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numerot 23

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1 Ja Bileam sanoi Baalakille: "Rakenna minulle tähän seitsemän alttaria ja hanki minulle tänne seitsemän härkää ja seitsemän oinasta".

2 Niin Baalak teki, niinkuin Bileam käski. Ja Baalak ja Bileam uhrasivat härän ja oinaan kullakin alttarilla.

3 Niin Bileam sanoi Baalakille: "Asetu tähän polttouhrisi ääreen, minä menen tuonne; ehkä minä saan kohdata Herran. Minkä hän minulle näyttää, sen minä ilmoitan sinulle." Ja hän meni eräälle autiolle kukkulalle.

4 Ja Jumala tuli ja kohtasi Bileamin. Silloin tämä sanoi hänelle: "Seitsemän alttaria minä olen pannut kuntoon ja olen uhrannut härän ja oinaan kullakin alttarilla".

5 Ja Herra pani sanat Bileamin suuhun ja sanoi: "Palaja Baalakin luo ja puhu hänelle näin".

6 Niin hän palasi hänen luoksensa, ja hän seisoi siinä polttouhrinsa ääressä, hän ja kaikki Mooabin päämiehet.

7 Niin hän puhkesi lausumaan ja sanoi: "Aramista nouti minut Baalak, idän vuorilta Mooabin kuningas: 'Tule, kiroa minun puolestani Jaakob, tule ja sadattele Israelia'.

8 Kuinka minä kiroaisin sen, jota ei Jumala kiroa, kuinka sadattelisin sitä, jota ei Herra sadattele?

9 Minä näen sen kallioiden huipulta, minä katselen sitä kukkuloilta: katso, se on erillään asuva kansa, se ei lukeudu pakanakansojen joukkoon.

10 Kuka mittaa Jaakobin hiekkajyväset, kuka Israelin tomuhiukkasten luvun? Suotakoon minun kuolla oikeamielisten kuolema, olkoon minun loppuni niinkuin heidän."

11 Silloin Baalak sanoi Bileamille: "Mitä oletkaan minulle tehnyt! Minä toin sinut tänne vihollisiani kiroamaan, ja katso, nyt sinä heidät siunaat!"

12 Mutta hän vastasi ja sanoi: "Eikö minun ole tarkoin puhuttava se, minkä Herra panee minun suuhuni?"

13 Niin Baalak sanoi hänelle: "Tule minun kanssani toiseen paikkaan, josta voit nähdä sen kansan, kuitenkin ainoastaan sen äärimmäisen reunan, et sitä kokonaisuudessaan, ja kiroa se minun puolestani sieltä".

14 Ja hän vei hänet Vartijakedolle Pisga-vuoren huipulle ja rakensi siihen seitsemän alttaria ja uhrasi härän ja oinaan kullakin alttarilla.

15 Sitten Bileam sanoi Baalakille: "Asetu tähän polttouhrisi ääreen, ehkä hän kohtaa minua tuolla".

16 Niin Herra tuli kohtaamaan Bileamia, pani sanat hänen suuhunsa ja sanoi: "Palaja Baalakin luo ja puhu hänelle näin".

17 Niin hän tuli hänen luoksensa, ja hän seisoi siinä polttouhrinsa ääressä, Mooabin päämiehet kanssansa. Baalak kysyi häneltä: "Mitä Herra puhui?"

18 Niin hän puhkesi lausumaan ja sanoi: "Nouse, Baalak, ja kuule! Kuuntele minua, sinä Sipporin poika!

19 Ei Jumala ole ihminen, niin että hän valhettelisi, eikä ihmislapsi, että hän katuisi. Sanoisiko hän jotakin eikä sitä tekisi, puhuisiko jotakin eikä sitä täyttäisi?

20 Katso, minä olen saanut tehtäväkseni siunata: hän on siunannut, enkä minä voi sitä peruuttaa.

21 Ei havaita vaivaa Jaakobissa eikä nähdä onnettomuutta Israelissa; Herra, hänen Jumalansa, on hänen kanssansa, riemuhuuto kuninkaalle kaikuu siellä.

22 Jumala vei sen pois Egyptistä; sen sarvet ovat kuin villihärän.

23 Sillä ei ole noituutta Jaakobissa eikä tavata taikuutta Israelissa. Aikanansa ilmoitetaan Jaakobille ja Israelille, mitä Jumala on tekevä.

24 Katso, se on kansa, joka nousee kuin naarasleijona, joka kohoaa kuin leijona. Ei se paneudu levolle, ennenkuin on saalista syönyt ja juonut surmattujen verta."

25 Mutta Baalak sanoi Bileamille: "Älä kiroa sitä äläkä siunaa sitä".

26 Mutta Bileam vastasi ja sanoi Baalakille: "Enkö minä puhunut sinulle näin: 'Kaikki, mitä Herra sanoo, on minun tehtävä'?"

27 Niin Baalak sanoi Bileamille: "Tule, minä vien sinut toiseen paikkaan; ehkäpä on Jumalan silmissä otollista, että kiroat kansan minun puolestani sieltä".

28 Ja Baalak vei Bileamin Peor-vuoren huipulle, joka kohoaa yli erämaan.

29 Sitten Bileam sanoi Baalakille: "Rakenna minulle tähän seitsemän alttaria ja hanki minulle tänne seitsemän härkää ja seitsemän oinasta".

30 Ja Baalak teki, niinkuin Bileam käski, ja uhrasi härän ja oinaan kullakin alttarilla.

   

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Jacob or Israel (the man)

  

Jacob is told twice that his name will now be Israel. The first time is when he wrestles with an angel on his journey to meet Esau, and the angel tells him that his name will be changed. After he is reconciled with Esau, they go their separate ways. Jacob moves to Shechem and then on to Bethel, where he builds an altar to the Lord. The Lord appears to him there, renews the covenant He first made with Abraham and again tells him that his name will be Israel (Genesis 35). The story goes on to tell of Benjamin's birth and Rachel's death in bearing him, and then of Jacob's return to Isaac and Isaac's death and burial. But at that point the main thread of the story leaves Israel and turns to Joseph, and Israel is hardly mentioned until after Joseph has risen to power in Egypt, has revealed himself to his brothers and tells them to bring all of their father's household down to Egypt. There, before Israel dies, he blesses Joseph's sons, plus all his own sons. After his death he is returned to the land of Canaan for burial in Abraham's tomb. In the story of Jacob and Esau, Jacob represents truth, and Esau good. Jacob's stay in Padan-Aram, and the wealth he acquired there, represent learning the truths of scripture, just as we learn when we read the Ten Commandments or the Sermon on the Mount. The change of name from Jacob to Israel represents the realization that what we learn should not simply be knowledge, but should be the rules of our life, to be followed by action. This action is the good that Esau has represented in the story up to that time, but after the reconciliation between Jacob and Esau, Jacob as Israel now represents the truth and the good, together. It is interesting that even after his name change Jacob is rarely called Israel. Sometimes he is called one and sometimes the other, and sometimes he is called both Jacob and Israel in the same verse (Genesis 46:2, 5, & 8 also Psalm 14:7). This is because Jacob represents the external person and Israel the internal person, and even after the internal person comes into being, we spend much of our lives living on the external level.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 4274, 4292, 4570, 5595, 6225, 6256, Genesis 2:5, 46:8)

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Genesis 46

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1 Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.

2 God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob!" He said, "Here I am."

3 He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.

4 I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph will close your eyes."

5 Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

6 They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt--Jacob, and all his seed with him,

7 his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and he brought all his seed with him into Egypt.

8 These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.

9 The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

10 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.

11 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

12 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

13 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.

14 The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.

15 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.

16 The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.

17 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.

18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.

19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

20 To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.

21 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

22 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.

23 The son of Dan: Hushim.

24 The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.

25 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.

26 All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct descendants, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were sixty-six.

27 The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.

28 He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

29 Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

30 Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive."

31 Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's house, "I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, 'My brothers, and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

32 These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.'

33 It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, 'What is your occupation?'

34 that you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:' that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."