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1 Mosebok 46

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1 Og Israel brøt op med alt det han hadde, og da han kom til Be'erseba, ofret han slaktoffer til sin far Isaks Gud.

2 Og Gud sa til Israel i et syn om natten: Jakob, Jakob! Han svarte: Ja, her er jeg.

3 Da sa han: Jeg er Gud, din fars Gud; frykt ikke for å dra ned til Egypten, for der vil jeg gjøre dig til et stort folk.

4 Jeg skal selv dra ned med dig til Egypten, jeg skal visselig også føre dig op igjen; og Josef skal lukke dine øine.

5 Så brøt Jakob op fra Be'erseba; og Israels sønner kjørte Jakob, sin far, og sine barn og sine hustruer i de vogner som Farao hadde sendt til å hente ham i.

6 Og de tok med sig sin buskap og sitt gods som de hadde lagt sig til i Kana'ans land, og de kom til Egypten, Jakob og hele hans ætt med ham;

7 sine sønner og sine sønnesønner, sine døtre og sine sønnedøtre, hele sin ætt førte han med sig til Egypten.

8 Og dette er navnene på Israels barn som kom til Egypten, Jakob og hans sønner: Jakobs førstefødte sønn uben,

9 og ubens sønner: Hanok og Pallu og Hesron og Karmi,

10 og Simeons sønner: Jemuel og Jamin og Ohad og Jakin og Sohar og Saul, som han hadde fått med en kana'anitterkvinne,

11 og Levis sønner: Gerson, Kahat og Merari,

12 og Judas sønner: Er og Onan og Sela og Peres og Serah - men Er og Onan døde i Kana'ans land - og Peres' sønner var Hesron og Hamul;

13 og Issakars sønner: Tola og Puva og Job og Simron,

14 og Sebulons sønner: Sered og Elon og Jahle'el;

15 dette var Leas sønner, som hun fødte Jakob i Mesopotamia, og dessuten Dina, hans datter, i alt tre og tretti sjeler, sønner og døtre.

16 Og Gads sønner: Sifion og Haggi, Suni og Esbon, Eri og Arodi og Areli,

17 - og Asers sønner: Jimna og Jisva og Jisvi og Bria og Serah, deres søster, og Brias sønner var Heber og Malkiel;

18 dette var barn av Silpa, som Laban gav sin datter Lea; hun fødte Jakob disse barn, seksten sjeler.

19 Jakobs hustru akels sønner: Josef og Benjamin;

20 og Josef fikk barn i Egyptens land med Asnat, datter til Potifera, presten i On: Manasse og Efra'im;

21 og Benjamins sønner: Bela og Beker og Asbel, Gera og Na'aman, Ehi og os, Muppim og Huppim og Ard;

22 dette var de barn som Jakob fikk med akel, i alt fjorten sjeler.

23 Og Dans sønn: Husim,

24 og Naftalis sønner: Jahse'el og Guni og Jeser og Sillem;

25 dette var sønnene til Bilha, som Laban gav sin datter akel; hun fødte Jakob disse barn, i alt syv sjeler.

26 Alle de som kom med Jakob til Egypten, og som var utgått av hans lend, foruten Jakobs sønnekoner, var i alt seks og seksti sjeler.

27 Og Josefs sønner, som han fikk i Egypten, var to; alle av Jakobs hus, som kom til Egypten, var sytti sjeler.

28 Og han sendte Juda i forveien til Josef og bad at han skulde vise ham vei til Gosen; så kom de til landet Gosen.

29 Og Josef lot spenne for sin vogn og drog op til Gosen for å møte Israel, sin far; og da han fikk se ham, falt han ham om halsen og gråt lenge i hans armer.

30 Da sa Israel til Josef: Nu vil jeg gjerne dø, efterat jeg har sett ditt ansikt og vet at du ennu lever.

31 Og Josef sa til sine brødre og til sin fars hus: Jeg vil dra op og melde det til Farao og si til ham: Mine brødre og min fars hus, som var i Kana'ans land, er kommet til mig;

32 Og mennene er fehyrder, de er folk som driver feavl, og sitt småfe og sitt storfe og alt det de eier, har de hatt med sig hit.

33 Og når Farao kaller eder til sig og sier: Hvad er eders levevei?

34 da skal I si: Dine tjenere har drevet feavl fra vår ungdom av og til nu, både vi og våre fedre - da får I bo i landet Gosen; for alle fehyrder er en vederstyggelighet for egypterne.

   

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6015. 'In the carts which Pharaoh sent to carry him' means the matters of doctrine obtained from the Church's factual knowledge. This is clear from the meaning of 'the carts' as matters of doctrine, dealt with in 5945; and from the representation of 'Pharaoh' as the Church's factual knowledge in general. For 'Egypt' means the Church's factual knowledge, 1462, 4749, 4964, 4966, and therefore the king of that land means such knowledge in general, as he does elsewhere in the Word, though in the majority of places perverted factual knowledge is meant by Egypt and so also by Pharaoh. The representation of 'Pharaoh' as factual knowledge in general is evident in Isaiah,

The princes of Zoan are foolish, the wise counsellors of Pharaoh; counsel has become brutish. How do you say to Pharaoh, I am a son of the wise, a son of the kings of old? Isaiah 19:11.

Here 'Pharaoh' stands for the Church's factual knowledge in general, which was why he was called 'a son of the wise' and 'a son of the kings of old'. 'The wise' and 'the kings of old' stand for the truths that the Ancient Church possessed. But that factual knowledge made nonsensical is meant, for it says 'The princes of Zoan have become foolish; counsel has become brutish'.

[2] In the same prophet,

They depart to go down to Egypt but have not asked at My mouth, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt. Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will become shame for you, and trust in the shadow of Egypt ignominy. Isaiah 30:2-3.

'Strengthening themselves in the strength of Egypt, and trusting in the shadow of Egypt' stands for relying in matters of faith on factual knowledge and having no belief in any spiritual truth unless it is what factual knowledge and sensory evidence so declare. But that is a perversion of order. The truths of faith must occupy first place, and supporting factual knowledge must take second place; for if the latter occupy first place, no belief in any truth whatever exists.

[3] In Jeremiah,

Jehovah Zebaoth, the God of Israel, said, Behold, I am making a visitation upon Amen in No, and upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt, and upon its gods, and upon its kings - especially upon Pharaoh and those trusting in him. Jeremiah 46:25.

Here also 'Pharaoh' stands for factual knowledge in general. 'Those trusting in him' stands for people who rely on factual knowledge but do not rely on the Word, that is, on the Lord in the Word. Such a reliance leads to a complete perversion in the things people are taught to believe, which in turn leads to falsity and also to the refusal to accept that what is Divine and heavenly is anything at all. These people in particular are all too ready to say, Let me see these things with my own eyes; or, Produce the facts to prove the truth of it, and then I will believe it. But even if they did see them or such proof was produced they would not believe, because an unaccepting attitude of mind governs everything.

[4] In the same prophet,

Against Pharaoh. 1 Behold, waters rising out of the north which will become a deluging stream, and they will deluge the land and all that fills it, the city and those who dwell in it, so that men cry out and every inhabitant of the land wails because of the sound of the beat of the hoofs of the horses his mighty ones and the noise of his chariot, the rumble of its wheels. Jeremiah 47:1-3.

It is plain from every detail stated here regarding Pharaoh that 'Pharaoh' is factual knowledge in general, existing in this instance in a perverted state of order, which destroys the truths of faith. 'A deluging stream' is factual knowledge destroying an understanding of truth, and so is knowledge that lays waste. 'They will deluge the land and all that fills it' is the entire Church. 'The city and those who dwell in it' is the truth the Church possesses, and the good this truth leads to. 'The beat of the hoofs of the horses' is the lowest kind of factual knowledge gained directly from sensory impressions. 'The noise of his chariot' is false teaching derived from that knowledge. 'The rumble of its wheels' is sensory impressions and the false notions going with them that advance themselves.

[5] In Ezekiel,

The Lord Jehovih said, Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster who is lying in the midst of his rivers, who has said, The river is mine and I have made myself. Therefore I will put hooks in your jaws, and cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales. Ezekiel 29:2-4.

Here also 'Pharaoh' stands for factual knowledge in general, which in a similar way is evident from each detail that is stated regarding him.

[6] In the same prophet,

Raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt. You are like monsters in the seas, and you have come forth with your rivers, and have troubled the waters with your feet; you have stirred up their rivers. When I have blotted you out, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars, I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light. All the bright lights [in the heavens] I will darken over you, and I will put darkness over your land. Ezekiel 32:1, 3, 7-8.

The details of this description, like many more in the Prophets, cannot be understood by anyone, it is evident, without the internal sense. No one can understand what is meant when it says that Pharaoh is like monsters in the seas, has come forth with 2 his rivers, and has troubled the waters with his feet. Nor can anyone know what is meant when it says that the heavens will be covered above him, the stars will be darkened, and all the bright lights will be darkened; also that the sun will be covered with a cloud, the moon will not give its light, and darkness will be put over his land. But the internal sense shows what all these details mean; it shows that factual knowledge perverts the truths of the Church if a person uses it to enter the mysteries of faith without believing anything unless factual knowledge, indeed sensory evidence, causes him to see it. This is the internal sense of this description, as the explanation of each separate detail shows.

[7] Pharaoh is called 'king of Egypt' by virtue of the truth factual knowledge holds within it. For factual knowledge is truth as it exists in the natural, and 'king' is truth, see 1672, 1728, 2015, 2069, 3009, 3670, 4575, 4581, 4966, 5044; also, much the same is meant by the king of a people as by the people themselves, 4789, so that much the same is meant by 'Pharaoh' as by 'Egypt', but the same thing in general. ('Egypt' has been shown many times to mean factual knowledge.) Pharaoh is compared to 'monsters in the seas' because 'a monster' or 'a sea monster' means general sources of facts, 42, While 'seas' means gatherings together of them, 28. Then it is said that he has come forth with his rivers because ideas displaying intelligence are meant by 'rivers', 108, 109, 2702, 3051, but here ideas displaying insanity since they flow from sensory impressions and factual knowledge, 5196. After this it is said that he troubled the waters with his feet and stirred up their rivers because 'waters' means spiritual truths, 680, 739, 2702, 3058, 3424, 4976, 5668, and 'feet' things belonging to the natural, 2162, 3147, 3761, 3986, 4280, 4938-4952, so that 'troubling the waters with one's feet' is defiling and perverting the truths of faith by means of factual knowledge which the natural possesses. And 'stirring up their rivers' is doing the same to intelligence.

[8] Finally it is said that when he is blotted out the heavens will be covered, because 'the heavens' means a person's interiors, since these are his heavens. They are 'closed' when factual knowledge holds sway over the truths of faith, that is, when the natural holds sway over the spiritual. When this is the situation the cognitions or knowledge of truth and good perish, meant by 'I will darken the stars of the heavens, and all the bright lights'; for 'the stars' are those cognitions, see 2495, 2849, 4697, and 'the lights' are forms of good and truth, 30-38. The inability of the good of love to flow in any longer at that time is meant by 'I will cover the sun with a cloud', and the inability of the good of faith to flow in by 'the moon will not give its light' - 'the sun' being the good of love, and 'the moon the good of faith, see 1519, 1530, 2120, 2495, 3636, 3643, 4060, 4696. The occupation therefore of the natural mind by falsities alone is meant by 'I will put darkness over your land' - 'darkness' being falsities, 1839, 1860, 4418, 4531, and 'Pharaoh's land' or 'the land of Egypt' being the natural mind, 5276, 5278, 5280, 5288, 5701. From all this one may now see what the meaning is within the details of this prophecy. Since 'Pharaoh' means factual knowledge in general he also means the natural in general, 5799.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. These verses in Jeremiah 47 refer to the Philistines, though Pharaoh is mentioned in verse 1. Chapter Jeremiah 46 deals specifically with Egypt and Pharaoh.

2. Reading cum (with) for ex (from)

  
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