Arcana Coelestia # 5994
5994. Genesis 46
1. And Israel travelled on and all that he had; and he came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
2. And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Behold, here I am.
3. And He said, I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid of going down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
4. I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will certainly cause you to come up also; and Joseph will put his hand on your eyes.
5. And Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their young children, and their wives, in the carts which Pharaoh sent to carry him.
6. And they took their livestock, and the acquisitions they had made in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt - Jacob and all his seed with him.
7. His sons and his sons' sons with him, his daughters and his sons' daughters, and all his seed he brought with him to Egypt.
8. And these are the names of the sons of Israel who were coming to Egypt - of Jacob and his sons: Jacob's firstborn was Reuben.
9. And the sons of Reuben were Enoch, 1 and Pallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
10. And the sons of Simeon were Jemuel and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
11. And the sons of Levi were Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
12. And the sons of Judah were Er and Onan, and Shelah, and Perez, and Zerah; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
13. And the sons of Issachar were Tola, and Puvah, and Job, and Shimron.
14. And the sons of Zebulun were Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
15. These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, and Dinah his daughter. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.
16. And the sons of Gad were Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi, and Areli.
17. And the sons of Asher were Jimnah, and Jishvah, and Jishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. And the sons of Beriah were Heber and Malchiel.
18. These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bore to Jacob. They were sixteen souls.
19. The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife, were Joseph and Benjamin.
20. And born to Joseph in the land of Egypt were those whom Asenath the daughter of Potiphera the priest of On bore to him, Manasseh and Ephraim.
21. And the sons of Benjamin were Bela and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim, and Ard.
22. These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob. All the souls were fourteen.
23. And the sons of Dan were Hushim.
24. And the sons of Naphtali were Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
25. And 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. Every soul coming, that belonged to Jacob, to Egypt - those who had come out of his thigh, not counting Jacob's sons' wives - all the souls were sixty-six.
27. And Joseph's sons, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls; all the souls belonging to the house of Jacob who was coming to Egypt were seventy.
28. And he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show [the way] before him to Goshen; and they came to the land of Goshen.
29. And Joseph harnessed his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen; and he was seen towards him, 2 and he fell on his neck, 3 and wept on his neck 3 a long while.
30. And Israel said to Joseph, Now let me die, 4 after I have seen your face, that you are still alive.
31. And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's house, I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
32. And the men are Shepherds of the flock, for they are keepers 5 of livestock; and their flocks and their herds, and all they have, they have made to come.
33. And it may be that Pharaoh may call you and say, What are your works? 6
34. And you are to say, Your servants have been keepers 5 of livestock from our 7 boyhoods and right up to now, both we and our fathers - so that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd of the flock is an abomination to the Egyptians.
CONTENTS
This chapter deals in the internal sense with the joining of the internal celestial, which is 'Joseph', to spiritual good from the natural, which is 'Israel'. Then there is a listing in their proper order of the Church's truths and forms of good to which the internal celestial will afterwards come to be joined, those truths and forms of good being 'Israel's sons and grandsons who came to Egypt'.
Poznámky pod čarou:
1. In most English versions this name appears as Hanoch, but in the Latin, as in the original Hebrew, the spelling is the same as that of the one mentioned in Genesis 4:17-18; 5:18-24. Cp. Genesis 25:4.
2. i.e. Joseph presented himself to his father
3. literally, necks
4. literally, Let me die this once
5. literally, men
6. i.e. What is your occupation?
7. The Latin means their, but the Hebrew means our.
Genesis 6
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It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
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that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
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Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."
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The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came in to men's daughters. They bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
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Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
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Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
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Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."
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But Noah found favor in Yahweh's eyes.
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This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
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Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
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God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
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God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
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Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
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This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship will be three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
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You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.
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I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
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But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
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Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.
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Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.
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Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them."
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Thus Noah did. According to all that God commanded him, so he did.
