7027. Verses 21-13 And Jehovah said to Moses, Go and return^a to Egypt, see all the portents which I have put in your hand; and you are to do them before Pharaoh. And I will harden his heart, and he will not send the people away. And you are to say to Pharaoh, Thus said Jehovah, Israel is My son, My firstborn. And I say to you, Send My son away, and let him serve Me; and [if] you refuse to send him away, behold, I kill your son, your firstborn. 'And Jehovah said to Moses' means perception from the Divine. 'Go and return to Egypt' means spiritual life in the natural. 'See all the portents which I have put in your hand' means the means used by power from the spiritual at that time. 'And you are to do them before Pharaoh' means against molesting falsities. 'And I will harden his heart, and he will not send the people away' means obstinacy and so a failure to set free as yet. 'And you are to say to Pharaoh' means admonition. 'Thus said Jehovah' means from the Divine. 'Israel is My son, My firstborn' means that those guided and governed by spiritual truth and good have been adopted. 'And I say to you' means a command. 'Send My son away' means that they should refrain from molestation of the truths of the Church. 'And let him serve Me' means being raised into heaven to perform useful services from there. 'And [if] you refuse to send him away' means obstinacy right to the last. 'Behold, I kill your son, your firstborn' means the annihilation of faith devoid of charity, and the consequent devastation of truth among them.

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