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And Jehovah said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see all the wonders which I have put in thy hand, and thou shalt do them before Pharaoh; and I will harden his heart, and he will not send away the people. And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah, My son, My firstborn, is Israel, and I say unto thee, Send My son away, that he may serve Me; and if thou refuse to send him away, behold I will slay thy son, thy firstborn.

And it came to pass in the way, in the inn, that Jehovah met him, and sought to kill him. And Zipporah took a stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and made it touch his feet; and she said, Because a bridegroom of bloods art thou to me. And He ceased from him. Then she said, A bridegroom of bloods as to circumcisions.

Exodus 4: 21-26

Arcana Coelestia 7027…“And Jehovah said unto Moses,” signifies perception from the Divine; “When thou goest to return into Egypt,” signifies spiritual life in the natural; “see all the wonders which I have put in thy hand,” signifies means of power from the spiritual then; “and thou shalt do them before Pharaoh,” signifies against infesting falsities; “and I will harden his heart, and he will not send away the people,” signifies obstinacy, and thus not yet liberation; “and thou shalt say unto Pharaoh,” signifies exhortation; “Thus said Jehovah,” signifies from the Divine; “My son, My firstborn, is Israel,” signifies that they who are in spiritual truth and good have been adopted; “and I say unto thee,” signifies command; “Send My son away,” signifies that they should abstain from infesting the truths of the church; “that he may serve Me,” signifies elevation into heaven in order to perform uses therefrom; “and if thou refuse to send him away,” signifies obstinacy even to the last; “behold I will slay thy son, thy firstborn,” signifies the extinction of faith without charity, and the consequent devastation of truth with them.

Third Round posts are short audio clips taken from Round 3 comments offered in the online Logopraxis Life Group meetings. The aim is to keep the focus on understanding the Text in terms of its application to the inner life along with reinforcing any key LP principles that have been highlighted in the exchanges.