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1 Іосифъ палъ на лице отца своего, и плакалъ надъ нимъ, и цјловалъ его.

2 И повелјлъ Іосифъ рабамъ своимъ врачамъ бальзамировать отца его; и врачи набальзамировали Израиля.

3 И исполнилось ему сорокъ дней; ибо столько дней употребляется на балъзамированіе. Египтяне оплакивали его семьдесятъ дней.

4 Когда же прошли дни плача по немъ: тогда Іосифъ обратился къ придворнымъ Фараона, и сказалъ: если я обрјлъ благоволеніе въ очахъ вашихъ, то доведите до слуха Фараонова сіи слова:

5 отецъ мой обязалъ меня клятвою, сказавъ: вотъ, я умираю; похорони меня во гробј моемъ, который я выкопалъ себј въ землј Ханаанской. Итакъ пойду я, похороню отца моего, и возвращусь.

6 Фараонъ отвјчалъ: поди, похорони отца твоего, какъ онъ заклиналъ тебя.

7 И пошелъ Іосифъ хоронить отца своего. Съ нимъ пошлп всј рабы Фараона, знатнјйшіе въ домј его, и всј знатнјйшіе въ землј Египетской,

8 и весь домъ Іосифовъ, и братья его, и домъ отца его. Только дјтей своихъ, и мелкій и крупный скотъ свой оставили въ землј Гесемъ.

9 Съ нимъ отправились также колесницы и всадники, такъ, что составился сонмъ весьма великій.

10 Дошедши до гумна Атадова за Іорданомъ, они сдјлали тутъ великій и весьма сильный плачъ; и оплакивалъ Іосифъ отца своего семь дней.

11 Хананеи, жители земли той, видя плачь на гумнј Атадовомъ, говорили: какой великій плачъ у Египтянъ! отъ сего дано имя мјсту тому за Іорданомъ: Плачъ Египтянъ.

12 И исполнили сыновъя Іакова надъ нимъ то, что онъ приказывалъ имъ,

13 Сыновья его отнесли его въ землю Ханаанскую, и похоронили его въ пещерј на полј Махпела, которую Авраамъ вмјстј съ полемъ купилъ въ собственность ддя погребанія у Ефрона Хеттеянина, противъ Мамре.

14 Іосифъ, похоронивъ отца своего, возвратился въ Египетъ самъ, и братья его, и всј ходившіе съ ними хоронить отца его.

15 Братья Іосифовы, видя, что отецъ ихъ умеръ, сказали: что, если Іосифъ возненавидитъ насъ, и захочетъ отомстить намъ за все зло, которое мы ему сдјлади?

16 Итакъ они послали сказать Іосифу: отецъ твой предъ смертію своею завјщалъ, говоря:

17 такъ скажите Іосифу: прости братьямъ твоимъ вину и грјхъ ихъ; ибо они сдјлали тебј зло. Итакъ прости же рабамъ Бога отца твоего вину ихъ. Іосифъ плакалъ, когда ему говорили сіе.

18 Пришли и сами братья его, и пали предъ лицемъ его, и сказали: вотъ, мы рабы тебј.

19 Іосифъ отвјчалъ; не бойтесь; ибо я боюсь Бога.

20 Вы умышляли противъ меня зло; но Богъ обратилъ въ добро, чтобы сдјлать то, что теперь есть, и сохранить жизнь великому числу людей.

21 Итакъ, не бойтесь, Я буду питать васъ и дјтей вашихъ. И успокоилъ ихъ, и говорилъ по сердцу ихъ.

22 И жилъ Іосифъ въ Египтј самъ и домъ отца его; и жилъ сто десять лјтъ.

23 И видјлъ Іосифъ дјтей у Ефрема до третьяго рода, также и сыновья Махира, сына Манассіина, родились на колјнахъ у Іосифа.

24 И сказалъ Іосифъ братьямъ своимъ: я умираю, но Богъ вјрно посјтитъ васъ и выведетъ васъ въ землю, которую Онъ съ клятвою објщалъ Аврааму, Исааку и Іакову.

25 И заклиналъ Іосифъ сыновъ Израилевыхъ, говоря: вјрно, Богъ посјтитъ васъ; тогда вынесите отсюда кости мои.

26 И умеръ Іосифъ ста десяти лјтъ. И набальзамировали его, и положили въ ковчегј въ Египтј.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 4539

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4539. 'Rise up, go up to Bethel' means concerning the Divine Natural, that is to say, the perception concerning this. This is clear from the meaning of 'rising up' as implying some kind of raising up, dealt with in 2401, 2785, 2912, 2927, 3171, 4103, here a raising up of the Natural towards the Divine; from the meaning of 'going up' as doing so towards aspects even more interior, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'Bethel' as the Divine within the natural, that is, within the ultimate degree of order, dealt with in 4089. In the original language Bethel means the house of God, and since 'the house of God' is a place where the cognitions of good and truth exist, 'Bethel' accordingly means, in the proximate sense, those cognitions, as shown in 1453. But because interior degrees are enveloped by and terminate in the parts which constitute the ultimate degree of order where they come together and so to speak inhabit the same house, and because man's natural is the ultimate degree, enveloping interior ones, 'Bethel' or the house of God therefore means, strictly speaking, the Natural, 3729, 4089, and in particular the good there. For 'a house' in the internal sense means good, 2233, 2234, 3720, 3729. It is also within the natural or the ultimate degree of order that cognitions exist.

[2] The reason why 'going up' means a raising up towards more interior aspects is that things which are interior are spoken of as those that are higher, 2148, and therefore when the subject in the internal sense is an advance towards things that are more interior the expression 'going up' is used. Examples of this usage are, going up from Egypt to the land of Canaan; going up into the interior parts of the land of Canaan itself; going up from any part there to Jerusalem; and when in Jerusalem itself, going up to the house of God there. Going up from Egypt to the land of Canaan is referred to in Moses,

Pharaoh said to Joseph, Go up and bury your father. And Joseph went up. And there went up with him all Pharaoh's servants. And there went up with him chariot and horseman. Genesis 50:6-9.

And in the Book of Judges,

The angel of Jehovah went up from Gilgal to Bochim, and he said, I caused you to go up out of Egypt. Judges 2:1.

In the internal sense 'Egypt' means factual knowledge which helps people to have some conception of things belonging to the Lord's kingdom, while 'the land of Canaan' means the Lord's kingdom. And because facts are lower, or what amounts to the same, exterior, while things belonging to the Lord's kingdom are higher, or what amounts to the same, interior, the Word therefore speaks of 'going up' from Egypt to the land of Canaan, or - when travelling in the opposite direction - of 'going down' from the land of Canaan to Egypt, as in Genesis 42:2-3; 43:4-5, 15; and elsewhere.

[3] Going up into the interior parts of the land of Canaan itself is spoken of in Joshua,

Joshua said, Go up and spy out the land. And the men went up and spied out Ai, and they resumed to Joshua and said to him, Do not let all the people go up; let about 2000 men or about 3000 men go up. Therefore there went up of the people about 3000 men. Joshua 7:2-4.

Because 'the land of Canaan' means the Lord's kingdom, parts further in from its border regions meant things that are interior; hence the use in this quotation of the verb 'to go up'. The same is true of Jerusalem in relation to all the regions surrounding it, and of the house of God in relation to Jerusalem within which it stood, 1 Kings 12:27-28; 2 Kings 20:5, 8; Matthew 20:18; Mark 10:33; Luke 18:31; and in many other places besides these. For Jerusalem was the inmost part of the land because the Lord's spiritual kingdom was meant by it, and the house of God was the inmost part of Jerusalem because the Lord's celestial kingdom, and in the highest sense the Lord Himself were meant by it. This is why one speaks of 'going up' to these places. From all this one can see what is meant by 'rise up, go up to Bethel', namely that 'going up' means an advance towards things that are more interior, the subject dealt with in the present chapter, [see] 4536.

  
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