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1 以色列帶著一切所有的,起身到別是巴,就獻祭給他父親以撒的

2 夜間,在異象中對以色列雅各雅各!他:我在這裡。

3 :我是,就是你父親。你埃及去不要害怕,因為我必使你在那裡成為族。

4 我要和你同埃及去,也必定帶你上來;約瑟必給你送終(原文作將按在你的眼睛上)。

5 雅各就從別是巴起行。以色列的兒子們使他們的父親雅各和他們的妻子、兒女都坐在法老雅各送來的車上。

6 他們又帶著迦南所得的牲畜、貨財埃及雅各和他的一切子孫都一同來了

7 雅各把他的兒子、孫子、女兒、孫女,並他的子子孫孫,一同帶到埃及

8 埃及以色列人名字記在下面。雅各和他的兒孫:雅各長子是流便。

9 流便的兒子是哈諾、法路、希斯倫、迦米。

10 西緬兒子是耶母利、雅憫、阿轄、雅斤、瑣轄,還有迦南女子所生的掃羅

11 利未的兒子是革順、哥轄、米拉利。

12 猶大的兒子是珥、俄南、示拉、法勒斯、謝拉;惟有珥與俄南迦南。法勒斯的兒子是希斯倫、哈母勒。

13 以薩迦的兒子是陀拉、普瓦、約伯、伸崙。

14 西布倫的兒子是西烈、以倫、雅利。

15 這是利亞在巴旦亞蘭給雅各所生的兒子,還在女兒底拿。兒孫共三十三人。

16 迦得的兒子是洗非芸、哈基、書尼、以斯本、以利、亞羅底、亞列利。

17 亞設的兒子是音拿、亦施瓦、亦施韋、比利亞,還有他們的妹子西拉。比利亞的兒子是希別、瑪結。

18 這是拉班給他女兒利亞的婢女悉帕從雅各所生的兒孫,共有十六人。

19 雅各之妻拉結的兒子是約瑟和便雅憫。

20 約瑟在埃及生了瑪拿西以法蓮,就是安城的祭司波提非拉的女兒亞西納給約瑟生的。

21 便雅憫的兒子是比拉、比結、亞實別、基拉、乃幔、以希、羅實、母平、戶平、亞勒。

22 這是拉結給雅各所生的兒孫,共有十四人。

23 但的兒子是戶伸。

24 拿弗他利的兒子是雅薛、沽尼、耶色、示冷。

25 這是拉班給他女兒拉結的婢女辟拉從雅各所生的兒孫,共有人。

26 那與雅各同到埃及的,除了他兒婦之外,凡從他所生的,共有六十六人。

27 還有約瑟在埃及所生的兩個兒子。雅各埃及的共有七十人。

28 雅各打發猶大先去見約瑟,請派人引歌珊去;於是他們歌珊

29 約瑟套車往歌珊去,迎接他父親以色列,及至見了面,就伏在父親的頸項,哭了許久。

30 以色列對約瑟:我既得見你的面,知道你還在,就是我也甘心。

31 約瑟對他的弟兄和他父的全家:我要上去告訴法老,對他:我的弟兄和我父的全家從前在迦南,現今都到我這裡來了

32 他們本是牧的人,以養牲畜為業;他們把羊群牛群和一切所有的都帶來了。

33 法老召你們的時候,問你們:你們以何事為業?

34 你們要:你的僕人,從幼年直到如今,都以養牲畜為業,連我們的祖宗也都以此為業。這樣,你們可以歌珊,因為凡牧的都被埃及人所厭惡。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 6044

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6044. 'And the men are shepherds of the flock' means that they lead to good. This is clear from the meaning of 'shepherds of the flock' as those who lead to good, dealt with in 343, 3795, 5201; for a shepherd or pastor is one who teaches and leads, and the flock one who is taught or led; but in the internal sense truths that lead to good are meant since the sons of Israel, to whom 'the men are shepherds of the flock' refers here, represent spiritual truths, 6040, and also since truths present with those who teach are what do the leading. It has been shown previously that truths, which are the essence of faith, lead to good, which is the essence of charity. This is also evident from the consideration that every single thing is related to an end and has that end in view, and that things which do not have an end in view cannot remain in being. For the Lord has never created anything for any other reason than its end in view. So true is this that one may speak of the end as the all in all created things. And created things exist within this state of order: Even as the end looks from Him who is the First through means to what is last, so the end within what is last looks to the end in Him who is the First. This is the way things link together. By virtue of its very own origin the end itself is nothing else than the Divine Good of Divine Love, thus the Lord Himself, which also is why in the Word He is called the First and the Last, the Alpha and the Omega, Isaiah 41:4; 44:6; 48:12; Revelation 1:8, 11, 17; 2:8; 21:6; 22:13.

[2] This being so, every single aspect of the life a person has looks to an end and has that end in view. Anyone who is at all rational can see that the factual knowledge a person has looks to truths as its end in view, and that truths look to forms of good as their end in view, and that forms of good look to the Lord as their last and first ends in view, their last when motivated by truths, their first when motivated by good. This is how it is with the truths the Church possesses, in that they lead to good, meant by 'the men are shepherds of the flock' and by 'they are keepers of livestock', as in what follows below.

  
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