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Exodus 24

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1 And to<sup>▵sup> Moses He said, Come·​·up to<sup>▵sup> Jehovah, thou<sup>◦sup> and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and bow· yourselves ·down afar·​·off.

2 And Moses, he alone, shall approach Jehovah; and they shall not approach; and the people shall not go·​·up with him.

3 And Moses came and recounted to the people all the words of Jehovah, and all the judgments; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words that Jehovah has spoken we will do.

4 And Moses wrote all the words of Jehovah, and got·​·up·​·early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

5 And he sent lads of the sons of Israel, and they offered·​·up burnt·​·offerings, and sacrificed sacrifices of peace·​·offerings of bullocks to Jehovah.

6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it into basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read it in the ears of the people; and they said, All that Jehovah has spoken we will do and hear.

8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant that Jehovah has cut with you upon all these words.

9 And there went up Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel.

10 And they saw the God of Israel; and there was under His feet as what is made of the sapphire stone, and as the substance of the heavens as to cleanness.

11 And to the sons of Israel who were set apart He sent not His hand; and they beheld God, and did eat and drink.

12 And Jehovah said to Moses, Come up to Me into the mountain, and be thou there; and I will give thee the tablets of stone, and the law, and the commandment, which I will write to teach them.

13 And Moses rose·​·up, and Joshua his minister; and Moses went·​·up to the mountain of God.

14 And he said to the elders, Sit ye in this place for us, until we return to you; and behold Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever has words*, let him approach them.

15 And Moses went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

16 And the glory of Jehovah abode on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and on the seventh day He called to Moses from the midst of the cloud.

17 And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was as a devouring fire on the head of the mountain in the eyes of the sons of Israel.

18 And Moses came into the midst of the cloud, and went up to the mountain; and Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights.

   


Thanks to the Kempton Project for the permission to use this New Church translation of the Word.

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Arcana Coelestia #9435

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9435. 'And Moses went into the midst of the cloud' means the Word in its outward sense. This is clear from the representation of 'Moses' as the Word, at this point the Word in its outward sense since it says that he went 'into the midst of the cloud', and 'the cloud' means the outward sense of the Word. For the representation of 'Moses' as the Word, see above in 9414, and for the meaning of 'the cloud' as its outward sense, in 9430. Moses remained at the foot of the mountain for six days, and then on the seventh day he received the call and went into the cloud, up into the mountain. This happened in order that he might represent that which acted as an intermediary between the people and the Lord, in keeping with what has been stated above in 9414. Degrees of ascent from the people to the Lord are described by this. When Moses went eventually into the mountain he first represented the outward holiness of the Word, which acted as an intermediary; for that mountain means heaven, where holiness dwells. But he was allowed no further in than the outermost part of heaven, where the outward holiness of the Word comes to an end. His being allowed only that far in has been demonstrated to me in a representative manner by means of a spirit, the upper part of whose face down to the chin appeared in the light of heaven, while the lower part from the chin downwards, together with the whole of the body, was in a cloud. This showed me how much of the outward holiness, which acted as an intermediary, Moses represented. The reason why the six days that Moses remained at the foot of the mountain has meant the state of truth, and the seventh day when he went up into the mountain means the state of good, in keeping with the explanation above in 9431, 9432, is that those who are being regenerated by the Lord mount by like degrees of ascent from the world into heaven. The person is raised from outward things to inward ones, because he is raised from the level of natural man, where outward things exist, to that of the spiritual man, where inward things exist. This kind of raising or ascent was also represented by Moses when he took on the representation of the outward holiness that acted as an intermediary. For the outward holiness of the Word is the gateway to the state of good, and so to heaven.

  
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