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1 L’Eterno disse a Mosè: "Vedi, io ti ho stabilito come Dio per Faraone, e Aaronne tuo fratello sarà il tuo profeta.

2 Tu dirai tutto quello che t’ordinerò, e Aaronne tuo fratello parlerà a Faraone, perché lasci partire i figliuoli d’Israele dal suo paese.

3 E io indurerò il cuore di Faraone, e moltiplicherò i miei segni e i miei prodigi nel paese d’Egitto.

4 E Faraone non vi darà ascolto; e io metterò la mia mano sull’Egitto, e farò uscire dal paese d’Egitto le mie schiere, il mio popolo, i figliuoli d’Israele, mediante grandi giudizi.

5 E gli Egiziani conosceranno che io sono l’Eterno, quando avrò steso la mia mano sull’Egitto e avrò tratto di mezzo a loro i figliuoli d’Israele".

6 E Mosè e Aaronne fecero così; fecero come l’Eterno avea loro ordinato.

7 Or Mosè aveva ottant’anni e Aaronne ottantatre, quando parlarono a Faraone.

8 L’Eterno parlò a Mosè e ad Aaronne, dicendo:

9 "Quando Faraone vi parlerà e vi dirà: Fate un prodigio! tu dirai ad Aaronne: Prendi il tuo bastone, gettalo davanti a Faraone, e diventerà un serpente".

10 Mosè ed Aaronne andaron dunque da Faraone, e fecero come l’Eterno aveva ordinato. Aaronne gettò il suo bastone davanti a Faraone e davanti ai suoi servitori, e quello diventò un serpente.

11 Faraone a sua volta chiamò i savi e gl’incantatori; e i magi d’Egitto fecero anch’essi lo stesso, con le loro arti occulte.

12 Ognun d’essi gettò il suo bastone, e i bastoni diventaron serpenti; ma il bastone d’Aaronne inghiottì i bastoni di quelli.

13 E il cuore di Faraone s’indurò, ed egli non diè ascolto a Mosè e ad Aaronne, come l’Eterno avea detto.

14 L’Eterno disse a Mosè: "Il cuor di Faraone è ostinato;

15 egli rifiuta di lasciar andare il popolo. Va’ da Faraone domani mattina; ecco, egli uscirà per andare verso l’acqua; tu sta’ ad aspettarlo sulla riva del fiume, e prendi in mano il bastone ch’è stato mutato in serpente.

16 E digli: L’Eterno, l’Iddio degli Ebrei, m’ha mandato da te per dirti: Lascia andare il mio popolo, perché mi serva nel deserto; ed ecco, fino ad ora, tu non hai ubbidito.

17 Così dice l’Eterno: Da questo conoscerai che io sono l’Eterno; ecco, io percoterò col bastone che ho in mia mano le acque che son nel fiume, ed esse saran mutate in sangue.

18 E il pesce ch’è nel fiume morrà, e il fiume cara ammorbato, e gli Egiziani avranno ripugnanza a bere l’acqua del fiume".

19 E l’Eterno disse a Mosè: "Di’ ad Aaronne: Prendi il tuo bastone, e stendi la tua mano sulle acque dell’Egitto, sui loro fiumi, sui loro rivi, sui loro stagni e sopra ogni raccolta d’acqua; essi diventeranno sangue, e vi sarà sangue per tutto il paese d’Egitto, perfino ne’ recipienti di legno e ne’ recipienti di pietra".

20 Mosè ed Aaronne fecero come l’Eterno aveva ordinato. Aaronne alzò il bastone, e in presenza di Faraone e in presenza dei suoi servitori percosse le acque ch’erano nel fiume; e tutte le acque ch’erano nel fiume furon cangiate in sangue.

21 E il pesce ch’era nel fiume morì; e il fiume fu ammorbato, sì che gli Egiziani non potevan bere l’acqua del fiume; e vi fu sangue per tutto il paese d’Egitto.

22 E i magi d’Egitto fecero lo stesso con le loro arti occulte; e il cuore di Faraone s’indurò ed egli non diè ascolto a Mosè e ad Aaronne, come l’Eterno avea detto.

23 E Faraone, volte ad essi le spalle, se ne andò a casa sua, e neanche di questo fece alcun caso.

24 E tutti gli Egiziani fecero degli scavi ne’ pressi del fiume per trovare dell’acqua da bere, perché non potevan bere l’acqua del fiume.

25 E passaron sette interi giorni, dopo che l’Eterno ebbe percosso il fiume.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #7295

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7295. 'And Aaron threw down his rod in front of Pharaoh and his servants, and it was made into a water-serpent' means that sheer illusions and resulting falsities reigned among them. This is clear from the meaning of 'throwing down the rod' as demonstrating power, dealt with just above in 7292; from the representation of 'Pharaoh and his servants' as those who molest by means of falsities; and from the meaning of 'a water-serpent' as illusions and resulting falsities, dealt with just above in 7293.

[2] This wonder means the first warning given to those who molest to leave off. The situation with the evil who molest the upright in the next life is this: When they first enter that life from the world they have good spirits and angels attached to them, as they did when they were people living in the body; for even wicked people also have angels present with them, the reason being that they are then able to turn, if they will, towards heaven, receive what flows in from there, and be reformed. Consequently, since their life in its entirety follows them into the next life, they live initially in association with angels. But as they are by nature such, because of the life they led in the world, that they cannot receive the inflow of truth and goodness from heaven, the angels and good spirits then gradually depart from them. And as these depart, those people become less and less rational. For the ability to be rational comes from the Lord by way of heaven.

[3] The first stage in the removal and deprivation of the inflow of truth and goodness is what is described here by Aaron's rod being turned into a serpent, meaning that sheer illusions would reign, and falsities resulting from them. The second stage is described by the waters of Egypt being turned into blood, meaning that actual truths were falsified. The third stage is that of the frogs which crawled out of the waters, meaning reasonings based on utter falsities, and so on. By such stages too the evil in the next life are deprived of their understanding of what is true and good.

  
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4013. 'Jacob took for himself fresh rods of poplar' means the power proper to natural good. This is clear from the meaning of 'a rod' as power, and from the meaning of 'poplar' as the good of the natural, dealt with below. 'A rod' is referred to in various places in the Word, and in every case it means power, for one reason because of its use by shepherds in the exercise of power over their flocks, and for another because it served to support the body, and existed so to speak for the sake of the right hand - for 'the hand' means power, 878, 3387. And because it had that meaning a rod was also used in ancient times by a king; and the royal emblem was a short rod and also a sceptre. And not only a king used a rod, but also a priest and a prophet did so, in order that he too might denote by means of his rod the power which he possessed, as Aaron and Moses did. This explains why Moses was commanded so many times to stretch out his rod, and on other occasions his hand, when miracles were performed, the reason being that 'a rod' and 'the hand' means Divine power. And it is because 'a rod' means power that the magicians of Egypt likewise used one when performing magical miracles. It is also the reason why at the present day a magician is represented with a rod in his hand.

[2] From all these considerations it may be seen that power is meant by 'rods'. But in the original language the word used for the rod that a shepherd, or else a king, or else a priest or a prophet possessed, is different from that used for the rods which Jacob took. The latter were used by wayfarers and so also by shepherds, as becomes clear from other places, such as Genesis 32:10; Exodus 12:11; 1 Samuel 17:40, 43; Zechariah 11:7, 10. In the present verse, it is true, the rod is not referred to as one supporting the hand but as a stick cut out from a tree, that is to say, from the poplar, hazel, or plane, to be placed in the troughs in front of the flock. Nevertheless the word has the same meaning, for in the internal sense it describes the power of natural good and from that the good that empowers natural truths.

[3] As regards 'the poplar' from which a rod was made, it should be recognized that trees in general mean perceptions and cognitions - perceptions when they have reference to the celestial man, but cognitions when they have reference to the spiritual man, see 103, 2163, 2682, 2722, 2972. This being so, trees specifically mean goods and truths, for it is these that are involved in perceptions and cognitions. Some kinds of trees mean the interior goods and truths which belong to the spiritual man, such as olives and vines, other kinds mean the exterior goods and truths which belong to the natural man, such as the poplar, the hazel, and the plane. And because in ancient times each tree meant some kind of good or truth, the worship which took place in groves accorded with the kinds of trees there, 2722. The poplar referred to here is the white poplar, so called from the whiteness from which it gets its name. Consequently 'poplar' means good which was a product of truth, or what amounts to the same, the good of truth, as also in Hosea 4:13, though in this instance the good has been falsified.

  
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