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1 La tuta komunumo de la Izraelidoj elmovigxis el la dezerto Sin laux siaj tagvojoj, kiel ordonis la Eternulo; kaj ili starigis sian tendaron en Refidim, kaj la popolo ne havis akvon por trinki.

2 Kaj la popolo malpacis kontraux Moseo, kaj ili diris:Donu al ni akvon por trinki. Kaj Moseo diris al ili:Kial vi malpacas kontraux mi? kial vi provas la Eternulon?

3 Sed la popolo tie suferis pro manko de akvo, kaj la popolo murmuris kontraux Moseo, kaj diris:Kial vi elkondukis nin el Egiptujo, por mortigi nin kaj niajn infanojn kaj niajn brutojn per soifo?

4 Tiam Moseo kriis al la Eternulo, dirante:Kion mi faros kun cxi tiu popolo? baldaux povas okazi, ke ili min sxtonmortigos.

5 Kaj la Eternulo diris al Moseo:Preteriru antaux la popolo, kaj prenu kun vi kelkajn el la cxefoj de Izrael, kaj vian bastonon, per kiu vi frapis la riveron, prenu en vian manon, kaj iru.

6 Jen Mi staros antaux vi tie super roko sur HXoreb; kaj vi frapos la rokon, kaj eliros el gxi akvo, kaj la popolo trinkos. Kaj Moseo faris tiel antaux la okuloj de la cxefoj de Izrael.

7 Kaj li donis al tiu loko la nomon Masa kaj Meriba, pro la malpaco de la Izraelidoj, kaj pro tio, ke ili provis la Eternulon, dirante:CXu la Eternulo estas inter ni, aux ne?

8 Venis la Amalekidoj, kaj ekmilitis kontraux la Izraelidoj en Refidim.

9 Tiam Moseo diris al Josuo:Elektu al ni virojn, kaj eliru, batalu kontraux la Amalekidoj. Morgaux mi staros sur supro de monteto, kaj la Dian bastonon mi havos en mia mano.

10 Kaj Josuo faris, kiel diris al li Moseo, kaj batalis kontraux la Amalekidoj; kaj Moseo, Aaron, kaj HXur supreniris sur la supron de la monteto.

11 Kaj cxiufoje, kiam Moseo levis sian manon, venkis Izrael; kaj kiam li mallevis sian manon, venkis Amalek.

12 Sed la manoj de Moseo estis pezaj; tial ili prenis sxtonon kaj metis gxin sub lin, kaj li sidigxis sur gxi; kaj Aaron kaj HXur subtenis liajn manojn, unu de unu flanko, la dua de la dua flanko; kaj liaj manoj estis en gxusta tenigxo gxis la subiro de la suno.

13 Kaj Josuo senfortigis Amalekon kaj lian popolon per la glavo.

14 Kaj la Eternulo diris al Moseo:Skribu cxi tion por memoro en libron kaj enmetu cxi tion en la orelojn de Josuo, ke Mi ekstermos la memoron pri Amalek sub la cxielo.

15 Moseo konstruis altaron, kaj donis al gxi la nomon:La Eternulo mia Standardo.

16 CXar li diris:Estas promesite per la altaro de la Eternulo, ke la Eternulo militos kontraux Amalek de generacio al generacio.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #2838

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2838. 'As it is said today' means that which is perpetual. This is clear from the meaning of 'today' in the Word, dealt with below. One frequently reads in the Word the phrase 'even to this day (or today)', as in what has gone before,

He is the father of Moab even to this day, and the father of Ammon even to this day. Genesis 19:37-38; and in what appears later on,

The name of the city is Beersheba even to this day. Genesis 26:33; also,

The children of Israel do not eat the sinew of that which was displaced, which is on the hollow of the thigh, even to this day. Genesis 32:32; as well as,

This is the pillar of Rachel's grave even to [this] day. Genesis 35:20.

Joseph made it a statute even to this day. Genesis 47:26.

In the historical sense 'to this day' and 'today' refer to the time when Moses was alive, but in the internal sense these expressions mean perpetuity and eternity of state. 'Day' means state, see 23, 487, 488, 493, 893, and so therefore does 'today', which is the present time. That which in the world is temporal is in heaven eternal. To give the meaning of that which is eternal, the expression today or else to this day has been added, though to those who are aware only of the historical sense it does not appear to embody anything further. Similar usages of these expressions occur elsewhere in the Word, such as Joshua 4:9; 6:25; 7:26; Judges 1:21, 26; and in other places.

[2] That 'today' means that which is perpetual and eternal may be seen in David,

I will tell of the statute: Jehovah has said to me, You are My Son; today I have begotten You. Psalms 2:7.

Here 'today' plainly stands for that which is eternal. In the same author,

For ever, O Jehovah, Your Word is fixed in the heavens, Your truth to generation after generation. You have established the earth and it stands. As for Your judgements they stand [even] today. Psalms 119:89-91.

Here also 'today' plainly stands for that which is eternal. In Jeremiah,

Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you, and before you came out of the womb I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations. I have set you this day (today) over nations and over kingdoms; and I have made you today into a fortified city, and into a pillar of iron, and into walls of bronze. Jeremiah 1:5, 10, 18.

This refers in the sense of the letter to Jeremiah, but in the internal sense the Lord is meant. 'I have set you this day (or today) over nations and over kingdoms, and I have made you today into a fortified city' means from eternity. In regard to the Lord one can only speak of that which is eternal.

[3] In Moses,

You are standing today, all of you, before Jehovah your God, so that you may enter into the covenant of Jehovah your God, and into His oath, which Jehovah your God is making with you today, that He may establish you today as a people for Himself, and that He will be God to you. Not indeed with you alone [do I make it], but with those who stand with us here today before Jehovah our God, and with those who are not with us today. Deuteronomy 29:10, 12-15.

Here in the sense of the letter 'today' means that present time when

Moses addressed the people. Yet it is clear that it nevertheless implies subsequent times and what is perpetual; for making a covenant with anyone, and with those who were there and with those who were not, implies that which is perpetual. Perpetuity itself is what is meant in the internal sense.

[4] That 'daily' and 'today' mean that which is perpetual is clear also from the sacrifice that was offered each day. This sacrifice, because of what is meant by day, daily, and today, was called the continual, or perpetual, sacrifice, Numbers 28:3, 23; Daniel 8:13; 11:31; 12:11. This may be even more plainly evident from the manna which rained from heaven, spoken of in Moses as follows,

Behold, I am causing bread to rain from heaven, and the people shall go out and gather a portion day by day. And they shall not leave any of it until the morning. That which they did leave until the morning bred worms and went rotten, except that gathered on the day before the Sabbath. Exodus 16:4, 19-20, 23.

This happened because 'the manna' meant the Lord's Divine Human, John 6:31-32, 49-50, 58, and because the Lord's Divine Human meant heavenly food, which is nothing other than love and charity, together with the goods and truths of faith. In heaven the Lord imparts this food to angels moment by moment, thus perpetually and eternally, see 2193. This is also what is meant in the Lord's Prayer by the petition, Give us today our daily bread, Matthew 6:11; Luke 11:3, that is, in every moment for evermore.

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