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Postanak 37

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1 A Jakov živeše u zemlji gde mu je otac bio došljak, u zemlji hananskoj.

2 Ovo su događaji Jakovljevi. Josif kad beše momak od sedamnaest godina, pasaše stoku s braćom svojom, koju rodiše Vala i Zelfa žene oca njegovog; i donošaše Josif zle glasove o njima ocu svom.

3 A Izrailj ljubljaše Josifa najvećma izmeću svih sinova svojih, jer mu se rodio pod starost; i načini mu šarenu haljinu.

4 A braća videći gde ga otac ljubi najvećma između sve braće njegove, stadoše mrzeti na nj tako da mu ne mogahu lepu reč progovoriti.

5 Uz to usni Josif san i pripovedi braći svojoj, te oni još većma omrznu na nj.

6 Jer im reče: Da čujete san što sam snio:

7 Vezasmo snoplje u polju, pa moj snop usta i ispravi se, a vaši snopovi iđahu unaokolo i klanjahu se snopu mom.

8 Tada mu braća rekoše: Da nećeš još biti car nad nama i zapovedati nam? Stoga još većma stadoše mrzeti na nj radi snova njegovih i radi reči njegovih.

9 Posle opet usni drugi san, i pripovedi braći svojoj govoreći: Usnih opet san, a to se sunce i mesec i jedanaest zvezda klanjahu meni.

10 A pripovedi i ocu svom i braći svojoj; ali ga otac prekori i reče mu: Kakav je to san što si snio? Eda li ćemo doći ja i mati tvoja i braća tvoja da se klanjamo tebi do zemlje?

11 I zaviđahu mu braća; ali otac njegov čuvaše ove reči.

12 A kad braća njegova otidoše da pasu stoku oca svog kod Sihema,

13 Reče Izrailj Josifu: Ne pasu li braća tvoja stoku kod Sihema? Hajde da te pošaljem k njima. A on reče: Evo me.

14 A on mu reče: Idi, vidi kako su braća tvoja i kako je stoka, pa dođi da mi javiš. I opravi ga iz doline hevronske, i on otide put Sihema.

15 I čovek jedan nađe ga a on luta po polju; te ga zapita govoreći: Šta tražiš?

16 A on reče: Tražim braću svoju; kaži mi, molim te, gde su sa stokom?

17 A čovek reče: Otišli su odavde, jer čuh gde rekoše: Hajdemo u Dotaim. I otide Josif za braćom svojom, i nađe ih u Dotaimu.

18 A oni ga ugledaše iz daleka; i dok još ne dođe blizu njih, stadoše se dogovarati da ga ubiju,

19 I rekoše među sobom: Gle, evo onog što sne sanja.

20 Hajde sada da ga ubijemo i da ga bacimo u koju od ovih jama, pa ćemo kazati: Ljuta ga je zverka izjela. Onda ćemo videti šta će biti od njegovih snova.

21 Ali Ruvim kad ču to, izbavi ga iz ruku njihovih rekavši: Nemojte da ga ubijemo.

22 I još im reče Ruvim: Nemojte krv prolivati; bacite ga u ovu jamu u pustinji, a ne dižite ruke na nj. A on ga htede izbaviti iz ruku njihovih i odvesti k ocu.

23 I kad Josif dođe k braći svojoj, svukoše s njega haljinu njegovu, haljinu šarenu, koju imaše na sebi.

24 I uhvativši ga baciše ga u jamu; a jama beše prazna, ne beše vode u njoj.

25 Posle sedoše da jedu. I podigavši oči ugledaše, a to gomila Ismailjaca iđaše od Galada s kamilama natovarenim mirisavog korenja i tamjana i smirne, te nošahu u Misir.

26 I reče Juda braći svojoj: Kakva će biti korist što ćemo ubiti brata svog i zatajiti krv njegovu?

27 Hajde da ga prodamo ovim Ismailjcima pa da ne dižemo ruke svoje na nj, jer nam je brat, naše je telo. I poslušaše ga braća njegova.

28 Pa kad trgovci madijanski behu pored njih, oni izvukoše i izvadiše Josifa iz jame, i prodadoše Josifa Ismailjcima za dvadeset srebrnika; i oni odvedoše Josifa u Misir.

29 A kad se Ruvim vrati k jami, a to nema Josifa u jami; tada razdre haljine svoje,

30 Pa se vrati k braći svojoj, i reče: Nema deteta; a ja kuda ću?

31 Tada uzeše haljinu Josifovu, i zaklavši jare zamočiše haljinu u krv,

32 Pa onda poslaše šarenu haljinu ocu njegovom poručivši: Nađosmo ovu haljinu, vidi je li haljina sina tvog ili nije.

33 A on je pozna i reče: Sina je mog haljina; ljuta ga je zverka izjela; Josif je doista raskinut.

34 I razdre Jakov haljine svoje, i veza kostret oko sebe, i tužaše za sinom svojim dugo vremena.

35 I svi sinovi njegovi i sve kćeri njegove ustadoše oko njega tešeći ga, ali se on ne dade utešiti, nego govoraše: S tugom ću u grob leći za sinom svojim. Pa i njegov otac plakaše za njim.

36 A Madijani prodadoše ga u Misir Petefriju, dvoraninu Faraonovom, zapovedniku stražarskom.

   

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Exploring the Meaning of Genesis 37

Napsal(a) New Christian Bible Study Staff, Joe David

The stories in the Old Testament foreshadow future events -- not so much historical events, but changes in the spiritual states of humankind.

In the inner meaning, the story of Jacob, and his twelve sons, and Joseph and his dreams, deals with people's eventual rejection of the Divine truths that they would receive from the Lord in the Christian church, and their acceptance of falsities instead.

Specifically, this chapter is about the way that some theologians in the Christian church developed the idea of salvation by faith alone, when the Lord really wants us to conjoin faith and charity in our lives.

This seems like a stretch - that a story from 3500+ years ago could be foreshadowing modern theological arguments. And yet, human beings, as partly-spiritual creatures, are always players in a big, long spiritual story - and the Old Testament stories are archetypes for things we wrestle with in our own lives. For the details of this story's meaning, look at Arcana Coelestia 4665, and the following passages.

Here is an excerpt from Swedenborg's "Arcana Coelestia" that helps start explain the inner meaning of this chapter:

"The subject treated of in this chapter in the internal sense is the Divine truths which are from the Lord‘s Divine Human, that in course of time they have been rejected in the church, and that at last falsities have been received in their stead. Specifically, those are described who are in faith separate from charity, in that they are against the Lord’s Divine Human." AC 4665.

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Genesis 37

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1 Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the land of Canaan.

2 This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.

3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.

4 His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him.

5 Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.

6 He said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:

7 for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf."

8 His brothers said to him, "Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?" They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.

9 He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."

10 He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?"

11 His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

12 His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.

13 Israel said to Joseph, "Aren't your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." He said to him, "Here I am."

14 He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again." So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

15 A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, "What are you looking for?"

16 He said, "I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock."

17 The man said, "They have left here, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.

18 They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

19 They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes.

20 Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."

21 Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, "Let's not take his life."

22 Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him"--that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.

23 It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;

24 and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.

25 They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

26 Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

27 Come, and let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh." His brothers listened to him.

28 Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.

29 Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn't in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

30 He returned to his brothers, and said, "The child is no more; and I, where will I go?"

31 They took Joseph's coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.

32 They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, "We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son's coat or not."

33 He recognized it, and said, "It is my son's coat. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces."

34 Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

35 All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning." His father wept for him.

36 The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.