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Genesis 26

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1 Aga maal oli nälg pärast seda eelmist nälga, mis Aabrahami päevil oli olnud. Ja Iisak läks vilistite kuninga Abimeleki juurde Gerarisse.

2 Ja Issand ilmutas ennast temale ning ütles: 'Ära mine alla Egiptusesse! Jää maale, kuhu ma sind käsin!

3 Ela võõrana siin maal, ja ma olen sinuga ning õnnistan sind, sest sinule ja sinu soole ma annan kõik need maad ning pean vannet, mille ma olen vandunud su isale Aabrahamile.

4 Ja ma teen su soo paljuks nagu taevatähed ja annan su soole kõik need maad, ja sinu soo nimel õnnistavad endid kõik maailma rahvad,

5 sellepärast et Aabraham kuulas mu sõna ja pidas, mis ma käskisin pidada - mu käske, seadlusi ja õpetusi.'

6 Ja Iisak jäi elama Gerarisse.

7 Kui kohalikud mehed küsisid tema naise kohta, siis ta ütles: 'See on mu õde.' Sest ta kartis öelda: 'Mu naine', mõeldes ise: 'Muidu kohalikud mehed tapavad mu Rebeka pärast, sest ta on ilusa välimusega.'

8 Aga kui ta seal pikemat aega oli viibinud, vaatas Abimelek, vilistite kuningas, kord aknast välja ja nägi, et Iisak hellitas oma naist Rebekat.

9 Siis Abimelek kutsus Iisaki ja ütles: 'Vaata, ta on tõepoolest su naine! Kuidas sa siis võisid öelda: Ta on mu õde?' Ja Iisak vastas temale: 'Ma mõtlesin, et muidu ma ehk pean tema pärast surema.'

10 Aga Abimelek ütles: 'Miks sa meile seda tegid? Kui kergesti oleks võinud keegi rahva hulgast magada su naisega ja sa oleksid meie peale toonud süü!'

11 Ja Abimelek andis käsu kogu rahvale, öeldes: 'Kes puudutab seda meest ja tema naist, peab surema!'

12 Ja Iisak külvas seal maal ja sai sel aastal sajakordselt, sest Issand õnnistas teda.

13 Ja mees läks rikkaks, läks üha rikkamaks, kuni ta oli läinud väga rikkaks.

14 Ja temal oli lamba- ja kitsekarju ja veisekarju ja palju peret, nõnda et vilistid teda kadestasid.

15 Ja vilistid matsid kinni ja täitsid mullaga kõik kaevud, mis tema isa sulased olid kaevanud tema isa Aabrahami päevil.

16 Ja Abimelek ütles Iisakile: 'Mine ära meie juurest, sest sa oled saanud meist palju vägevamaks!'

17 Siis Iisak läks sealt ära ja lõi oma telgid üles Gerari orgu ning elas seal.

18 Ja Iisak kaevas uuesti need veekaevud, mis tema isa Aabrahami päevil olid kaevatud ja mis vilistid pärast Aabrahami surma olid kinni matnud; ja ta pani neile needsamad nimed, mis tema isa neile oli pannud.

19 Aga kui Iisaki sulased kaevasid orus ja leidsid seal voolava veega kaevu,

20 siis Gerari karjased riidlesid Iisaki karjastega, öeldes: 'Vesi on meie oma!' Ta pani siis kaevule nimeks Eesek, sellepärast et nad temaga olid tülitsenud.

21 Siis nad kaevasid teise kaevu, ja selle pärast riidlesid nad ka; ja sellele ta pani nimeks Sitna.

22 Sealt ta siirdus edasi ja kaevas veel ühe kaevu, aga selle pärast nad ei riielnud; ja sellele ta pani nimeks Rehobot ning ütles: 'Nüüd on Issand andnud meile avarust, et võiksime siin maal olla viljakad.'

23 Ja sealt ta läks üles Beer-Sebasse.

24 Ja Issand ilmutas ennast temale selsamal ööl ning ütles: 'Mina olen su isa Aabrahami Jumal. Ära karda, sest ma olen sinuga ja õnnistan sind! Ma teen su soo paljuks oma sulase Aabrahami pärast.'

25 Siis ta ehitas sinna altari, hüüdis appi Issanda nime ja lõi sinna oma telgi üles; ja Iisaki sulased kaevasid sinna kaevu.

26 Ja Abimelek tuli Gerarist tema juurde ühes oma sõbra Ahusati ja väepealik Piikoliga.

27 Aga Iisak ütles neile: 'Miks tulete minu juurde? Te ju vihkate mind ja olete mind eneste juurest ära saatnud!'

28 Ja nemad vastasid: 'Me näeme selgesti, et Issand on sinuga. Seepärast me ütleme: Olgu meie vahel vanne, meie ja sinu vahel, ja me teeme sinuga lepingu,

29 et sa meile kurja ei tee, nõnda nagu me sinusse ei ole puutunud, vaid oleme sulle ainult head teinud ja sind rahuga ära saatnud. Sina oled ju nüüd Issanda õnnistatu!'

30 Siis ta tegi neile võõruspeo ning nad sõid ja jõid.

31 Ja nad tõusid hommikul vara ning andsid üksteisele vande. Siis Iisak saatis nad ära ja nad läksid ta juurest rahuga.

32 Ja selsamal päeval tulid Iisaki sulased ning teatasid temale kaevust, mille nad olid kaevanud, ja ütlesid temale: 'Me leidsime vett.'

33 Siis ta nimetas selle Sibaks; seepärast on linna nimeks tänapäevani Beer-Seba.

34 Kui Eesav oli nelikümmend aastat vana, võttis ta naiseks Juuditi, hett Beeri tütre, ja Baasmati, hett Eeloni tütre.

35 Aga need olid meelehärmiks Iisakile ja Rebekale.

   

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Abraham

  
Représentation d'Abraham, by Joseph Villiet

Abraham (or Abram, as he was named in the beginning of his story) was the ancestor of all the Children of Israel, through his son Isaac, and of the Arabs, through his son Ishmael.

Abraham represents the Divine good or love. His story foreshadows the life of Jesus, and our spiritual lives, too.

His life can be usefully seen as being divided into three periods. The first period includes the unknown early years from his birth in Ur, and his later move to Haran with his father Terah. The second section starts with Abram's being called by Jehovah to go to Canaan. It includes the adventures he had there, and continues until the events of the 17th chapter of Genesis where he is said to be 99 years old, rich, and powerful - but without a son by his wife Sarai. Once again the Lord appears to him, promises that his progeny will become a great nation, institutes the rite of circumcision, and changes his name to Abraham, adding the "ah" sound from Jehovah. The third and last period of his life sees the birth of Isaac, the death of Sarah (whose name was also changed), and the finding of a wife for Isaac from among Abraham's relatives back in Mesopotamia. Abraham is said to be 175 years old when he dies, as recorded in the 25th chapter of Genesis.

What we are here interested in is the deep representation of Abraham because he prophesies or foreshadows the inmost part of Jesus' life after He is born to Mary centuries after the man Abraham lived on the earth. Abraham represents the Divine good or love. The internal sense of the Word tells us that God himself provided the life into an ovum within Mary, so she could provide a natural body and a natural heredity from the Jewish religion, while the soul of Jesus was kept as a direct possessor of divine life. During Jesus' early life, probably up to adolescence, Jesus lived out those representative actions of Abraham in the innermost parts of his mind and spirit. Abraham as he pastured his sheep and ran his large household had no idea at all that this was true, and early in Jesus' life He didn't realize it either. There must have been perceptions as Jesus grew up, witness his visit to the temple when He was 12, but not a complete understanding until He was fully grown. And further, it isn't only Abraham. When Abraham dies, the representation attaches to Isaac, who represents the rational level of the mind, and then to both Jacob and Esau who represent the natural mind as to truth and good in the mind respectively. And then the trials of the twelve tribes, the kings, and all the sayings of the prophets become that same representation. So Jesus could say to the two disciples that He met on the road to Emmaus, "O fools and slow of heart... and beginning at Moses and all the Prophets He expounded to them in all the scriptures all the things concerning Himself." (The following references are chronologic as Abraham gets older, and are in biblical sequence.) And furthermore, the progress of mental and spiritual life in each one of us is a dim and finite image of that represented by Abraham's life if, that is, we are trying to follow the Lord's laws and precepts to love one another. We too have within us a journey to the land of Canaan, a hardworking sojourn in Egypt, a struggle in the wilderness, and a Saul, a David, and an Ahab. We have our home-grown Amalekites and Philistines. The whole of the Old Testament is a picture of how our spiritual life works.

In Genesis 20:7, Abraham signifies celestial truth, or doctrine from a celestial origin. (Arcana Coelestia 2533)

In Genesis 12:4, As ABRAHAM he represents the Lord as to His Human and Divine Essence; as ABRAM he represents the Lord as to His human essence only. (Arcana Coelestia 1426)

In Genesis 17:5, The name was changed by adding the letter H, so that the Divine Human could he represented, for H is the only letter which involves the Divine: it means I AM, or BEING. (Arcana Coelestia 1416[2])

(Odkazy: Genesis 17, 25)


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Genesis 25

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1 Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.

2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

3 Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.

4 The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.

5 Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac,

6 but to the sons of Abraham's concubines, Abraham gave gifts. He sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.

7 These are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.

8 Abraham gave up the spirit, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

9 Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre,

10 the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife.

11 It happened after the death of Abraham that God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.

12 Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham.

13 These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to the order of their birth: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa,

15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments: twelve princes, according to their nations.

17 These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.

18 They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.

19 This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.

20 Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

21 Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

22 The children struggled together within her. She said, "If it be so, why do I live?" She went to inquire of Yahweh.

23 Yahweh said to her, "Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger."

24 When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

25 The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.

26 After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

27 The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

28 Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.

29 Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.

30 Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom.

31 Jacob said, "First, sell me your birthright."

32 Esau said, "Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?"

33 Jacob said, "Swear to me first." He swore to him. He sold his birthright to Jacob.

34 Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.