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1 Nhằm ngày mười lăm tháng hai, sau khi ra khỏi xứ Ê-díp-tô, cả hội chúng Y-sơ-ra-ên ở nơi Ê-lim đi đến đồng vắng Sin, nằm về giữa khoảng Ê-lim và Si-na -i.

2 Cả hội chúng Y-sơ-ra-ên oán trách Môi-se và A-rôn tại nơi đồng vắng,

3 nói cùng hai người rằng: Ôi! thà rằng chúng tôi chịu chết về tay Ðức Giê-hô-va tại xứ Ê-díp-tô, khi còn ngồi kề nồi thịtăn bánh chán hê! Vì hai người dẫn dắt chúng tôi vào nơi đồng vắng nầy đều bị chết đói.

4 Ðức Giê-hô-va bèn phán cùng Môi-se rằng: Nầy, ta sẽ từ trên trời cao làm mưa bánh xuống cho các ngươi. Dân sự sẽ đi ra, mỗi ngày nào thâu bánh đủ cho ngày nấy, đặng ta thử dân coi có đi theo luật lệ của ta hay chăng.

5 Qua ngày thứ sáu, dân sự sẽ dự bị phần đã góp, và sẽ được phần gấp bằng hai của mình thường thâu hằng ngày.

6 Môi-se và A-rôn bèn nói cùng dân Y-sơ-ra-ên rằng: Chiều nay các ngươi sẽ nhận biết rằng ấy là Ðức Giê-hô-va đã rút các ngươi ra khỏi xứ Ê-díp-tô,

7 và sáng mai sẽ thấy sự vinh quang của Ðức Giê-hô-va, vì Ngài đã nghe lời các ngươi oán trách Ngài rồi. Vả lại, chúng ta là ai mà các ngươi oán trách chúng ta?

8 Môi-se nói: Chiều nầy Ðức Giê-hô-va sẽ phát thịt cho các ngươi ăn, rồi sáng mai bánh nhiều dư dật, vì Ngài đã nghe lời các ngươi oán trách Ngài rồi. Thế thì, chúng ta là ai? Những lời oán trách chẳng phải đổ về chúng ta đâu, nhưng về Ðức Giê-hô-va vậy.

9 Môi-se nói cùng A-rôn rằng: Hãy nói cho cả hội chúng Y-sơ-ra-ên rằng: Các ngươi hãy đến trước mặt Ðức Giê-hô-va, vì Ngài đã nghe lời oán trách của các ngươi rồi.

10 Vả, khi A-rôn nói cùng cả hội chúng Y-sơ-ra-ên, thì họ xây mặt về phía đồng vắng, thấy sự vinh quang của Ngài hiện ra trong đám mây.

11 Ðức Giê-hô-va phán cùng Môi-se rằng:

12 Ta đã nghe lời oán trách của dân Y-sơ-ra-ên. Vậy, ngươi hãy nói cùng chúng nó rằng: Lối chiều các ngươi sẽ ăn thịt; sáng mai sẽ ăn bánh no nê, và sẽ biết ta là Giê-hô-va Ðức Chúa Trời của các ngươi.

13 Vậy, chiều lại, có chim cút bay lên phủ trên trại quân; đến sáng mai lại có một lớp sương ở chung quanh trại quân.

14 Lớp sương đó tan đi, trên mặt đồng vắng thấy có vật chi nhỏ, tròn, như hột sương đóng trên mặt đất.

15 Khi dân Y-sơ-ra-ên thấy, bèn hỏi nhau rằng: Cái chi vậy? Vì chẳng biết vật đó là gì. Môi-se bèn nói cùng dân sự rằng: Ấy là bánh mà Ðức Giê-hô-va ban cho các ngươi làm lương thực đó.

16 Nầy là lời Ðức Giê-hô-va đã phán dặn: Hãy tùy sức ăn của mỗi người, và tùy số người trong trại mà góp cho mỗi tên một ô-me.

17 Dân Y-sơ-ra-ên bèn làm như vậy, kẻ thì lượm nhiều, người thì lượm ít,

18 cứ lường từ mô-me; ai lượm nhiều chẳng được trội, ai lượm ít cũng chẳng thiếu; mỗi người lượm vừa đủ sức mình ăn.

19 Môi-se nói cùng dân sự rằng: Ðừng ai để dư lại cho đến sáng mai.

20 Nhưng dân sự chẳng nghe theo lời Môi-se, một vài người để dư lại đến sáng mai; thì sâu hóa ở trong, vật sanh mùi hôi hám. Môi-se bèn nổi giận cùng họ.

21 Vậy, hằng buổi sớm mai mỗi người lượm vừa đủ sức mình ăn; khi mặt trời nắng nóng thì vật đó tan ra.

22 Ðến ngày thứ sáu, dân sự lượm lương thực gấp hai; mỗi người hai ô-me. Các hội trưởng đến thuật lại cho Môi-se rõ.

23 Người đáp rằng: Ấy là lời Ðức Giê-hô-va đã phán rằng: Mai là ngày nghỉ, tức ngày Sa-bát thánh cho Ðức Giê-hô-va, hãy nướng món chi các ngươi muốn nướng, hãy nấu món chi các ngươi muốn nấu; hễ còn dư, hãy để dành đến sáng mai.

24 Dân sự bèn để dành cho đến sáng mai, y như lời Môi-se đã truyền; vật đó chẳng sanh mùi hôi hám và cũng chẳng hóa sâu chút nào.

25 Môi-se bèn nói rằng: Bữa nay hãy ăn đồ đó đi, vì là ngày Sa-bát của Ðức Giê-hô-va; hôm nay các ngươi chẳng tìm thấy vật đó ở trong đồng đâu.

26 Các ngươi lượm trong sáu ngày, nhưng qua ngày thứ bảy là ngày Sa-bát, sẽ chẳng có đâu.

27 Ngày thứ bảy, một vài người trong vòng dân sự ra đặng lượm lấy, nhưng tìm chẳng thấy chi hết.

28 Ðức Giê-hô-va bèn phán cùng Môi-se rằng: Các ngươi chẳng chịu vâng giữ điều rănluật pháp ta cho đến chừng nào?

29 Hãy suy nghĩ rằng Ðức Giê-hô-va đã cho các ngươi ngày Sa-bát; vậy nên, đến ngày thứ sáu Ngài lại cho các ngươi lương thực đủ hai ngày. Trong ngày thứ bảy, mỗi người phải ở yên chỗ mình, chớ ai ra khỏi nhà.

30 Thế thì, ngày thứ bảy dân sự đều nghỉ ngơi.

31 Nhà Y-sơ-ra-ên đặt tên lương thực nầy là ma-na; nó giống như hột ngò, sắc trắng, mùi như bánh ngọt pha mật ong.

32 Môi-se nói rằng: Lời Ðức Giê-hô-va đã phán dặn như vầy: Hãy đổ đầy một ô-me ma-na, đặng lưu truyền trải các đời, hầu cho thiên hạ thấy thứ bánh ta đã cho các ngươi ăn nơi đồng vắng, khi ta rút các ngươi ra khỏi xứ Ê-díp-tô.

33 Môi-se lại nói cùng A-rôn rằng: Hãy lấy một cái bình đựng đầy một ô-me ma-na, để trước mặt Ðức Giê-hô-va, đặng lưu truyền các đời.

34 A-rôn bèn để bình đó trước sự chứng cớ, hầu cho được lưu truyền y như lời Ðức Giê-hô-va đã phán dặn Môi-se.

35 Dân Y-sơ-ra-ên ăn ma-na trải bốn mươi năm, cho đến khi vào bờ cõi xứ Ca-na-an, là xứ có người ta ở.

36 Vả, ô-me là một phần mười của ê-pha.

   

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8495. 'A holy sabbath to Jehovah shall tomorrow be' means the joining together of goodness and truth into eternity. This is clear from the meaning of 'sabbath' as the joining together of goodness and truth, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'tomorrow' as into eternity, dealt with in 3998. Anyone who does not know what the sabbath represented, and what it was consequently a sign of, also cannot know why it was held to be the holiest institution of all. It was held to be the holiest because in the highest sense it represented the union of the Divine and the Divine Human within the Lord, and in the relative sense the joining together of the Lord's Divine Human and the human race. This is why the sabbath was the holiest. And since it represented those realities it also represented heaven in respect of the joining together of goodness and truth, that is, the joining together called the heavenly marriage. And since the joining together of goodness and truth is accomplished by the Lord alone and nothing at all of it by man, and since it is accomplished in a state of peace, people were most strictly forbidden to do any work on that day. The prohibition was so strict that the soul who did do any was to be cut off. This is stated in Moses as follows,

You shall keep the sabbath, for it is holy to you. He who profanes it must certainly die; for everyone who does work on that day, this soul shall be cut off from the midst of his people. Exodus 31:14.

This was why the one who merely gathered sticks on that day was stoned, Numbers 15:32-36. It is also why the command regarding the sabbath is the third of the Ten Commandments, coming immediately after the two regarding holy worship of Jehovah, Exodus 20:8; Deuteronomy 5:12. And it is why the sabbath is called 'an eternal covenant', Exodus 31:16; for 'a covenant' means a joining together, 665, 666, 1023, 1038, 1864, 1996, 2003, 2021, 6804.

[2] From all this one may now see what is meant in the internal sense by the things said about the sabbath in the following places, as in Isaiah,

Blessed is the person keeping the sabbath so that he does not profane it. Thus said Jehovah to the eunuchs who keep My sabbaths and choose that in which I delight, and hold fast to My covenant, I will give those in My house and within My walls a place and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an eternal name which will not be cut off. Whoever keeps the sabbath so that he does not profane it, and those who hold fast to My covenant, I will bring them onto My holy mountain, and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Isaiah 56:2-7.

From these words it is evident that those who are joined to the Lord are meant by those who keep the sabbath holy. That they will be in heaven is meant by the promise that those in Jehovah's house will be given a place and a name better than sons and daughters, an eternal name which will not be cut off, and that they will be brought onto the holy mountain.

[3] In the same prophet,

If you turn away your foot from the sabbath, so that you do not do your own will on My holy day, but call the sabbath, Delights holy to Jehovah, honourable, and honour it, so that you do not do your own ways, nor find your own desire or speak [your own] words, then you will take delight in Jehovah, and I will convey you into the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob. Isaiah 58:13-14.

What was represented by the requirement that they should not do any work on the sabbath day is clearly evident here, namely that they must not do anything that begins in themselves, only what begins in the Lord. For the angelic state in heaven is such that they do not will or do, they do not even think or utter, anything that begins in themselves or what is properly their own. This is what their being joined to the Lord consists in. Not doing anything that begins in themselves is meant when it says that they should not do their own will, nor do their own ways, nor find their own desire, nor speak [their own] words. This state existing with the angels is the heavenly state itself; and when they are in it they experience peace and rest. Also the Lord has rest, for when they have been joined to Him their labour ceases; they now abide in the Lord. These things are meant by the words 'so shall you call the sabbath, Delights holy to Jehovah' and that they will take delight in Jehovah. The Lord's rest is meant where it says that after creating on six days 'He rested on the seventh day', Genesis 2:2.

[4] The same things are meant by the following words in Jeremiah,

If you most certainly hear Me, so that you do not bring a burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, and you keep the sabbath day holy, so that you do not do any work in it, then there will enter through the gates of this city kings and princes seated on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the men (vir) of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And this city will be inhabited forever. Jeremiah 17:24-25

'Work on the sabbath' means everything that springs from the self. The state of people who are not led by self but by the Lord is what 'there will enter through the gates of the city kings and princes seated on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses' describes. 'Kings' means the truths of faith, 'princes' leading aspects of them, 'seated on the throne of David' the fact that they come from the Lord, and 'chariots and horses' religious teachings and intellectual concepts belonging to faith. It should be recognized that everything coming from a person's self is bad, and everything coming from the Lord is good. The fact that everything, in the case of those who are led by the Lord, flows in, down to the smallest particle of life in both their understanding and their will, thus down to every single part of the faith and charity they possess, see what has been shown abundantly from experience in 2886-2888, 6053-6058, 6189-6215, 6307-6327, 6466-6495, 6598-6626, 6982, 6985, 6996, 7004, 7055, 7056, 7058, 7147, 7270.

[5] As regards the sabbath and its being a representative of the joining together of the Lord and the human race, this is clear in Ezekiel,

I gave them My sabbaths, in order that they might be a sign between Me and them, to know that I am Jehovah who sanctifies them. Ezekiel 20:12.

See too Exodus 31:13. Therefore also it was forbidden to kindle fire on the sabbath day, Exodus 35:3, because 'fire' meant all that composed life, and 'kindling fire' that which composed life beginning from self. From all that has been stated it is evident that the Lord is Lord of the sabbath, in accordance with His words in Matthew 12:1-9. It is evident too why a large number of healings by the Lord were performed on sabbath days, Matthew 12:10-14; Mark 3:1-6; Luke 6:6-12; 13:10-17; 14:1-6; John 5:9-18; 7:22-23; 9:14, 16; for the sicknesses from which the Lord healed people involved spiritual sicknesses which exist as a result of evil, 7337, 8364.

  
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1 Moses answered, "But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, 'Yahweh has not appeared to you.'"

2 Yahweh said to him, "What is that in your hand?" He said, "A rod."

3 He said, "Throw it on the ground." He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.

4 Yahweh said to Moses, "Put forth your hand, and take it by the tail." He Put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand.

5 "That they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you."

6 Yahweh said furthermore to him, "Now put your hand inside your cloak." He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.

7 He said, "Put your hand inside your cloak again." He Put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.

8 "It will happen, if they will neither believe you nor listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

9 It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs, neither listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land."

10 Moses said to Yahweh, "O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue."

11 Yahweh said to him, "Who made man's mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn't it I, Yahweh?

12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak."

13 He said, "Oh, Lord, please send someone else."

14 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Moses, and he said, "What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he comes forth to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

15 You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.

16 He will be your spokesman to the people; and it will happen, that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.

17 You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs."

18 Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, "Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive." Jethro said to Moses, "go in peace."

19 Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead."

20 Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God's rod in his hand.

21 Yahweh said to Moses, "When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.

22 You shall tell Pharaoh, 'Thus says Yahweh, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

23 and I have said to you, "Let my son go, that he may serve me;" and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.'"

24 It happened on the way at a lodging place, that Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill him.

25 Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me."

26 So he let him alone. Then she said, "You are a bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision.

27 Yahweh said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." He went, and met him on God's mountain, and kissed him.

28 Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahweh with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had instructed him.

29 Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.

30 Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.

31 The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.