Arcana Coelestia #6039
6039. Verses 31-34 And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's house, I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me. And the men are shepherds of the flock, for they are keepers 1 of livestock, and their flocks and their herds, and all that they have, they have made to come. And it may be, that Pharaoh may call you and say, What are your works? 2 And you are to say, Your servants have been keepers 1 of livestock from our 3 boyhoods and right up to now, both we and our fathers - so that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd of the flock is an abomination to the Egyptians.
'And Joseph said to his brothers' means a perception by the truths in the natural. 'And to his father's house' means by the forms of good there. 'I will go up and tell Pharaoh' means a communication with the natural, where the Church's factual knowledge resides. 'And say to him, My brothers and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me' means that the truths and forms of good which the Church possesses are to be introduced [into that knowledge]. 'And the men are shepherds of the flock' means that they lead to good. 'For they are keepers of livestock' means that they possess good deriving from truths. 'And their flocks and their herds, and all that they have, they have made to come' means that interior good and exterior good, and whatever is dependent on them, are present. 'And it may be, that Pharaoh may call you' means if the natural in which the Church's factual knowledge resides wishes to be joined to you. 'And says, What are your works?' means and to know your forms of good. 'And you are to say, Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our boyhoods and right up to now' means that the truths which lead to good have been present from the beginning and are present still. 'Both we and our fathers' means that this was so from when the earliest forms of good existed. 'So that you may dwell in the land of Goshen' means that your position will for that reason be in the middle of the natural where the Church's factual knowledge resides. 'For every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians' means thereby a separation from perverted factual knowledge which is opposed to the Church's factual knowledge.
Bilješke:
1. literally, men
2. i.e.. What is your occupation?
3. The Latin means their, but the Hebrew means our.
Genesis 46
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Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.
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God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob!" He said, "Here I am."
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He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.
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I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph will close your eyes."
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Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
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They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt--Jacob, and all his seed with him,
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his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and he brought all his seed with him into Egypt.
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These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
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The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
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The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
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The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
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The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.
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The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
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These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.
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The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
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The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
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These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.
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The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
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To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.
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The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
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These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
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The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
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These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.
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All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct descendants, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were sixty-six.
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The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.
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He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
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Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
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Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive."
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Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's house, "I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, 'My brothers, and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
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These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.'
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It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, 'What is your occupation?'
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that you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:' that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."
