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Бытие 47

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1 И пришелъ Іосифъ къ Фараону, и извјстилъ его, и сказалъ: отецъ мой и братья мои съ мелкимъ и крупнымъ скотомъ своимъ, и всјмъ, что у нихъ есть, пришли изъ земли Ханаанской, и вотъ они въ землј Гесемъ.

2 Онъ взялъ также изъ числа братьевъ своихъ пять человјкъ, и представилъ ихъ Фараону.

3 Фараонъ спросилъ братьевъ его: какой вашъ промыселъ? Они отвјчали Фараону: пастухи овецъ и мы, рабы твои, и отцы наши.

4 И сказали они Фараону: мы пришли жить въ этой землј, потому что нјтъ пажити для скота рабовъ твоихъ; ибо въ землј Ханаанской сильный голодъ. И такъ да поселятся рабы твои въ землј Гесемъ.

5 Фараонъ обратился къ Іосифу, и сказалъ: отецъ твой и братья твои пришли къ тебј.

6 Земля Египетская предъ тобою. На лучшемъ мјстј земли посели отца твоего и братьевъ твоихъ. Пусть живутъ они въ землј Гесемъ. И если знаешь, что между ними есть способные люди; поставь ихъ смотрителями надъ моимъ скотомъ.

7 И привелъ Іосифъ Іакова, отца своего, и представилъ его Фараону: и благословилъ Іаковъ Фараона.

8 Фараонъ спросилъ Іакова: сколько лјтъ жизни твоей?

9 Іаковъ отвјчалъ Фараону: дней странствованія моего сто тридцать лјтъ; кратки и несчастны дни жизни моей; они не достигли до лјтъ жизни отцевъ моихъ, во дни странствованія ихъ.

10 И благословилъ Фараона Іаковъ, и вышелъ отъ Фараона.

11 И поселилъ Іосифъ отца своего и братьевъ своихъ въ землј Египетской, давъ имъ въ собственность лучшее мјсто земли, въ землј Рамесесъ, какъ повелјлъ Фараонъ.

12 И кормилъ Іосифъ отца своего, и братьевъ своихъ, и весь домъ отца своего, хлјбомъ, какъ дјтей.

13 Между тјмъ не стало хлјба по всей землј, потому что голодъ весьма усилился; и изнурены были отъ голода земля Египетская и земля Ханаанская.

14 Іосифъ собралъ все серебро, какое было въ землј Египетской и въ землј Ханаанской, за хлјбъ, который жители покупали, и внесъ Іосифъ серебро въ домъ Фараоновъ.

15 Наконецъ серебро истощилось и въ землј Египетской и въ землј Ханаанской. Всј Египтяне пришли къ Іосифу, и говорили: дай намъ хлјба; для чего намъ умирать въ глазахъ твоихъ? ибо серебра нјтъ

16 Іосифъ отвјчалъ: приведите скотъ вашъ, и я дамъ вамъ хлјба за скотъ вашъ, если серебра нјтъ,

17 Итакъ они привели къ Іосифу скотъ свой, и далъ имъ Іосифъ хлјба за лошадей, и за стада овецъ, и за стада воловъ, и за ословъ; и снабжалъ ихъ хлјбомъ въ тотъ годъ за весь скотъ ихъ.

18 Когда прошелъ и сей годъ: то на другой годъ они пришли къ нему, и сказали: не скроемъ отъ господина нашего. что серебро истощилось и стада скота уже у господина нашего, ничего не осталось предъ господиномъ нашимъ, кромј тјла нашего и земли нашей.

19 Для чего погибать намъ въ глазахъ господина нашего, и землј нашей? Купи насъ и землю нашу за хлјбъ; и мы будемъ съ землею нашею рабы Фараону, а ты дай намъ сјмянъ, чтобы намъ сохранить жизнъ, и не умереть, и чтобы не опустјла земля наша.

20 Такимъ образомъ Іосифъ купилъ всю землю Египетскую Фараону, потому что Египтяне продали всякъ свое поле; ибо голодъ одолјлъ ихь. И досталась земля Фараону.

21 Также и народъ сдјлалъ онъ рабами, отъ одного конца Египта до другаго.

22 Только земли жреческой не купилъ; ибо жрецамъ отъ Фараона положенъ былъ участокъ, и они питалисъ своимъ участкомъ, который давалъ имъ Фараонъ; посему и не продали земли своей.

23 И сказалъ Іосифъ народу: вотъ я купилъ теперь Фараону васъ и землю вашу, вотъ вамъ сјмена, засјвайте землю.

24 Изъ произведеній же давайте пятую часть Фараону, а четыре части останется вамъ на засјяніе полей, на пропитаніе вамъ и домашнимъ вашимъ, и на пропитаніе дјтямъ вашимъ.

25 Они сказали: ты спасъ намъ жизнь; да обрјтемъ милость въ очахъ господина нашего, и да будемъ рабами Фараону.

26 И поставилъ Іосифъ въ законъ землј Египетской, даже до сего дня: пятую часть Фараону. Одна только земля жреческая не досталась Фараону.

27 Такимъ образомъ Израильтяне поселились въ землј Египетской, въ землј Гесемъ, пріобрјли въ ней собственность, и возрасли, и весьма умножились.

28 И жилъ Іаковъ въ землј Египетской семнадцать лјтъ; а всјхъ дней жизни Іаковлевой было сто сорокъ семь лјтъ.

29 Когда же дни Израилевы приближались къ смерти, тогда онъ призвалъ сына своего Іосифа и сказалъ ему: если я обрјлъ благодать въ очахъ твоихъ, положи руку подъ стегно мое, и клянись, что ты сдјлаешь со мною милость и истину, не похоронишь меня въ Египтј,

30 Я хочу лечь съ отцами моими; посему вынеси меня изъ Египта, и похорони меня въ ихъ гробј. Іосифъ отвјчалъ: я исполню по слову твоему.

31 И сказалъ: клянись мнј. И клялся ему. И наклонился Израиль на возглавіе постели.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 2838

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2838. 'As it is said today' means that which is perpetual. This is clear from the meaning of 'today' in the Word, dealt with below. One frequently reads in the Word the phrase 'even to this day (or today)', as in what has gone before,

He is the father of Moab even to this day, and the father of Ammon even to this day. Genesis 19:37-38; and in what appears later on,

The name of the city is Beersheba even to this day. Genesis 26:33; also,

The children of Israel do not eat the sinew of that which was displaced, which is on the hollow of the thigh, even to this day. Genesis 32:32; as well as,

This is the pillar of Rachel's grave even to [this] day. Genesis 35:20.

Joseph made it a statute even to this day. Genesis 47:26.

In the historical sense 'to this day' and 'today' refer to the time when Moses was alive, but in the internal sense these expressions mean perpetuity and eternity of state. 'Day' means state, see 23, 487, 488, 493, 893, and so therefore does 'today', which is the present time. That which in the world is temporal is in heaven eternal. To give the meaning of that which is eternal, the expression today or else to this day has been added, though to those who are aware only of the historical sense it does not appear to embody anything further. Similar usages of these expressions occur elsewhere in the Word, such as Joshua 4:9; 6:25; 7:26; Judges 1:21, 26; and in other places.

[2] That 'today' means that which is perpetual and eternal may be seen in David,

I will tell of the statute: Jehovah has said to me, You are My Son; today I have begotten You. Psalms 2:7.

Here 'today' plainly stands for that which is eternal. In the same author,

For ever, O Jehovah, Your Word is fixed in the heavens, Your truth to generation after generation. You have established the earth and it stands. As for Your judgements they stand [even] today. Psalms 119:89-91.

Here also 'today' plainly stands for that which is eternal. In Jeremiah,

Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you, and before you came out of the womb I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations. I have set you this day (today) over nations and over kingdoms; and I have made you today into a fortified city, and into a pillar of iron, and into walls of bronze. Jeremiah 1:5, 10, 18.

This refers in the sense of the letter to Jeremiah, but in the internal sense the Lord is meant. 'I have set you this day (or today) over nations and over kingdoms, and I have made you today into a fortified city' means from eternity. In regard to the Lord one can only speak of that which is eternal.

[3] In Moses,

You are standing today, all of you, before Jehovah your God, so that you may enter into the covenant of Jehovah your God, and into His oath, which Jehovah your God is making with you today, that He may establish you today as a people for Himself, and that He will be God to you. Not indeed with you alone [do I make it], but with those who stand with us here today before Jehovah our God, and with those who are not with us today. Deuteronomy 29:10, 12-15.

Here in the sense of the letter 'today' means that present time when

Moses addressed the people. Yet it is clear that it nevertheless implies subsequent times and what is perpetual; for making a covenant with anyone, and with those who were there and with those who were not, implies that which is perpetual. Perpetuity itself is what is meant in the internal sense.

[4] That 'daily' and 'today' mean that which is perpetual is clear also from the sacrifice that was offered each day. This sacrifice, because of what is meant by day, daily, and today, was called the continual, or perpetual, sacrifice, Numbers 28:3, 23; Daniel 8:13; 11:31; 12:11. This may be even more plainly evident from the manna which rained from heaven, spoken of in Moses as follows,

Behold, I am causing bread to rain from heaven, and the people shall go out and gather a portion day by day. And they shall not leave any of it until the morning. That which they did leave until the morning bred worms and went rotten, except that gathered on the day before the Sabbath. Exodus 16:4, 19-20, 23.

This happened because 'the manna' meant the Lord's Divine Human, John 6:31-32, 49-50, 58, and because the Lord's Divine Human meant heavenly food, which is nothing other than love and charity, together with the goods and truths of faith. In heaven the Lord imparts this food to angels moment by moment, thus perpetually and eternally, see 2193. This is also what is meant in the Lord's Prayer by the petition, Give us today our daily bread, Matthew 6:11; Luke 11:3, that is, in every moment for evermore.

  
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