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Exodo 34

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1 At sinabi ng Panginoon kay Moises, Humugis ka ng dalawang tapyas na bato na gaya ng una: at aking isusulat sa mga tapyas ang mga salita na nasa unang mga tapyas, na iyong sinira.

2 At iyong ihanda sa kinaumagahan, at sumampa ka sa kinaumagahan sa bundok ng Sinai at humarap ka roon sa akin sa taluktok ng bundok.

3 At sinomang tao ay huwag sasampang kasama mo, o makikita ang sinomang tao sa buong bundok; kahit ang mga kawan at ang mga bakahan ay huwag manginain sa harap ng bundok na yaon.

4 At siya'y humugis ng dalawang tapyas na bato na gaya ng una; at bumangon si Moises na maaga sa kinaumagahan, at sumampa sa bundok ng Sinai, gaya ng iniutos ng Panginoon sa kaniya, at kinuha sa kaniyang kamay ang dalawang tapyas na bato.

5 At ang Panginoon ay bumaba sa ulap, at tumayong kasama niya roon at itinanyag ang pangalan ng Panginoon.

6 At ang Panginoo'y nagdaan sa harap niya, na itinanyag, Ang Panginoon, ang Panginoong Dios na puspos ng kahabagan at mapagkaloob, banayad sa pagkagalit, at sagana sa kaawaan at katotohanan;

7 Na gumagamit ng kaawaan sa libolibo, na nagpapatawad ng kasamaan, at ng pagsalangsang, at ng kasalanan: at sa anomang paraan ay hindi aariing walang sala ang salarin; na dinadalaw ang kasamaan ng mga ama sa mga anak, at sa mga anak ng mga anak, hanggang sa ikatlo at ika apat na salin.

8 At nagmadali si Moises, at itinungo ang kaniyang ulo sa lupa, at sumamba.

9 At kaniyang sinabi, Kung ngayo'y nakasumpong ako ng biyaya sa iyong paningin, Oh Panginoon, ay ipahintulot nawa ng Panginoon, isinasamo ko sa iyo, na pasa gitna namin; sapagka't isang bayang may matigas na ulo; at ipatawad mo ang aming kasamaan, at ang aming kasalanan, at ariin mo kaming iyong mana.

10 At kaniyang sinabi, Narito, ako'y nakikipagtipan sa harap ng iyong buong bayan at gagawa ako ng mga kababalaghan, na kailan ma'y hindi ginawa sa buong lupa, o sa alin mang bansa: at ang buong bayan sa gitna ng iyong kinaroroonan ay makakakita ng gawa ng Panginoon, sapagka't kakilakilabot na bagay ang aking gagawin sa pamamagitan mo.

11 Tuparin mo ang mga iniutos ko sa iyo sa araw na ito: narito, aking pinalalayas sa harap mo ang Amorrheo, at ang Cananeo, at ang Hetheo, at ang Pherezeo, at ang Jebuseo.

12 Magingat ka, na huwag kang makipagtipan sa mga tumatahan sa lupain na iyong pinaroroonan, baka maging isang silo sa gitna mo:

13 Kundi inyong iwawasak ang kanilang mga dambana, at inyong pagpuputolputulin ang kanilang mga haligi at inyong ibubuwal ang kanilang mga Asera.

14 Sapagka't hindi ka sasamba sa ibang dios: sapagka't ang Panginoon na ang pangalan ay Mapanibughuin; ay mapanibughuin ngang Dios:

15 Magingat ka; baka ikaw ay makipagtipan sa mga tumatahan sa lupain, at sila'y sumunod sa kanilang mga dios, at magsipaghain sa kanilang mga dios, at ikaw ay alukin ng isa at kumain ka ng kanilang hain;

16 At iyong papag-asawahin ang iyong mga anak na lalake at kanilang mga anak na babae, at ang kanilang mga anak na babae ay sumunod sa kanilang mga dios at pasunurin ang inyong mga anak na sumunod sa kanilang mga dios.

17 Huwag kang gagawa para sa iyo ng mga dios na binubo.

18 Ang kapistahan ng tinapay na walang lebadura ay iyong ipangingilin. Pitong araw na kakain ka ng tinapay na walang lebadura na gaya ng iniutos ko sa iyo, sa takdang panahon sa buwan ng Abib: sapagka't sa buwan ng Abib, ay umalis ka sa Egipto.

19 Yaong lahat na nagbubukas ng bahay-bata ay akin; at gayon din ang lahat ng hayop na lalake, ang panganay ng baka at ng tupa,

20 At ang panganay ng isang asno ay iyong tutubusin ng isang kordero: at kung hindi mo tutubusin ay iyo ngang babaliin ang kaniyang leeg. Lahat ng panganay sa iyong mga anak ay iyong tutubusin. At walang lalapit sa harapan ko na walang dala.

21 Anim na araw na gagawa ka, nguni't sa ikapitong araw ay magpapahinga ka: sa panahon ng pagbubukid at sa pagaani ay magpapahinga ka.

22 At iyong ipangingilin ang kapistahan ng mga sanglinggo, ang sa mga unang bunga ng pagaani ng trigo, at ang kapistahan ng pagaani sa katapusan ng taon.

23 Makaitlo nga sa isang taon na haharap ang lahat ng iyong mga lalake sa Panginoong Dios, na Dios ng Israel.

24 Sapagka't aking palalayasin ang mga bansa sa harap mo, at aking palalaparin ang iyong mga hangganan: at hindi pagnanasaan ng sinoman ang iyong lupain, pagka ikaw ay pumapanhik na humarap sa Panginoong iyong Dios, na makaitlo sa isang taon.

25 Huwag kang maghahandog ng dugo ng hain sa akin, na kasabay ng tinapay na may lebadura; o magtitira man ng hain sa kapistahan ng paskua hanggang sa kinaumagahan.

26 Ang pinakaunang bunga ng iyong lupa ay iyong dadalhin sa bahay ng Panginoon mong Dios. Huwag mong lulutuin ang batang kambing sa gatas ng kaniyang ina.

27 At sinabi ng Panginoon kay Moises, Isulat mo ang mga salitang ito: sapagka't ayon sa tunog ng mga salitang ito, ay nakipagtipan ako sa iyo at sa Israel.

28 At siya'y natira doong kasama ng Panginoon, na apat na pung araw at apat na pung gabi; hindi man lamang siya kumain ng tinapay, o uminom man ng tubig. At isinulat ng Panginoon sa mga tapyas ang mga salita ng tipan, ang sangpung utos.

29 At nangyari, nang bumaba si Moises sa bundok ng Sinai, na dala ang tapyas na bato ng patotoo sa kamay niya, noong bumaba sa bundok ay hindi nalalaman ni Moises na ang balat ng kaniyang mukha ay nagliliwanag dahil sa pakikipagusap niya sa Dios.

30 At nang makita ni Aaron at ng lahat ng mga anak ni Israel si Moises, narito, ang balat ng kaniyang mukha ay nagliliwanag; at sila'y natakot na lumapit sa kaniya.

31 At tinawag sila ni Moises; at si Aaron at ang lahat ng puno sa Israel ay nagbalik sa kaniya: at si Moises ay nagsalita sa kanila.

32 At pagkatapos, ang lahat ng mga anak ni Israel ay lumapit; at kaniyang ibinigay sa kanila sa pamamagitan ng utos ang lahat ng salita ng Panginoon na sinalita sa kaniya sa bundok ng Sinai.

33 At pagkapagsalita sa kanila ni Moises ay naglagay siya ng isang lambong sa kaniyang mukha.

34 Datapuwa't pagka si Moises ay pumapasok sa harap ng Panginoon upang makipagsalitaan sa kaniya, ay nagaalis siya ng lambong hanggang siya'y makalabas; at siya'y lumabas at kaniyang sinalita sa mga anak ni Israel ang iniutos sa kaniya;

35 At nakita ng mga anak ni Israel ang mukha ni Moises, na ang balat ng mukha ni Moises ay nagliliwanag: at inilagay uli ni Moises ang lambong sa ibabaw ng kaniyang mukha, hanggang sa siya'y makapasok na nakipagsalitaan sa Dios.

   

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Genesis 50:24

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24 At sinabi ni Jose sa kaniyang mga kapatid: Ako'y namamatay: nguni't tunay na dadalawin kayo ng Dios, at dadalhin kayo mula sa lupaing ito hanggang sa lupain na kaniyang isinumpa kay Abraham, kay Isaac at kay Jacob.

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Arcana Coelestia #3147

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3147. 'And water to wash his feet' means purification there. This is clear from the meaning of 'water to wash' or 'washing with water' as purifying, dealt with below, and from the meaning of 'feet' as natural things, or what amounts to the same, those things that are in the natural man, dealt with in 2162. In the representative Church washing feet with water was a ceremonial act which meant washing away the filth of the natural man. The filth of the natural man is composed of all the things that belong to self-love and love of the world, and when such filth has been washed away goods and truths flow in, for that filth alone is what hinders the influx of good and truth from the Lord.

[2] For good is flowing in constantly from the Lord, but when by way of the internal or spiritual man it reaches the external or natural man it is either perverted there, or turned away, or stifled. But when indeed the things that belong to self-love and love of the world are removed, good is received there, and bears fruit there, since the person now performs the works of charity. This may become clear from many considerations, such as this: When the things that belong to the external or natural man are quiescent - as they are in times of ill-fortune, wretchedness, and sickness - a person instantly starts to become spiritually-minded and to will what is good, and also to perform acts of devotion insofar as he is able. But when that state alters, these things are altered too.

[3] In the Ancient Church 'washings' were signs meaning these things, and in the Jewish Church the same were representations. The reason why in the Ancient Church they were meaningful signs but in the Jewish Church representations was that members of the Ancient Church regarded that custom as some external act of worship. Nor did they believe that they were purified by that kind of washing but by a washing away of the filth of the natural man, which, as has been stated, is composed of the things that belong to self-love and love of the world. But the member of the Jewish Church did believe that he was purified by such washing, for he did not know, and did not wish to know, that the purifying of a person's interior self was meant.

[4] That 'washing' means the washing away of that filth is clear in Isaiah,

Wash yourselves; purify yourselves; remove the evil of your doings from before My eyes; cease to do evil. Isaiah 1:16.

Here it is evident that 'washing themselves' means purifying themselves and removing evils. In the same prophet,

When the Lord will have washed the excrement of the daughters of Zion and washed away the blood of Jerusalem from its midst in a spirit of judgement and in a spirit of purging. Isaiah 4:4.

Here 'washing the excrement of the daughters of Zion and washing away the blood of Jerusalem' stands for purifying from evils and falsities. In Jeremiah,

Wash your heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that you may be saved. How long will your iniquitous thoughts lodge within you? Jeremiah 4:14.

[5] In Ezekiel,

I washed you with water, and washed away the blood from upon you, and anointed you with oil. Ezekiel 16:9.

This refers to Jerusalem, which is used here to mean the Ancient Church. 'Washing with water' stands for purifying from falsities, 'washing away the blood' for purging from evils, 'anointing with oil' for filling with good at that time. In David,

Wash me from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. You will purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean; You will wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Psalms 51:2, 7.

'Being washed' plainly stands for being purified from evils and derivative falsities.

[6] These were the things that were meant by 'washing' in the Representative Church. For the sake of the representation, when they had been made unclean and needed to be cleansed, people were commanded in that Church to wash the skin, hands, feet, and also their garments. All these meant things that belong to the natural man. Also for the sake of the representation, lavers made of bronze were placed outside the Temple - that is to say, 'the bronze sea and the ten bronze lavers' mentioned in 1 Kings 7:23-29; there was also the bronze laver from which Aaron and his sons were to wash themselves, placed between the Tent of Meeting and the Altar, and so outside the Tent of Meeting, Exodus 30:18-19, 21 - the meaning of which was that only external or natural things needed to be purified. And unless they have been purified, that is, unless things belonging to self-love and love of the world have been removed from them, internal things which belong to love to the Lord and towards the neighbour cannot possibly flow in, as stated above.

[7] To enable these matters to be understood more easily, that is to say, regarding the need for external things to be purified, let good works - or what amounts to the same, the goods of charity, which are at the present day called the fruits of faith, and which, since they are actions, are external - serve to exemplify and illustrate the point: Good works are bad works unless the things belonging to self-love and love of the world are removed. For until these have been removed works, when performed, are good to outward appearance but are inwardly bad. They are inwardly bad because they are done either for the sake of reputation, or for financial gain, or for improvement of one's position, or for reward. They are accordingly either merit-seeking or hypocritical, for the things that belong to self-love and love of the world cause those works to be such. But when indeed these evils are removed, works become good, and are the goods of charity. That is to say, they are done regardless of self, the world, reputation, or reward, and so are not merit-seeking or hypocritical, because in that case celestial love and spiritual love flow from the Lord into those works and cause them to be love and charity in action. And at the same time the Lord also purifies the natural or external man by means of those things and orders it so that that man receives correspondingly the celestial and spiritual things that flow in.

[8] This becomes quite clear from what the Lord taught when He washed the disciples' feet: In John,

He came to Simon Peter, who said to Him, Lord, do You wash my feet? Jesus answered and said to him, What I am doing you do not know now, but you will know afterwards. Peter said to Him, You will never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me. Simon Peter said to Him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and head! Jesus said to him, He who is washed has no need except that his feet be washed, but is clean all over. Now you are clean, but not all of you. John 13:4-17.

'He who is washed has no need except that his feet be washed' means that anyone who has been reformed needs to be cleansed only in regard to natural things, that is, to have evils and falsities removed from them. For when that happens all is ordered by the influx of spiritual things from the Lord. Furthermore 'feet-washing' was an act of charity, meaning that one ought not to dwell on the evils of another person. It was also an act of humility, meaning the cleansing of another from evils, like filth from the body, as also becomes clear from the Lord's words in verses 12-17 of that chapter in John, and also in Luke 7:37-38, 44, 46; John 11:2; 1 Samuel 25:41.

[9] Anyone may see that washing himself does not purify a person from evils and falsities, only from the filth that clings to him. Yet because it belonged among the religious observances commanded in the Church it follows that it embodies some special idea, namely spiritual washing, which is purification from the filth that clings to man inwardly. Members of that Church therefore who knew these things and thought of purification of the heart, that is, the removal of the evils of self-love and love of the world from the natural man, and tried to achieve it with utmost zeal, practiced ritual washing as an external act of worship, as commanded. But among those who did not know and did not wish to know those things but who supposed that the mere ritual act of washing garments, skin, hands, and feet would purify them, and who supposed that provided they performed such rituals they would be allowed to continue leading lives of avarice, hatred, revenge, mercilessness, and cruelty - all of which constitute spiritual filth - the performance of the ritual was idolatrous. Nevertheless by means of that ritual they were still able to represent, and by means of the representation to display, some vestige of a Church, by means of which heaven was in a way joined to mankind prior to the Lord's Coming. But that conjunction was such that heaven had little or no influence at all on the member of that Church.

[10] The Jews and Israelites were such that they did not think at all of the internal man, nor did they wish to know anything about the same. Thus they knew absolutely nothing about the celestial and spiritual things which belong to the life after death. Nevertheless to prevent the end of all communication with heaven and so with the Lord, they were bound to the performance of external observances by which internal things were meant. All their captivities and plagues were in general to the end that external observances might be duly carried out for the sake of the representation. It was for this reason that the following laws were given:

Moses was to wash Aaron and his sons with water at the tent door, to sanctify them. Exodus 29:4; 40:12; Leviticus 8:6.

Aaron and his sons were to wash their hands and feet before entering the Tent of Meeting and approaching the Altar to minister, lest they died. This was to them a statute for ever. Exodus 30:18-21; 40:30-31.

Before putting on his vestments Aaron was to wash his flesh. Leviticus 16:4, 24.

Levites were to be purified by sprinkling the water of expiation over them, passing a razor over their flesh, and washing their clothes - then they were pure. Numbers 8:6-7.

Anyone who ate the carcass of a clean animal, 1 or that which had been torn to pieces, was to wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and if he did not wash himself and bathe his flesh he would bear his iniquity. Leviticus 17:15-16.

Anyone who touched the bed of a person who had a discharge, or sat on a vessel on which that person had sat, and anyone who touched that person's flesh was to wash his clothes and to bathe himself with water, and be unclean until the evening. Leviticus 15:5-7, 10-12 and following verses.

The person who sent the goat away to Azazel was to wash his flesh. Leviticus 16:26.

When a leper was to be cleansed he was to wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, wash himself in water, and then he would be clean. Leviticus 14:8-9.

Even vessels themselves which had become unclean through contact with unclean persons were made to go through water and be unclean until the evening. Leviticus 11:32.

From all these laws it may be seen that nobody was made clean or pure internally through ritual washing, but that such a person merely represented him who was pure or spiritually clean, for the reason stated above. The Lord teaches the same quite explicitly in Matthew 15:1-20; Mark 7:1-23.

Footnotes:

1. i.e. an animal that had not been slaughtered but had died naturally

  
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