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1 Kun Raakel näki, ettei hän synnyttänyt Jaakobille, kadehti hän sisartaan ja sanoi Jaakobille: "Hanki minulle lapsia, muuten minä kuolen".

2 Niin Jaakob vihastui Raakeliin ja sanoi: "Minäkö olen Jumala, joka on kieltänyt sinulta kohdun hedelmän?"

3 Mutta Raakel sanoi: "Tässä on orjattareni Bilha; yhdy häneen, että hän synnyttäisi minun helmaani ja minäkin siten saisin lapsia hänestä".

4 Ja hän antoi hänelle orjattarensa Bilhan vaimoksi ja Jaakob yhtyi häneen.

5 Ja Bilha tuli raskaaksi ja synnytti Jaakobille pojan.

6 Niin Raakel sanoi: "Jumala hankki minulle oikeuden, ja hän kuuli minun ääneni ja antoi minulle pojan". Sentähden hän antoi hänelle nimen Daan.

7 Ja Bilha, Raakelin orjatar, tuli jälleen raskaaksi ja synnytti Jaakobille toisen pojan.

8 Niin Raakel sanoi: "Jumalan taisteluja minä olen taistellut sisareni kanssa ja olen voittanut". Ja hän antoi hänelle nimen Naftali.

9 Kun Leea näki lakanneensa synnyttämästä, otti hän orjattarensa Silpan ja antoi hänet Jaakobille vaimoksi.

10 Ja Silpa, Leean orjatar, synnytti Jaakobille pojan.

11 Niin Leea sanoi: "Onneksi!" Ja hän antoi hänelle nimen Gaad.

12 Ja Silpa, Leean orjatar, synnytti Jaakobille toisen pojan.

13 Niin Leea sanoi: "Onnellista minua! Niin, naiset ylistävät minua onnelliseksi." Ja hän antoi hänelle nimen Asser.

14 Mutta Ruuben meni kerran ulos nisunleikkuun aikana ja löysi lemmenmarjoja vainiolta ja toi ne äidillensä Leealle. Niin Raakel sanoi Leealle: "Anna minulle poikasi lemmenmarjoja".

15 Leea vastasi hänelle: "Eikö riitä, että olet vienyt minulta mieheni, koska tahdot ottaa vielä poikani lemmenmarjatkin?" Raakel sanoi: "Olkoon, maatkoon hän tämän yön sinun kanssasi, kunhan saan poikasi lemmenmarjat".

16 Kun Jaakob illalla palasi vainiolta, meni Leea häntä vastaan ja sanoi: "Minun luokseni sinun on tultava, sillä minä olen ostanut sinut poikani lemmenmarjoilla". Ja hän makasi sen yön hänen kanssaan.

17 Ja Jumala kuuli Leeaa, ja Leea tuli raskaaksi ja synnytti Jaakobille viidennen pojan.

18 Niin Leea sanoi: "Jumala on palkinnut minulle sen, että annoin orjattareni miehelleni". Ja hän antoi hänelle nimen Isaskar.

19 Ja Leea tuli jälleen raskaaksi ja synnytti Jaakobille kuudennen pojan.

20 Silloin Leea sanoi: "Jumala on antanut minulle hyvän lahjan. Nyt mieheni on asuva minun luonani, sillä minä olen synnyttänyt hänelle kuusi poikaa." Ja hän antoi hänelle nimen Sebulon.

21 Sitten hän synnytti tyttären ja antoi hänelle nimen Diina.

22 Mutta Jumala muisti Raakeliakin, ja Jumala kuuli häntä ja avasi hänen kohtunsa.

23 Niin hän tuli raskaaksi ja synnytti pojan ja sanoi: "Jumala on ottanut pois minun häpeäni".

24 Ja hän antoi hänelle nimen Joosef, sanoen: "Herra antakoon minulle vielä toisen pojan".

25 Ja kun Raakel oli synnyttänyt Joosefin, sanoi Jaakob Laabanille: "Päästä minut menemään kotiini ja omaan maahani.

26 Anna minulle vaimoni ja lapseni, joiden vuoksi olen sinua palvellut, mennäkseni pois; sillä tiedäthän itse, kuinka olen sinua palvellut."

27 Laaban vastasi hänelle: "Jospa saisin armon silmiesi edessä! Merkkini ilmoittavat, että Herra sinun tähtesi on siunannut minua."

28 Ja hän sanoi vielä: "Määrää palkka, joka minun on sinulle maksettava, niin minä sen annan".

29 Hän vastasi hänelle: "Itsehän tiedät, kuinka minä olen sinua palvellut ja millaiseksi karjasi on tullut minun hoidossani.

30 Sillä vähän sinulla oli ennen minun tuloani, mutta sitten se on karttunut suureksi, ja Herra on siunannut sinua, missä vain minä liikuin. Mutta milloin saan ruveta tekemään työtä minäkin oman perheeni hyväksi?"

31 Hän vastasi: "Mitä minun on sinulle annettava?" Jaakob sanoi: "Ei sinun tarvitse antaa minulle mitään. Jos myönnät minulle tämän, niin minä yhä edelleen paimennan ja vartioitsen sinun laumojasi:

32 minä tarkastan tänään kaiken laumasi; erota siitä pois kaikki pilkulliset ja kirjavat lampaat sekä karitsoista kaikki mustat ja vuohista kirjavat ja pilkulliset. Ja minun palkkani on sitten oleva tämä,

33 ja siinä minun rehellisyyteni tulee toteennäytetyksi: kun vasta tulet omin silmin katsomaan minun palkkaani, niin kaikki vuohet, jotka eivät ole pilkullisia eivätkä kirjavia, ja kaikki karitsat, jotka eivät ole mustia, katsottakoon minun varastamikseni."

34 Laaban vastasi: "Hyvä, olkoon, niinkuin olet puhunut".

35 Ja samana päivänä hän erotti pois juovikkaat ja kirjavat vuohipukit ja kaikki pilkulliset ja kirjavat vuohet-kaikki, joissa oli jotakin valkoista-sekä kaikki mustat karitsat ja jätti ne poikiensa hoitoon.

36 Ja hän asetti niin, että oli kolmen päivän välimatka hänen ja Jaakobin välillä; ja Jaakob paimensi Laabanin muuta karjaa.

37 Mutta Jaakob otti itselleen tuoreita haavan, mantelipuun ja plataanin oksia ja kuori niihin valkeita juovia, paljastaen oksien valkoisen rungon.

38 Ja kuorimansa oksat hän pani eläinten eteen vesikaukaloihin eli juoma-astioihin, joista ne tulivat juomaan; ja ne olivat kiimallaan tullessansa juomaan.

39 Ja eläimet pariutuivat oksien edessä ja synnyttivät juovikkaita, pilkullisia ja kirjavia karitsoita.

40 Sitten Jaakob erotti karitsat; ja hän asetti eläinten päät niihin päin, jotka olivat pilkullisia, ja kaikkiin niihin päin, jotka olivat mustia Laabanin laumassa; siten hän hankki itselleen eri laumansa eikä päästänyt niitä Laabanin laumaan.

41 Ja joka kerta kun voimakkaat eläimet olivat kiimallaan, pani Jaakob oksat eläinten silmien eteen vesikaukaloihin, niin että ne pariutuivat oksien edessä.

42 Mutta heikkojen eläinten eteen hän ei niitä pannut. Niin joutuivat heikot Laabanille ja voimakkaat Jaakobille.

43 Ja siten mies tuli ylen rikkaaksi; hän sai paljon pikkukarjaa sekä palvelijattaria, palvelijoita, kameleja ja aaseja.

   

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2089. Twelve princes shall he beget. That this signifies the primary precepts which are of charity, is evident from the signification of “twelve,” as being all things of faith; and from the signification of “princes,” as being primary things. “King” and “princes” are mentioned in various parts of the Word; but in the internal sense they never signify king or princes, but the primary things of the matter in connection with which they are mentioned. (That “kings” signify truths in one complex has been already shown, n. 2015; also that “princes” are the primaries of truth, which are precepts, n. 1482.) Hence the angels-in fact the spiritual angels-are called “principalities,” because they are in truths. The term “princes” is predicated from the truths which are of charity; for, as before said (n. 1832), the spiritual, by means of the truths that appear to them as truths, receive charity from the Lord, and through this, conscience.

[2] That “twelve” signifies all the things of faith, has been hitherto unknown to the world; and yet whenever the number “twelve” occurs in the Word, whether in the historic or the prophetic part, it signifies nothing else. By the “twelve sons” of Jacob, and derivatively by the “twelve tribes” named from them, the same is signified; and also by the “twelve disciples” of the Lord. Each son of Jacob, and each of the twelve disciples, represented an essential and primary of faith. (What was represented by each son of Jacob, and so by each tribe, will of the Lord’s Divine mercy be told in what follows, where the sons of Jacob are treated of, Genesis 29 and 30.)

  
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2015. Kings shall go forth from thee. That this signifies that all truth is from Him, is evident from the signification of a “king,” in both the historical and the prophetic Word, as being truth (stated above, n. 1672, but not yet fully shown). From the signification of “nations” as being goods, and from the signification of “kings” as being truths, we can see the nature of the internal sense of the Word, and also how remote it is from the sense of the letter. He who reads the Word, especially the historical portion, has no other belief than that the nations there are nations, and kings, and thus that nations and kings are treated of in the very Word itself. But the idea of nations, as well as that of kings, altogether perishes when it is received by the angels, and in their place there succeed good and truth. This cannot but appear as strange and indeed as a paradox, but still it is really so, and the truth of it may appear to everyone from considering that if, in the Word, nations were signified by “nations,” and kings by “kings,” then the Word of the Lord would involve scarcely anything more than any other history, or any other writing, and thus would be a merely worldly affair, when yet there is nothing in the Word that is not Divine, and therefore celestial and spiritual.

[2] Take as a single instance what is said in this verse, that Abraham should be made fruitful and should be made nations, and that kings should go forth from him-what is this but a merely worldly matter, and in no respect heavenly? For in these things there is only the glory of the world, which is nothing at all in heaven; but if this is the Word of the Lord, there must be in it the glory of heaven, and none of the world’s glory. Therefore the sense of the letter is altogether obliterated and vanishes when it passes into heaven; and it is so purified that nothing that is worldly is intermingled. For by “Abraham” is not meant Abraham, but the Lord; by his being “made fruitful” is not meant that his posterity should increase exceedingly, but that the good of the Lord’s Human Essence should increase to infinitude; by the “nations” are not meant nations, but goods; and by the “kings,” not kings but truths. Still the history according to the sense of the letter remains true; for it is true that it was so said to Abraham; also that he was made fruitful, and that nations and kings came from him.

[3] That “kings” signify truths, may be seen from the following passages.

In Isaiah:

The sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee; thou shalt suck the milk of the nations, and the breast of kings shalt thou suck (Isaiah 60:10, 16);

what it is to “suck the milk of nations” and “the breast of kings,” is by no means plain from the letter, but it is from the internal sense, in which it signifies to be gifted with goods, and instructed in truths.

In Jeremiah:

There shall enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses (Jeremiah 17:25; 22:4);

to “ride in chariots and on horses” is a prophetical saying which signifies an abundance of intellectual things, as may appear from very many passages in the Prophets; and thus by “kings entering in by the gates of the city” is signified in the internal sense that they should be imbued with truths of faith. This is the heavenly sense of the Word, into which the worldly literal sense passes.

[4] Again, in the same Prophet:

Jehovah hath despised in the indignation of His anger the king and the priest; the gates of Zion have sunk into the earth; He hath destroyed and broken her bars; her king and her princes are among the nations; the law is not (Lamentations 2:6, 9);

“the king” here denotes the truth of faith; “the priest” the good of charity; “Zion” the church which is being destroyed, and whose bars are being broken; hence “the king and the princes are among the nations,” that is, truth and the things which are of truth will be banished to such an extent that there will be no “law,” that is, nothing of the doctrine of faith.

In Isaiah:

Before the child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the ground shall be forsaken, which thou loathest in the presence of her two kings (Isaiah 7:16); where the Lord’s coming is treated of; the “ground which shall be forsaken” denotes faith, of which there would then be none, and the truths of which are the “kings that would be loathed.”

[5] In the same Prophet:

I will lift up My hand to the nations, and raise up My ensign to the peoples; and they shall bring thy sons in their bosom, and thy daughters shall be carried upon the shoulder; and kings shall be thy nourishers, and their queens those that give thee suck (Isaiah 49:22-23);

“the nations” and “the daughters” denote goods; and “the peoples” and “the sons” truths (as shown in Part First, where it may be seen that “nations” denote goods, n. 1259, 1260, 1416, 1849; and that “daughters” have a similar signification, n. 489-491; also that “peoples” denote truths, n. 1259, 1260; and “sons” likewise, n. 489, 491, 533, 1147). “Kings” therefore denote truths in general, by which they will be nourished, and their “queens” the goods from which they will be “suckled.” Whether you say goods and truths, or those who are in goods and truths, it is the same.

[6] Again in the same Prophet:

He shall sprinkle many nations, upon him kings shall shut their mouth-for that which was [not] told them have they seen; and that which they did not hear have they understood (Isaiah 52:15),

where the Lord’s coming is spoken of; the “nations” denote those who are affected by goods, and “kings” those who are affected by truths.

In David:

Now, O ye kings, be intelligent; be instructed, ye judges of the earth; serve Jehovah with fear, and exult with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and ye perish in the way (Psalms 2:10-12).

“Kings” denote those who are in truths; who also from their truths are often called “king’s sons;” “the Son” here denotes the Lord, who is here called “the Son” because He is the truth itself, and because all truth is from Him.

[7] In John:

They shall sing a new song, Worthy art Thou who takest the book, and openest the seals thereof; Thou hast made us unto our God kings and priests, that we may reign upon the earth (Revelation 5:9-10); where they who are in truths are called “kings.”

The Lord also calls such persons “the sons of the kingdom,” in Matthew:

He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; the field is the world; the seed is the sons of the kingdom, and the tares are the sons of the evil one (Matthew 13:37-38).

In John:

The sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the Kings that are from the sun rising might be prepared (Revelation 16:12).

That by the “Euphrates” is not meant the Euphrates, nor by “the kings from the sun-rising” any kings therefrom, is evident (what is meant by the “Euphrates” may be seen above, n. 120, 1585, 1866); so that “the way of the kings that are from the sun-rising” means the truths of faith that are from the goods of love.

[8] In the same:

The nations that are saved shall walk in the light of it, and the kings of the earth shall bring their glory and honor into it (Revelation 21:24); where “the nations” denote those who are in goods, and “the kings of the earth” those who are in truths, as may be inferred from the fact that these words are prophetic, and not historical.

In the same:

With the great harlot that sitteth upon many waters the kings of the earth have committed whoredom, and have been made drunken with the wine of her whoredom (Revelation 17:1-2).

And again:

Babylon hath made all the nations drink of the wine of her whoredom, and the kings of the earth have committed whoredom with her (Revelation 18:3, 9); where in like manner it is evident that kings are not meant by “the kings of the earth;” for the falsification and adulteration of the doctrine of faith, that is, of truth, is treated of, and this is the “whoredom;” “the kings of the earth” denote the truths that are falsified and adulterated.

[9] In the same:

The ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, that have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority [potestas] as kings with the beast for one hour. These shall have one mind, and shall give their power and authority to the beast (Revelation 17:12-13).

That these “kings” are not kings, is evident to everyone; for if so it would be wholly unintelligible that the ten kings should receive authority as kings one hour. So too in another passage:

I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war with him that sat upon the horse, and with his army (Revelation 19:19).

That “he that sat upon the horse” is “the Word of God,” is openly stated in verse 13; and it is against this that the kings of the earth are said to have been gathered together. “The beast” denotes the goods of love, profaned; and “the kings” denote the truths of faith, adulterated; these are called “the kings of the earth,” because they are within the church. (That “the earth” is the church may be seen above, n. 662, 1066, 1067, 1262.) The “white horse” denotes the understanding of truth; and “he that sat upon the horse,” the Word. This meaning is still more manifest in Daniel (chapter 11), where the war between “the king of the south” and “the king of the north” is treated of; by which terms are signified the truths and falsities that had fought, the combats being described here also in an historical manner by this “war.”

[10] As “a king” signifies truth, it may be seen what is meant in the internal sense when the Lord is called a King and also a Priest; and also what it was in the Lord that was represented by kings, and what by priests. Kings represented His Divine truth, and priests His Divine good. All the laws of order by which the Lord governs the universe as King, are truths; but all the laws by which He governs the universe as Priest, and by which also He rules truths themselves, are goods; for government from truths alone would condemn everyone to hell; but government from goods lifts everyone out thence and uplifts him into heaven (see n. 1728). Because in the Lord’s case these two are conjoined, they were anciently represented by kingship conjoined with priesthood; as with Melchizedek, who was king of Salem and at the same time priest to God Most High (Genesis 14:18); and afterwards with the Jews, among whom the representative church was instituted in its own form, by judges and priests, and afterwards by kings.

[11] But as the kings represented truths, which ought not to have command, for the reason, as before said, that they condemn, therefore the desire to have kings was so displeasing as to call for rebuke, and the nature of truth as regarded in itself was described by the rights [jus] of the king (1 Samuel 8:11-18); and at an earlier day it was commanded by Moses (Deuteronomy 17:14-18) that they should choose genuine truth which is from good, and not spurious; and that they should not defile it by reasonings and memory-knowledges [scientifica]. This is what is involved in the directions concerning a king, given in Moses in the place just cited; which no one can possibly see from the sense of the letter, but yet is evident from the several points contained in the internal sense; so that “king” and “kingship” evidently represented and signified nothing else than truth.

  
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