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Genesis 34

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1 Kartą Lėjos duktė Dina išėjo pasižiūrėti tos šalies dukterų.

2 Šalies kunigaikščio hivo Hamoro sūnus Sichemas, ją pamatęs, nutvėrė ir išprievartavo.

3 Jo siela prisirišo prie Jokūbo dukters Dinos. Jis pamilo mergaitę ir meiliai kalbėjo su ja.

4 Sichemas prašė savo tėv o Hamoro: “Leisk man vesti šią mergaitę!”

5 Jokūbas sužinojo, kad Sichemas išprievartavo jo dukterį Diną; kadangi jo sūnūs buvo prie gyvulių laukuose, Jokūbas tylėjo, kol jie pareis.

6 Sichemo tėvas Hamoras atėjo pas Jokūbą, norėdamas su juo pasikalbėti.

7 Jokūbo sūnūs, tai išgirdę, parėjo iš laukų. Jie įsižeidė ir labai supyko, nes Sichemas padarė gėdą Izraeliui, gulėdamas su Jokūbo dukterimi, nors nederėjo taip daryti.

8 Hamoras kalbėjosi su jais: “Mano sūnaus Sichemo siela ilgisi jūsų dukters. Prašau, leiskite mano sūnui ją vesti.

9 Susigiminiuokime: duokite mums savo dukteris, o mūsų dukteris veskite!

10 Gyvenkite pas mus. Kraštas jums yra atviras. Pasilikite ir laisvai jame gyvenkite ir įsigykite čia nuosavybę”.

11 Ir Sichemas kalbėjo Dinos tėvui ir broliams: “O kad rasčiau malonę jūsų akyse! Ko tik iš manęs paprašysite, duosiu.

12 Prašykite pačio didžiausio kraičio ir dovanos; aš viską duosiu, ko paprašysite, tik leiskite man vesti mergaitę!”

13 Jokūbo sūnūs klastingai kalbėjo su Sichemu ir jo tėvu Hamoru, nes Sichemas buvo išprievartavęs jų seserį Diną.

14 Jie sakė jiems: “Mes negalime to padaryti­išleisti savo seserį už vyro, kuris yra neapipjaustytas, nes tai būtų mums negarbė ir gėda.

15 Sutiksime su jumis tik su sąlyga, jei jūs tapsite kaip mes ir kiekvienas vyras tarp jūsų bus apipjaustytas.

16 Tada mes leisime jums vesti savo dukteris ir vesime jūsų; liksime pas jus gyventi ir tapsime viena tauta.

17 Bet jei mūsų nepaklausysite ir neapsipjaustysite, pasiimsime savo dukterį ir išeisime”.

18 žodžiai patiko Hamorui ir jo sūnui Sichemui.

19 Jaunuolis nedelsė įvykdyti pasiūlymo, nes jis buvo įsimylėjęs Jokūbo dukterį. O jis buvo žymiausias savo tėvo namuose.

20 Hamoras ir jo sūnus Sichemas atėjo prie miesto vartų ir kalbėjo savo miesto vyrams:

21 “Šitie žmonės yra taikingi mūsų atžvilgiu. Jie telieka gyventi ir laisvai verstis mūsų krašte. Kraštas juk platus! Jų dukteris vesime, o savo dukteris leisime tekėti už jų.

22 Tie žmonės sutinka gyventi pas mus ir tapti viena tauta tik su šita sąlyga, jei kiekvienas mūsų vyras apsipjaustys, kaip jie yra apipjaustyti.

23 galvijai, jų manta ir visi gyvuliai priklausys mums. Sutikime su jais, ir jie liks pas mus gyventi!”

24 Visi miesto vyrai paklausė Hamoro ir jo sūnaus Sichemo ir buvo apipjaustyti.

25 Trečią dieną, kai jiems labai skaudėjo, du Jokūbo sūnūs, Simeonas ir Levis, Dinos broliai, pasiėmė savo kardus ir, drąsiai atėję į miestą, išžudė visus vyrus.

26 Jie taip pat nužudė Hamorą ir jo sūnų Sichemą, paėmė Diną iš Sichemo namų ir išėjo.

27 Jokūbo sūnūs atėjo prie nužudytųjų ir apiplėšė miestą, keršydami už sesers išniekinimą.

28 Pasiėmė jų avis, galvijus, asilus ir visa, kas buvo mieste ir laukuose.

29 Pagrobė visą jų turtą, vaikus ir žmonas išsivedė į nelaisvę ir išplėšė viską, kas buvo namuose.

30 Jokūbas tarė Simeonui ir Leviui: “Jūs pridarėte man bėdos, padarydami mane nekenčiamą tarp šios šalies gyventojų, tarp kanaaniečių ir perizų. Mūsų labai mažai; jie susirinks prieš mane ir nužudys mane. Taip aš ir mano namai bus sunaikinti”.

31 Sūnūs atsakė: “Argi jam buvo leista pasielgti su mūsų seserimi kaip su paleistuve?”

   

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Arcana Coelestia #4439

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4439. 'Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter' means a wrongful joining together, that is to say, a wrongful joining to the affection for truth which the external Church represented here by 'Jacob' possessed. This is clear from the meaning of 'defiling' as a wrongful joining together, for by 'marriages' is meant a rightful joining together, 4434, and therefore by the defilement of them a wrongful one, concerning which see 4433; from the representation of 'Dinah' as the affection for all things of faith, also the Church arising from that affection, dealt with in 4427; and from the representation of 'Jacob', who at this point is the external Ancient Church. The reason why Jacob' at this point means the external Ancient Church is that such a Church was to have been established among his descendants, and would in fact have been. established if those descendants had received the interior truths which existed among the Ancients. Jacob's representation of that Church at this point is also evident from the train of thought in this chapter, for he had no part in his sons' plan to smite the city and kill Hamor and Shechem, a deed which was also the reason for his telling Simeon and Levi,

You have brought trouble on me, by making me stink to the inhabitant of the land. Verse 30; and in the prophetical utterance he made before his death,

Into their secret place let my soul not come; in their congregation let not my glory be united; for in their anger they killed a man, and in their pleasure they hamstrung an ox. Genesis 49:6.

And there are very many other places in the Word besides these in which 'Jacob' represents the external Ancient Church, 422, 4286. The reason why 'Jacob' represents that Church is that in the highest sense he represents the Lord's Divine Natural, to which the external Church corresponds. His sons however mean his descendants who annihilated truth known to the Ancients as this existed among themselves, and in so doing destroyed that which was to constitute the Church, so that only that which was the representative of it remained with them, 4281, 4288, 4289, 4303.

  
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Isaiah 49

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1 Listen, islands, to me; and Listen, you peoples, from far: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother has he made mention of my name:

2 and he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand, he has hidden me: and he has made me a polished shaft; in his quiver has he kept me close:

3 and he said to me, "You are my servant; Israel, in whom I will be glorified."

4 But I said, "I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God."

5 Now says Yahweh who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, and that Israel be gathered to him (for I am honorable in the eyes of Yahweh, and my God is become my strength);

6 yes, he says, "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth."

7 Thus says Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: "Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, [even] the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you."

8 Thus says Yahweh, "In an acceptable time have I answered you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you; and I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage:

9 saying to those who are bound, 'Come out!'; to those who are in darkness, 'Show yourselves!' "They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.

10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them, even by springs of water he will guide them.

11 I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.

12 Behold, these shall come from far; and behold, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim."

13 Sing, heavens; and be joyful, earth; and break forth into singing, mountains: for Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.

14 But Zion said, "Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me."

15 "Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

16 Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

17 Your children make haste; your destroyers and those who made you waste shall go forth from you.

18 Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live," says Yahweh, "you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and dress yourself with them, like a bride.

19 "For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land that has been destroyed, surely now you shall be too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up shall be far away.

20 The children of your bereavement shall yet say in your ears, The place is too small for me; give place to me that I may dwell.

21 Then you will say in your heart, 'Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering back and forth? Who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?'"

22 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my banner to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.

23 Kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed."

24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered?

25 But thus says Yahweh, "Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your children.

26 I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob."