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1 Mose 33

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1 Jakob hub seine Augen auf und sah seinen Bruder Esau kommen mit vierhundert Mann. Und teilete seine Kinder zu Lea und zu Rahel und zu beiden Mägden.

2 Und stellete die Mägde mit ihren Kindern vorne an und Lea mit ihren Kindern hernach und Rahel mit Joseph zuletzt.

3 Und er ging vor ihnen her und neigete sich siebenmal auf die Erde, bis er zu seinem Bruder kam.

4 Esau aber lief ihm entgegen und herzete ihn und fiel ihm um den Hals und küssete ihn; und sie weineten.

5 Und hub seine Augen auf und sah die Weiber mit den Kindern und sprach: Wer sind diese bei dir? Er antwortete: Es sind Kinder, die Gott deinem Knechte bescheret hat.

6 Und die Mägde traten herzu mit ihren Kindern und neigeten sich vor ihm.

7 Lea trat auch herzu mit ihren Kindern und neigeten sich vor ihm. Danach trat Joseph und Rahel herzu und neigeten sich auch vor ihm.

8 Und er sprach: Was willst du mit all dem Heer, dem ich begegnet bin? Er antwortete: Daß ich Gnade fände vor meinem HERRN.

9 Esau sprach: Ich habe genug, mein Bruder; behalt, was du hast.

10 Jakob antwortete: Ach nicht! Habe ich Gnade funden vor dir, so nimm mein Geschenk von meiner Hand; denn ich sah dein Angesicht, als sähe ich Gottes Angesicht; und laß dir's wohlgefallen von mir.

11 Nimm doch den Segen von mir an, den ich dir zugebracht habe; denn Gott hat mir's bescheret, und ich habe alles genug. Also nötigte er ihn, daß er's nahm.

12 Und er sprach: Laß uns fortziehen und reisen; ich will mit dir ziehen.

13 Er aber sprach zu ihm: Mein HERR, du erkennest, daß ich zarte Kinder bei mir habe, dazu Vieh und säugende Kühe; wenn sie einen Tag übertrieben würden, würde mir die ganze Herde sterben.

14 Mein HERR ziehe vor seinem Knechte hin. Ich will mählich hinnach treiben, danach das Vieh und die Kinder gehen können, bis daß ich komme zu meinem HERRN in Seir.

15 Esau sprach: So will ich doch bei dir lassen etliche vom Volk, das mit mir ist. Er antwortete: Was ist's vonnöten? Laß mich nur Gnade vor meinem HERRN finden.

16 Also zog des Tages Esau wiederum seines Weges gen Seir.

17 Und Jakob zog gen Suchoth und bauete ihm ein Haus und machte seinem Vieh Hütten; daher heißt die Stätte Suchoth.

18 Danach zog Jakob gegen Salem, zu der Stadt des Sichem, die im Lande Kanaan liegt (nachdem er aus Mesopotamien kommen war), und machte sein Lager vor der Stadt.

19 Und kaufte ein Stück Ackers von den Kindern Hemors, des Vaters Sichems, um hundert Groschen; daselbst richtete er seine Hütte auf.

20 Und richtete daselbst einen Altar zu und rief an den Namen des starken Gottes Israel.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #1441

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1441. That these things are meant by 'Shechem' becomes clear also from the fact that Shechem is so to speak the first stopping-place in the land of Canaan that one comes to when journeying from Syria, or Haran. And since 'the land of Canaan' means the celestial things of love it is clear that 'Shechem' means the first stage in the appearance of celestial things. When Jacob returned from Haran to the land of Canaan he likewise came to Shechem, as becomes clear from the following,

Jacob travelled on to Succoth and built a house for himself, and made shelters 1 for his cattle; therefore he called the name of the place Succoth. And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-Aram; and he camped before the city. And he set up an altar there. Genesis 33:17-20.

Here also 'Shechem' means the first appearance of light. In David,

God has spoken in His holiness, I will exult, I will divide up Shechem and portion out the valley of Succoth. Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; and Ephraim is the strength of My head, Judah is My lawgiver, Moab is My washbasin, upon Edom I will cast My shoe, over Philistia I will make a loud noise. Psalms 60:6, 8; 108:7, 9.

Here also 'Shechem' has a similar meaning. That names, including Shechem therefore, mean nothing other than real things becomes quite clear from these prophetic utterances of David. Otherwise they would be scarcely more than a heap of names. References to Shechem becoming a city of refuge, Joshua 20:7, and also a priestly city, Joshua 21:21, and a place where the covenant was made, Joshua 24:1, 25, also embody the same.

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

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Genesis 12

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1 Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you.

2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you."

4 So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.

5 Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls whom they had gotten in Haran, and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came.

6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.

7 Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.

8 He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on the name of Yahweh.

9 Abram traveled, going on still toward the South.

10 There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.

11 It happened, when he had come near to enter Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.

12 It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they will save you alive.

13 Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you."

14 It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

15 The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

16 He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

17 Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

18 Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

19 Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."

20 Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they brought him on the way with his wife and all that he had.