Arcana Coelestia # 4536
4536. Genesis 35
1. And God said to Jacob, Rise up, go up to Bethel and settle there, and make there an altar to the God who appeared to you when you fled from before Esau your brother.
2. And Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, Remove the gods of the foreigner which are in the midst of you, and be purified, and change your garments.
3. And let us rise up and go up to Bethel, and I will make there an altar to the God who answered me on the day of my distress, and was with me in the way that I went. 1
4. And they gave to Jacob all the gods of the foreigner which were in their hand, and the jewels which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
5. And they travelled on; and the terror of God was on the cities which were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.
6. And Jacob came to Luz which is in the land of Canaan - that is, Bethel - he and all the people who were with him.
7. And he built an altar there, and called the place El Bethel, for there the gods were revealed to him, when he was fleeing from before his brother.
8. And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and was buried below Bethel under an oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.
9. And God was seen by Jacob again, when he was coming from Paddan Aram; and He blessed him.
10. And God said to him, Your name is Jacob; your name will no longer be called Jacob, but indeed Israel will be your name; and He called his name Israel.
11. And God said to him, I am God Shaddai, be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will go out from your loins.
12. And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and to your seed after you I will give the land.
13. And God went up from over him in the place where He talked to him.
14. And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He talked to him, a stone pillar, and poured out a drink-offering onto it, and poured oil onto it.
15. And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke to him, Bethel.
16. And they travelled on from Bethel, and there was still a stretch of land to go to Ephrath; and Rachel gave birth, and suffered severely' in giving birth.
17. And it happened in her suffering severely, 2 in giving birth, that the midwife said to her, Do not be afraid, for this also is a son for you.
18. And it happened as her soul was departing, when she was about to die, that she called his name Ben-oni; and his father called him Benjamin.
19. And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem.
20. And Jacob set up a pillar over her grave; this is the pillar of Rachel's grave even to this day.
21. And Israel travelled on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
22. And it happened while Israel was residing in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heard of it. And the sons of Jacob were twelve.
23. The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun.
24. The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
25. And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant-girl: Dan and Naphtali.
26. And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant-girl: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
27. And Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, Kiriath Arba, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
28. And the days of Issac were a hundred and eighty years.
29. And Isaac breathed his last, and died, and was gathered to his peoples, old and full of days. And Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.
CONTENTS
This chapter deals in the internal sense with how all else in the Lord's Natural was made Divine, the interior aspects of the Natural which were made Divine being meant by 'Israel' now. Progress towards aspects even more interior, where the Rational is situated, is described by the birth of Benjamin, and after that by Jacob's sons when they came to Isaac.
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Genesis 26
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There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.
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Yahweh appeared to him, and said, "Don't go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.
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Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
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I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,
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because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."
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The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife," lest, he thought, "the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at."
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It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.
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Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"
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Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"
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Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."
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Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
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The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.
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He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.
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Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.
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Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go from us, for you are much mightier than we."
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Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.
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Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
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Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
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The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
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They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.
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He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."
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He went up from there to Beersheba.
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Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Don't be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake."
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He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.
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Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.
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Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?"
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They said, "We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,
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that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.' You are now the blessed of Yahweh."
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He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
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They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
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It happened the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water."
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He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.
34
When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
