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Genesis 42

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1 Kui Jaakob kuulis, et Egiptuses oli vilja, siis Jaakob ütles oma poegadele: 'Miks te üksteisele otsa vaatate?'

2 Ja ta ütles: 'Vaata, ma olen kuulnud, et Egiptuses on vilja. Minge sinna ja ostke meile sealt, et jääksime elama ega sureks!'

3 Siis läks kümme Joosepi venda Egiptusest vilja ostma.

4 Aga Benjamini, Joosepi venda, Jaakob ei läkitanud koos vendadega, sest ta ütles: 'Et temale õnnetust ei juhtuks!'

5 Ja Iisraeli pojad tulid vilja ostma teiste tulijate seltsis, sest Kaananimaal oli nälg.

6 Joosep oli maal valitsejaks; tema müüs vilja kogu maa rahvale. Ja Joosepi vennad tulid ning kummardasid tema ette silmili maha.

7 Kui Joosep nägi oma vendi, siis ta tundis nad ära, aga tegi ennast neile võõraks ja rääkis nendega karmilt ning küsis neilt: 'Kust te tulete?' Ja nad vastasid: 'Kaananimaalt, et leiba osta.'

8 Joosep tundis oma vendi, aga nemad ei tundnud teda.

9 Siis meenusid Joosepile unenäod, mis ta neist unes oli näinud, ja ta ütles neile: 'Te olete maakuulajad. Olete tulnud vaatama, kust maa lahti on!'

10 Aga nemad ütlesid: 'Ei, mu isand, su sulased on tulnud leiba ostma.

11 Me kõik oleme ühe mehe pojad, oleme ausad mehed, su sulased ei ole maakuulajad.'

12 Tema aga ütles neile: 'Ei, küllap olete tulnud vaatama, kust maa lahti on!'

13 Siis nad vastasid: 'Meie, su sulased, olime kaksteist venda, ühe mehe pojad Kaananimaalt. Ja vaata, noorim on praegu Meie isa juures, aga ühte ei ole enam olemas.'

14 Aga Joosep ütles neile: 'See on nõnda, nagu ma teile olen rääkinud ja öelnud: te olete maakuulajad!

15 Selles asjas ma katsun teid läbi: nii tõesti kui vaarao elab, ei pääse te siit minema enne, kui teie noorim vend on siia tulnud!

16 Läkitage eneste hulgast üks, et ta tooks teie venna. Teid aga jäetakse vangi ja teie kõnesid uuritakse, kas neis on tõtt. Muidu olete, nii tõesti kui vaarao elab, maakuulajad!'

17 Ja ta pani nad üheskoos kolmeks päevaks vahi alla.

18 Ja kolmandal päeval ütles Joosep neile: 'Tehke seda, siis jääte elama! Mina olen jumalakartlik:

19 kui olete ausad mehed, jäägu üks teie vendadest aheldatuna hoonesse, kus te olite vahi all, aga teised minge viige vilja näljahäda pärast teie kodudes

21 Ja nad ütlesid üksteisele: 'Me oleme tõesti süüdi oma venna pärast, kelle hinge kitsikust me nägime, kui ta palus meilt armu ja meie ei võtnud teda kuulda. Sellepärast on see kitsikus meile tulnud!'

22 Ja Ruuben vastas neile, öeldes: 'Eks ma rääkinud teile ja öelnud: Ärge tehke pattu poisi vastu! Aga teie ei kuulanud. Vaata, nüüd nõutaksegi tema verd!'

23 Aga nad ei teadnud, et Joosep seda mõistis, sest ta rääkis nendega tõlgi kaudu.

24 Ja ta pöördus ära nende juurest ning nuttis; siis ta tuli tagasi nende juurde ja rääkis nendega ning võttis nende hulgast Siimeoni ja laskis tema nende silme ees vangistada.

25 Ja Joosep käskis täita nende kotid viljaga, panna igaühe raha tagasi ta kotti ja anda neile teemoona; ja neile tehti nõnda.

26 Siis nad tõstsid vilja eeslite selga ja läksid sealt ära.

27 Kui üks oma koti avas, et öömajal eeslile toitu anda, siis ta nägi oma raha, ja vaata, see oli koti suus.

28 Ja ta ütles oma vendadele: 'Mu raha on tagasi antud, ja vaata, see on mu kotis!' Siis kadus nende julgus ja nad värisesid, öeldes isekeskis: 'Miks on Jumal meile seda teinud?'

29 Ja nad tulid oma isa Jaakobi juurde Kaananimaale ning andsid temale teada kõik, mis neile oli juhtunud, öeldes:

30 'See mees, maa isand, rääkis meiega karmilt ja pidas meid salajasiks maakuulajaiks.

31 Aga me ütlesime temale: Me oleme ausad mehed, me ei ole maakuulajad.

32 Meid oli kaksteist venda, oma isa pojad. Ühte ei ole enam ja noorim on praegu meie isa juures Kaananimaal.

33 Ja see mees, maa isand, ütles meile: Sellest ma saan teada, kas te olete ausad: jätke üks oma vendadest minu juurde ja võtke vilja näljahäda pärast teie kodudes ja minge

34 ning tooge oma noorim vend minu juurde, et saaksin teada, et te ei ole maakuulajad, vaid olete ausad mehed. Siis ma annan teile venna tagasi ja te võite maal liikuda vabalt.'

35 Ja kui nad oma kotte tühjendasid, vaata, siis oli igaühe rahakukkur ta kotis! Ja oma rahakukruid nähes hakkasid nemad ja nende isa kartma.

36 Ja nende isa Jaakob ütles neile: 'Te võtate minult lapsed! Joosepit ei ole enam ja Siimeoni ei ole enam ja Benjamini tahate ka võtta. See kõik on tulnud minu peale!'

37 Aga Ruuben rääkis oma isale, öeldes: 'Võid surmata mu mõlemad pojad, kui ma ei too teda sinu juurde! Anna ta minu hooleks ja ma toon ta tagasi sinu juurde!'

38 Kuid tema ütles: 'Minu poeg ei lähe koos teiega alla, sest ta vend on surnud ja tema üksi on üle jäänud. Kui temaga teel, mida te käite, õnnetus juhtub, siis saadate mu hallid juuksed murega hauda!'

   

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5701. Because the Egyptians cannot eat bread with the Hebrews. That this signifies that they could not possibly be conjoined with the truth and good of the church, is evident from the representation of the Egyptians, as being those who are in inverted order, thus in evil and falsity (of which just above, n. 5700); from the signification of “eating bread,” as being to be conjoined (of which also above, n. 5698); and from the representation of the Hebrews, as being those who are in genuine order, thus in the truth and good of the church. (That by the “land of the Hebrews” is signified the church may be seen above, n. 5136, 5236, and this because the Hebrew Church was the second Ancient Church, n. 1238, 1241, 1343.) “Eating bread” is mentioned here, and above “setting on bread,” because by “bread” is signified all food in general (n. 2165), thus the banquet. The reason why by “bread” is signified all food and the banquet itself, is that in the spiritual sense “bread” is celestial love, and celestial love contains within it all things of good and truth, thus all things of spiritual food. (That “bread” is celestial love may be seen above, n. 276, 680, 2165, 2177, 2187, 3464, 3478, 3735, 4211, 4217, 4735, 4976.)

  
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680. That goods and truths are the genuine foods of man must be evident to everyone, for he who is destitute of them has no life, but is dead. When a man is spiritually dead the foods with which his soul is fed are delights from evils and pleasantnesses from falsities-which are foods of death-and are also those which come from bodily, worldly, and natural things, which also have nothing of life in them. Moreover, such a man does not know what spiritual and celestial food is, insomuch that whenever “food” or “bread” is mentioned in the Word he supposes the food of the body to be meant; as in the Lord’s prayer, the words “Give us our daily bread” he supposes to mean only sustenance for the body; and those who extend their ideas further say it includes also other necessaries of the body, such as clothing, property, and the like. They even sharply deny that any other food is meant; when yet they see plainly that the words preceding and following involve only celestial and spiritual things, and that the Lord’s kingdom is spoken of; and besides, they might know that the Word of the Lord is celestial and spiritual.

[2] From this and other similar examples it must be sufficiently evident how corporeal is man at the present day; and that, like the Jews, he is disposed to take everything that is said in the Word in the most gross and material sense. The Lord Himself clearly teaches what is meant in His Word by “food” and “bread.” Concerning “food” He thus speaks in John:

Jesus said, Labor not for the meat [or food] which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you (John 6:27).

And concerning “bread” He says, in the same chapter:

Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the Bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof and not die. I am the living Bread which came down from heaven; if any man eat of this Bread he shall live eternally (John 6:49-51, 58).

But at the present day there are men like those who heard these words and said: “This is a hard saying; who can hear it?” and who “went back and walked no more with Him” (John 6:60, 66), to whom the Lord said: “The words that I speak unto you they are spirit and they are life” (John 6:63).

[3] And so with respect to “water” which signifies the spiritual things of faith, and concerning which the Lord thus speaks in John:

Jesus said, Everyone that drinketh of this water shall thirst again; but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a fountain of water springing up unto eternal life (John 4:13-14).

But at the present day there are those who are like the woman with whom the Lord spoke at the well, and who answered, “Lord, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw” (John 4:15).

[4] That in the Word “food” means no other than spiritual and celestial food, which is faith in the Lord, and love, is evident from many passages in the Word, as in Jeremiah:

The enemy hath spread out his hand upon all the desirable things of Jerusalem; for she hath seen that the nations are entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom Thou didst command that they should not enter into Thy congregation. All the people groan, they seek bread; they have given their desirable things for food to refresh the soul (Lamentations 1:10-11).

No other than spiritual bread and food are here meant, for the subject is the sanctuary. Again:

I have cried out for my lovers, they have deceived me; my priests and mine elders in the city expired, for they sought food for themselves, to refresh their soul (Lamentations 1:19),

with the same meaning.

In David:

These wait all upon Thee, that Thou mayest give them their food in its season; Thou givest them, they gather; Thou openest thine hand, they are satisfied with good (Psalms 104:27-28).

Here likewise spiritual and celestial food is meant.

[5] In Isaiah:

Ho, everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters; and he that hath no silver; come ye, buy and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without silver, and without price (Isaiah 55:1),

where “wine” and “milk” denote spiritual and celestial drink. Again:

A virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and thou shalt call His name Immanuel; butter and honey shall He eat, that He may know to refuse the evil and choose the good; and it shall come to pass that for the abundance of milk that they shall give they shall eat butter; for butter and honey shall everyone eat that is left in the midst of the land (Isaiah 7:1, 4-15, 22).

Here to “eat honey and butter” is to appropriate what is celestial-spiritual; “they that are left” denote remains, concerning whom also in Malachi:

Bring ye all the tithes into the treasure house, that there may be food in My house (Malachi 3:10).

“Tithes” denote remains. (Concerning the signification of “food” see above, n. 56-58, 276.)

  
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