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创世记 44

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1 约瑟吩咐家宰说:『把粮食装满这些袋,尽着他们的驴所能驮的,又把各子放在各袋里,

2 并将我的杯和那少年人籴粮的子一同装在他的袋里。』家宰就照约瑟所行了;

3 天一亮就打发那些人带着走了。

4 他们出城走了不远,约瑟对家宰:『起来,追那些人去,追上了就对他们:「你们为甚麽以恶报善呢?

5 这不是我人饮酒的杯吗?岂不是他占卜用的吗?你们这样行是作恶了。」』

6 家宰追上他们,将这些对他们了。

7 他们回答:『我为甚麽这样的呢?你仆人断不能作这样的事。

8 你看,我们从前在袋里所见的子,尚且从迦南带来还你,我们怎能从你人家里呢?

9 仆人中无论在谁那里搜出来,就叫他,我们也作我的奴仆。』

10 家宰:『现在就照你们的行吧!在谁那里搜出来,谁就作我的奴仆;其馀的都没有罪。』

11 於是他们各急忙把口袋卸在,各打开口袋。

12 家宰就搜查,从年长的起到年幼的为止,那杯竟在便雅悯的口袋里搜出来。

13 他们就撕裂衣服,各把驮子抬在上,回城去了。

14 犹大和他弟兄们到约瑟的中,约瑟还在那里,他们就在他面前俯伏於

15 约瑟对他们:『你们作的是甚麽事呢?你们岂不知像我这样的必能占卜吗?』

16 犹大:『我们甚麽呢?还有甚麽话可呢?我们怎能自己表白出来呢?已经查出仆人的罪孽了。我们与那在他中搜出杯来的都是我的奴仆。

17 约瑟:『我断不能这样行!在谁的中搜出杯来,谁就作我的奴仆;至於你们,可以平平安安地上你们父亲那里去。』

18 犹大他,:『我啊,求你容仆人一句给我听,不要向仆人发烈怒,因为你如同法老一样。

19 曾问仆人:「你们有父亲兄弟没有?」

20 我们对我:「我们有父亲,已经年老,还有他老年所生的一个小孩子。他哥哥死了,他母亲只撇下他一人,他父亲他。」

21 你对仆人:「把他带到我这里来,叫我亲眼看看他。」

22 我们对我:童子不能离开他父亲,若是离开,他父亲

23 你对仆人:你们的小兄弟若不与你们一同来,你们就不得再见我的面。

24 我们上到你仆人─我们父亲那里,就把我告诉了他。

25 我们父亲:你们再去给我籴些粮来。

26 我们我们不能去。我们的小兄弟若和我们同往,我们就可以去。因为,小兄弟若不与我们同往,我们必不得见那的面。

27 仆人─我父亲我们:你们知道我的妻子给我生了两个儿子。

28 个离开我出去了;我他必是被撕碎了,直到如今我也没有见他。

29 现在你们又要把这个带去离开我,倘若他遭害,那便是你们使我白发苍苍、悲悲惨惨地阴间去了。

30 父亲的命与这童子的命相连。如今我回到你仆人─我父亲那里,若没有童子与我们同在,

31 我们父亲见没有童子,他就必。这便是我们使你仆人我们父亲白发苍苍、悲悲惨惨地阴间去了。

32 因为仆人曾向我父亲为这童子作保,说:我若不他回来交给父亲,我便在父亲面前永远担罪。

33 现在求你容仆人住下,替这童子作我的奴仆,叫童子和他哥哥们一同上去。

34 若童子不和我同去,我怎能上去见我父亲呢?恐怕我见灾祸临到我父亲身上。

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 5708

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5708. 'Five measures more' means that it was much increased. This is clear from the meaning of 'five' as much, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'measures' as states of truth received from good, dealt with in 3104. As regards 'five', this is a number which can mean little, or else something, or even much. Whatever its specific meaning, this stems from its relationship with the number of which it is a factor, 5291. When it is a factor of ten, much the same as ten, but in a smaller degree, is implied, five being half the number ten. For just as compound numbers have a similar meaning to the simple ones of which they are the product, 5291, 5335, so do divisors have a similar meaning to the compound numbers they divide, as with the relationship of five to ten, also to twenty, as well as to a hundred, a thousand, and so on. 'Ten' means what is full and complete, see 3107, 4638. 'Five measures more' were given to Benjamin than to the rest of his brothers on account of what was meant by this in the spiritual sense. Ten measures could not be given because that amount would have been far too much. The ancients knew from what had been handed down to them from the Most Ancient Church the meanings that certain numbers carried; they therefore used those numbers whenever something cropped up, the meaning of which could be conveyed by those numbers, as is the case with five here. At other times they employed many other numbers, such as three to mean what was complete from start to finish, seven to mean what was holy, or twelve to mean all things in their entirety.

  
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