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1 Mosebok 35

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1 Och Gud sade till Jakob: »Stå upp, drag till Betel och stanna där, och res där ett altare åt den Gud som uppenbarade sig för dig, när du flydde för din broder Esau

2 Då sade Jakob till sitt husfolk och till alla som voro med honom: »Skaffen bort de främmande gudar som I haven bland eder, och renen eder och byten om kläder,

3 och låt oss så stå upp och draga till Betel; där vill jag resa ett altare åt den Gud som bönhörde mig, när jag var i nöd, och som var med mig på den väg jag vandrade.»

4 Då gåvo de åt Jakob alla de främmande gudar som de hade hos sig, därtill ock sina örringar; och Jakob grävde ned detta under terebinten vid Sikem.

5 Sedan bröto de upp; och en förskräckelse ifrån Gud kom över de kringliggande städerna, så att man icke förföljde Jakobs söner.

6 Och Jakob kom till Lus, det är Betel, i Kanaans land, jämte allt det folk som var med honom.

7 Och han byggde där ett altare och kallade platsen El-Betel , därför att Gud där hade uppenbarat sig för honom, när han flydde för sin broder.

8 Och Debora, Rebeckas amma, dog och blev begraven nedanför Betel, under en ek; den fick namnet Gråtoeken.

9 Och Gud uppenbarade sig åter för Jakob, när han hade kommit tillbaka från Paddan-Aram, och välsignade honom.

10 Och Gud sade till honom: »Ditt namn är Jakob; men du skall icke mer heta Jakob, utan Israel skall vara ditt namn.» Så fick han namnet Israel.

11 Och Gud sade till honom: »Jag är Gud den Allsmäktige; var fruktsam och föröka dig. Ett folk, ja, skaror av folk skola komma av dig, och konungar skola utgå från din länd.

12 Och det land som jag har givit åt Abraham och Isak skall jag giva åt dig; åt din säd efter dig skall jag ock giva det landet.

13 Och Gud for upp från honom, på den plats där han hade talat med honom.

14 Men Jakob reste en stod på den plats där han hade talat med honom, en stod av sten; och han offrade drickoffer därpå och göt olja över den.

15 Och Jakob gav åt platsen där Gud hade talat med honom namnet Betel.

16 Sedan bröto de upp från Betel. Och när det ännu var ett stycke väg fram till Efrat, kom Rakel i barnsnöd, och barnsnöden blev henne svår.

17 Då nu hennes barnsnöd var som svårast, sade hjälpkvinnan till henne: »Frukta icke; ty också denna gång får du en son

18 Men när hon höll på att giva upp andan, ty hon skulle nu , gav hon honom namnet Ben-Oni ; men hans fader kallade honom Benjamin .

19 dog Rakel, och hon blev begraven vid vägen till Efrat, det är Bet-Lehem.

20 Och Jakob reste en vård på hennes grav; det är den som ännu i dag kallas Rakels gravvård.

21 Och Israel bröt upp därifrån och slog upp sitt tält på andra sidan om Herdetornet.

22 Och medan Israel bodde där i landet, gick Ruben åstad och lägrade Bilha, sin faders bihustru; och Israel fick höra det. Och Jakob hade tolv söner.

23 Leas söner voro Ruben, Jakobs förstfödde, vidare Simeon, Levi, Juda, Isaskar och Sebulon.

24 Rakels söner voro Josef och Benjamin.

25 Bilhas, Rakels tjänstekvinnas, söner voro Dan och Naftali.

26 Silpas, Leas tjänstekvinnas, söner voro Gad och Aser. Dessa voro Jakobs söner, och de föddes åt honom i Paddan-Aram.

27 Och Jakob kom till sin fader Isak i Mamre vid Kirjat-Arba, det är Hebron, där Abraham och Isak hade bott såsom främlingar.

28 Och Isak levde ett hundra åttio år;

29 därefter gav Isak upp andan och dog och blev samlad till sina fäder, gammal och mätt på att leva. Och hans söner Esau och Jakob begrovo honom.

   

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4555. 'And the terror of God was on the cities which were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob' means that falsities and evils were unable to come near. This is clear from the meaning of 'the terror of God' as protection, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'the cities which were round about them' as falsities and evils (for in the genuine sense 'cities' are the truths of doctrine and in the contrary sense the falsities of doctrine, 402, 2449, 2943, 3216, 4478, 4492, 4493; but in the present instance 'the cities' is used to mean evils as well as falsities, because their inhabitants must be included too, meaning goods in the genuine sense, and so evils in the contrary sense, 2268, 2451, 2712); and from the meaning of 'not pursuing after them' as being unable to come near.

[2] The truth that 'the terror of God' means protection may be illustrated by things that happen in the next life. There the hells cannot possibly go near heaven, nor evil spirits go near any heavenly community, because the terror of God enters into them. Indeed when evil spirits approach any heavenly community they are suddenly seized by feelings of distress and torment, and those who have been through this experience a number of times do not dare to make such an approach. This not daring to do so is what 'the terror of God' is used to mean in the internal sense. Not that God or the Lord sets out to terrify them. Rather they are terrified because they are under the influence of falsities and evils, and so of things that are the opposite of goods and truths; and it is those actual falsities and evils, when they approach goods and truths, that cause the evil spirits to feel distressed and tormented.

  
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Genesis 21

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1 Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

2 Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

3 Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

4 Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

5 Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.

6 Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me."

7 She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."

8 The child grew, and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

9 Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

10 Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac."

11 The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son.

12 God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.

13 I will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is your seed."

14 Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

15 The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

16 She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

17 God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

18 Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation."

19 God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.

20 God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.

21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

22 It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do.

23 Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner."

24 Abraham said, "I will swear."

25 Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

26 Abimelech said, "I don't know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today."

27 Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.

28 Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

29 Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?"

30 He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well."

31 Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.

32 So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.

34 Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.