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Genesis 41

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1 Dvejiems metams praėjus, faraonas sapnavo: jis stovėjo prie upės,

2 ir iš jos išlipo septynios karvės, gražios ir riebios, ir jos ganėsi lankoje.

3 O po jų išlipo iš upės kitos septynios karvės, bjaurios ir liesos, ir atėjo prie tų karvių upės pakrantėje.

4 Liesosios karvės surijo anas septynias gražiąsias ir riebiąsias karves. Ir faraonas pabudo.

5 Vėl užmigęs sapnavo antrą kartą: septynios varpos išaugo iš vieno stiebo, pilnos ir gražios.

6 O po jų išdygo septynios tuščios ir rytų vėjo išdžiovintos varpos.

7 Tuščiosios varpos prarijo septynias pilnąsias ir gražiąsias varpas. Faraonas pabudo ir suprato, kad tai sapnas.

8 Tą rytą faraonas buvo neramus. Jis pasikvietė visus Egipto žynius ir išminčius ir papasakojo jiems savo sapnus, bet nebuvo nė vieno, kuris galėtų juos išaiškinti.

9 Tada vyno pilstytojų viršininkas kalbėjo faraonui: “Aš šiandien prisimenu savo nusikaltimus.

10 Faraonas buvo užsirūstinęs ant savo tarnų ir atidavė mane ir vyriausiąjį duonkepį uždaryti į sargybos viršininko kalėjimą.

11 Ir mudu sapnavome sapną tą pačią naktį, ir kiekvieno sapnas turėjo savo reikšmę.

12 Su mumis buvo jaunuolis hebrajas, sargybos viršininko vergas. Mes jam papasakojome savo sapnus, ir jis mums išaiškino mūsų sapnų reikšmę.

13 Kaip jis išaiškino, taip ir įvyko: mane sugrąžino į mano tarnybą, o aną pakorė”.

14 Tada faraonas pasiuntė pakviesti Juozapą, ir jie skubiai jį išleido iš kalėjimo. Jis, nusiskutęs ir pakeitęs drabužius, atėjo pas faraoną.

15 Faraonas tarė Juozapui: “Sapnavau sapną, ir nėra nė vieno, kuris galėtų jį išaiškinti. Aš girdėjau, kad tu gerai aiškini sapnus”.

16 Juozapas atsakė faraonui: “Ne aš, o Dievas duos faraonui palankų aiškinimą”.

17 Faraonas pasakojo Juozapui: “Sapnavau stovįs ant upės kranto.

18 Iš upės išlipo septynios karvės, riebios ir gražios, ir jos ganėsi lankoje.

19 Po jų išlipo kitos septynios karvės, menkos, labai bjaurios ir liesos. Aš nesu matęs tokių bjaurių karvių visoje Egipto šalyje.

20 Liesosios ir bjauriosios karvės surijo anas septynias riebiąsias karves.

21 Tačiau nebuvo žymu, kad jos būtų ką prarijusios; jos tebebuvo liesos kaip pradžioje. Po to aš pabudau.

22 Sapne aš dar regėjau: septynios varpos išaugo iš vieno stiebo, pilnos ir gražios.

23 Po jų išdygo septynios tuščios, plonos ir rytų vėjo išdžiovintos varpos.

24 Plonosios varpos prarijo septynias gražiąsias varpas. Aš tai papasakojau žyniams, bet nė vienas negalėjo išaiškinti”.

25 Juozapas atsakė faraonui: “Faraono sapnai reiškia vieną ir tą patį. Dievas parodė faraonui, ką Jis ketina daryti.

26 Septynios gražiosios karvės yra septyneri metai ir septynios gražiosios varpos yra septyneri metai. Sapnas reiškia vieną ir tą patį.

27 O septynios plonosios ir bjauriosios karvės ir septynios tuščiosios, rytų vėjo išdžiovintos varpos yra septyneri ateinančio bado metai.

28 Todėl aš sakiau faraonui, kad Dievas parodė jam, ką Jis ketina daryti.

29 Ateina septyneri didelio pertekliaus metai visoje Egipto šalyje.

30 Bet po jų seks septyneri bado metai, per kuriuos pasimirš buvusi gausa; badas sunaikins šalį.

31 Buvęs perteklius bus užmirštas šalyje dėl bado, nes jis bus labai baisus.

32 Du kartus pasikartojęs faraono sapnas reiškia, jog tai yra tikrai Dievo nustatyta ir greitai įvyks.

33 Dabar faraonas tegul parenka protingą ir sumanų vyrą ir paskiria jį Egipto šalies valdytoju.

34 Tegul įsako faraonas paskirti prievaizdus visoje šalyje, kurie surinks penktąją Egipto šalies derliaus dalį per septynerius derlingus metus.

35 Visą šitą būsimųjų gerų metų derlių tegul supila į aruodus, esančius faraono valdomuose miestuose, ir tegul saugoja jį maistui.

36 Tas maistas bus atsarga septyneriems bado metams, kurie vargins Egipto šalį, kad kraštas nepražūtų bado metu”.

37 Tas patarimas patiko faraonui ir visiems jo tarnams,

38 ir jis tarė: “Ar rasime tokį vyrą kaip šis, kuriame būtų Dievo Dvasia?”

39 Faraonas kalbėjo Juozapui: “Kadangi Dievas tau visa tai apreiškė, tai nėra nė vieno, kuris būtų toks protingas ir sumanus kaip tu.

40 Tu būsi mano namų valdytoju, ir tavo žodžio klausys visi žmonės. Tik sostu aš būsiu aukščiau tavęs”.

41 Toliau faraonas tarė Juozapui: “Aš tave skiriu visos Egipto šalies valdytoju”.

42 Faraonas numovė nuo savo piršto žiedą ir jį užmovė Juozapui; ir aprengė jį ploniausios drobės drabužiais, ir užkabino jam ant kaklo auksinę grandinę.

43 Ir liepė jį vežti savo antruoju vežimu, ir priešakyje jo šaukti: “Klaupkitės!” Tuo būdu jis tapo visos Egipto šalies valdytoju.

44 Be to, faraonas tarė Juozapui: “Aš faraonas, ir be tavo žinios niekas nepakels nei rankos, nei kojos visoje Egipto šalyje!”

45 Faraonas pavadino Juozapą Cafnat Paneachu ir jam davė žmoną Asenatą, Ono kunigo Potiferos dukterį. Ir Juozapas keliavo po visą Egipto šalį.

46 Juozapas buvo trisdešimties metų amžiaus, kai jis stovėjo faraono, Egipto karaliaus, akivaizdoje ir išėjęs iš faraono apkeliavo visą Egipto žemę.

47 Per septynerius pertekliaus metus šalyje viskas gausiai užderėjo.

48 Jis surinko visą septynerių metų maistą ir sukrovė jį miestų sandėliuose. Aplink kiekvieną miestą esančių laukų derlių jis sukrovė tame mieste.

49 Juozapas pripildė aruodus javų kaip jūros smilčių, tiek daug, kad jų nebuvo įmanoma suskaičiuoti.

50 Prieš užeinant bado metams, Juozapui gimė du sūnūs iš Asenatos, Ono kunigo Potiferos dukters.

51 Juozapas pirmąjį pavadino Manasu: “Dievas leido man pamiršti visą mano vargą ir mano tėvo namus”.

52 Antrąjį jis pavadino Efraimu: “Dievas padarė mane vaisingą mano vargo šalyje”.

53 Pasibaigė septyneri pertekliaus metai Egipto šalyje.

54 Prasidėjo septyneri bado metai, kaip Juozapas buvo sakęs. Badas siautė visose šalyse, tačiau Egipte buvo duonos.

55 Badui prasidėjus visoje Egipto šalyje, žmonės kreipėsi į faraoną, prašydami duonos. Faraonas sakė: “Eikite pas Juozapą! Ką jis jums sakys, darykite”.

56 Badas išsiplėtė visoje žemėje. Juozapas atidarė javų sandėlius ir pardavinėjo javus egiptiečiams, nes kilo baisus badas Egipto šalyje.

57 Iš įvairių kraštų žmonės ėjo į Egiptą pas Juozapą pirkti javų, nes buvo baisus badas visose šalyse.

   

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5247. 'And he clipped [his hair and beard]' means a casting aside and the change made so far as the coverings of the exterior natural were concerned. This is clear from the meaning of 'clipping' - that is, clipping the head and beard - as casting aside the coverings of the exterior natural. For 'hair' which was clipped means the exterior natural, see 3301. Also, both hair on the head and that composing the beard correspond in the Grand Man to the exterior natural. This explains why in the light of heaven sensory-minded people - that is, those who have had no belief in anything apart from that which is natural, and have had no desire to understand how anything more internal or purer can exist apart from that which they can perceive with their senses - have a hairy appearance in the next life. They look so hairy that their faces are scarcely anything else than hairy beards. I have seen faces covered with hair like these on many occasions. But rationally-minded people, that is, spiritually-minded ones, with whom the natural has played a correctly subordinate role, are seen with tidy hair. Indeed from the state of people's hair in the next life one can tell what the natural with them is like. The reason spirits appear with hair on their heads is that in the next life spirits look exactly like people on earth. This too is why the Word sometimes includes a description of the hair of the angels people have seen.

[2] From all this one may now see what is meant by 'clipping', as in Ezekiel,

The priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, shall put off their garments in which they have been ministering and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments, and they shall not sanctify the people in their own garments. And they shall not shave their head and shall not let their hair grow long; they shall surely clip their heads. Ezekiel 44:15, 19-20.

This refers to a new Temple and a new priesthood, that is, to a new Church. 'Putting on other garments' means holy truths; 'not shaving their head, and not letting their hair grow long, but surely clipping their heads' means not casting aside the natural but taking measures to make it conformable, and so to make it subordinate. Anyone who believes that the Word is indeed holy can see that these and all the other details mentioned by the prophet which describe a new land, a new city, and a new Temple and priesthood must not be taken literally. The statement, for example, that the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, will minister there, at which time they will put off their ministerial garments and put on new ones, and will also clip their heads, is not meant literally; rather, each and all the details given by the prophet have as their meaning such things as are aspects of a new Church.

[3] The following rules were laid down for the high priest, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, in Moses,

The priest who is chief among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been consecrated 1 to wear the garments, shall not shave his head or rend his garments. Leviticus 21:10.

The sons of Aaron shall not introduce any baldness on their head or shave the corner of their beard. They shall be holy to their God, and they shall not profane the name of their God. Leviticus 21:5-6.

You shall purify the Levites like this: Sprinkle over them the water of expiation, and they shall pass a razor over their flesh and wash their garments, and they shall be pure. Numbers 8:7.

These rules would never have been given unless they had held holy ideas within them. Can there be anything holy or anything of the Church in the actual rule forbidding the high priest to shave his head or rend his garments, or in the actual rule forbidding the sons of Levi to introduce any baldness on their head or shave the corner of their beard, or in that commanding the Levites to shave their flesh with a razor when they underwent purification? Rather, the possession of an external or natural man made subordinate to the internal or spiritual man, both of which have thereby been made subordinate to the Divine, is the holy idea within those rules; and it is also what angels perceive when man reads about them in the Word.

[4] The same goes for what is said about a Nazirite who was holy to Jehovah. If someone next to him happened to die suddenly and so defile his consecrated head, the Nazirite was required to clip his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he had to clip it. On the day that the days of his Naziriteship were completed he had to clip his consecrated head at the door of the Tent of Meeting and to take the hair from his head and put it on the fire which was under the sacrifice of peace offerings, Numbers 6:8, 9, 13, 18. For the meaning of a Nazirite and what aspect of holiness he represented, see 3301. No one can possibly understand why anything holy existed within the Nazirite's hair unless he knows from correspondence what is meant by 'the hair' and from this what aspect of holiness a Nazirite's hair corresponded to. Nor can anyone likewise understand how the source of Samson's strength lay in his hair, which he told Delilah about in the following description,

No razor has come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite of God from my mother's womb. If I am shaved, my strength will depart from me, and I shall become weak and be like anyone else. And Delilah called a man who shaved off the seven locks of his hair; and his strength departed from him. After that, when the hair on his head began to grow, even as it had been shaved off, his strength returned to him. Judges 16:17, 19, 22.

Without any knowledge of correspondence who can see that the Lord's Divine Natural was represented by 'a Nazirite', or that 'Naziriteship' had no other meaning than this, or that Samson's strength was due to that representation?

[5] Anyone who does not know, and more so one who does not believe that the Word has an internal sense, and that the sense of the letter serves to represent the real things contained in the internal sense, will recognize scarcely anything holy at all in these matters, when in fact the greatest holiness lies within them. Anyone who does not know, and more so one who does not believe that the Word has an internal sense that is intrinsically holy cannot know what the following texts enfold within them: In Jeremiah,

Truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth. Cut off the hair of your Naziriteship and throw it away. Jeremiah 7:28-29.

In Isaiah,

On that day the Lord will shave by means of a razor hired at the crossing-places of the River - by means of the king of Asshur - the head and the hair of the feet; and it will consume the beard also. Isaiah 7:20.

In Micah,

Make yourself bald, and shave your head for the children of your delight; extend your baldness like an eagle, for they have departed from you. Micah 1:16.

Nor will anyone know the aspect of holiness contained in the reference to Elijah's being a man covered with hair, who wore a skin girdle around his loins, 2 Kings 1:8. Nor will he know why the children who called Elisha baldhead were torn apart by the bears out of the forest, 2 Kings 2:23-24.

[6] Both Elijah and Elisha represented the Lord as to the Word, and so represented the Word itself, specifically the prophetical part, see Preface to Genesis 18, and 2762. Being covered with hair and having a skin girdle meant the literal sense, 'a man covered with hair' meaning that sense so far as truths were concerned, 'wearing a skin girdle around his loins' so far as forms of good were concerned. For the literal sense is the natural sense of the Word since it employs ideas formed from things that exist in the world, whereas the internal sense is the spiritual sense because it employs ideas formed from things existing in heaven. These two senses are related to each other in the way that the internal and the external are related in the human being. But because the internal can have no existence without the external, the external being the last and lowest degree of order within which the internal is held in being, the calling of Elisha 'baldhead' therefore meant the shameful accusation made against the Word that it lacked so to speak an external and so lacked a sense suited to man's capacity to understand it.

[7] From all this one may see that every particular detail in the Word is holy. However, this holiness within the Word is discerned by no one unless he is acquainted with the internal sense; yet an inkling of it flows from heaven into someone who believes that the Word is holy. The internal sense known to the angels is the channel through which that influx comes; and even if the person has no understanding of that sense it nevertheless stimulates an affection in him, because the affection felt by the angels who know that sense is communicated to him. From this it is also evident that the Word was given to man so that he might have a means of communication with heaven and so that by flowing into him Divine Truth in heaven might stimulate affection in him.

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1. literally, whose hand has been filled

  
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