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Genesis 46

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1 At si Israel ay naglakbay na dala ang lahat niyang tinatangkilik, at napasa Beerseba, at naghandog ng mga hain sa Dios ng kaniyang amang si Isaac.

2 At kinausap ng Dios si Israel sa mga panaginip sa gabi, at sinabi, Jacob, Jacob. At sinabi niya, Narito ako:

3 At kaniyang sinabi, Ako'y Dios, ang Dios ng iyong ama, huwag kang matakot na bumaba sa Egipto: sapagka't doo'y gagawin kitang isang dakilang bansa:

4 Ako'y bababang kasama mo sa Egipto; at tunay na iaahon kita uli, at ipapatong ni Jose ang kaniyang kamay sa iyong mga mata.

5 At bumangon si Jacob mula sa Beerseba; at dinala ng mga anak ni Israel si Jacob na kanilang ama, at ang kanilang mga bata, at ang kanilang mga asawa, sa mga kariton na ipinadala ni Faraon kay Jacob.

6 At kanilang dinala ang kanilang mga hayop, at ang kanilang mga pag-aari na kanilang inimpok sa lupain ng Canaan, at na pasa Egipto, si Jacob at ang buong binhi niya na kasama niya.

7 Ang kaniyang mga anak na lalake at babae, at ang mga anak na lalake at babae ng kaniyang mga anak na kasama niya, at ang kaniyang buong binhi ay dinala niyang kasama niya sa Egipto.

8 At ito ang mga pangalan ng mga anak ni Israel, na napasa Egipto, ni Jacob at ng kaniyang mga anak: si Ruben na anak na panganay ni Jacob.

9 At ang mga anak ni Ruben; si Hanoch, at si Phallu, at si Hezron, at si Carmi.

10 At ang mga anak ni Simeon; si Jemuel, at si Jamin, at si Ohad, at si Jachin, at si Zohar, at si Saul na anak ng isang babaing taga Canaan.

11 At ang mga anak ni Levi; si Gerson, si Coat at si Merari.

12 At ang mga anak ni Juda; si Er, at si Onan, at si Sela, at si Phares, at si Zara; nguni't si Er at si Onan ay namatay sa lupain ng Canaan. At ang mga anak ni Phares, si Hezron at si Hamul.

13 At ang mga anak ni Issachar; si Thola, at si Phua, at si Job, at si Simron.

14 At ang mga anak ni Zabulon; si Sered; at si Elon, at si Jahleel.

15 Ito ang mga anak ni Lea, na kaniyang ipinanganak kay Jacob sa Padan-aram, sangpu ng kaniyang anak na babaing si Dina: ang lahat na taong kaniyang mga anak na lalake at babae ay tatlong pu't tatlo.

16 At ang mga anak ni Gad; si Ziphion, at si Aggi, si Suni, at si Ezbon, si Heri, at si Arodi, at si Areli.

17 At ang mga anak ni Aser; si Jimna; at si Ishua, at si Isui, at si Beria, at si Sera na kanilang kapatid na babae: at ang mga anak ni Beria; si Heber, at si Malchel.

18 Ito ang mga anak ni Zilpa na siyang ibinigay ni Laban kay Lea na kaniyang anak na babae, at ang mga ito ay kaniyang ipinanganak kay Jacob, na labing anim na tao.

19 Ang mga anak ni Raquel na asawa ni Jacob; si Jose at si Benjamin.

20 At kay Jose ay ipinanganak sa lupain ng Egipto si Manases at si Ephraim, na ipinanganak sa kaniya ni Asenath, na anak ni Potiphera na saserdote sa On.

21 At ang mga anak ni Benjamin; si Bela; at si Becher, at si Asbel, si Gera, at si Naaman, si Ehi, at si Ros, si Muppim, at si Huppim, at si Ard.

22 Ito ang mga anak ni Raquel na ipinanganak kay Jacob: lahat ay labing apat.

23 At ang mga anak ni Dan; si Husim.

24 At ang mga anak ni Nephtali; si Jahzeel, at si Guni, at si Jezer, at si Shillem.

25 Ito ang mga anak ni Bilha, na siyang ibinigay ni Laban kay Raquel na kaniyang anak, at ang mga ito ang ipinanganak niya kay Jacob; lahat na tao ay pito.

26 Lahat na tao na sumama kay Jacob sa Egipto, na nagsilabas sa kaniyang mga balakang, bukod pa ang mga asawa ng mga anak ni Jacob, ang lahat na tao ay anim na pu't anim;

27 At ang mga anak ni Jose na ipinanganak sa kaniya sa Egipto, ay dalawang katao; ang lahat na tao sa sangbahayan ni Jacob, na napasa Egipto, ay pitongpu.

28 At pinapagpauna niya si Juda kay Jose, upang ituro ang daan na patungo sa Gosen; at sila'y nagsidating sa lupain ng Gosen.

29 At inihanda ni Jose ang kaniyang karro, at sumampang sinalubong si Israel na kaniyang ama sa Gosen; at siya'y humarap sa kaniya, at yumakap sa kaniyang leeg, at umiyak sa kaniyang leeg na matagal.

30 At sinabi ni Israel kay Jose, Ngayo'y mamatay na ako yamang nakita ko na ang iyong mukha, na ikaw ay buhay pa.

31 At sinabi ni Jose sa kaniyang mga kapatid, at sa sangbahayan ng kaniyang ama, Ako'y aahon, at aking sasaysayin kay Faraon, at aking sasabihin sa kaniya. Ang aking mga kapatid, at ang sangbahayan ng aking ama, na nangasa lupain ng Canaan, ay naparito sa akin;

32 At ang mga lalake ay mga pastor, sapagka't sila'y naging tagapagalaga ng hayop, at kanilang dinala ang kanilang mga kawan, at ang kanilang mga bakahan, at ang lahat nilang tinatangkilik.

33 At mangyayaring, pagka tatawagin kayo ni Faraon, at sasabihin, Ano ang inyong hanapbuhay?

34 Na inyong sasabihin, Ang iyong mga lingkod ay naging tagapagalaga ng hayop mula sa aming pagkabata hanggang ngayon, kami at ang aming mga magulang; upang kayo'y matira sa lupain ng Gosen; sapagka't bawa't pastor ay kasuklamsuklam sa mga Egipcio.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #9873

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9873. All this now makes clear what the twelve precious stones in the breastplate of judgement served to mean, namely all the kinds of good and truth of heaven in their proper order. Heaven is divided into two kingdoms, the celestial and the spiritual. The good of the celestial kingdom was represented by the first two rows, which were on the right side of the breastplate, and the good of the spiritual kingdom by the next two rows, which were on the left side. The internal good of the celestial kingdom is the good of love to the Lord; this is the good that is meant by the celestial love of good. The external good of the celestial kingdom however is the good of mutual love; this is the good that is meant by the celestial love of truth. But the internal good of the spiritual kingdom is the good of charity towards the neighbour; this is the good that is meant by the spiritual love of good. And the external good of the spiritual kingdom is the good of faith; this is the good that is meant by the spiritual love of truth. These kinds of good and truth in this order constitute the heavens, see 9468, 9473, 9680, 9683, 9780.

[2] From this it is now evident what the twelve stones, which were called the Urim and Thummim, represented. But in what way the Divine Truths which were answers were made known by means of them will be stated below in 9905. The fact that the good of love occupied the first place there and the truth of faith the last is clear from the first stone's being a ruby and the last's being a jasper, thus from the first stone's being red in colour, and the last's being white, both of them translucent. For the meaning of 'red' as the good of love, see 3300, 9467; and for that of 'white' as the truth of faith, 3301, 3993, 4007, 5319.

[3] Much the same as is meant by the stones in the breastplate was also meant by the materials used in weaving the ephod. The ephod was woven from violet, purple, twice-dyed scarlet, and fine linen, as is evident from verse 6 of the present chapter, and 'violet' meant the truth of celestial love, 'purple' the good of celestial love, 'twice-dyed scarlet' the good of spiritual love, and 'fine linen' the truth of spiritual love, 9833. The reason why much the same was meant is that 'the ephod' meant heaven on last and outermost levels, in the same way as 'the breastplate' does, 9824. But the kinds of good and truth are listed in a different order there, because 'the ephod' meant the spiritual heaven, whereas 'the breastplate' means all heaven from first to last. And since the dwelling-place along with the tent also represented heaven, 9457, 9481, 9485, 9615, the material from which its curtains and veils were woven were likewise violet, purple, double-dyed scarlet, and fine twined linen, see the previous Chapters, 26:1, 31, 36; 27:16, and 9466-9469.

[4] In addition it should be recognized that in the general sense SAPPHIRE means the external part of the celestial kingdom and SHOHAM the external part of the spiritual kingdom. And because these two stones had this meaning they were the middle stones belonging to the secondary rows, that is to say, the sapphire was the middle stone in the second row, and the shoham the middle stone in the fourth row. The stones belonging to the second row meant the external good of the celestial kingdom, which has been called the celestial love of truth, and the stones belonging to the fourth row meant the external good of the spiritual kingdom, which has been called the spiritual love of truth, see what has been stated about them above in this paragraph 9873.

[5] The fact that 'sapphire' means the external part of the celestial kingdom is evident from places in the Word where it is mentioned, such as in the Book of Exodus,

Seventy of the elders saw the God of Israel, and under His feet there was so to speak a work of sapphire, and it was like the substance of the sky for clearness. Exodus 24:10.

The external part of the celestial kingdom is so described, because the words 'under His feet', meaning what is external, are used, and where 'the God of Israel', who is the Lord, is, there heaven is. In Isaiah,

O afflicted one and storm-tossed, and receiving no comfort! Behold, I am arranging your stones with antimony, and will lay your foundations in sapphires. Isaiah 54:11.

The subject in this chapter is the celestial kingdom. The foundations which will be laid in sapphires, are the external things there; for foundations lie underneath.

[6] In Jeremiah,

Her Nazirites were brighter than snow, they were whiter than milk. Their bones 1 were ruddier than pearls, 2 polished like sapphires. 3 Lamentations 4:7.

Nazirites represented the celestial man, which is why it says 'polished like sapphires', 'polished' referring to what is external. In Ezekiel,

Above the expanse that was above the heads of the cherubs, in appearance like a sapphire stone, there was the likeness of a throne, and above the likeness of a throne there was the appearance of a man (homo) sitting upon it. Ezekiel 1:26; 10:1.

Here also 'sapphire' is used to describe the external part of the celestial kingdom; for what is above the expanse or round about is outside, that which is inmost being the one 'sitting upon a throne'.

[7] Just as sapphire stone means the external part of the celestial kingdom, so shoham stone means the external part of the spiritual kingdom. Therefore also this was the stone which was placed on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod with the names of the sons of Israel inscribed on them, which are dealt with in verses 9-14 of the present chapter; for the ephod represented the external part of the spiritual kingdom, 9824. Since shoham and sapphire in the general sense meant the external parts of two heavens, they were placed in the middle of the sets of three stones forming the second and fourth rows, as stated above. For the middle includes the whole, as is also true of the robe, which in the general sense has represented the spiritual kingdom, because it comes in the middle, as shown above in 9825. Because those two stones include everything meant by all the other stones in those rows, it says in Job,

Wisdom cannot be compared with the gold of Ophir, with the precious shoham and the sapphire. Job 28:16.

Bilješke:

1. i.e. bodies

2. In other places Swedenborg has rubies or gem stones.

3. literally, sapphires their polishing

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