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1 Rachele, vedendo che non dava figliuoli a Giacobbe, portò invidia alla sua sorella, e disse a Giacobbe: "Dammi de’ figliuoli; altrimenti, muoio".

2 E Giacobbe s’accese d’ira contro Rachele, e disse: "Tengo io il luogo di Dio che t’ha negato d’esser feconda?"

3 Ed ella rispose: "Ecco la mia serva Bilha; entra da lei; essa partorirà sulle mie ginocchia, e, per mezzo di lei, avrò anch’io de’ figliuoli".

4 Ed ella gli diede la sua serva Bilha per moglie, e Giacobbe entrò da lei.

5 E Bilha concepì e partorì un figliuolo a Giacobbe.

6 E Rachele disse: "Iddio m’ha reso giustizia, ha anche ascoltato la mia voce, e m’ha dato un figliuolo". Perciò gli pose nome Dan.

7 E Bilha, serva di Rachele, concepì ancora e partorì a Giacobbe un secondo figliuolo.

8 E Rachele disse: "Io ho sostenuto con mia sorella lotte di Dio, e ho vinto". Perciò gli pose nome Neftali.

9 Lea, vedendo che avea cessato d’aver figliuoli, prese la sua serva Zilpa e la diede a Giacobbe per moglie.

10 E Zilpa, serva di Lea, partorì un figliuolo a Giacobbe.

11 E Lea disse: "Che fortuna!" E gli pose nome Gad.

12 Poi Zilpa, serva di Lea, partorì a Giacobbe un secondo figliuolo.

13 E Lea disse: "Me felice! ché le fanciulle mi chiameranno beata. Perciò gli pose nome Ascer.

14 Or Ruben uscì, al tempo della mietitura del grano, e trovò delle mandragole per i campi, e le portò a Lea sua madre. Allora Rachele disse a Lea: "Deh, dammi delle mandragole del tuo figliuolo!"

15 Ed ella le rispose: "Ti par egli poco l’avermi tolto il marito, che mi vuoi togliere anche le mandragole del mio figliuolo?" E Rachele disse: "Ebbene, si giaccia egli teco questa notte, in compenso delle mandragole del tuo figliuolo".

16 E come Giacobbe, in sulla sera, se ne tornava dai campi, Lea uscì a incontrarlo, e gli disse: "Devi entrare da me; poiché io t’ho accaparrato con le mandragole del mio figliuolo". Ed egli si giacque con lei quella notte.

17 E Dio esaudì Lea, la quale concepì e partorì a Giacobbe un quinto figliuolo.

18 Ed ella disse: "Iddio m’ha dato la mia mercede, perché diedi la mia serva a mio marito". E gli pose nome Issacar.

19 E Lea concepì ancora, e partorì a Giacobbe un sesto figliuolo.

20 E Lea disse: "Iddio m’ha dotata di buona dote; questa volta il mio marito abiterò con me, poiché gli ho partorito sei figliuoli". E gli pose nome Zabulon.

21 Poi partorì una figliuola, e le pose nome Dina.

22 Iddio si ricordò anche di Rachele; Iddio l’esaudì, e la rese feconda;

23 ed ella concepì e partorì un figliuolo, e disse: "Iddio ha tolto il mio obbrobrio".

24 E gli pose nome Giuseppe, dicendo: "L’Eterno m’aggiunga un altro figliuolo".

25 Or dopo che Rachele ebbe partorito Giuseppe, Giacobbe disse a Labano: "Dammi licenza, ch’io me ne vada a casa mia, nel mio paese.

26 Dammi le mie mogli, per le quali t’ho servito, e i miei figliuoli; e lasciami andare; poiché tu ben conosci il servizio che t’ho prestato".

27 E Labano gli disse: "Se ho trovato grazia dinanzi a te, rimanti; giacché credo indovinare che l’Eterno mi ha benedetto per amor tuo".

28 Poi disse: "Fissami il tuo salario, e te lo darò".

29 Giacobbe gli rispose: "Tu sai in qual modo io t’ho servito, e quel che sia diventato il tuo bestiame nelle mie mani.

30 Poiché quel che avevi prima ch’io venissi, era poco; ma ora s’è accresciuto oltremodo, e l’Eterno t’ha benedetto dovunque io ho messo il piede. Ora, quando lavorerò io anche per la casa mia?"

31 Labano gli disse: "Che ti darò io?" E Giacobbe rispose: "Non mi dar nulla; se acconsenti a quel che sto per dirti, io pascerò di nuovo i tuoi greggi e n’avrò cura.

32 Passerò quest’oggi fra mezzo a tutti i tuoi greggi, mettendo da parte, di fra le pecore, ogni agnello macchiato e vaiolato, e ogni agnello nero; e di fra le capre, le vaiolate e le macchiate. E quello sarà il mio salario.

33 Così, da ora innanzi, il mio diritto risponderà per me nel tuo cospetto, quando verrai ad accertare il mio salario: tutto ciò che non sarà macchiato o vaiolato fra le capre, e nero fra gli agnelli, sarà rubato, se si troverà presso di me".

34 E Labano disse: "Ebbene, sia come tu dici!"

35 E quello stesso giorno mise da parte i becchi striati e vaiolati e tutte le capre macchiate e vaiolate, tutto quello che avea del bianco e tutto quel ch’era nero fra gli agnelli, e li affidò ai suoi figliuoli.

36 E Labano frappose la distanza di tre giornate di cammino fra se e Giacobbe; e Giacobbe pascolava il rimanente de’ greggi di Labano.

37 E Giacobbe prese delle verghe verdi di pioppo, di mandorlo e di platano; vi fece delle scortecciature bianche, mettendo allo scoperto il bianco delle verghe.

38 Poi collocò le verghe che avea scortecciate, in vista delle pecore, ne’ rigagnoli, negli abbeveratoi dove le pecore venivano a bere; ed entravano in caldo quando venivano a bere.

39 Le pecore dunque entravano in caldo avendo davanti quelle verghe, e figliavano agnelli striati, macchiati e vaiolati.

40 Poi Giacobbe metteva da parte questi agnelli, e faceva volger gli occhi delle pecore verso tutto quello ch’era striato e tutto quel ch’era nero nel gregge di Labano. Egli si formò così dei greggi a parte, che non unì ai greggi di Labano.

41 Or avveniva che, tutte le volte che le pecore vigorose del gregge entravano in caldo, Giacobbe metteva le verghe ne’ rigagnoli, in vista delle pecore, perché le pecore entrassero in caldo vicino alle verghe;

42 ma quando le pecore erano deboli, non ve le metteva; così gli agnelli deboli erano di Labano, e i vigorosi di Giacobbe.

43 E quest’uomo diventò ricco oltremodo, ed ebbe greggi numerosi, serve, servi, cammelli e asini.

   

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3960. And Leah said, God hath endowed me with a good dowry, now will my man dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons. That this signifies in the supreme sense the Divine Itself of the Lord and His Divine Human; in the internal sense, the heavenly marriage; and in the external sense, conjugial love, is evident from the signification of “dwelling with,” and also from the rest of the words Leah then spoke. The reason why “dwelling with,” or “cohabitation,” is in the supreme sense the Divine Itself of the Lord and His Divine Human, is that the Divine Itself, called the “Father,” is in the Divine Human, called the “Son of God,” mutually and alternately, according to the words of the Lord Himself in John:

Jesus saith, Philip, he that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father. Believe Me, that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me (John 14:9-11; 10:38).

That this union is the Divine marriage itself, may be seen above (n. 3211, 3952). Yet this union is not cohabitation, but is expressed by “cohabitation” in the sense of the letter; for things which are one are presented as two in the sense of the letter, as the Father and the Son; and even as three, as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; and this for many reasons, concerning which of the Lord’s Divine mercy elsewhere.

[2] That “dwelling together,” or “cohabitation,” in the internal sense is the heavenly marriage, is from the same cause; for this marriage comes forth from the Divine marriage, which is the union of the Father and the Son, or of the Divine Itself of the Lord with His Divine Human. The heavenly marriage is that which is called the Lord’s kingdom, and also heaven; and this because it comes forth from the Divine marriage, which is the Lord. This then is what is signified in the internal sense by “cohabitation,” and hence it is that heaven likewise is called the “habitation of God,” as in Isaiah:

Look down from the heavens, and behold from the habitation of Thy holiness and of Thy adornment where is Thy zeal and Thy mighty acts? the yearning of Thy bowels, and Thy compassions toward me, have restrained themselves (Isaiah 63:15).

The “habitation of holiness” denotes the celestial kingdom; and the “habitation of adornment,” the spiritual kingdom. “Habitation” in this passage comes from the same word as that from which “dwelling together” and “Zebulun” are derived in the passage under consideration.

[3] The reason why “dwelling together” or “cohabitation” in the external sense is conjugial love, is that all genuine conjugial love comes forth from no other source than the heavenly marriage, which is that of good and truth; and this from the Divine marriage, which is the Lord as to His Divine Itself and His Divine Human. (See what has been said before on these subjects; as that the heavenly marriage is from the Divine good which is in the Lord and the Divine truth which is from Him, n. 2508, 2618, 2803, 3132; that from it is conjugial love, n. 2728, 2729; that they who are in genuine conjugial love dwell together in the inmosts of their life, n. 2732; and thus in the love of good and truth, for these are the inmosts of their life; that conjugial love is the fundamental love of all the loves, see n. 2737-2739; that there is a marriage of good and truth in heaven, in the church, in everyone in it, and in everything in nature, n. 718, 747, 917, 1432, 2173, 2516, 2712, 2758; that this marriage is in everything in the Word, n. 683, 793, 801, 2516, 2712; and that thus in the supreme sense the Lord Himself is therein; that by “Jesus Christ” is signified the Divine marriage, n. 3004)

[4] These are the things signified not only by “dwelling together,” or by the words, “now will my man dwell with me,” but also by those which go before—“God hath endowed me with a good dowry;” by the former, however, the truth of good is signified; and by the latter, the good of truth; both together making the heavenly marriage. And as this is the conclusion, it is said: “because I have borne him six sons;” for “six” here signify the same as “twelve,” namely, all things of faith and love; the half of a number and its double having the same signification in the Word, when the subject is similar.

  
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3952. And he lay with her that night. That this signifies conjunction, is evident without explication. The reason why the foregoing matters have been unfolded in the internal sense merely as to the significations of the words, is that they are of such a nature that they cannot be comprehended unless they are set forth in one series. For the subject treated of is the conjunction of truth with good and of good with truth, which conjunction is the conjugial as understood in the spiritual sense; that is, the conjunction which makes the heavenly marriage with man and in the church. The arcana of this heavenly marriage are described in the above verses, and are there revealed as follows. As before shown the heavenly marriage is that of good with truth and of truth with good, yet is not between good and truth of one and the same degree, but between good and truth of a lower and of a higher degree, that is, not between the good of the external man and the truth of the same, but between the good of the external man and the truth of the internal; or what is the same, not between the good of the natural man and its truth, but between the good of the natural man and the truth of the spiritual man. This conjunction is that which makes the marriage.

[2] It is the same in the internal or spiritual man; the heavenly marriage there is not between the good and the truth in that man; but between the good of the spiritual man and the truth of the celestial man; for the celestial man is relatively in a higher degree. Nor is there a heavenly marriage between the good and the truth in the celestial man; but between the good of the celestial man and the truth Divine which proceeds from the Lord. From this it is also evident that the Divine marriage itself of the Lord is not between the good Divine and the truth Divine in His Divine Human, but between the good of the Divine Human and the Divine Itself, that is, between the Son and the Father; for the good of the Lord’s Divine Human is that which is called in the Word the “Son of God,” and the Divine Itself is called the “Father.”

[3] These are the arcana contained in the internal sense in what is said concerning the dudaim. Everyone can see that there must be some arcanum therein, for to relate that Reuben found dudaim in the field, and that Rachel longed for them, and in return for them promised that their man should lie with Leah; and that Leah went to meet Jacob when he came from the field in the evening, and said that she had hired him with the dudaim-these things would be too trivial to make any part of the history in the Word, unless there was something Divine hidden within them. But what Divine thing is meant no one can know unless he knows what is signified by the sons of Jacob and by the tribes named from them; and unless he also knows the series of the subject in the internal sense; and moreover unless he knows what the heavenly marriage is, for this is what is treated of, namely, that it is the conjunction of the good in the external man with the affection of truth in the internal man.

[4] But in order to the better understanding of this arcanum, I may illustrate it further. The truths of the external man are the memory-knowledges and doctrinal things that the man first learned from his parents, and also from his teachers, then from books, and finally by his own study. The good of the external man is the pleasure and delight that he perceives in these things. The memory-knowledges, which are truths, and the delights, which are good, are conjoined together; but they do not make in him the heavenly marriage, for with those who are in the love of self and of the world, and thence in evil and falsity, the memory-knowledges, and even the doctrinal things, are conjoined with delights; but it is with the delights of these loves, for with these even truths can be conjoined. And yet such persons are out of the heavenly marriage. But when the pleasure or the delight that is the good of the external or natural man is from spiritual love, that is, from love toward the neighbor, toward our country or the state, toward the church and the Lord’s kingdom, and still more when it is from celestial love, which is love to the Lord; and when these flow in from the internal or spiritual man into the delight of the external or natural man and make it; then this conjunction with the memory-knowledges and doctrinal things of the external or natural man constitutes with him the heavenly marriage. This is not possible with the evil, but only with the good, that is, with those who have these things as their end. (But see how the case is with the influx of the internal or spiritual man into the external or natural man, n. 3286, 3288, 3314, 3321.)

[5] As soon as these things have become known, it is possible to know what is signified by each of the things that have been explained above in regard merely to the internal sense of the words-as that Reuben (who is the truth of faith, which is the first of regeneration) found dudaim; that he brought them to his mother Leah (who is the affection of external truth); that Rachel (who is the affection of interior truth) longed for them, and that they were given her; that Leah therefore lay with her man Jacob (who is the good of truth in the natural man) also, in what follows, that there were born to Jacob by Leah the sons Issachar and Zebulun, by whom are signified and represented the things of conjugial love, and thus of the heavenly marriage; and then that Joseph was born, by whom is signified and represented the Lord’s spiritual kingdom, which is the marriage itself that is treated of.

  
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