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創世記 30

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1 ラケルは自分がヤコブにを産まないのを知った時、姉をねたんでヤコブに言った、「わたしにどもをください。さもないと、わたしは死にます」。

2 ヤコブはラケルに向かい怒って言った、「あなたの胎に子どもをやどらせないのはです。わたしがに代ることができようか」。

3 ラケルは言った、「わたしのつかえめビルハがいます。彼女の所におはいりなさい。彼女が子を産んで、わたしのひざに置きます。そうすれば、わたしもまた彼女によって子を持つでしょう」。

4 ラケルはつかえめビルハを彼に与えて、とさせたので、ヤコブは彼女の所にはいった。

5 ビルハは、みごもってヤコブにを産んだ。

6 そこでラケルは、「はわたしの訴えに答え、またわたしの声を聞いて、わたしにを賜わった」と言って、名をダンと名づけた。

7 ラケルのつかえめビルハはまた、みごもって第二のをヤコブに産んだ。

8 そこでラケルは、「わたしは激しい争いで、姉と争って勝った」と言って、名をナフタリと名づけた。

9 さてレアは自分が子を産むことのやんだのを見たとき、つかえめジルパを取り、としてヤコブに与えた。

10 レアのつかえめジルパはヤコブにを産んだ。

11 そこでレアは、「幸運がきた」と言って、名をガドと名づけた。

12 レアのつかえめジルパは第二のをヤコブに産んだ。

13 そこでレアは、「わたしは、しあわせです。娘たちはわたしをしあわせな者と言うでしょう」と言って、名をアセルと名づけた。

14 さてルベンは麦刈りのに野に出て、野で恋なすびを見つけ、それをレアのもとに持ってきた。ラケルはレアに言った、「あなたのの恋なすびをどうぞわたしにください」。

15 レアはラケルに言った、「あなたがわたしのを取ったのは小さな事でしょうか。その上、あなたはまたわたしのの恋なすびをも取ろうとするのですか」。ラケルは言った、「それではあなたのの恋なすびに換えて、今彼をあなたと共に寝させましょう」。

16 夕方になって、ヤコブが野から帰ってきたので、レアは彼を出迎えて言った、「わたしのの恋なすびをもって、わたしがあなたを雇ったのですから、あなたはわたしの所に、はいらなければなりません」。ヤコブはそのレアと共に寝た。

17 はレアの願いを聞かれたので、彼女はみごもって五番目のをヤコブに産んだ。

18 そこでレアは、「わたしがつかえめをに与えたから、がわたしにその価を賜わったのです」と言って、名をイッサカルと名づけた。

19 レアはまた、みごもって番目のをヤコブに産んだ。

20 そこでレアは、「はわたしに良い賜物をたまわった。わたしは人の子をに産んだから、今こそ彼はわたしと一緒に住むでしょう」と言って、その名をゼブルンと名づけた。

21 その、彼女はひとりの娘を産んで、名をデナと名づけた。

22 次にはラケルを心にとめられ、彼女の願いを聞き、その胎を開かれたので、

23 彼女は、みごもって男のを産み、「はわたしのをすすいでくださった」と言って、

24 名をヨセフと名づけ、「がわたしに、なおひとりのを加えられるように」と言った。

25 ラケルがヨセフを産んだ時、ヤコブはラバンに言った、「わたしを去らせて、わたしの故郷、わたしのへ行かせてください。

26 あなたに仕えて得たわたしの子を、わたしに与えて行かせてください。わたしがあなたのために働いた骨折りは、あなたがごぞんじです」。

27 ラバンは彼に言った、「もし、あなたの心にかなうなら、とどまってください。わたしはがあなたのゆえに、わたしを恵まれるしるしを見ました」。

28 また言った、「あなたの報酬を申し出てください。わたしはそれを払います」。

29 ヤコブは彼に言った、「わたしがどのようにあなたに仕えたか、またどのようにあなたの家畜を飼ったかは、あなたがごぞんじです。

30 わたしが来るには、あなたの持っておられたものはわずかでしたが、ふえて多くなりました。はわたしの行く所どこでも、あなたを恵まれました。しかし、いつになったらわたしも自分のを成すようになるでしょうか」。

31 彼は言った、「何をあなたにあげようか」。ヤコブは言った、「なにもわたしにくださるに及びません。もしあなたが、わたしのためにこの一つの事をしてくださるなら、わたしは今一度あなたの群れを飼い、守りましょう。

32 わたしはきょう、あなたの群れをみな回ってみて、その中からすべてぶちとまだらの、およびすべてい小と、やぎの中のまだらのものと、ぶちのものとを移しますが、これをわたしの報酬としましょう。

33 あとで、あなたがきて、あなたのでわたしの報酬をしらべる時、わたしの正しい事が証明されるでしょう。もしも、やぎの中にぶちのないもの、まだらでないものがあったり、小羊の中に黒くないものがあれば、それはみなわたしが盗んだものとなるでしょう」。

34 ラバンは言った、「よろしい。あなたの言われるとおりにしましょう」。

35 そこでラバンはその、雄やぎのしまのあるもの、まだらのもの、すべて雌やぎのぶちのもの、まだらのもの、すべて白みをおびているもの、またすべて小羊の中の黒いものを移して子らのにわたし、

36 ヤコブとの間に路の隔たりを設けた。ヤコブはラバンの残り群れを飼った。

37 ヤコブは、はこやなぎと、あめんどうと、すずかけの木のなまの枝を取り、皮をはいでそれに白い筋をつくり、枝の白い所を表わし、

38 皮をはいだ枝を、群れがきてを飲む鉢、すなわちぶねの中に、群れに向かわせて置いた。群れを飲みにきた時に、はらんだ。

39 すなわち群れは枝の前で、はらんで、しまのあるもの、ぶちのもの、まだらのものを産んだ。

40 ヤコブはその小を別においた。彼はまた群れラバンの群れのしまのあるものと、すべて黒いものとに向かわせた。そして自分の群れを別にまとめておいて、ラバンの群れには、入れなかった。

41 また群れの強いものが発情した時には、ヤコブは水ぶねの中に、その群れの前に、かの枝を置いて、枝の間で、はらませた。

42 けれども群れの弱いものの時には、それを置かなかった。こうして弱いものはラバンのものとなり、強いものはヤコブのものとなったので、

43 この人は大いにみ、多くの群れと、男女の奴隷、およびらくだ、ろばを持つようになった。

   

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Arcana Coelestia #3974

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3974. 'Give me my womenfolk' means that the affections for truth belonged to that natural, 'and my children' means as did the truths born from those affections. This is clear from the meaning of 'womenfolk' or 'wives' as affections for truth - his wife 'Leah' meaning the affection for external truth, and 'Rachel' the affection for internal truth, both dealt with often above; and from the meaning of 'children' as truths born from those affections. For 'sons' means truths, 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2623, 3373, and the children born of the womenfolk truths that spring from those affections.

It was a regulation among the Ancients that women given to slaves belonged to the master with whom they served, and so did the children born from them, as may be seen in Moses,

If you buy a Hebrew slave he shall serve for six years; and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. If his master has given him a wife and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out by himself. 1 Exodus 21:2, 4.

It was because this was also a regulation in the Ancient Church and was therefore well known to Laban that he laid claim to Jacob's wives and children, as is evident in the next chapter,

Laban said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the sons are my sons, and the flock is my flock, and all that you see belongs to me. Genesis 31:43.

And because Jacob knows this he says to Laban, 'Give me my womenfolk and my children'. But this regulation as stated in Moses in the verses quoted above represented the right of the internal or rational man to the goods and truths of the external or natural man which the latter has obtained for itself. For a slave represented the truth of the natural man as that truth exists at first before genuine truths are instilled. The truth which is present at first is not truth but the outward appearance of it. Nevertheless it serves as the means by which genuine truths and goods are introduced, as has been shown already. For this reason once goods and truths have been instilled through that truth present at first, that is, through the service it renders, it is dispensed with, but the genuine truths obtained in that way are retained. It was for the sake of this representation that this law about slaves was laid down.

[2] But as for Jacob, he was not a slave who had been purchased, but a man from a more distinguished family than Laban. He himself - that is to say, Jacob - purchased Laban's daughters, and so also the children by them, through the service he rendered; for they were his instead of wages. Consequently Laban's assumptions concerning them were not correct. Furthermore 'a Hebrew slave' means the truth which serves to introduce genuine goods and truths, and his wife the affection for natural good. But Jacob's position was different from that of a slave. He represented the good of natural truth, and his wives the affections for truth. Nor does Laban have the same representation as the master in the law that has been quoted relating to a Hebrew slave. That is to say, he does not represent the rational, but a parallel good, 3612, 3665, 3778, which is such that it is not genuine good but the outward appearance of the genuine, serving to introduce truths, 3665, 3690, which were accordingly 'Jacob's'.

[3] These details which have been presented are indeed such as fall within the mental grasp of none but a very few, for most people do not know what the truth and good of the natural are, and that these are different from the truth and good of the rational. Still less do they know that goods and truths which are not genuine but only so to external appearance serve to introduce genuine truths and goods, especially at the outset of regeneration. All the same, as these details are contained in the internal sense of these words, and also in the internal sense of those that follow concerning Laban's flock from which Jacob obtained a flock for himself, they ought not to be passed over in silence. There will perhaps be some who grasp them. Any who have a strong desire to know such things, that is, who are stirred by an affection for spiritual good and truth, receive enlightenment in such matters.

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1. literally, with his own body

  
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Arcana Coelestia #3373

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3373. 'And to your seed' means truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'seed' as truth, dealt with in 29, 255, 1025, 1447, 1610, 1940, 2848, 3310, and so truth from the Lord's Divine, which is 'your seed'. Those who understand the Word solely according to the sense of the letter can know no more than this, that 'seed' means descendants - here Isaac's descendants through Esau and Jacob, primarily through Jacob since the Word existed among that nation and so many of its historical descriptions have to do with them. But in the internal sense 'seed' is not used to mean any descendants from Isaac but all who are the Lord's 'sons', and so who are 'the sons of His kingdom', or what amounts to the same, those in whom good and truth which come from the Lord are present. And as these constitute 'the seed' it follows that good and truth themselves from the Lord are 'the seed', for these are what make people His 'sons'. This is also the reason why truths themselves which come from the Lord are called 'the sons of the kingdom' in Matthew,

He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man, the field is the world, the seed are the sons of the kingdom. Matthew 13:37-38.

And for this reason also 'sons' generally means truths, 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2623.

[2] Anyone who thinks rather more deeply or inwardly may recognize that the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, mentioned so many times, and spoken of so many times as those who were to be blessed, and more so than all nations and peoples in all the world, cannot in the Divine Word mean the descendants of those three. For among all nations they least of all were moved by the good that flows from love to the Lord and from charity towards the neighbour. Nor indeed did any truth of faith exist with them. Who the Lord is, what His kingdom is, and so what heaven is and what the life after death, they did not know at all. They did not know these things because for one thing they did not wish to know and for another because if they had come to know about them they would have denied them completely in their hearts and so would have profaned interior goods and truths, as they did exterior by becoming on so many occasions open idolaters. This is the reason why any interior truths are rarely visible in the literal sense of the Old Testament Word. Because the nature of those people was such, the Lord therefore said about them, quoting Isaiah,

He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and are converted and I heal them. John 12:40.

What He said about them when they declared they were 'the seed of Abraham',

They said, We are the seed of Abraham. Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's sons, you would do the works of Abraham. You are from your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will to do. John 8:33, 39, 44.

Here also 'Abraham' is used to mean the Lord, as in every other instance in the Word. The Lord explicitly states that they were not His seed or sons but came from the devil. From this it is quite evident that 'the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob' in both the historical part and the prophetical part of the Word is in no way used to mean such descendants, for the Word is Divine in every detail Instead it means all who constitute 'the Lord's seed', that is, those with whom the good and truth of faith in Him are present. The fact that heavenly seed, that is, all good and truth, comes from the Lord alone, see 1438, 1614, 2016, 2803, 2882, 2883, 2891, 2892, 2904, 3195.

  
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