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1 At pagkatapos nito, si Moises at si Aaron ay nagsipasok, at sinabi kay Faraon, Ganito ang sabi ng Panginoon, ng Dios ng Israel, Bayaan mong ang aking bayan ay yumaon upang ipagdiwang nila ako ng isang kapistahan sa ilang.

2 At sinabi ni Faraon, Sino ang Panginoon na aking pakikinggan ang kaniyang tinig, upang pahintulutan kong yumaon ang Israel? Hindi ko nakikilala ang Panginoon at saka hindi ko pahihintulutang yumaon ang Israel.

3 At kanilang sinabi, Ang Dios ng mga Hebreo ay nakipagtagpo sa amin; pahintulutan mo nga kaming maglakbay na tatlong araw sa ilang, at maghain sa Panginoon naming Dios, baka hulugan niya kami ng salot o ng tabak.

4 At sinabi sa kanila ng hari sa Egipto, Bakit kinakalagan ninyo, Moises at Aaron, ang bayan sa kanilang mga gawain? pumaroon kayo sa mga atang sa inyo.

5 At sinabi ni Faraon, Narito, ang mga tao sa lupain ay marami na ngayon, at inyong pinapagpapahinga sila sa mga atang sa kanila.

6 At ng araw ring yaon ay nagutos si Faraon sa mga tagapagpaatag sa bayan at sa kanilang mga puno, na sinasabi,

7 Huwag na ninyong bibigyan ang bayan, ng dayami sa paggawa ng laryo, na gaya ng dati: sila ang pumaroon at magtipon ng dayami sa ganang kanilang sarili.

8 At ang bilang ng mga laryo, na kanilang ginagawang dati ay siya rin ninyong iaatang sa kanila; wala kayong babawasin: sapagka't sila'y mga pagayongayon; kaya't sila'y dumadaing, na nagsasabi, Bayaan mo kaming yumaon at maghain sa aming Dios.

9 Pabigatin ninyo ang gawain ng mga lalake upang kanilang pagpagalan at huwag nilang pakitunguhan ang mga kabulaanang salita.

10 At ang mga tagapagpaatag sa bayan, ay nagsilabas, at kanilang sinalita sa bayan, na sinasabi, Ganito ang sabi ni Faraon, Hindi ko kayo bibigyan ng dayami.

11 Yumaon kayo ng inyong sarili, kumuha kayo ng dayami kung saan kayo makakakuha: sapagka't walang babawasin kaunti man sa inyong gawain.

12 Kaya't ang bayan ay nangalat sa buong lupain ng Egipto, na humahanap ng pinagputulan ng trigo na panghalili sa dayami.

13 At hinihigpitan sila ng mga tagapagpaatag, na sinasabi, Tapusin ninyo ang inyong mga gawa, ang inyong gawain sa araw-araw, na gaya nang mayroong kayong dayami.

14 At ang mga pinuno sa mga anak ni Israel na ipinaglalagay sa kanila ng mga tagapagpaatag ni Faraon, ay nangapalo, at sa kanila'y sinabi, Bakit hindi ninyo tinapos ang inyong gawain kahapon at ngayon, sa paggawa ng laryo, na gaya ng dati?

15 Nang magkagayo'y ang mga pinuno sa mga anak ni Israel ay naparoon at dumaing kay Faraon, na nagsasabi, Bakit mo ginaganyan ang iyong mga alipin?

16 Walang anomang dayami, na ibinibigay sa iyong mga alipin, at kanilang sinasabi sa amin, Gumawa kayo ng laryo: at, narito, ang iyong mga alipin ay nangapapalo; nguni't ang sala'y nasa iyong sariling bayan.

17 Datapuwa't kaniyang sinabi, Kayo'y mga pagayongayon, kayo'y mga pagayongayon: kaya't inyong sinasabi, Bayaan mo kaming yumaon at maghain sa Panginoon.

18 Kayo nga'y yumaon ngayon at gumawa; sapagka't walang anomang dayaming ibibigay sa inyo, at gayon ma'y inyong ibibigay ang bilang ng mga laryo.

19 At nakita ng mga pinuno ng mga anak ni Israel, na sila'y nasa masamang kalagayan, nang sabihin, Walang mababawas na anoman sa inyong mga laryo sa inyong gawain sa araw-araw.

20 At kanilang nasalubong si Moises at si Aaron na nagsitayo sa daan, pagkapanggaling kay Faraon:

21 At sinabi nila sa kanila, Kayo nawa'y tunghan ng Panginoon, at hatulan; sapagka't ang aming katayuan ay ginawa mong nakamumuhi sa mga mata ni Faraon, at sa mga mata ng kaniyang mga lingkod, na naglagay ng tabak sa kanilang kamay upang kami ay patayin.

22 At si Moises ay bumalik sa Panginoon, at nagsabi, Panginoon, bakit mo ginawan ng kasamaan ang bayang ito? bakit mo sinugo ako?

23 Sapagka't mula nang ako'y pumaroon kay Faraon na magsalita sa iyong pangalan, ay kaniyang ginawan ng kasamaan ang bayang ito: at ni hindi mo man iniligtas ang iyong bayan.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #6952

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6952. 'Put out your hand and take hold of the tail' means the power of raising something from the last part of the sensory level. This is clear from the meaning of 'hand' as power, dealt with above in 6947; and from the meaning of 'the serpent's tail' as the lowest part of the sensory level - 'a serpent' is the sensory level, see above in 6949, so that 'its tail' is the last or lowest part of it. Raising something is meant by 'putting out and taking hold', for a person who puts out his hand and takes hold of some creature crawling on the ground raises it up. Since 'a serpent' means the separated sensory level and the resulting reasoning based on the illusions of the senses regarding the truths of faith, 'the serpent's tail' means falsity itself, for this falsity constitutes the last and lowest part. A person ruled by falsity, thus by what is last and lowest, looks altogether downwards and outwards, that is, in a worldly and earthly direction, not upwards and inwards, that is, to heaven and the Lord.

[2] The fact that these kinds of things are meant by 'the serpent's tail' is clear in John,

The locusts had tails like scorpions, and stings were in their tails, and their power, in order that they might do people harm. Revelation 9:10.

'Tails like scorpions' and 'stings in the tails' are artful reasonings based on falsities by means of which they can convince and thereby damage people; and this is why it says that the power they have is 'to do people harm'.

[3] In the same author,

The horses' tails were like serpents, having heads; and by means of them they do harm. Revelation 9:19.

Here likewise 'tails like serpents' stands for reasonings based on falsities by means of which they cause harm, especially as it is said that such tails were those of horses and had heads. For 'horses' and also 'head' mean the area of understanding in the mind, and therefore 'tails' here means the more artful kinds of reasonings against truths that are based on illusions and consequent falsities. These reasonings are the lowest, for the more artful the reasonings against truths are, the lower they are.

[4] In the same author,

The dragon's tail drew a third part of the stars of heaven and cast them down to the earth. Revelation 12:4.

'The dragon's tail' stands in a similar way for reasonings based on falsities. 'The stars of heaven' stands for cognitions of goodness and truth, 'casting them down to the earth' for destroying them. The dragon is the serpent which uses reasonings based on falsities to lead people astray and which led astray in paradise 'the mother of living ones', who was Eve, because of the tree of knowledge, that is, by means of factual knowledge based on sensory evidence, thus on illusions. This is also made plain in John,

The great dragon was cast out, the serpent of old, who is called the devil and satan, who leads the whole world astray. Revelation 12:9.

[5] The fact that 'the tail' in general is the separated sensory level of the mind which does not look upwards but downwards, thus not in a heavenly but an earthly direction, and that consequently it means falsity is clear in Isaiah,

Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, the branch and the bulrush. The old and the honourable [in face] is the head, but the prophet, the teacher of a lie, is the tail. Isaiah 9:14-15.

Here 'tail' plainly stands for falsity, which the Word calls 'a lie'. In the same prophet,

There will not be for Egypt [any] work which the head and tail, branch and bulrush, may do. Isaiah 19:15.

'Bulrush' stands for that which is lowest. In Moses,

So Jehovah will give you to be the head, and not to be the tail, in order that you may be tending only upwards, but not be tending downwards, when you obey the commandments of your God. Deuteronomy 18:13.

[6] 'The tail' stands for the lowest part which looks downwards or outwards, that is, in a worldly and earthly direction and not towards heaven and the Lord. For the interior parts of the human mind together with sensory levels are raised upwards by the Lord when a person is governed by the good of faith and charity. But if he is governed by evil and falsity, then the interior parts together with the sensory levels look downwards and so solely to things in the world. As a consequence he sheds his human nature and assumes a beast-like nature, for wild beasts look downwards or solely to things on earth. The person who looks downwards wills what is evil and thinks what is false, but one whom the Lord raises upwards wills what is good and thinks what is true. A raising by the Lord does in actual fact take place and therefore a removal from evils and falsities. Angels have the actual feeling of being raised up; it is like the force drawing things towards the centre of attraction, the centre being where the Lord is within His Sun. Angels have their heads raised in this direction, but those in hell their feet, so that the angels look upwards but those in hell downwards, 3641, 3643. In the same book,

The foreigner who is in the midst of you will rise above you, upwards more and more, but you will go down, downwards more and more; he will be the head, but you will be the tail. Deuteronomy 28:43, 44.

Here the meaning is similar. In Isaiah,

Say to him, Beware, and be quiet; do not fear, and do not let your heart become soft on account of the two tails of these smoking firebrands, on account of the blazing anger of Rezin and Syria, and the son of Remaliah. Isaiah 7:4.

'Rezin king of Syria' stands for cognitions or knowledge of what is evil, 'Syria' meaning cognitions of what is good, see 1232, 1234, 3680, and so in the contrary sense cognitions of what is evil; and 'the son of Remaliah king of Samaria' stands for knowledge or cognitions of what is false. The latter and the former kinds of cognitions are 'tails' because they constitute what is lowest. 'Smoking firebrands' stands for blazing anger.

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