Verses 1-3 And Moses gathered together all the assembly of the children of Israel, and said to them, These are the words which Jehovah has commanded, to do them. Six days shall work be done, and the seventh day shall be a holy day for you, a sabbath of rest to Jehovah^a; everyone doing work on it shall die. You shall not kindle a fire in any of your dwelling-places on the sabbath day.

'And Moses gathered together all the assembly of the children of Israel' means all of the Church's truths and forms of good in their entirety. 'And said to them, These are the words which Jehovah has commanded, to do them' means instruction regarding the major truth of the Church to which all others look back. 'Six days shall work be done' means the first state in the regeneration of a person by the Lord, and in the highest sense the first in the glorification of the Lord's Human. 'And the seventh day shall be a holy day for you, a sabbath of rest to Jehovah' means the second state in the regeneration of a person, when that person is joined to the Lord, and in the highest sense the union of the Lord's Human with the Divine itself. 'Everyone doing work on it shall die' means spiritual death to those who are led by self and selfish loves, and not by the Lord. 'You shall not kindle a fire in any of your dwelling-places on the sabbath day' means that no selfish love at all, that is, no self-love or love of the world, should appear [at that time] in any single thing in the person which comes from the Lord.

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