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1 En tiu tempo Jehuda apartigxis for de siaj fratoj, kaj eklogxis apud iu Adulamano, kiu estis nomata HXira.

2 Kaj Jehuda vidis tie filinon de iu Kanaanido, nomata SXua, kaj li prenis sxin kaj envenis al sxi.

3 Kaj sxi gravedigxis kaj naskis filon; kaj li donis al li la nomon Er.

4 Kaj sxi denove gravedigxis kaj naskis filon, kaj sxi donis al li la nomon Onan.

5 Kaj ankoraux plue sxi naskis filon, kaj donis al li la nomon SXela. Sed Jehuda estis en Kezib, kiam sxi naskis tiun.

6 Kaj Jehuda prenis edzinon por sia unuenaskito Er, kaj sxia nomo estis Tamar.

7 Sed Er, la unuenaskito de Jehuda, estis malbona antaux la okuloj de la Eternulo, kaj la Eternulo lin mortigis.

8 Tiam Jehuda diris al Onan: Envenu al la edzino de via frato, kaj boedzigxu kun sxi kaj naskigu idaron al via frato.

9 Sed Onan sciis, ke ne por li estos la idaro; tial, envenante al la edzino de sia frato, li elversxadis la semon sur la teron, por ne doni idaron al sia frato.

10 Kaj malplacxis al la Eternulo tio, kion li faris, kaj Li mortigis ankaux lin.

11 Tiam Jehuda diris al sia bofilino Tamar: Restu kiel vidvino en la domo de via patro, gxis grandigxos mia filo SXela. CXar li timis, ke eble li ankaux mortos, kiel liaj fratoj. Kaj Tamar iris kaj eklogxis en la domo de sia patro.

12 Pasis multe da tempo, kaj mortis la filino de SXua, la edzino de Jehuda. Kiam Jehuda konsoligxis, li iris Timnan, al la tondantoj de liaj sxafoj, li kaj lia amiko, HXira la Adulamano.

13 Kaj oni sciigis al Tamar, dirante: Jen via bopatro iras Timnan, por tondi siajn sxafojn.

14 Tiam sxi demetis de si siajn vestojn de vidvineco kaj kovris sin per kovrotuko kaj vualis sin, kaj sidigxis apud la pordo de Enaim, kiu trovigxas sur la vojo al Timna. CXar sxi vidis, ke SXela grandigxis kaj sxi ne estas donita al li kiel edzino.

15 Kaj Jehuda sxin vidis, kaj li pensis, ke sxi estas publikulino, cxar sxi kovris sian vizagxon.

16 Kaj li turnis sin al sxi cxe la vojo, kaj diris: Lasu min enveni al vi. CXar li ne sciis, ke tio estas lia bofilino. Kaj sxi diris: Kion vi donos al mi, se vi envenos al mi?

17 Kaj li diris: Mi sendos al vi kapron el la brutaro. Sed sxi diris: Donu al mi garantiajxon, gxis vi sendos.

18 Kaj li diris: Kian garantiajxon mi donu al vi? SXi diris: Vian sigelilon kaj vian sxnureton, kaj vian bastonon, kiu estas en via mano. Kaj li donis al sxi kaj envenis al sxi, kaj sxi gravedigxis de li.

19 Kaj sxi levigxis kaj iris, kaj formetis de si sian kovrotukon kaj surmetis sur sin siajn vestojn de vidvineco.

20 Kaj Jehuda sendis la kapron per sia amiko la Adulamano, por preni la garantiajxon el la manoj de la virino; sed li sxin ne trovis.

21 Kaj li demandis la homojn de sxia loko, dirante: Kie estas la publikulino, kiu sidis en Enaim cxe la vojo? Kaj ili diris: CXi tie ne estis publikulino.

22 Kaj li revenis al Jehuda, kaj diris: Mi sxin ne trovis, kaj ankaux la homoj de la loko diris, ke tie ne estis publikulino.

23 Tiam Jehuda diris: SXi prenu gxin al si, por ke ni ne estu mokataj; mi sendis ja cxi tiun kapron, sed vi sxin ne trovis.

24 Post la paso de tri monatoj oni sciigis al Jehuda, dirante: Tamar, via bofilino, malcxastigxis, kaj sxi ecx gravedigxis de malcxasteco. Tiam Jehuda diris: Elkonduku sxin, kaj oni sxin brulmortigu.

25 Kiam oni sxin kondukis, sxi sendis, ke oni diru al sxia bopatro: Mi gravedigxis de la viro, al kiu apartenas cxi tio. Kaj sxi diris: Rekonu, al kiu apartenas la sigelilo kaj la sxnuretoj kaj cxi tiu bastono.

26 Kaj Jehuda rekonis, kaj li diris: SXi estas pli prava ol mi, cxar mi ne donis sxin al mia filo SXela. Kaj li sxin ne plue konis.

27 Kiam sxi devis naski, montrigxis, ke gxemeloj estas en sxia ventro.

28 Kaj kiam sxi estis naskanta, elsxovigxis la mano de unu infano; kaj la akusxistino prenis kaj alligis al la mano rugxan fadenon, dirante: CXi tiu eliris la unua.

29 Sed kiam li retiris sian manon, eliris lia frato. Kaj sxi diris: Kial vi faris por vi trasxiron? Kaj oni donis al li la nomon Perec.

30 Poste eliris lia frato, kiu havis sur sia mano la rugxan fadenon. Kaj oni donis al li la nomon Zerahx.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 3519

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3519. 'And take for me from there two good kids of the she-goats' means truths born from that good. This is clear from the meaning of 'kids of the she-goats' as truths born from good, dealt with below. The reason for having 'two' was that as in the rational so in the natural there are things of the will and those of the understanding. Things in the natural that belong to the will are delights, while those that belong to the understanding are facts. These two have to be joined together if they are to be anything at all.

[2] As regards 'kids of the she-goats' meaning truths born from good, this becomes clear from those places in the Word where kids and she-goats are mentioned. It should be recognized that all gentle and useful beasts mentioned in the Word mean in the genuine sense celestial things, which are forms of good, and spiritual things, which are forms of truth, see 45, 46, 142, 143, 246, 714, 715, 776, 2179, 2180, 2781, 3218. And since there are various genera of celestial things or forms of good, and consequently there are various genera of spiritual things or forms of truth, one beast has a different meaning from another; that is to say, a lamb has one meaning, a kid another, and a sheep, she-goat, ram, he-goat, young bull, or ox another, while a horse or a camel has yet another meaning. Birds have a different meaning again, as also do beasts of the sea, such as sea monsters, and fish. The genera of celestial and spiritual things, and consequently of forms of good and truth, are more than anyone can number, even though when that which is celestial or good is mentioned, and also when that which is spiritual or truth, this is not envisaged as being anything complex, consisting of many parts, but as a single entity. Yet how complex both of these are, that is, how countless the genera are of which they consist, may be seen from what has been stated about heaven in 3241, to the effect that it is distinguished into countless separate communities, according to the genera of celestial and spiritual things, that is, of goods of love and of derivative truths of faith. Furthermore each genus of good and each genus of truth has countless species into which the communities of each genus are separated. And each species in a similar way has separate sub-species.

[3] The commonest genera of good and truth are what the living creatures offered as burnt offerings and sacrifices represented. And because the genera are quite distinct and separate, people were explicitly commanded to use those living creatures and no others, that is to say, in some sacrifices lambs and ewe-lambs, and also kids and female kids of she-goats were to be used, in other sacrifices rams and sheep, and also he-goats, were to be used, while in other sacrifices again, calves, young bulls, and oxen, or else pigeons and doves, were to be used, see 992, 1823, 2180, 2805, 2807, 2830, 3218. What kids and she-goats meant however becomes clear both from the sacrifices in which they used to be offered and from other places in the Word. These show that lambs and ewe-lambs meant innocence belonging to the internal or rational man, and kids and she-goats innocence belonging to the external or natural man, and so the truth and the good of the latter.

[4] The fact that truth and good present in the innocence that belongs to the external or natural man is meant by a kid and a she-goat is clear from the following places in the Word: In Isaiah,

The wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the kid, the calf also and the young lion and the sheep together; and a little child will lead them. Isaiah 11:6.

This refers to the Lord's kingdom and to the state there in which people have no fear of evil, that is, no dread of hell, because they are with the Lord. 'The lamb' and 'the kid' stand for people who have innocence within them, and who, being the most secure of all, are mentioned first.

[5] When all the firstborn of Egypt were smitten the people were commanded to kill from among the lambs or among the kids a male without blemish, and to put some of the blood on the doorposts and on the lintel of their houses; and so the destroyer would not strike them with the plague, Exodus 12:5, 7, 13. 'The firstborn of Egypt' means the good of love and charity that was wiped out, 3325. 'The lambs' and 'the kids' are states of innocence, in which those with whom these exist are secure from evil. Indeed all in heaven are kept secure by the Lord through states of innocence. That security was represented by the killing of the lamb or kid, and putting the blood on the doorposts and on the lintel of the houses. .

[6] To avert his own death when a person saw Jehovah manifested as an angel he would sacrifice 'a kid of the she-goats', as Gideon did when he saw Him, Judges 6:19, and also Manoah, Judges 13:15-16, 19. The reason they offered a kid was that Jehovah or the Lord cannot appear to anybody, not even to an angel, unless the one to whom He appears is in a state of innocence. Therefore as soon as the Lord is present people are brought into a state of innocence, for the Lord enters in by way of innocence, even with angels in heaven. Consequently no one is able to enter heaven unless he has a measure of innocence, according to the Lord's words recorded in Matthew 18:3; Mark 10:15; Luke 18:17. Regarding people's belief that they would die when Jehovah appeared to them if they did not offer such a burnt offering, see Judges 13:22-23.

[7] Since genuine conjugial love is innocence itself, 2736, it was customary in the representative Church for a man to go to his wife with the gift of a kid of the she-goats, as one reads of Samson in Judges 15:1, and also of Judah when he visited Tamar, Genesis 38:17, 20, 23. The fact that 'a kid' and 'a she-goat' meant innocence is also evident from the sacrifices made as guilt offerings that a person would offer if he had sinned through error, Leviticus 1:10; 4:28; 5:6. Sinning through error is sinning through ignorance that has innocence within it. The same is evident from the following Divine command in Moses,

You shall bring the first of the firstfruits of your land to the house of Jehovah your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk. Exodus 23:19; 34:26.

Here the requirement 'to bring the firstfruits of the land to the house of Jehovah' means the state of innocence which exists in early childhood; and 'not boiling a kid in its mother's milk' means that they were not to destroy the innocence of early childhood. This being their meaning, the one command, in both places referred to, follows directly after the other. In the literal sense there seems to be no connection at all between them as there is in the internal sense.

[8] Because kids and she-goats, as has been stated, meant innocence it was also required that the curtains over the tabernacle should be made from she-goat hair, Exodus 25:4; 26:7; 35:5-6, 23, 26; 36:14, as a sign that all the holy things represented in it depended for their very being on innocence. 'She-goat hair' means the last or outermost degree of innocence present in ignorance, such as exists with gentiles who in the internal sense are meant by the curtains of the tabernacle. These considerations now show what truths born of good are, and what the nature of these is, meant by the two good kids of the she-goats which Rebekah his mother spoke about to Jacob. That is to say, they are truths belonging to innocence or early childhood, meant also by the things which Esau was to bring to Isaac his father, dealt with in 3501, 3508. They were not in fact such truths, but initially they appeared to be. Thus it was that Jacob pretended by means of them to be Esau.

  
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