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1 En een man van het huis van Levi ging, en nam een dochter van Levi.

2 En de vrouw werd zwanger, en baarde een zoon. Toen zij hem zag, dat hij schoon was, zo verborg zij hem drie maanden.

3 Doch als zij hem niet langer verbergen kon, zo nam zij voor hem een kistje van biezen, en belijmde het met lijm en met pek; en zij legde het knechtje daarin, en legde het in de biezen, aan den oever der rivier.

4 En zijn zuster stelde zich van verre, om te weten, wat hem gedaan zou worden.

5 En de dochter van Farao ging af, om zich te wassen in de rivier; en haar jonkvrouwen wandelden aan den kant der rivier; toen zij het kistje in het midden van de biezen zag, zo zond zij haar dienstmaagd heen, en liet het halen.

6 Toen zij het open deed, zo zag zij dat knechtje; en ziet, het jongsken weende; en zij werd met barmhartigheid bewogen over hetzelve, en zij zeide: Dit is een van de knechtjes der Hebreen!

7 Toen zeide zijn zuster tot Farao's dochter: Zal ik heengaan, en u een voedstervrouw uit de Hebreinnen roepen, die dat knechtje voor u zoge?

8 En de dochter van Farao zeide tot haar: Ga heen. En de jonge maagd ging, en riep des knechtjes moeder.

9 Toen zeide Farao's dochter tot haar: Neem dit knechtje heen, en zoog het mij; ik zal u uw loon geven. En de vrouw nam het knechtje en zoogde het.

10 En toen het knechtje groot geworden was, zo bracht zij het tot Farao's dochter, en het werd haar ten zoon; en zij noemde zijn naam Mozes, en zeide: Want ik heb hem uit het water getogen.

11 En het geschiedde in die dagen, toen Mozes groot geworden was, dat hij uitging tot zijn broederen, en bezag hun lasten; en hij zag, dat een Egyptisch man een Hebreeuwsen man uit zijn broederen sloeg.

12 En hij zag herwaarts en gindswaarts; en toen hij zag, dat er niemand was, zo versloeg hij den Egyptenaar, en verborg hem in het zand.

13 Des anderen daags ging hij wederom uit, en ziet, twee Hebreeuwse mannen twistten; en hij zeide tot den ongerechte: Waarom slaat gij uw naaste?

14 Hij dan zeide: Wie heeft u tot een overste en rechter over ons gezet? Zegt gij dit, om mij te doden, gelijk gij den Egyptenaar gedood hebt? Toen vreesde Mozes, en zeide: Voorwaar, deze zaak is bekend geworden!

15 Als nu Farao deze zaak hoorde, zo zocht hij Mozes te doden; doch Mozes vlood voor Farao's aangezicht, en woonde in het land Midian, en hij zat bij een waterput.

16 En de priester in Midian had zeven dochters, die kwamen om te putten, en vulden de drinkbakken, om de kudde haars vaders te drenken.

17 Toen kwamen de herders, en zij dreven haar van daar; doch Mozes stond op, en verloste ze, en drenkte haar kudden.

18 En toen zij tot haar vader Rehuel kwamen, zo sprak hij: Waarom zijt gij heden zo haast wedergekomen?

19 Toen zeiden zij: Een Egyptisch man heeft ons verlost uit de hand der herderen; en hij heeft ook overvloedig voor ons geput, en de kudde gedrenkt.

20 En hij zeide tot zijn dochters: Waar is hij toch, waarom liet gij den man nu gaan? roept hem, dat hij brood ete.

21 En Mozes bewilligde bij den man te wonen; en hij gaf Mozes zijn dochter Zippora;

22 Die baarde een zoon; en hij noemde zijn naam Gersom; want hij zeide: Ik ben een vreemdeling geworden in een vreemd land.

23 En het geschiedde na vele dezer dagen, als de koning van Egypte gestorven was, dat de kinderen Israels zuchtten en schreeuwden over den dienst; en hun gekrijt over hun dienst kwam op tot God.

24 En God hoorde hun gekerm, en God gedacht aan Zijn verbond met Abraham, met Izak, en met Jakob.

25 En God zag de kinderen Israels aan, en God kende hen.

   

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Arcana Coelestia#6729

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6729. 'And the daughter of Pharaoh went down' means the kind of religion practised there. This is clear from the meaning of 'the daughter' as an affection for truth and good, and from this as the Church, dealt with in 2362, 3963, and in the contrary sense as an affection for falsity and evil, and from this as the kind of religion that springs from them, 3024. Here the kind of religion that springs from false factual knowledge is meant because the daughter is Pharaoh's; for 'Pharaoh' here represents false factual knowledge, 6651, 6679, 6683, 6692. In the Word Churches are meant by 'daughters', as may be recognized from the very many places in which the Church is called the daughter of Zion, and the daughter of Jerusalem. The false religions of quite a number of nations are also meant by 'daughters', as is evident from the places where those religions are called daughters, for example, the daughter of Tyre, Psalms 45:12; the daughter of Edom, Lamentations 4:22; the daughter of the Chaldeans and of Babel, Isaiah 47:1, 5; Jeremiah 50:41-42; Jeremiah 51:33; Zechariah 2:7, Psalms 137:8; the daughter of the Philistines, Ezekiel 16:27, 57; the daughter of Tarshish, Isaiah 23:10. 'The daughter of Egypt' is spoken of in Jeremiah,

Go up to Gilead and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! Make for yourself vessels of migration, O inhabitant daughter of Egypt! The daughter of Egypt has been put to shame; she has been delivered into the hand of the people from the north. Jeremiah 46:11, 19, 24.

'The daughter of Egypt' stands for an affection for reasoning that relies, since a negative attitude of mind reigns, on factual knowledge - reasoning whether the truths of faith are indeed true. Thus she stands for the kind of religion which springs from that reasoning, a religion in which there is no belief in anything except what is false.

  
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3024.'That you do not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites' means that the Divine Rational should not be joined to any affection incompatible with truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'taking a woman' as being joined by means of the marriage covenant; from the meaning of 'my son', namely Isaac, as the Lord's Divine Rational, dealt with in 1893, 2066, 2083, 2630; from the meaning of 'daughters' as affections, dealt with in 489-491, 568, 2362; and from the meaning of 'the Canaanites' as evil, dealt with in 1444, 1573, 1574. Consequently 'the daughters of the Canaanites' are affections incompatible with truth. The subject here is Divine truth which was to be allied to the Divine good of the Lord's Rational, as may be seen in 3013 under 'Contents'. 'A woman' who was to be associated by means of a marriage covenant is used to mean that truth itself which is summoned from the natural man in the normal manner. 'My son' is used to mean the Lord's Rational as regards the good with which it was to be allied or associated. From this one may recognize that the command not to take a wife for his son from the daughters of the Canaanites means that the Divine Rational should not be joined to any affection incompatible with truth. All joining of truth to good is effected by means of affection, for no truth ever enters the rational part of a person's mind or is joined to it except by means of affection, for affection has within it the good that flows from love, which good alone effects the joining together, 1895, as also anyone may know who stops to reflect on it.

[2] As regards 'the daughters of the Canaanites' meaning affections incompatible with truth, that is, affections for what is false, this becomes clear from the meaning of 'daughters'. For the noun 'daughters' occurs in many places in the Word, and in these anyone may see that it is not used to mean daughters. By such expressions as 'the daughter of Zion', 'the daughter of Jerusalem', 'the daughter of Tarshish', 'the daughter of My people', affections for good and truth are meant, as shown in the paragraphs referred to above. And since affections for good and truth are meant so also are Churches, for Churches are Churches by virtue of these affections. Consequently 'the daughter of Zion' means the celestial Church, and means this by virtue of the affection for good, whereas 'the daughter of Jerusalem' means the spiritual Church from the affection for truth, 2362. And it is the same with 'the daughter of My people' in Isaiah 22:4; Jeremiah 6:14, 26; 8:19, 21-22; 9:1; 14:17; Lamentations 2:11; 4:6; Ezekiel 13:17.

[3] This shows what is meant by the daughters of the nations, such as by the daughters of the Philistines, the daughters of Egypt, the daughters of Tyre and Sidon, the daughters of Edom, the daughters of Moab, the daughters of the Chaldeans and Babel, and the daughters of Sodom. They mean affections for evil and falsity, from which their varieties of religion sprang, and so mean those varieties themselves. That this is the meaning of 'daughters' becomes clear from the following places: In Ezekiel,

The daughters of the nations will lament over Egypt. Wail over the multitude of Egypt, and send her down, her and the daughters of majestic nations, to the lower earth, together with those who go down to the pit. Ezekiel 32:16, 18.

'The daughters of majestic nations' stands for affections for evil. In Samuel,

Tell it not in Gath; publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult. 2 Samuel 1:20.

In Ezekiel,

You committed whoredom with the sons of Egypt. I delivered you to those who hated you, the daughters of the Philistines. Before your badness was revealed, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all round about her, the daughters of the Philistines who despise you from round about. Ezekiel 16:26-27, 57.

Anyone may see that not daughters were meant here but the varieties of religion among such people as are meant by the Philistines - those who speak repeatedly of faith yet do not at all pursue the life taught by faith, see 1197, 1198. This also explains why they are called 'the uncircumcised', that is, devoid of charity.

[4] In Jeremiah,

Go up to Gilead and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! Make for yourself vessels of migration, O inhabitant daughter of Egypt. The daughter of Egypt has been put to shame; she has been delivered into the hand of the people from the north. Jeremiah 46:11, 19, 24.

'The daughter of Egypt' stands for the affection for reasoning from facts about whether truths of faith really are true, and so stands for the variety of religion which springs from this, the nature of which is to believe nothing except that grasped by the senses, and so to believe nothing of the truth of faith, see 215, 232, 233, 1164, 1165, 1186, 1385, 2196, 2203, 2209, 2568, 2588. In Isaiah,

He said, You will no more exult, O oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Isaiah 23:12.

In David,

The daughter of Tyre with an offering, the rich of the people will entreat your face. Psalms 45:12.

What 'the daughter of Sidon' and 'the daughter of Tyre' mean is evident from the meaning of Sidon and Tyre, dealt with in 1201. In Jeremiah,

Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom. Your iniquity, O daughter of Zion, is at an end. He will no more cause you to migrate; your iniquity will be punished, O daughter of Edom. Lamentations 4:21-22.

In Isaiah,

Like a wandering bird, a scattered nest, will the daughters of Moab be. Isaiah 16:2.

In the same prophet,

Come down and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of Babel; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans. Sit quietly and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, for no more will they call you the mistress of kingdoms. Isaiah 47:1, 5.

In Jeremiah,

A people coming from the north, arrayed as a man for war against you, O daughter of Babel. Jeremiah 50:41-42.

In the same prophet,

The daughter of Babel is like the threshing-floor; it is time to thresh her. Jeremiah 51:33

In Zechariah,

Ho, Zion! escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babel. Zechariah 2:7.

In David,

The daughter of Babel has been laid waste. Psalms 137:8.

In Ezekiel,

Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters will return to their condition as of old, and Samaria and her daughters will return to their condition as of old. Ezekiel 16:55.

[5] Anyone may see that in these places 'daughters' is not used to mean daughters but affections incompatible with truth, and so the varieties of religion that spring from them. But which particular varieties they are is evident from the meaning of those peoples - from the meaning of Edom, Moab, the Chaldeans, Babel, Sodom, Samaria, all of which have been dealt with in various places in the explanations to previous chapters of Genesis. From this what is meant in the present chapter by 'the daughters of the Canaanites' becomes clear.

[6] This command not to contract marriages with the daughters of the Canaanites also had regard to the spiritual requirements that good should not be joined to falsity, nor evil to truth, for the result of any such joining together is profanation. The prohibition was also a representative of the matter referred to in Deuteronomy 7:3, and in Malachi,

Judah has profaned the holiness of Jehovah, in that he loved and married the daughter of a foreign god. Malachi 2:11.

  
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