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synty 38

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1 Siihen aikaan Juuda lähti pois veljiensä luota ja asettui erään Adullamissa asuvan miehen luo, jonka nimi oli Hiira.

2 Siellä Juuda näki Suua nimisen kanaanilaisen miehen tyttären, ja hän otti tämän luokseen ja yhtyi häneen.

3 Ja hän tuli raskaaksi ja synnytti pojan; ja hän antoi hänelle nimen Eer.

4 Ja taas hän tuli raskaaksi ja synnytti pojan ja antoi hänelle nimen Oonan.

5 Ja hän synnytti vieläkin pojan ja antoi hänelle nimen Seela; ja synnyttäessään hänet hän oli Kesibissä.

6 Ja Juuda otti Eerille, esikoisellensa, vaimon, jonka nimi oli Taamar.

7 Mutta Eer, Juudan esikoinen, ei ollut Herralle otollinen; sentähden Herra antoi hänen kuolla.

8 Niin Juuda sanoi Oonanille: "Yhdy veljesi leskeen ja ota hänet avioksesi ja herätä siemen veljellesi".

9 Mutta kun Oonan tiesi, ettei jälkeläinen olisi oleva hänen, niin hän antoi, aina kun yhtyi veljensä vaimoon, siemenensä mennä maahan, ettei hankkisi jälkeläistä veljelleen.

10 Mutta se, minkä hän teki, oli paha Herran silmissä; sentähden hän antoi hänenkin kuolla.

11 Silloin Juuda sanoi miniällensä Taamarille: "Asu leskenä isäsi talossa, kunnes poikani Seela joutuu täysikasvuiseksi". Hän näet ajatteli: "Kun ei vain tämäkin kuolisi niinkuin hänen veljensä". Niin Taamar meni pois ja jäi asumaan isänsä kotiin.

12 Pitkän aikaa sen jälkeen Suuan tytär, Juudan vaimo, kuoli. Suruajan mentyä Juuda lähti ystävänsä adullamilaisen Hiiran kanssa Timnaan lammastensa keritsiäisiin.

13 Niin tuotiin Taamarille tämä sanoma: "Katso, appesi menee Timnaan keritsemään lampaitaan".

14 Silloin hän riisui pois leskenvaatteensa ja verhoutui huntuun peittäytyen siihen ja istui Eenaimin portille, Timnaan vievän tien varteen. Sillä hän oli nähnyt, että vaikka Seela oli täysikasvuinen, ei häntä annettu hänelle vaimoksi.

15 Kun nyt Juuda näki hänet, luuli hän häntä portoksi; sillä hän oli peittänyt kasvonsa.

16 Ja hän poikkesi hänen luokseen tiepuoleen ja sanoi: "Anna minun yhtyä sinuun". Hän näet ei tiennyt, että nainen oli hänen miniänsä. Tämä vastasi: "Mitä annat minulle saadaksesi yhtyä minuun?"

17 Hän sanoi: "Lähetän sinulle vohlan laumastani". Nainen vastasi: "Annatko minulle pantin, kunnes sen lähetät?"

18 Hän sanoi: "Mitä on minun annettava sinulle pantiksi?" Hän vastasi: "Sinettisi, nauhasi ja sauvasi, joka on kädessäsi". Niin hän antoi ne hänelle ja yhtyi häneen, ja hän tuli hänestä raskaaksi.

19 Ja hän nousi ja meni sieltä ja pani pois huntunsa ja pukeutui leskenvaatteisiinsa.

20 Mutta Juuda lähetti adullamilaisen ystävänsä viemään vohlaa, saadaksensa takaisin pantin naiselta; mutta hän ei löytänyt häntä.

21 Ja hän kyseli sen paikkakunnan miehiltä ja sanoi: "Missä on se pyhäkköportto, joka istui Eenaimissa tien varressa?" He vastasivat: "Ei täällä ole ollut mitään pyhäkköporttoa".

22 Ja hän palasi Juudan luo ja sanoi: "En löytänyt häntä; ja myös sen paikkakunnan miehet sanoivat, ettei siellä ole ollutkaan mitään pyhäkköporttoa".

23 Silloin Juuda sanoi: "Pitäköön sen sitten, ettemme joutuisi häpeään. Katso, minä olen lähettänyt tämän vohlan, mutta sinä et ole löytänyt häntä."

24 Noin kolmen kuukauden kuluttua ilmoitettiin Juudalle: "Sinun miniäsi Taamar on harjoittanut haureutta, ja haureudesta hän on myös tullut raskaaksi". Juuda sanoi: "Viekää hänet poltettavaksi".

25 Mutta kun häntä vietiin, lähetti hän sanan apelleen sanoen: "Minä olen raskaana siitä miehestä, jonka nämä ovat". Ja hän käski sanoa: "Tarkasta, kenen tämä sinetti, nämä nauhat ja tämä sauva ovat".

26 Ja Juuda tunsi ne ja sanoi: "Hän on oikeassa minua vastaan, koska minä en antanut häntä pojalleni Seelalle". Ei hän kuitenkaan enää yhtynyt häneen.

27 Kun hänen synnyttämisensä aika tuli, katso, hänen kohdussaan oli kaksoiset.

28 Ja hänen synnyttäessään pisti toinen kätensä ulos; kätilövaimo otti punaista lankaa ja sitoi sen hänen käteensä ja sanoi: "Tämä tuli ensiksi ulos".

29 Mutta kun hän sitten taas veti kätensä takaisin, katso, silloin tuli hänen veljensä ulos; ja kätilövaimo sanoi: "Minkä repeämän oletkaan reväissyt itsellesi!" Ja hän sai nimen Peres.

30 Sitten tuli hänen veljensä, jonka kädessä oli punainen lanka; ja hän sai nimen Serah.

   

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4704. Verses 12-17 And his brothers went to pasture the flock of their father, in Shechem. And Israel said to Joseph, Are not your brothers pasturing [the flock] in Shechem? Go, and I will send you to them. And he said to him, Behold, here I am. And he said to him, Go now, see the peace of your brothers and the peace of the flock, 1 and bring back word to me. And he sent him out of the Valley of Hebron and he came to Shechem. And a man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field; and the man asked him, saying, What are you looking for? And he said, I am looking for my brothers; tell me now, where they are pasturing [the flock]. And the man said, They have travelled on from here, for I heard them saying, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.

'His brothers went to pasture the flock' means those teaching from faith. 'Of their father' means of the Ancient Church and of the Primitive [Christian] Church. 'In Shechem' means the broad outlines. 'And Israel said to Joseph' means perception from the Divine Spiritual. 'Are not your brothers pasturing [the flock] in Shechem?' means that they are teaching. 'Go, and I will send you to them' means that it would teach Divine spiritual forms of good. 'And he said, Behold, here I am' means assent. 'And he said to him, Go now, see the peace of your brothers' means every coming of the Lord, and a perception of what the situation was with those who taught. 'And the peace of the flock' means what the situation was with those who learned, that is, with the Church. 'And bring back word to me' means knowledge. 'And he sent him out of the Valley of Hebron' means going forth from the Divine Natural and Sensory degrees. 'And he came to Shechem' means knowledge of the general aspects of doctrine. 'And a man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field' means that they had fallen away from general truth known to the Church. 'And the man asked him, saying, What are you looking for?' means foresight. 'And he said, I am looking for my brothers; tell me now, where they are pasturing [the flock]' means knowledge of what the situation was and what their state was. 'And the man said, They have travelled on from here, for I heard them saying, Let us go to Dothan' means that they moved on from the general aspects to the specific details of doctrine. 'And Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan' means that they were steeped in the specific details belonging to false assumptions.

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1. A Hebrew idiom meaning See whether all is well with your brothers and with the flock.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Genesis 37

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1 Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the land of Canaan.

2 This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.

3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.

4 His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him.

5 Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.

6 He said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:

7 for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf."

8 His brothers said to him, "Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?" They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.

9 He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."

10 He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?"

11 His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

12 His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.

13 Israel said to Joseph, "Aren't your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." He said to him, "Here I am."

14 He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again." So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

15 A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, "What are you looking for?"

16 He said, "I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock."

17 The man said, "They have left here, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.

18 They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

19 They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes.

20 Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."

21 Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, "Let's not take his life."

22 Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him"--that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.

23 It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;

24 and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.

25 They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

26 Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

27 Come, and let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh." His brothers listened to him.

28 Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.

29 Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn't in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

30 He returned to his brothers, and said, "The child is no more; and I, where will I go?"

31 They took Joseph's coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.

32 They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, "We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son's coat or not."

33 He recognized it, and said, "It is my son's coat. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces."

34 Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

35 All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning." His father wept for him.

36 The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.