;

11 for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.

12 "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

13 "You shall not murder.

14 "You shall not commit adultery.

15 "You shall not steal.

16 "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

17 "You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."

18 All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.

19 They said to Moses, "Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don't let God Speak with us, lest we die."

20 Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won't sin."

21 The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

22 Yahweh said to Moses, "This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: 'You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

23 You shall most certainly not make alongside of me gods of silver, or gods of gold for yourselves.

24 You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.

25 If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.

26 Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.'