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Gênesis 49

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1 Depois chamou Jacó a seus filhos, e disse: Ajuntai-vos para que eu vos anuncie o que vos há de acontecer nos dias vindouros.

2 Ajuntai-vos, e ouvi, filhos de Jacó; ouvi a Israel vosso pai:

3 Rúben, tu és meu primogênito, minha força e as primícias do meu vigor, preeminente em dignidade e preeminente em poder.

4 Descomedido como a àgua, não reterás a preeminência; porquanto subiste ao leito de teu pai; então o contaminaste. Sim, ele subiu à minha cama.

5 Simeão e Levi são irmãos; as suas espadas são instrumentos de violência.

6 No seu concílio não entres, ó minha alma! com a sua assembléia não te ajuntes, ó minha glória! porque no seu furor mataram homens, e na sua teima jarretaram bois.

7 Maldito o seu furor, porque era forte! maldita a sua ira, porque era cruel! Dividi-los-ei em Jacó, e os espalharei em Israel.

8 Judá, a ti te louvarão teus irmãos; a tua mão será sobre o pescoço de teus inimigos: diante de ti se prostrarão os filhos de teu pai.

9 Judá é um leãozinho. Subiste da presa, meu filho. Ele se encurva e se deita como um leão, e como uma leoa; quem o despertará?

10 O cetro não se arredará de Judà, nem o bastão de autoridade dentre seus pés, até que venha aquele a quem pertence; e a ele obedecerão os povos.

11 Atando ele o seu jumentinho à vide, e o filho da sua jumenta à videira seleta, lava as suas roupas em vinho e a sua vestidura em sangue de uvas.

12 Os olhos serão escurecidos pelo vinho, e os dentes brancos de leite.

13 Zebulom habitarà no litoral; será ele ancoradouro de navios; e o seu termo estender-se-á até Sidom.

14 Issacar é jumento forte, deitado entre dois fardos.

15 Viu ele que o descanso era bom, e que a terra era agradável. Sujeitou os seus ombros à carga e entregou-se ao serviço forçado de um escravo.

16 julgará o seu povo, como uma das tribos de Israel.

17 será serpente junto ao caminho, uma víbora junto à vereda, que morde os calcanhares do cavalo, de modo que caia o seu cavaleiro para trás.

18 A tua salvação tenho esperado, ó Senhor!

19 Quanto a Gade, guerrilheiros o acometerão; mas ele, por sua vez, os acometerá.

20 De Aser, o seu pão será gordo; ele produzirá delícias reais.

21 Naftali é uma gazela solta; ele profere palavras formosas.

22 José é um ramo frutífero, ramo frutífero junto a uma fonte; seus raminhos se estendem sobre o muro.

23 Os flecheiros lhe deram amargura, e o flecharam e perseguiram,

24 mas o seu arco permaneceu firme, e os seus braços foram fortalecidos pelas mãos do Poderoso de Jacó, o Pastor, o Rochedo de Israel,

25 pelo Deus de teu pai, o qual te ajudará, e pelo Todo-Poderoso, o qual te abençoara, com bênçãos dos céus em cima, com bênçãos do abismo que jaz embaixo, com bênçãos dos seios e da madre.

26 As bênçãos de teu pai excedem as bênçãos dos montes eternos, as coisas desejadas dos eternos outeiros; sejam elas sobre a cabeça de José, e sobre o alto da cabeça daquele que foi separado de seus irmãos.

27 Benjamim é lobo que despedaça; pela manhã devorará a presa, e à tarde repartirã o despojo.

28 Todas estas são as doze tribos de Israel: e isto é o que lhes falou seu pai quando os abençoou; a cada um deles abençoou segundo a sua bênção.

29 Depois lhes deu ordem, dizendo-lhes: Eu estou para ser congregado ao meu povo; sepultai-me com meus pais, na cova que está no campo de Efrom, o heteu,

30 na cova que está no campo de Macpela, que está em frente de Manre, na terra de Canaã, cova esta que Abraão comprou de Efrom, o heteu, juntamente com o respectivo campo, como propriedade de sepultura.

31 Ali sepultaram a Abraão e a Sara, sua mulher; ali sepultaram a Isaque e a Rebeca, sua mulher; e ali eu sepultei a Léia.

32 O campo e a cova que está nele foram comprados aos filhos de Hete.

33 Acabando Jacó de dar estas instruçães a seus filhos, encolheu os seus pés na cama, expirou e foi congregado ao seu povo.

   

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6362. Verses 8-12 Judah are you, your brothers will praise you; your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father's sons will bow down to you. A lion's cub is Judah; from the plunder you have gone up, my son. He crouched, he lay down like a lion, and like an old lion; who will rouse him? The sceptre will not be removed from Judah, or a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes; and to him will be the obedience of the peoples. He binds his young ass to the vine, and the foal of his she-ass to the outstanding vine; he washes his clothing in wine, and his garment in the blood of grapes. His eyes are red from wine, and his teeth white from milk.

'Judah are you' means the celestial Church, in the highest sense the Lord's Divine celestial. 'Your brothers will praise you' means that this Church is superior to all the rest. 'Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies' means that the hellish and devilish crew will flee from its presence. 'Your father's sons will bow down to you' means that truths will submit themselves of their own accord. 'A lion's cub is Judah' means innocence with innate strength. 'From the plunder you have gone up, my son' means that through the celestial the Lord accomplishes the deliverance of many from hell. 'He crouched, he lay down like a lion, and like an old lion' means the good of love and the truth from that good in their power. 'Who will rouse him?' means that he is safe when among all those in the hells. 'The sceptre will not be removed from Judah' means that power and control will not depart from the celestial kingdom. 'Or a lawgiver from between his feet' means truths from that kingdom in lower things. 'Until Shiloh comes' means the Lord's Coming, and the peaceful tranquillity at that time. 'And to him will be the obedience of the peoples' means that from His Divine Human truths would go forth that were able to be received. 1 'He binds his young ass to the vine' means truth in the natural for the external Church. 'And the foal of his she-ass to the outstanding vine' means truth from the rational for the internal Church. 'He washes his clothing in wine' means that His Natural consists in Divine Truth from His Divine Good. 'And his garment in the blood of grapes' means that His Intellect consists in Divine Good from His Divine Love. 'His eyes are red from wine' means that His Intellect or Internal Human is nothing else than good. 'And his teeth white from milk' means that the Divine Natural is nothing else than the good of truth.

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1. The three Latin words rendered here as "that were able to be received" do not appear in the Latin edition, only in Swedenborg's rough draft, where however they are possibly deleted. But cp 6374.

  
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Genesis 49

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1 Jacob called to his sons, and said: "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.

2 Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.

3 "Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.

4 Boiling over as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father's bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.

5 "Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.

6 My soul, don't come into their council. My glory, don't be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

8 "Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father's sons will bow down before you.

9 Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?

10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

11 Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey's colt to the choice vine; he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

12 His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk.

13 "Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.

14 "Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.

15 He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.

16 "Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

17 Dan will be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path, That bites the horse's heels, so that his rider falls backward.

18 I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

19 "A troop will press on Gad, but he will press on their heel.

20 "Asher's food will be rich. He will yield royal dainties.

21 "Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.

22 "Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.

23 The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecute him:

24 But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),

25 even by the God of your father, who will help you; by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.

26 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.

27 "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the spoil."

28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing.

29 He instructed them, and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

30 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.

31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:

32 the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth."

33 When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.