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1 Вот имена сынов Израилевых, которые вошли в Египет с Иаковом, вошли каждый с домом своим:

2 Рувим, Симеон, Левий и Иуда,

3 Иссахар, Завулон и Вениамин,

4 Дан и Неффалим, Гад и Асир.

5 Всех же душ, происшедших от чресл Иакова, было семьдесят, а Иосиф был уже вЕгипте.

6 И умер Иосиф и все братья его и весь род их;

7 а сыны Израилевы расплодились и размножились, и возросли и усилились чрезвычайно, и наполнилась ими земля та.

8 И восстал в Египте новый царь, который не знал Иосифа,

9 и сказал народу своему: вот, народ сынов Израилевых многочислен и сильнее нас;

10 перехитрим же его, чтобы он не размножался; иначе, когда случится война, соединится и он с нашими неприятелями, и вооружится против нас, и выйдет из земли нашей .

11 И поставили над ним начальников работ, чтобы изнуряли его тяжкимиработами. И он построил фараону Пифом и Раамсес, города для запасов.

12 Но чем более изнуряли его, тем более он умножался и тем более возрастал, так чтоопасались сынов Израилевых.

13 И потому Египтяне с жестокостью принуждали сынов Израилевых к работам

14 и делали жизнь их горькою от тяжкой работы над глиною и кирпичами и от всякой работы полевой, от всякой работы, к которой принуждали их с жестокостью.

15 Царь Египетский повелел повивальным бабкам Евреянок, из коих одной имя Шифра, а другой Фуа,

16 и сказал: когда вы будете повивать у Евреянок, тонаблюдайте при родах: если будет сын, то умерщвляйте его, а если дочь, то пусть живет.

17 Но повивальные бабки боялись Бога и не делали так, как говорил им царь Египетский, и оставляли детей вживых.

18 Царь Египетский призвал повивальных бабок и сказал им: для чего вы делаете такое дело, что оставляетедетей в живых?

19 Повивальные бабки сказали фараону: Еврейские женщины не так, как Египетские; они здоровы, ибо прежде нежели придет к ним повивальная бабка, они уже рождают.

20 За сие Бог делал добро повивальнымбабкам, а народ умножался и весьма усиливался.

21 И так как повивальные бабки боялись Бога, то Он устроял домы их.

22 Тогда фараон всему народу своему повелел, говоря: всякого новорожденного у Евреев сына бросайте в реку, а всякую дочь оставляйте в живых.

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Arcana Coelestia # 6678

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6678. 'And the midwives feared God' means that true factual knowledge was kept safe because it was kept so by the Divine. This is clear from the meaning of 'fearing God' as keeping what the Divine has commanded, for people who fear God keep His commandments, though - since all holy fear, and consequently obedience to and keeping of commandments, have a Divine and not at all human origin - a keeping by the Divine is what is meant by 'feared God'; and from the meaning of 'the midwives' as the natural where true factual knowledge resides, dealt within 4588, 6673, 6675.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 3509

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3509. 'And Rebekah said to Jacob her son - she said' means the Lord's perception from Divine Truth concerning natural truth. This is clear from the representation of 'Rebekah' as the Divine Truth of the Lord's Divine Rational, dealt with in 3012, 3013, 3077; from the meaning of 'saying' as perceiving, dealt with in 1791, 1815, 1819, 1822, 1898, 1919, 2080, 2506, 2515, 2552, 2619; and from the representation of 'Jacob' as the Lord's Natural as regards truth, dealt with in 3305. From this it is evident that 'Rebekah said to Jacob her son' means the Lord's perception from Divine Truth concerning natural truth. For on the one hand the Lord wished to acquire truth from the Divine Good of the Divine Rational, represented by 'Isaac', through the good of the Natural, represented by 'Esau', by means of which truth He would glorify, or make Divine, the Natural. But on the other hand the Lord wished to acquire truth from the Divine Truth of the Divine Rational, represented by 'Rebekah', through the truth of the Natural, represented by 'Jacob', by means of which truth He would glorify, or make Divine, the Rational. But these two wishes of His cannot be grasped unless light is thrown on the subject from what happens with man when being regenerated or made new by the Lord. And even then it cannot be grasped unless one knows the situation with the rational as regards good and as regards truth there. So let this matter be discussed briefly.

[2] The rational mind is distinguished into two separate mental powers, one called the will, the other the understanding. That which goes forth from the will when someone is being regenerated is called good, and that which goes forth from the understanding is called truth. Until a person has been regenerated the will does not act in unison with the understanding. Instead the will desires good whereas the understanding desires truth; and so different is each desire from the other that the effort of the will is perceived to be quite distinct and separate from that of the understanding. This is perceived however only by those who stop to reflect, knowing what the will is and the things that constitute this, and what the understanding is and the things that constitute that. But it is not perceived by those who do not know those things and therefore do not stop to reflect. And there is the added reason that the natural mind is regenerated by way of the rational mind, see 3493, and indeed according to order as follows: The good of the rational does not pass directly into the good of the natural and regenerate it but by way of truth which belongs to the understanding, thus giving the appearance that it enters in from the truth of the rational. These are the matters which this chapter deals with in the internal sense; for 'Isaac' is the rational mind as regards good present in the will, 'Rebekah' as regards truth present in the understanding. 'Esau' is the good of the natural springing from the good of the rational, 'Jacob' the truth of the natural springing from the good of the rational by way of the truth there.

[3] These considerations show the kind of arcana contained in the internal sense of the Word; yet there are very few which can be described in a way intelligible to the human mind. The number of those which are beyond man's comprehension and defy description is unlimited. For the more deeply the Word goes, that is, the more interiorly into heaven, the more unlimited and also the more indescribable do they become not only to man but also to angels of the lower heaven. And when it reaches the inmost heaven the angels there perceive that the arcana are infinite and, being Divine are quite beyond their comprehension. Such is the nature of the Word.

  
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