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Genesis 37

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1 Aga Jaakob elas maal, kus ta isa oli võõrana elanud, Kaananimaal.

2 Need on Jaakobi suguvõsa lood: Kui Joosep oli seitsmeteistkümneaastane, siis oli ta koos oma vendadega lammaste ja kitsede karjane; tema oli abilisena oma isa naiste Billa ja Silpa poegade juures. Ja Joosep kandis isale ette nende halva kuulsuse.

3 Iisrael armastas Joosepit enam kui kõiki oma poegi, sest ta oli tema vana ea poeg, ja ta tegi temale kirju kuue.

4 Kui ta vennad nägid, et nende isa armastas teda enam kui kõiki tema vendi, siis nad vihkasid teda ega suutnud rääkida temaga sõbralikult.

5 Kord nägi Joosep unenäo ja jutustas selle oma vendadele; seejärel hakkasid need teda veel enam vihkama.

6 Ta nimelt ütles neile: 'Kuulge ometi seda unenägu, mis ma unes nägin!

7 Jah, vaadake, me olime väljal vihke sidumas, ja ennäe, minu vihk tõusis üles ning jäigi püsti seisma. Aga vaata, teie vihud ümbritsesid seda ja kummardasid minu vihu ees.'

8 Siis ta vennad ütlesid temale: 'Kas sina tahad saada meile kuningaks ja hakata meie üle valitsema?' Ja nad vihkasid teda veelgi enam tema unenägude ja kõnede pärast.

9 Ja ta nägi veel teise unenäo, jutustas selle oma vendadele ja ütles: 'Vaata, ma nägin veel ühe unenäo, ja ennäe, päike, kuu ja üksteist tähte kummardasid minu ees.'

10 Aga kui ta seda jutustas oma isale ja vendadele, siis ta isa sõitles teda ning ütles temale: 'Mis unenägu see küll on, mis sa nägid! Kas mina ja su ema ja vennad tõesti peame tulema ja sinu ees maani kummardama?'

11 Ta vennad said temale kadedaks, aga ta isa pidas meeles selle loo.

12 Kord olid ta vennad läinud Sekemisse oma isa karja hoidma.

13 Ja Iisrael ütles Joosepile: 'Eks ole su vennad Sekemis karja hoidmas? Tule, ma läkitan sind nende juurde!' Ja tema vastas: 'Siin ma olen!'

14 Siis ta ütles temale: 'Mine ometi vaatama, kas su vendade käsi käib hästi ja kas kari on korras, ja too mulle sõna!' Ta läkitas teda Hebroni orust ja ta tuli Sekemisse.

15 Ja üks mees kohtas teda, kui ta oli väljal ümber ekslemas. Ja mees küsis temalt, öeldes: 'Mida sa otsid?'

16 Ja tema vastas: 'Ma otsin oma vendi. Ütle mulle ometi, kus nad karja hoiavad?'

17 Ja mees ütles: 'Nad on siit edasi läinud, sest ma kuulsin neid ütlevat: Läki Dotanisse!' Ja Joosep läks järele oma vendadele ning leidis nad Dotanis.

18 Aga nad nägid teda kaugelt ja enne kui ta jõudis nende juurde, võtsid nad õelalt nõuks ta tappa.

19 Nad ütlesid üksteisele: 'Näe, sealt tuleb see unenägude sepitseja!

20 Tulgem nüüd, tapkem ta ära, visakem ta mõnda kaevu ja öelgem, et kuri loom sõi tema ära! Siis saame näha, mis ta unenäod tähendavad!'

21 Kui Ruuben seda kuulis, siis ta tahtis teda nende käest päästa ja ütles: 'Ärgem võtkem temalt hinge!'

22 Ja Ruuben ütles neile: 'Ärge valage verd, visake ta siia kõrbes olevasse kaevu, aga ärge pange oma kätt tema külge!' Sest ta tahtis tema päästa nende käest ja saata tagasi isa juurde.

23 Ja kui Joosep tuli oma vendade juurde, siis kiskusid need Joosepil kuue seljast, kirju kuue, mis tal seljas oli,

24 ning võtsid ja viskasid ta kaevu; aga kaev oli tühi, selles ei olnud vett.

25 Seejärel nad istusid leiba võtma. Ja kui nad oma silmad üles tõstsid ja vaatasid, ennäe, siis tuli ismaeliitide karavan Gileadist. Nende kaamelid kandsid mitmesugust vaiku, palsamit ja lõhnaainest, ja nad olid sellega teel alla Egiptusesse.

26 Ja Juuda ütles oma vendadele: 'Mis kasu sellest on, kui me tapame oma venna ja katame kinni tema vere?

27 Tulge, müüme tema ismaeliitidele, aga meie käed ärgu puudutagu teda, sest ta on meie lihane vend!' Ja ta vennad kuulasid teda.

28 Kui siis Midjani mehed, kaupmehed, mööda läksid, tõmbasid nad Joosepi kaevust välja ja müüsid Joosepi kahekümne hõbetüki eest ismaeliitidele; ja need viisid Joosepi Egiptusesse.

29 Kui Ruuben tuli tagasi kaevu juurde, vaata, siis ei olnud Joosepit enam kaevus. Siis ta käristas oma riided lõhki

30 ja läks tagasi oma vendade juurde ning ütles: 'Poissi ei ole enam! Ja mina, kuhu ma nüüd lähen?'

31 Siis nad võtsid Joosepi kuue ja tapsid ühe siku ning kastsid kuue verre.

32 Ja nad saatsid kirju kuue, tulid oma isa juurde ning ütlesid: 'Selle me leidsime! Tunnista nüüd, kas see on su poja kuub või mitte?'

33 Ja ta tundis selle ära ning ütles: 'See on mu poja kuub! Kuri loom on ta ära söönud, Joosep on tõesti maha murtud!'

34 Ja Jaakob käristas oma riided lõhki, kinnitas kotiriide niuete ümber ja leinas oma poega kaua aega.

35 Kõik ta pojad ja tütred püüdsid teda trööstida, kuid ta ei lasknud ennast trööstida, vaid ütles: 'Ma lähen tõesti leinates oma poja juurde hauda!' Ja tema isa nuttis teda taga.

36 Aga midjanlased müüsid tema Egiptuses Pootifarile, vaarao hoovkondlasele, ta ihukaitse pealikule.

   

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5828. 'And I said, He has surely been torn to pieces' means a perception that it was destroyed by evils and falsities. This is clear from the meaning of 'saying' as perception, dealt with often; and from the meaning of 'being torn to pieces as being destroyed by evils and internal good represented by 'Joseph' was destroyed, 5805. 'Being torn to pieces' has this meaning because no other kind of tearing to pieces takes place in the spiritual world than that of good by evils and falsities. It is the same with death and anything having to do with death, by which is meant in the spiritual sense not natural death but spiritual death, which is damnation. No other kind of death occurs in the spiritual world. So too with 'a tearing to pieces'. This does not mean in the spiritual sense the kind of tearing to pieces that wild animals engage in, but the tearing to pieces of good by evils and falsities. Also, in the spiritual sense, 'wild animals that tear to pieces' means evil desires and derivative false ideas; and such ideas are also represented in the next life by wild animals.

[2] The good which constantly comes from the Lord to a person is destroyed by nothing other than evils and derivative falsities, and by falsities and consequent evils. For as soon as that constantly inflowing good, coming by way of the internal man, reaches the external or natural man it encounters evil and falsity, which - acting like wild animals - employ various methods to tear apart and annihilate that good. For that reason the inflow of good by way of the internal man is blocked and halted, and the interior mind through which the inflow comes is consequently closed. Only as much of what is spiritual is allowed through as will enable the natural man to reason and speak, though he does so in terms that are solely earthly, bodily, and worldly, either in opposition to what is good and true, or else in keeping with such but in a false or deceitful way.

[3] It is a universal law that an inflow adjusts itself to the outflow, and if the outflow is blocked, so is the inflow. Through the internal man there is an inflow of good and truth from the Lord, and through the external there should be an outflow, an outflow into life, that is, in the exercise of charity. As long as that outflow is taking place the inflow from heaven, that is, from the Lord by way of heaven, is continuous. If however no outflow takes place but something stands in the way in the external or natural man, namely evil and falsity which tear the inflowing good to pieces and annihilate it, it follows from the universal law mentioned above that the inflow adjusts itself to the outflow. All this being so, the inflow of good holds itself back and accordingly closes the internal through which the inflow comes; and that closing of it leads to stupidity in spiritual matters, which is so great that the person who is like this neither knows nor wishes to know anything at all about eternal life. At length he becomes so senseless that he raises falsity as an obstacle to truth, calling falsities truths and truths falsities, and raises evil as an obstacle to good, regarding evils as forms of good and forms of good as evils. In this way he tears good completely to pieces.

[4] The word 'torn' occurs in various places in the Word, the proper meaning of which is falsities that arise from evils, while that which is destroyed by evils is called 'a carcass'. When however the expression 'torn' is used by itself, both ideas are meant since the one includes the meaning carried by the other. It is different when the one is referred to together with the other, because in that case a distinction is being made. Since what had been torn meant in the spiritual sense what had been destroyed by falsities arising from evils, people were forbidden in the representative Church to eat anything torn. They would never have been forbidden to eat it if that spiritual evil had not been meant in heaven. Apart from this, what evil could have lain in eating flesh torn by a wild animal?

[5] Regarding their not eating anything torn the following is stated in Moses,

The fat of a carcass and the fat of that which has been torn may be put to any use, provided that you do not eat it at all. Leviticus 7:24.

In the same author,

He shall not eat a carcass or that which has been torn, to be defiled by it. I am Jehovah. Leviticus 12:8.

In the same author,

You shall be men who are sanctified to Me; therefore you shall not eat flesh torn in the field, you shall throw it to the dogs. Exodus 21:31.

In Ezekiel,

Ah Lord Jehovih! The prophet says, Behold, my soul has not been polluted, and from my youth even till now I have not eaten any carcass or that which has been torn, so that abominable flesh has not come into my mouth. Ezekiel 4:14.

From these quotations it is evident that it was an abomination to eat what had been torn, not because it had been torn but because a tearing to pieces of good by falsities arising from evils was meant, 'a carcass' on the other hand being the death of good caused by evils.

[6] A tearing to pieces of good by falsities and evils is also meant in the internal sense of the following places in David,

The wicked is like a lion, he desires to tear, and like a young lion who sits in hiding-places. Psalms 17:12.

Elsewhere,

They opened their mouth against me - a lion tearing and roaring. Psalms 22:13.

And in yet another place,

Lest like a lion they seize my soul, tearing it to pieces and there is none to deliver. Psalms 7:1.

'A lion' stands for those who lay waste the Church. Above, where Joseph was the subject - at the point where he was sold by his brothers, and his tunic, which had been dipped in blood, was sent to his father - his father too said at that time,

My son's tunic! An evil wild animal has devoured him; Joseph has been torn to pieces. Genesis 37:33.

'His having been torn to pieces' means being scattered by falsities arising from evils, see 4777.

  
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