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1 Ja Herra sanoi Abramille: "Lähde maastasi, suvustasi ja isäsi kodista siihen maahan, jonka minä sinulle osoitan.

2 Niin minä teen sinusta suuren kansan, siunaan sinut ja teen sinun nimesi suureksi, ja sinä olet tuleva siunaukseksi.

3 Ja minä siunaan niitä, jotka sinua siunaavat, ja kiroan ne, jotka sinua kiroavat, ja sinussa tulevat siunatuiksi kaikki sukukunnat maan päällä."

4 Niin Abram lähti, niinkuin Herra oli hänelle puhunut, ja Loot meni hänen kanssansa. Abram oli Harranista lähtiessänsä seitsemänkymmenen viiden vuoden vanha.

5 Ja Abram otti vaimonsa Saarain ja veljensä pojan Lootin sekä kaiken omaisuuden, jonka he olivat koonneet, ja ne palvelijat, jotka he olivat hankkineet Harranissa, ja he lähtivät menemään Kanaanin maahan. Ja he tulivat Kanaanin maahan.

6 Ja Abram kulki maan läpi aina Sikemin paikkakunnalle, Mooren tammelle asti. Ja siihen aikaan kanaanilaiset asuivat siinä maassa.

7 Silloin Herra ilmestyi Abramille ja sanoi: "Sinun jälkeläisillesi minä annan tämän maan". Niin hän rakensi sinne alttarin Herralle, joka oli hänelle ilmestynyt.

8 Sieltä hän siirtyi edemmäksi vuoristoon, itään päin Beetelistä, ja pystytti telttansa, niin että Beetel oli lännessä ja Ai idässä, ja hän rakensi sinne alttarin Herralle ja huusi avuksi Herran nimeä.

9 Ja sieltä Abram lähti ja vaelsi yhä edemmäksi Etelämaahan päin.

10 Niin tuli nälänhätä maahan, ja Abram meni Egyptiin, asuakseen siellä jonkun aikaa, sillä nälänhätä maassa oli kova.

11 Ja kun hän lähestyi Egyptiä, puhui hän vaimollensa Saaraille: "Katso, minä tiedän, että sinä olet kaunis nainen.

12 Kun egyptiläiset saavat nähdä sinut, niin he sanovat: 'Hän on hänen vaimonsa', ja tappavat minut, mutta antavat sinun elää.

13 Sano siis olevasi minun sisareni, että minun kävisi hyvin sinun tähtesi ja minä sinun takiasi saisin jäädä henkiin."

14 Kun Abram tuli Egyptiin, näkivät egyptiläiset, että Saarai oli hyvin kaunis nainen.

15 Ja kun faraon ruhtinaat olivat nähneet hänet, ylistelivät he häntä faraolle; ja vaimo vietiin faraon hoviin.

16 Ja Abramia hän kohteli hyvin hänen tähtensä. Ja hän sai pikkukarjaa, raavaskarjaa ja aaseja, palvelijoita ja palvelijattaria, aasintammoja ja kameleja.

17 Mutta Herra antoi kovien vitsausten kohdata faraota ja hänen hoviansa Saarain, Abramin vaimon, tähden.

18 Silloin farao kutsui Abramin luoksensa ja sanoi: "Mitä olet minulle tehnyt? Miksi et ilmoittanut minulle, että hän on sinun vaimosi?

19 Miksi sanoit: 'Hän on minun sisareni', niin että minä otin hänet vaimokseni? Katso, tässä on vaimosi, ota hänet ja mene."

20 Ja farao antoi hänestä käskyn miehillensä, että he saattaisivat hänet pois, hänet ja hänen vaimonsa sekä kaiken, mitä hänellä oli.

   

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482. Until now nobody has known what the years and the numbers of years occurring in this chapter mean in the internal sense. People who stay within the sense of the letter imagine that they are no more than chronological years. But none of the content from here down to Chapter 12 is history as it seems to be in the sense of the letter, for every single detail contains something of a different nature. What applies to names applies to numbers as well. In the Word the number three occurs frequently, and so does the number seven; and in every instance they mean something holy or inviolable as regards those states which the periods of time or whatever else that is mentioned embody or represent. This applies as much to the shortest as to the longest time-intervals; for just as parts makeup the whole, so do the shortest make up the longest. For a similarity must exist in order that a whole may emerge satisfactorily out of the parts, or that which is largest out of that which is smallest.

[2] As in Isaiah,

Jehovah has now spoken, saying, In three years, according to the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab will be rendered worthless. Isaiah 16:14.

In the same prophet,

The Lord said to me, Within yet a year, according to the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar will be brought to an end. Isaiah 21:6.

Here both the shortest as well as the longest time-intervals are meant. In Habakkuk,

O Jehovah, I have heard Your fame; I was afraid. O Jehovah, revive Your work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years do You make it known. Habakkuk 3:2.

Here 'the midst of the years' stands for the Lord's Coming. If the intervals are shorter this stands for every coming of the Lord, as when a person is being regenerated; but if longer it stands for the rising anew of the Lord's Church. It is also called in Isaiah 'the year of the redeemed', The day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redeemed has come. Isaiah 63:4.

So too 'the thousand years' for which Satan is to be bound, Revelation 20:2-3, 7, and 'the thousand years' associated with the first resurrection, Revelation 20:4-6. These in no way mean a thousand years but the states associated with them. For just as 'days, as shown 'already, are interpreted as a state, so too are 'years', and the states are described by the number of the years. From this it becomes clear that periods of time in this chapter also embody states, for every Church experienced a different state of perception from the next, according to differences of disposition resulting from inherited and acquired characteristics.

  
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Genesis 12

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1 Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you.

2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you."

4 So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.

5 Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls whom they had gotten in Haran, and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came.

6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.

7 Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.

8 He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on the name of Yahweh.

9 Abram traveled, going on still toward the South.

10 There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.

11 It happened, when he had come near to enter Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.

12 It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they will save you alive.

13 Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you."

14 It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

15 The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

16 He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

17 Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

18 Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

19 Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."

20 Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they brought him on the way with his wife and all that he had.