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Jueces 5

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1 Y AQUEL día cantó Débora, con Barac, hijo de Abinoam, diciendo:

2 Porque ha vengado las injurias de Israel, Porque el pueblo se ha ofrecido de su voluntad, Load á Jehová.

3 Oid, reyes; estad, oh príncipes, atentos: Yo cantaré á Jehová, Cantaré salmos á Jehová Dios de Israel.

4 Cuando saliste de Seir, oh Jehová, Cuando te apartaste del campo de Edom, La tierra tembló, y los cielos destilaron, Y las nubes gotearon aguas.

5 Los montes se derritieron delante de Jehová, Aqueste Sinaí, delante de Jehová Dios de Israel.

6 En los días de Samgar hijo de Anath, En los días de Jael, cesaron los caminos, Y los que andaban por las sendas apartábanse por torcidos senderos.

7 Las aldeas habían cesado en Israel, habían decaído; Hasta que yo Débora me levanté, Me levanté madre en Israel.

8 En escogiendo nuevos dioses, La guerra estaba á las puertas: ¿Se veía escudo ó lanza Entre cuarenta mil en Israel?

9 Mi corazón está por los príncipes de Israel, Los que con buena voluntad se ofrecieron entre el pueblo: Load á Jehová.

10 Vosotros los que cabalgáis en asnas blancas, Los que presidís en juicio, Y vosotros los que viajáis, hablad.

11 Lejos del ruido de los archeros, en los abrevaderos, Allí repetirán las justicias de Jehová, Las justicias de sus villas en Israel; Entonces bajará el pueblo de Jehová á las puertas.

12 Despierta, Despierta, Débora; Despierta, Despierta, profiere un cántico. Levántate, Barac, y lleva tus cautivos, hijo de Abinoam.

13 Entonces ha hecho que el que quedó del pueblo, señoree á los magníficos: Jehová me hizo enseñorear sobre los fuertes.

14 De Ephraim salió su raíz contra Amalec, Tras ti, Benjamín, contra tus pueblos; De Machîr descendieron príncipes, Y de Zabulón los que solían manejar punzón de escribiente.

15 Príncipes también de Issachâr fueron con Débora; Y como Issachâr, también Barac Se puso á pie en el valle. De las divisiones de Rubén Hubo grandes impresiones del corazón.

16 ¿Por qué te quedaste entre las majadas, Para oir los balidos de los rebaños? De las divisiones de Rubén Grandes fueron las disquisiciones del corazón.

17 Galaad se quedó de la otra parte del Jordán: Y Dan ¿por qué se estuvo junto á los navíos? Mantúvose Aser á la ribera de la mar, Y quedóse en sus puertos.

18 El pueblo de Zabulón expuso su vida á la muerte, Y Nephtalí en las alturas del campo.

19 Vinieron reyes y pelearon: Entonces pelearon los reyes de Canaán En Taanac, junto á las aguas de Megiddo, Mas no llevaron ganancia alguna de dinero.

20 De los cielos pelearon: Las estrellas desde sus órbitas pelearon contra Sísara.

21 Barriólos el torrente de Cisón, El antiguo torrente, el torrente de Cisón. Hollaste, oh alma mía, con fortaleza.

22 Despalmáronse entonces las uñas de los caballos Por las arremetidas, por los brincos de sus valientes.

23 Maldecid á Meroz, dijo el ángel de Jehová: Maldecid severamente á sus moradores, Porque no vinieron en socorro a Jehová, En socorro á Jehová contra los fuertes.

24 Bendita sea entre las mujeres Jael, Mujer de Heber Cineo; Sobre las mujeres bendita sea en la tienda.

25 El pidió agua, y dióle ella leche; En tazón de nobles le presentó manteca.

26 Su mano tendió á la estaca, Y su diestra al mazo de trabajadores; Y majó á Sísara, hirió su cabeza, Llagó y atravesó sus sienes.

27 Cayó encorvado entre sus pies, quedó tendido: Entre sus pies Cayó encorvado; Donde se encorvó, allí Cayó muerto.

28 La madre de Sísara se asoma á la ventana, Y por entre las celosías á voces dice: ¿Por qué se detiene su carro, que no viene? ¿Por qué las ruedas de sus carros se tardan?

29 Las más avisadas de sus damas le respondían; Y aun ella se respondía á sí misma.

30 ¿No han hallado despojos, y los están repartiendo? A cada uno una moza, ó dos: Los despojos de colores para Sísara, Los despojos bordados de colores: La ropa de color bordada de ambos lados, para los cuellos de los que han tomado los despojos.

31 Así perezcan todos tus enemigos, oh Jehová: Mas los que le aman, sean como el sol cuando nace en su fuerza. Y la tierra reposó cuarenta años.

   

from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia #9437

Studere hoc loco

  
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9437. 'And Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights' means the instructions given and influx in their completeness. This is clear from the meaning of 'forty' as completeness. 'Forty' means completeness because 'four' means that which is complete, 9103, as similarly does 'ten', 3107, 4638, and forty is the product of four multiplied by ten. For compound numbers have a meaning similar to the simple numbers of which they are the product, 5291, 5335, 5708, 7973; and all numbers in the Word mean spiritual realities, see 575, 3252, 4264, 4495, 4670, 5265, 6175. All this goes to explain why Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights. The fact that 'forty' here means the instructions given and the influx in their completeness is evident from Chapters 25-32 which come next, recording the instructions Moses received, that is, instructions regarding the ark, Aaron, the urim and thummim, and sacrifices. The reason why influx in its completeness is also meant is that at that time Moses began to represent the outward holiness of the Word, which acted as the intermediary between the Lord and the people, and mediation is accomplished by means of influx through that holiness into the representative existing among that people, 9419.

[2] It was because 'forty' represented completeness that Moses remained on Mount Sinai forty days and forty nights not only this time but also on another occasion, Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 9:18, 25; 10:10. For the same reason the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness forty years until, as it says in Numbers 14:33-34; 32:13, all that generation had been consumed; Jonah told the Ninevites that their city would be overturned after forty days, Jonah 3:4; the prophet was commanded to lie on his right side and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days, Ezekiel 4:6; it says regarding Egypt that it would be made completely desolate for forty years, after which they would be gathered from the peoples, Ezekiel 29:11-13; and the earth was rained on forty days and forty nights, so that it was inundated with the flood, Genesis 7:4, 12, 17. From all this it is evident why the wicked person was to receive forty blows, Deuteronomy 25:3, for 'forty blows' meant the punishment in its completeness. It is also evident what should be understood in the prophecy of Deborah and Barak when it says that no shield or spear was seen among the forty thousand of Israel, Judges 5:8, 'among the forty thousand of Israel' meaning among them all. It is in addition evident why the temple built by Solomon was forty cubits long, 1 Kings 6:17, as was the new temple, according to Ezekiel 41:2; for in the highest sense 'the temple' means the Lord, and in the internal sense heaven and the Church, so that 'forty' means completeness in respect of representation. And it has a like meaning in other places.

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

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Exodus 25

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1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

2 "Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.

3 This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, brass,

4 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair,

5 rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,

6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,

7 onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.

8 Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

9 According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it.

10 "They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.

11 You shall overlay it with pure gold. You shall overlay it inside and outside, and you shall make a gold molding around it.

12 You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of it, and Two rings on the other side of it.

13 You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

14 You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.

15 The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from it.

16 You shall put the testimony which I shall give you into the ark.

17 You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.

18 You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.

19 Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat.

20 The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.

21 You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you.

22 There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for the children of Israel.

23 "You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and one and a half cubits its height.

24 You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.

25 You shall make a rim of a handbreadth around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.

26 You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet.

27 the rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table.

28 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.

29 You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. You shall make them of pure gold.

30 You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.

31 "You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. Of hammered work shall the lampstand be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it.

32 There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side;

33 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the lampstand;

34 and in the lampstand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;

35 and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the lampstand.

36 Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it one beaten work of pure gold.

37 You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.

38 Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold.

39 It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories.

40 See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.