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Cuộc di cư 23

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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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Arcana Coelestia # 9323

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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.

Mga talababa:

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

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Genesis 47

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1 Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen."

2 From among his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh.

3 Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" They said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers."

4 They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."

5 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.

6 The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock."

7 Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

8 Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many are the days of the years of your life?"

9 Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."

10 Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.

11 Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

12 Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father's household, with bread, according to their families.

13 There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

14 Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.

15 When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, "Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails."

16 Joseph said, "Give me your livestock; and I will Give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone."

17 They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year.

18 When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.

19 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won't be desolate."

20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh's.

21 As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.

22 Only he didn't buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn't sell their land.

23 Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

24 It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones."

25 They said, "You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants."

26 Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn't become Pharaoh's.

27 Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.

28 Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.

29 The time drew near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don't bury me in Egypt,

30 but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place." He said, "I will do as you have said."

31 He said, "Swear to me," and he swore to him. Israel bowed himself on the bed's head.