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1 Kaj Dio diris al Jakob: Levigxu, iru al Bet-El kaj logxu tie; kaj faru tie altaron al Dio, kiu aperis al vi, kiam vi kuris de via frato Esav.

2 Tiam Jakob diris al sia domanaro, kaj al cxiuj, kiuj estis kun li: Forigu la fremdajn diojn, kiuj estas inter vi, kaj purigxu kaj sxangxu viajn vestojn.

3 Kaj ni levigxu, kaj ni iru al Bet-El; kaj mi faros tie altaron al Dio, kiu atentis min en la tago de mia mizero, kaj estis kun mi sur la vojo, kiun mi iris.

4 Kaj ili donis al Jakob cxiujn fremdajn diojn, kiuj estis en iliaj manoj, kaj la ringojn, kiuj estis en iliaj oreloj; kaj Jakob enfosis ilin sub la kverko, kiu estis apud SXehxem.

5 Kaj ili ekiris. Kaj timo de Dio venis sur la urbojn, kiuj estis cxirkaux ili, kaj ili ne persekutis la filojn de Jakob.

6 Jakob venis al la urbo Luz, kiu estas en la lando Kanaana kaj havas ankaux la nomon Bet-El, li kaj cxiuj homoj, kiuj estis kun li.

7 Kaj li konstruis tie altaron, kaj donis al la loko la nomon El-Bet-El; cxar tie aperis al li Dio, kiam li kuris de sia frato.

8 Tiam mortis Debora, la mamnutrintino de Rebeka, kaj oni sxin enterigis apud Bet-El, sub la kverko. Kaj tiu loko ricevis la nomon Alon-Bahxut.

9 Kaj denove Dio aperis al Jakob, kiam li revenis el Mezopotamio, kaj benis lin.

10 Kaj Dio diris al li: Via nomo estas Jakob; tamen ne plue estu nomata Jakob, sed Izrael estu via nomo. Kaj Li donis al li la nomon Izrael.

11 Kaj Dio diris al li: Mi estas Dio la Plejpotenca; fruktu kaj multigxu; popolo kaj popolaro farigxos el vi, kaj regxoj eliros el via lumbo.

12 Kaj la landon, kiun Mi donis al Abraham kaj al Isaak, Mi donos al vi, kaj al via idaro post vi Mi donos la landon.

13 Kaj Dio forlevigxis de li sur la loko, kie Li parolis kun li.

14 Jakob starigis monumenton sur la loko, kie Li parolis kun li, monumenton sxtonan; kaj li versxis sur gxin versxoferon kaj versxis sur gxin oleon.

15 Kaj al la loko, kie Dio parolis kun li, Jakob donis la nomon Bet-El.

16 Kaj ili forlasis Bet-Elon. Kiam restis ankoraux negranda interspaco, por veni al Efrata, Rahxel naskis, kaj sxia akusxigxo estis malfacila.

17 Dum sxia akusxigxa suferado la akusxistino diris al sxi: Ne timu, cxar ankaux cxi tiu cxe vi estas filo.

18 Dum la elirado de sxia animo, cxar sxi estis mortanta, sxi donis al li la nomon Ben-Oni; sed lia patro donis al li la nomon Benjamen.

19 Kaj Rahxel mortis, kaj oni enterigis sxin sur la vojo al Efrata, kiu estas Bet-Lehxem.

20 Kaj Jakob starigis monumenton super sxia tombo. Tio estas la tomba monumento de Rahxel gxis la nuna tago.

21 Kaj Izrael formigris, kaj starigis sian tendon transe de la turo Eder.

22 En la tempo, kiam Izrael logxis en tiu lando, Ruben iris kaj kusxis kun Bilha, la kromvirino de lia patro. Kaj pri tio auxdis Izrael. La filoj de Jakob estis dek du:

23 la filoj de Lea: Ruben, la unuenaskito de Jakob, kaj Simeon kaj Levi kaj Jehuda kaj Isahxar kaj Zebulun;

24 la filoj de Rahxel: Jozef kaj Benjamen;

25 kaj la filoj de Bilha, sklavino de Rahxel: Dan kaj Naftali;

26 kaj la filoj de Zilpa, sklavino de Lea: Gad kaj Asxer. Tio estas la filoj de Jakob, kiuj naskigxis al li en Mezopotamio.

27 Kaj Jakob venis al sia patro Isaak en Mamre, al Kirjat-Arba (tio estas HXebron), kie vivis fremdule Abraham kaj Isaak.

28 Isaak havis la agxon de cent okdek jaroj.

29 Kaj Isaak konsumigxis kaj mortis kaj alkolektigxis al sia popolo, estante maljuna kaj sata de vivo. Kaj lin enterigis liaj filoj Esav kaj Jakob.

   

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9594. 'And you shall make the dwelling-place' means the second or middle heaven. This is clear from the meaning of 'the dwelling-place', when it refers to the Divine, as heaven - the middle or second heaven, strictly speaking. It is well known that there are three heavens, namely the inmost, middle, and lowest, or third, second, and first. All these heavens were represented by the tabernacle; the inmost or third heaven was represented by the ark where the Testimony was, the middle or second heaven by the dwelling-place where the table for the loaves of the Presence and the lampstand were, and the lowest or first heaven by the court. The reason why there are three heavens is that there are three degrees of life with the human being. (Human beings, who become angels after death, constitute heaven; angels have no other beginning, and the heavens spring from no other source.) The inmost degree of his life exists for the inmost heaven, the middle degree of life for the middle heaven, and the lowest for the lowest heaven. And because the human being is like this, or has been so formed, and heaven springs from the human race, there are three heavens.

[2] These degrees of life with a person are opened up in successive stages. The first degree is opened up by a life led in accord with what is right and fair, the second degree by a life in accord with the truths of faith drawn from the Word and with forms of the good of charity towards the neighbour that follow on from those truths, and the third degree by a life in accord with the good of mutual love and the good of love to the Lord. These virtues are the means by which those three degrees of life with a person, and so the three heavens with him, are opened up in successive stages. But it should be recognized that to the extent that a person departs from good in life and moves towards evil in life those degrees are closed, that is, the heavens with him are closed; for just as good in life opens them, so evil in life closes them. This being so, all who are steeped in evil are outside heaven, thus are in hell. It should also be recognized that with some people - since the heavens with a person are opened up in successive stages according to the good present in his life, as stated above - the first heaven and not the second is opened up; that with some others the second heaven and not the third is opened up; but that the third heaven is opened up solely with those governed by good in life springing from love to the Lord. For the human being is heaven in its smallest form, and has been created so as to conform to an image of heaven and of the world, see the places referred to in 9279.

[3] There is therefore an inmost heaven, represented by the ark of the Testimony, which was the subject in the previous chapter; a middle heaven, represented by the dwelling-place, which is the subject in the present chapter; and a lowest heaven, represented by the court, which is the subject in the next chapter. Heaven is called God's dwelling-place because what is Divine and the Lord's dwells there; for Divine Truth emanating from the Lord's Divine Good is what makes heaven, indeed gives life to the angels there. And since the Lord dwells with angels in that which comes from Him, 9338 (end), heaven is called God's dwelling-place, and the actual Divine Truths emanating from Divine Good, which angels or angelic communities are recipients of, are called dwellings, as in David,

Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me, let them lead me to [Your] holy mountain and to Your dwellings, that I may go in to the altar of God, to God ... Psalms 43:3-4.

In the same author,

There is a river whose streams will make glad the city of God, the holy place of the dwellings of the Most High. Psalms 46:4.

In the same author,

Down to the ground 1 they have profaned the dwelling-place of Your name. Psalms 74:7.

In the same author,

How lovely are Your dwellings, O Jehovah! Psalms 84:1.

[4] The fact that the Divine realities which emanate from the Lord's Divine Human are what are rightly called 'dwellings', as a result of which heaven itself is called 'the dwelling-place', is also clear in David,

He swore to Jehovah, he made a vow to the Mighty One of Jacob, Surely I will not give sleep to my eyes, until I find a place for Jehovah, the dwelling-places for the Mighty One of Jacob. Behold, we heard of Him in Ephrathah, we found Him in the fields of the wood. We will enter His dwelling-places. Psalms 132:2, 4-7.

'The Mighty One of Jacob' is the Lord's Divine Human, 6425. 'Ephrathah', where He was to be found, is Bethlehem where He was born, Genesis 35:19; 48:7; Micah 5:2; Matthew 2:5-6. 'The fields of the wood' are the forms of good composing the Church among gentiles.

[5] In Ezekiel,

They will dwell in the land which I gave to My servant Jacob. They will dwell in it, they [and their sons] and their sons' sons forever. And David My servant will be their prince forever. I will make with them a covenant of peace; it will be an eternal covenant with them. And I will set My sanctuary in their midst forever; so shall My dwelling-place be among them. Ezekiel 37:25-27.

'David, who will be their prince forever' stands for the Lord, 1888; 'the sanctuary' (sanctuarium) stands for the Lord's Divine Human, since He is the source of all holiness (sanctum), 3210, 9229, so that 'dwelling-place' stands for heaven and for the Church, where the Lord is.

[6] In Jeremiah,

Thus said Jehovah, Behold, I will bring back the captivity 2 of the tents of Jacob, and will have compassion on his dwellings, that the city may be built upon its mound. Jeremiah 30:18.

'Bringing back the captivity of the tents of Jacob' stands for restoring the external Church's forms of good and truths which had been destroyed, 'having compassion on his dwellings' for restoring the internal Church's truths, 'the city which was to be built upon its mound' for doctrinal teachings about the truth, 2449, 2943, 3216, 4492, 4493.

[7] How the Lord dwells in the heavens may be seen from what has been shown previously regarding the Lord, that is to say, where it has been shown that the Lord's Divine Human is the Sun, the source of heat and light in the heavens. The heat radiating from the Lord as the Sun is love, while the light is faith. The Lord therefore dwells with those who receive from Him the good of love and the truth of faith, which are the heat and light of life; and how fully He is present depends on their degree of receptivity.

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1. literally, Into the earth or land

2. i.e. restore the fortunes

  
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