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1 Mose 34

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1 Dina aber, Leas Tochter, die sie Jakob geboren hatte, ging heraus, die Töchter des Landes zu sehen.

2 Da die sah Sichem, Hemors Sohn, des Heviters, der des Landes HERR war, nahm er sie und beschlief sie und schwächte sie.

3 Und sein Herz hing an ihr und hatte die Dirne lieb und redete freundlich mit ihr.

4 Und Sichem sprach zu seinem Vater Hemor: Nimm mir das Mägdlein zum Weibe.

5 Und Jakob erfuhr, daß seine Tochter Dina geschändet war; und seine Söhne waren mit dem Vieh auf dem Felde, und Jakob schwieg, bis daß sie kamen.

6 Da ging Hemor, Sichems Vater, heraus zu Jakob, mit ihm zu reden.

7 Indes kamen die Söhne Jakobs vom Felde. Und da sie es höreten, verdroß es die Männer und wurden sehr zornig, daß er eine Narrheit an Israel begangen und Jakobs Tochter beschlafen hatte; denn so sollte es nicht sein.

8 Da redete Hemor mit ihnen und sprach: Meines Sohns Sichems Herz sehnet sich nach eurer Tochter; lieber, gebet sie ihm zum Weibe!

9 Befreundet euch mit uns; gebet uns eure Töchter und nehmet ihr unsere Töchter

10 und wohnet bei uns. Das Land soll euch offen sein; wohnet und werbet und gewinnet drinnen.

11 Und Sichem sprach zu ihrem Vater und Brüdern: Lasset mich Gnade bei euch finden; was ihr mir saget, das will ich geben.

12 Fordert nur getrost von mir Morgengabe und Geschenk, ich will's geben, wie ihr heischet; gebt mir nur die Dirne zum Weibe.

13 Da antworteten Jakobs Söhne dem Sichem und seinem Vater Hemor betrüglich, darum daß ihre Schwester Dina geschändet war,

14 und sprachen zu ihnen: Wir können das nicht tun, daß wir unsere Schwester einem unbeschnittenen Mann geben; denn das wäre uns eine Schande.

15 Doch dann wollen wir euch zu Willen sein, so ihr uns gleich werdet und alles, was männlich unter euch ist, beschnitten werde.

16 Dann wollen wir unsere Töchter euch geben und eure Töchter uns nehmen und bei euch wohnen und ein Volk sein.

17 Wo ihr aber nicht willigen wollet, euch zu beschneiden, so wollen wir unsere Tochter nehmen und davonziehen.

18 Die Rede gefiel Hemor und seinem Sohn wohl.

19 Und der Jüngling verzog nicht, solches zu tun; denn er hatte Lust zu der Tochter Jakobs. Und er war herrlich gehalten über alle in seines Vaters Hause.

20 Da kamen sie nun, Hemor und sein Sohn Sichem, unter der Stadt Tor und redeten mit den Bürgern der Stadt und sprachen:

21 Diese Leute sind friedsam bei uns und wollen im Lande wohnen und werben, so ist nun das Land weit genug für sie; wir wollen uns ihre Töchter zu Weibern nehmen und ihnen unsere Töchter geben.

22 Aber dann wollen sie uns zu Willen sein, daß sie bei uns wohnen und ein Volk mit uns werden, wo wir alles, was männlich unter uns ist, beschneiden, gleichwie sie beschnitten sind.

23 Ihr Vieh und Güter und alles, was sie haben wird unser sein, so wir nur ihnen zu Willen werden, daß sie bei uns wohnen.

24 Und sie gehorchten dem Hemor und Sichem, seinem Sohn, alle, die zu seiner Stadt Tor aus und ein gingen, und beschnitten alles, was männlich war, das zu seiner Stadt aus und ein ging.

25 Und am dritten Tage, da sie es schmerzete, nahmen die zween Söhne Jakobs, Simeon und Levi, der Dina Brüder, ein jeglicher sein Schwert und gingen in die Stadt türstiglich und erwürgeten alles, was männlich war.

26 Und erwürgeten auch Hemor und seinen Sohn Sichem mit der Schärfe des Schwerts; und nahmen ihre Schwester Dina aus dem Hause Sichems und gingen davon.

27 Da kamen die Söhne Jakobs über die Erschlagenen und plünderten die Stadt, darum daß sie hatten ihre Schwester geschändet,

28 und nahmen ihre Schafe, Rinder, Esel und was in der Stadt und auf dem Felde war,

29 und alle ihre Habe, alle Kinder und Weiber nahmen sie gefangen und plünderten alles, was in den Häusern war.

30 Und Jakob sprach zu Simeon und Levi: Ihr habt mir Unglück zugerichtet, daß ich stinke vor den Einwohnern dieses Landes, den Kanaanitern und Pheresitern; und ich bin ein geringer Haufe. Wenn sie sich nun versammeln über mich, so werden sie mich schlagen. Also werde ich vertilget samt meinem Hause.

31 Sie antworteten aber: Sollten sie denn mit unserer Schwester als mit einer Hure handeln?

   

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4503. The sons of Jacob came upon those who were pierced, and plundered the city. That this signifies that all that posterity destroyed the doctrine, is evident from the signification of the “sons of Jacob,” as being the posterity from Jacob (of which above); from the signification of “to plunder” as being to destroy; and from the signification of a “city,” as being the doctrine of the church (see above, n. 4500). That after Simeon and Leviticus had slain every male in the city, and also Hamor and Shechem, they went forth, and that the sons of Jacob then came upon those who were pierced and plundered the city, is a mystery not manifest except from the internal sense.

[2] This mystery is that after the truth and good of the church represented by Simeon and Leviticus had been extinguished, and falsity and evil had taken their place, there were then superadded those falsities and evils which are signified in the opposite sense by the rest of the sons of Jacob. (That each son of Jacob represented some general principle of faith and charity was shown above, n. 2129, 3858, 3913, 3926, 3939, 4060; what was represented by Reuben, n. 3861, 3866, 3870; what by Judah, n. 3881; what by Dan, n. 3921-3923; what by Naphtali, n. 3927, 3928; what by Gad, n. 3934, 3935; what by Asher, n. 3938, 3939; what by Issachar, n. 3956, 3957; and what by Zebulun, n. 3960, 3961.) These generals of faith and charity represented by them become falsities and evils of that kind when once the truth and good of the church have been extinguished, and then these falsities and evils are superadded; for falsities and evils continually grow in the church that has once been perverted and extinguished, and it is these which are signified by the sons of Jacob coming upon those who were pierced and plundering the city, after Simeon and Leviticus had slain every male in the city, and Hamor and Shechem also, and had taken away Dinah, and had gone forth.

[3] That by “those who are pierced” are signified in the Word truths and goods extinguished is evident from the following passages.

In Isaiah:

Thou art cast forth out of thy sepulchre like an abominable shoot, the raiment of the slain that are pierced with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit, as a carcass trodden under foot (Isaiah 14:19);

said of Babylon; “those pierced with the sword” denote those who have profaned the truths of the church. Again:

So that their pierced shall be cast forth, and the stink of their carcasses shall come up (Isaiah 34:3);

treating of the falsities and evils that infest the church, which are meant by the “pierced.”

[4] In Ezekiel:

The violent of the nations shall draw their sword against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall profane thy comeliness; they shall let thee down into the pit, and thou shall die the deaths of those who are pierced in the midst of the seas (Ezekiel 28:7-8);

said of the prince of Tyre, by whom are signified the primary things of the knowledges of truth and good; “dying the deaths of those who are pierced in the midst of the seas,” denotes those who hatch falsities by means of memory-knowledges, and thereby defile the truths of the church.

[5] Again:

These also shall go down with them into hell, unto those who are pierced with the sword; when thou shalt be made to go down with the trees of Eden into the earth of lower things, thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are pierced with the sword (Ezekiel 31:17-18).

Again:

Go down and lie with the uncircumcised; they shall fall in the midst of those who are pierced with the sword; the chief of the mighty ones shall speak to him in the midst of hell (Ezekiel 32:19-21);

said of Pharaoh and Egypt; “those pierced with the sword” denote those who become insane through knowledges, by which they extinguish in themselves the faith of the truth of the church.

[6] In David:

I am accounted among those who go down into the pit; I have become as a man that has no strength, neglected among the dead, like the pierced that lie in the grave, whom Thou hast remembered no more, and who have been cut off by Thy hand (Psalms 88:4-5);

“those who are pierced in hell,” “in the pit,” and “in the grave,” denote those who have destroyed truths and goods in themselves by falsities and evils. It is obvious that they are not in hell merely because they had been pierced with the sword.

[7] In Isaiah:

A city of tumults, a city that exulteth, they are not pierced with the sword, and are not slain in war; all who have been found in thee were bound together, they fled from afar (Isaiah 22:2-3);

said of fallacies from sensuous things through which the truths of the church cannot be seen, and concerning which they are therefore in negative doubt, and are said to be “pierced, but not with the sword.”

[8] In Ezekiel:

I bring a sword upon thee, and I destroy your high places, and your altars shall be destroyed, and your statues shall be broken, and I will cause your pierced ones to lie before your idols; when the pierced ones shall fall in the midst of you, you shall know that I am Jehovah; then ye shall acknowledge, when the pierced ones shall be in the midst of their idols, round about their altar (Ezekiel 6:3-4, 7, 13); where the “pierced ones” denote those who are in falsities of doctrine.

[9] Again:

Defile the house, and fill the courts with the pierced ones; they went forth and smote in the city (Ezekiel 9:7);

a prophetic vision; “to defile the house and fill the courts with the pierced ones,” denotes to profane goods and truths. Again:

Ye have multiplied your pierced ones in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the pierced one; wherefore said the Lord Jehovih, Your pierced ones whom ye have put in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and that is the pot, and He shall bring you forth out of the midst of it (Ezekiel 11:6-7).

[10] As by “the pierced” are signified those who have extinguished the truths of the church in themselves by falsities and evils, therefore also in the representative church they who touched one who was pierced were unclean, of whom we read in Moses:

Whosoever has touched upon the surface of the field one that is pierced with a sword, or the dead, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days (Numbers 19:16, 18).

And therefore inquiry was made, and expiation was made by means of a calf, as again in Moses:

If one pierced be found lying in the field, and it be not known who has smitten him, then the elders of the city and the judges shall come forth, and they shall measure toward the cities which are round about him that is pierced; and it shall be, at the city which is nearest unto him that is pierced the elders of that city shall take a she-calf of an ox, by which labor hath not been done, and which hath not drawn in the yoke, and they shall bring her down unto a river or a valley, and shall behead the calf there, and wash their hands over the beheaded calf, and shall say, Our hands have not shed blood, and our eyes have not seen it; expiate Thy people Israel, O Jehovah, and give not innocent blood in the midst of Thy people; and the blood shall be expiated for them (Deuteronomy 21:1-8).

[11] That these laws were given because by the “pierced” is signified the perversion, destruction, and profanation of the truth of the church by falsity and evil, is manifest from every particular in the internal sense. It is said “a pierced one lying in the field,” because by a “field” is signified the church (see n. 2971, 3310, 3766). A “she-calf” by which labor has not been done signifies that innocence of the external man which is in ignorance. Unless these things were made known by the internal sense, the enjoining of such an expiatory process would excite universal surprise.

  
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