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创世记 33

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1 雅各举目观,见以扫来了,後头跟着,他就把孩子们分开交给利亚、拉结,和两个使女,

2 并且叫两个使女和他们的孩子在前头,利亚和他的孩子在後头,拉结和约瑟在尽後头。

3 他自己在他们前头过去,一连次俯伏在才就哥哥

4 以扫跑来迎接他,将他抱住,又搂着他的颈项,与他亲嘴,两个人就哭了。

5 以扫举目见妇人孩子,就:这些?和你同行的是谁呢?雅各:这些孩子是施恩给你的仆人的

6 於是两个使女和他们的孩子前来下拜;

7 利亚和他的孩子也前来下拜;随约瑟和拉结也前来下拜。

8 以扫:我所遇见的这些群畜是甚麽意思呢?雅各:是要在我面前蒙恩的。

9 以扫兄弟阿,我的已经够了,你的仍归你罢!

10 雅各:不然,我若在你眼前蒙恩,就求你从我里收下这礼物;因为我见了你的面,如同见了的面,并且你容纳了我。

11 求你收下我带来给你的礼物;因为恩待我,使我充足。雅各再三地求他,他才收下了。

12 以扫我们可以起身前往,我在你前头走。

13 雅各对他:我知道孩子们年幼娇嫩,牛也正在乳养的时候,若是催赶一天畜都必死了

14 求我仆人前头走,我要量着在我面前群畜和孩子的力量慢慢地前行,直走到西珥我那里。

15 以扫:容我把跟随我的人留几个在你这里。雅各:何必呢?只要在我眼前蒙恩就是了。

16 於是,以扫当日起行,回往西珥去了。

17 雅各就往疏割去,在那里为自己盖造房屋,又为牲畜搭棚;因此那地方疏割(就是棚的意思)。

18 雅各从巴旦亚兰回的时候,平平安安到了迦南示剑城,在城东支搭帐棚,

19 就用一块银子向示剑的父亲、哈抹的子孙买了支帐棚的那块地,

20 在那里筑了一座,起名伊利伊罗伊以色列(就是神、以色列神的意思)。

   

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4374. Verses 12-16 And he said, Let us travel on and go, and I will go beside you. And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with me are suckling, and if the men overdrive them for one day, all the flocks will die. Let my lord now pass over before his servant, and I will move on slowly at the walking-pace of the cattle 1 that are before me, and at the walking-pace 2 of the children, until I come to my lord, to Seir. And Esau said, Let me now place with you some of the people who are with me. And he said, Why so? Let me find favour in my lord's eyes. And Esau returned on that day on his own way, to Seir.

'He said, Let us travel on and go' means a further stage. 'And I will go beside you' means that they are to be joined together. 'And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are tender' means truths which have not yet acquired Divine life. 'And the flocks and herds with me are suckling' means goods, interior ones and natural ones, which have not yet acquired Divine life. 'And if the men overdrive them for one day, all the flocks will die' means a passage of time and a subsequent stage; also that otherwise they would not live, and so needed to be prepared to be joined together. 'Let my lord now pass over before his servant' means a more general presence. 'And I will move on slowly' means the subsequent state of preparation. 'At the walking-pace of the cattle that are before me' means as determined by the things that are general. 'And at the walking-pace of the children' means as determined by the truths situated within. 'Until I come to my lord, to Seir' means until they could be joined together, 'Seir' meaning the joining of spiritual things to celestial ones within the natural. 'And Esau said, Let me now place with you some of the people who are with me' means that some truths supplied by the truth of good might be joined. 'And he said, Why so? Let me find favour in my lord's eyes' means enlightenment received from their comparatively internal presence. 'And Esau returned on that day on his own way, to Seir' means the state at the time of Divine Natural Good to which the goods of truth had been linked, 'way' meaning, when compared with that Good, the good of truth.

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1. literally, at the foot of the work

2. literally, at the foot

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.