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1 Ngươi chớ đồn huyễn; chớ hùa cùng kẻ hung ác đặng làm chứng dối.

2 Ngươi chớ hùa đảng đông đặng làm quấy; khi ngươi làm chứng trong việc kiện cáo, chớ nên trở theo bên phe đông mà phạm sự công bình.

3 Ngươi chớ tư vị kẻ nghèo trong việc kiện cáo.

4 Nhược bằng ngươi gặp bò hay lừa của kẻ thù nghịch mình đi lạc thì buộc phải đem về cho họ.

5 Ngộ ngươi thấy lừa của kẻ ghét mình bị chở nặng phải quị, chớ khá bỏ ngơ, phải cứu nó cho được nhẹ.

6 Trong cơn kiện cáo, ngươi chớ phạm quyền lợi của người nghèo ở giữa vòng ngươi.

7 Ngươi phải tránh xa các lời giả dối; chớ giết kẻ vô tội và kẻ công bình, vì ta chẳng hề tha kẻ gian ác đâu.

8 Ngươi chớ nhậm của hối lộ, vì của hối lộ làm mờ mắt người thượng trí, và làm mất duyên do của kẻ công bình.

9 Ngươi chớ hiếp đáp người ngoại bang, vì các ngươi đã kiều ngụ tại xứ Ê-díp-tô, chính các ngươi hiểu biết lòng khách ngoại bang là thế nào.

10 Trải sáu năm ngươi hãy gieo trong đất, thâu lấy hoa lợi,

11 nhưng qua năm thứ bảy hãy để đất hoang cho nghỉ; hầu cho kẻ nghèo khổ trong dân sự ngươi được nhờ lấy hoa quả đất đó, còn dư lại bao nhiêu, thú vật ngoài đồng ăn lấy. Cũng hãy làm như vậy về vườn nho và cây ô-li-ve.

12 Luôn trong sáu ngày ngươi hãy làm công việc mình, nhưng qua ngày thứ bảy hãy nghỉ, hầu cho bò và lừa ngươi được nghỉ; cùng con trai của đầy tớ gái và người ngoại bang được dưỡng sức lại.

13 Ngươi khá giữ hết mọi lời ta phán cùng ngươi. Chớ xưng đến danh các thần khác; chớ cho nghe danh đó ở nơi miệng ngươi ra.

14 Mỗi năm ba kỳ ngươi sẽ giữ lễ kính ta.

15 Ngươi hãy giữ lễ bánh không men; phải ăn bánh không men trong bảy ngày về mùa tháng lúa trỗ, như lời ta đã phán dặn; vì trong tháng đó ngươi ra khỏi xứ Ê-díp-tô. Lại chẳng ai nên tay không đến trước mặt ta.

16 Ngươi hãy giữ lễ mùa màng, tức là mùa hoa quả đầu tiên của công lao ngươi về các giống ngươi đã gieo ngoài đồng; và giữ lễ mùa gặt về lúc cuối năm, khi các ngươi đã hái hoa quả của công lao mình ngoài đồng rồi.

17 Mỗi năm ba kỳ các người nam phải đến trước mặt Chúa, tức là Ðức Giê-hô-va.

18 Ngươi chớ dâng huyết của con sinh tế ta chung với bánh có pha men; còn mỡ của nó dâng nhằm ngày lễ kính ta, chớ để trọn đêm đến sáng mai.

19 Những hoa quả đầu mùa của đất, ngươi phải đem đến đền thờ Giê-hô-va Ðức Chúa Trời ngươi. Ngươi chớ nên nấu con trong sữa mẹ nó.

20 Ðây nầy, ta sai một thiên sứ đi trước mặt ngươi, đặng phù hộ trong lúc đi đường, và đưa ngươi vào nơi ta đã dự bị.

21 Trước mặt người, ngươi khá giữ mình, phải nghe theo lời, chớ nên phản nghịch; người sẽ chẳng tha tội ngươi đâu, vì danh ta ngự trong mình người.

22 Nhưng nếu ngươi chăm chỉ nghe lời người, cùng làm theo mọi lời ta sẽ phán, ta sẽ thù nghịch cùng kẻ thù nghịch ngươi, và đối địch với kẻ đối địch ngươi.

23 Vì thiên sứ ta sẽ đi trước mắt, đưa ngươi vào xứ của dân A-mô-rít, dân Hê-tít, dân Phê-rê-sít, dân Ca-na-an, dân Hê-vít, và dân Giê-bu-sít, rồi ta sẽ diệt chúng nó.

24 Ngươi chớ quì lạy và hầu việc các thần chúng nó; chớ bắt chước công việc họ, nhưng phải diệt hết các thần đó và đạp nát các pho tượng họ đi.

25 Ngươi hãy hầu việc Giê-hô-va Ðức Chúa Trời ngươi; Ngài sẽ ban ơn cho vật ăn uống của ngươi và tiêu trừ các bịnh hoạn giữa vòng ngươi.

26 Trong xứ ngươi sẽ chẳng có đàn bà sảo thai hay là đàn bà son sẻ. Ta sẽ cho ngươi được trường thọ.

27 Ta sẽ sai sự kinh khiếp ta đi trước, hễ ngươi đến dân nào, ta sẽ làm cho dân ấy vỡ chạy lạc đường, và cho kẻ thù nghịch ngươi xây lưng trước mặt ngươi.

28 Ta sẽ sai ong lỗ đi trước đánh đuổi dân Hê-vít, dân Ca-na-an, dân Hê-tít khỏi trước mặt ngươi.

29 Ta sẽ chẳng đuổi chúng nó đi hết trong một năm đâu, e khi xứ sẽ trở nên đồng vắng, và loài thú rừng sanh sản ra đông, hại ngươi chăng;

30 nhưng ta sẽ đuổi chúng nó lần lần khỏi trước mặt ngươi, cho đến chừng nào số ngươi thêm nhiều và có thể cầm đất đó làm sản nghiệp.

31 Ta sẽ phân định bờ cõi ngươi từ Biển đỏ chí Biển Phi-li-tin, từ đồng vắng đến sông cái; vì ta sẽ giao phú dân đó vào tay ngươi, và ngươi sẽ đuổi chúng nó khỏi mặt mình.

32 Ngươi đừng kết giao ước cùng chúng nó, hoặc cùng các thần của chúng nó.

33 Họ sẽ chẳng ở trong xứ ngươi đâu, e khi chúng nó xui cho ngươi phạm tội cùng ta mà hầu việc các thần họ chăng; điều đó chắc sẽ thành một cái bẫy cho ngươi vậy.

   

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9323. 'And He will bless your bread and your water' means the increase of the good of love and of the truth of faith. This is clear from the meaning of 'being blessed by Jehovah' as being made fruitful in forms of good and being multiplied in truths, dealt with in 2846, 3406, 4981, 6091, 6099, 8939, thus an increase in the kinds of things that belong to love and faith; from the meaning of 'bread' as the good of love, dealt with in 276, 680, 2165, 2177, 3478, 3735, 3813, 4211, 4217, 4735, 4976, 6118, 8410; and from the meaning of 'water' as the truth of faith, dealt with in 680, 739, 2702, 3058, 3424, 4976, 5668, 6346, 7307, 8568. Since 'bread' meant all the good of love and 'water' all the truth of faith in their entirety, and since 'being blessed by Jehovah' means every increase in them, people in the ancient Churches were accustomed to express the wish, May Jehovah bless [your] bread and water. It was also common to speak of 'bread and water' when all natural food and drink were to be expressed and all spiritual goodness and truth to be understood; for the latter are what nourish spiritual life, just as the former nourish natural life, 4976.

[2] Such goodness and truth are meant by 'bread and water' in the following places: In Isaiah,

Behold, Jehovah Zebaoth is taking away from Jerusalem and Judah the whole staff of bread, and the whole staff of water. Isaiah 3:1.

'The staff of bread' stands for power and life provided by good, 'the staff of water' for power and life provided by truth. In Ezekiel,

Behold, I am breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem, so that they may eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and drink water by measure and with dismay; that they may be in want of bread and water, and will be dismayed with one another, 1 and waste away on account of their iniquity. Ezekiel 4:16-17.

'Being in want of bread and water' means being deprived of the good of love and of the truth of faith, as is plainly evident since it says 'that they will be dismayed with one with another, and waste away on account of iniquity'.

[3] The like occurs again in the same prophet,

They will eat their bread with anxiety, and drink their water with dismay, so that her land may be devastated of its fullness, on account of the violence of all who dwell in it. Ezekiel 12:19.

In Amos,

Behold, the days are going to come, in which I will send a famine on the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of Jehovah. Amos 8:11.

In the first Book of Kings,

The man of God said to Jeroboam, If you were to give me half your house, I would not go in with you; nor would I eat bread nor drink water in this place. For Jehovah had so commanded, saying, You shall not eat bread, nor drink water, nor return by the way you came. But a prophet from Bethel said to him that he had been told by Jehovah that he was to eat bread and drink water with him (he was lying). 2 And he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water. For that reason he was torn to pieces by a lion. 1 Kings 13:8-9, 16-19, 24.

His refusal to eat bread or drink water with Jeroboam was a sign of his abhorrence of the good there and also of the truth, because they had been rendered profane. For Jeroboam had profaned the altar and all the holy things of worship, as is evident from the historical descriptions at this point in the Word.

[4] A lack of spiritual goodness and truth was meant by the absence of rain for three and a half years when Ahab was king, resulting in a lack of bread and of water, during which time Elijah went to a widow in Zarephath and asked her for a little water in a vessel so that he might drink, and a piece of bread so that he might eat, 1 Kings 17, 18. For 'bread' meant all the good of the Church, and 'water' all the truth of the Church, as stated above. Since such things in those times were representative for the reason that only something representative of the Church existed among those people, and since things of a representative nature were used therefore in the composition of the Word, including the historical section, goodness and truth laid waste was accordingly represented by the lack of bread and water. And because 'bread' meant all the good of love in its entirety, therefore also the sacrifices were referred to as 'bread', 2165, and therefore also the Lord calls Himself 'the bread which comes down from heaven', John 6:48, 50-51; for the Lord is the Good itself of Love.

Fusnotat:

1. literally, will be desolated a man and his brother

2. i.e. the prophet from Bethel was lying when he told the man of God that God had commanded him (that prophet) to bring the man of God to his house

  
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1 Kings 18

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1 It happened after many days, that the word of Yahweh came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth."

2 Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.

3 Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly:

4 for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Yahweh, that Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

5 Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals."

6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

7 As Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, "Is it you, my lord Elijah?"

8 He answered him, "It is I. Go, tell your lord, 'Behold, Elijah is here!'"

9 He said, "Wherein have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?

10 As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom, where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, 'He is not here,' he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn't find you.

11 Now you say, 'Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here."'

12 It will happen, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of Yahweh will carry you I don't know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can't find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.

13 Wasn't it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh's prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

14 Now you say, 'Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here;"' and he will kill me."

15 Elijah said, "As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today."

16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.

17 It happened, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, "Is that you, you troubler of Israel?"

18 He answered, "I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father's house, in that you have forsaken the commandments of Yahweh, and you have followed the Baals.

19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and four hundred fifty of the prophets of Baal, and four hundred of the prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel's table."

20 So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together to Mount Carmel.

21 Elijah came near to all the people, and said, "How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him." The people answered him not a word.

22 Then Elijah said to the people, "I, even I only, am left a prophet of Yahweh; but Baal's prophets are four hundred fifty men.

23 Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under it.

24 You call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of Yahweh. The god who answers by fire, let him be god." All the people answered, "It is well said."

25 Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it."

26 They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any who answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.

27 It happened at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, "Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he has gone aside, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened."

28 They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.

29 It was so, when midday was past, that they prophesied until the time of the offering of the offering; but there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any who regarded.

30 Elijah said to all the people, "Come near to me;" and all the people came near to him. He repaired the altar of Yahweh that was thrown down.

31 Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of Yahweh came, saying, "Israel shall be your name."

32 With the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh. He made a trench around the altar, large enough to contain two measures of seed.

33 He put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood. He said, "Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering, and on the wood."

34 He said, "Do it a second time;" and they did it the second time. He said, "Do it a third time;" and they did it the third time.

35 The water ran around the altar; and he also filled the trench with water.

36 It happened at the time of the offering of the offering, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, "Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.

37 Hear me, Yahweh, Hear me, that this people may know that you, Yahweh, are God, and that you have turned their heart back again."

38 Then the fire of Yahweh fell, and consumed the burnt offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

39 When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, "Yahweh, he is God! Yahweh, he is God!"

40 Elijah said to them, "Seize the prophets of Baal! Don't let one of them escape!" They seized them. Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.

41 Elijah said to Ahab, "Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain."

42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees.

43 He said to his servant, "Go up now, look toward the sea." He went up, and looked, and said, "There is nothing." He said, "Go again" seven times.

44 It happened at the seventh time, that he said, "Behold, a small cloud, like a man's hand, is rising out of the sea." He said, "Go up, tell Ahab, 'Get ready and go down, so that the rain doesn't stop you.'"

45 It happened in a little while, that the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.

46 The hand of Yahweh was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.