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Joshua 16

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1 And the lot came·​·out for the sons of Joseph from Jordan at Jericho, to the waters of Jericho toward the sunrise, to the wilderness going·​·up from Jericho in the mountain of Bethel,

2 and it goes·​·out from Bethel to Luz, and crosses·​·over to the border of the Archite at Ataroth,

3 and goes·​·down toward the sea to the border of Japhleti, even·​·to the border of Beth-choron the lower, and even·​·to Gezer; and its outgoings are toward the sea.

4 And the sons of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, had· their ·inheritance.

5 And this was the border of the sons of Ephraim according·​·to their families; the border of their inheritance toward the sunrise was Ataroth-addar, even·​·to Beth-choron the higher;

6 and the border went·​·out toward the sea to Michmethah from the north, and the border turned·​·around toward the sunrise to Taanath-shiloh, and crossed·​·over it from the sunrise toward Janoaḥ;

7 and it went·​·down from Janoaḥ to Ataroth, and to Naarah, and came·​·upon Jericho, and went·​·out to the Jordan.

8 From Tappuah the border went seaward to the Brook Kanah; and the goings out of it were toward the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim according to their families.

9 And the cities set apart for the sons of Ephraim were in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Manasseh, all the cities and their villages.

10 And they did not dispossess the Canaanite that dwelt in Gezer; and the Canaanite dwells among Ephraim to this day and became a servant of tribute.

   


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Families

  

In Genesis 8:19, families signify goodnesses and truths arranged in man by the Lord, according to order. See Secrets of Heaven 917.

In Genesis 10:5, families signify uprightness; also charity and love. (Arcana Coelestia 1159[2]).

In Nahum 3:4, families have respect to truths. See Apocalypse Explained 355:23.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 0917)


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Arcana Coelestia # 917

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917. 'According to their families' means pairs. This is clear from what has been stated already in Chapter 7:2, 3, 15, about them going into the ark 'seven by seven of the clean, and two by two of the unclean', whereas in the present verse it is said that they went out 'according to families'. The reason no reference is made to seven by seven of the clean and two by two of the unclean but to 'families' is that the Lord has now brought all things into such order that they represent families. With a regenerate person goods and truths, that is, the things of charity and those of faith deriving from it, interrelate like blood relatives and relatives through marriage, and so they are like families descended from a single stock or parent, in the way they are in heaven, 685. This is the order which the Lord brings to goods and truths. The express meaning in the present verse is that every single good looks upon its own truth as one joined to it in marriage. And just as in general charity looks to faith, so in every individual part good looks to truth. For unless the general whole is the product of the individual part there is no general whole. It is from the individual parts that the general comes into being, and it is by virtue of that that it is called the general. With every person the situation is as follows: As is the person in general so are the most individual details of his affections and ideas. These are what he is composed of or what make him what he is in general. People therefore who have been regenerated become in the most individual details of their person what they are in general character.

  
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