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4 Mosebok 34

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1 Och HERREN talade till Mose och sade:

2 Bjud Israels barn och säg till dem: När I kommen till Kanaans land, då är detta det land som skall tillfalla eder såsom arvedel: Kanaans land, så långt dess gränser nå.

3 Edert land skall på södra sidan sträcka sig från öknen Sin utmed Edom; och eder södra gräns skall i öster begynna vid ändan av Salthavet.

4 Sedan skall eder gräns böja sig söder om Skorpionhöjden och gå fram till Sin och gå ut söder om Kades-Barnea. Och den skall gå vidare ut till Hasar-Addar och fram till Asmon.

5 Och från Asmon skall gränsen böja sig mot Egyptens bäck och gå ut vid havet.

6 Och eder gräns i väster skall vara Stora havet; det skall utgöra gränsen. Detta skall vara eder gräns i väster.

7 Och detta skall vara eder gräns i norr: Från Stora havet skolen I draga eder gränslinje fram vid berget Hor.

8 Från berget Hor skolen I draga eder gränslinje dit där vägen går till Hamat, och gränsen skall gå ut vid Sedad.

9 Sedan skall gränsen gå till Sifron och därifrån ut vid Hasar-Enan. Detta skall vara eder gräns i norr.

10 och såsom eder gräns i öster skolen I draga upp en linje från Hasar-Enan fram till Sefam.

11 Och från Sefam skall gränsen gå ned till Haribla, öster om Ain, och gränsen skall gå vidare ned och intill bergsluttningen vid Kinneretsjön, österut.

12 Sedan skall gränsen gå ned till Jordan och ut vid Salthavet. Detta skall vara edert land, med dess gränser runt omkring.

13 Och Mose bjöd Israels barn och sade: Detta är det land som I genom lottkastning skolen utskifta såsom arvedel åt eder, det land om vilket HERREN har bjudit att det skall givas åt de nio stammarna och den ena halva stammen.

14 Ty rubeniternas barns stam, efter dess familjer, och gaditernas barns stam, efter dess familjer, och den andra hälften av Manasse stam, dessa hava redan fått sin arvedel.

15 Dessa två stammar och denna halva stam hava fått sin arvedel på andra sidan Jordan mitt emot Jeriko, österut mot solens uppgång.

16 Och HERREN talade till Mose och sade:

17 Dessa äro namnen på de män som skola åt eder utskifta landet i arvslotter: först och främst prästen Eleasar och Josua, Nuns son;

18 vidare skolen I taga en hövding ur var stam till att utskifta landet,

19 och dessa äro de männens namn: av Juda stam Kaleb, Jefunnes son;

20 av Simeons barns stam Samuel Ammihuds son;

21 av Benjamins stam Elidad, Kislons son;

22 av Dans barns stam en hövding, Bucki, Joglis son;

23 av Josefs barn: av Manasse barns stam en hövding, Hanniel, Efods son,

24 och av Efraims barn stam en hövding, Kemuel, Siftans son;

25 av Sebulons barns stam en hövding, Elisafan, Parnaks son;

26 av Isaskars barns stam en hövding, Paltiel, Assans son;

27 av Asers barns stam en hövding, Ahihud, Selomis son;

28 av Naftali barns stam en hövding, Pedael, Ammihuds son.

29 Dessa äro de som HERREN bjöd att utskifta arvslotterna åt Israels barn i Kanaans land.

   

解説

 

Tribe

  

In Ezekiel 47:21, this signifies all the elements belonging to faith. (Arcana Coelestia 1463[2])

'A tribe' signifies the church with respect to its truths and goods, and in the opposite sense, with respect to its falsities and evils. It also signifies the church with respect to religion.

Three first tribes of Israel, Judah, Reuben, and Gad, signify love to the Lord. Asher, Naphtali, and Manasseh signify charity towards our neighbor. Simeon, Levi, and Issachar signify the obedience of faith. The last three tribes, Zebulon, Joseph, and Benjamin, named in this order, signify the conjunction of all the above with the Lord. Their significances are according to the order in which they are named in Revelation 7. In general, 'the twelve tribes' signify every aspect of the doctrine of truth and good, or of faith and love. Truth and good, or faith and love, constitute the Lord's kingdom, because the elements of truth or faith are the whole of thought in it, and the elements of good or love are the whole of affection. As the Jewish church was instituted to represent the Lord's kingdom, the divisions of the people into twelve tribes had this significance. This is an arcanum which has not been discovered before now (the volumes of Arcana Coelestia were published from 1749 to 1756).

(参照: Apocalypse Revealed 587)


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1463. That 'sojourning' means receiving instruction becomes clear from the meaning in the Word of 'sojourning' as receiving instruction, and it has this meaning because sojourning and passing on, or moving from one place to another, is in heaven nothing else than a change of state, as shown already in 1376, 1379. Therefore every time travelling, sojourning, or transferring from one place to another occurs in the Word nothing else suggests itself to angels than a change of state such as takes place with them. There are changes of state both of thoughts and of affections. Changes of the state of thoughts are cognitions, which in the world of spirits are represented by means of forms of instruction. This also explains why members of the Most Ancient Church, having communication with the angelic heaven, did not perceive anything else by 'sojourning'. Thus the statement here that 'Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn' does not mean anything other than the Lord's being instructed.

[2] Something similar is meant by Jacob and his sons going down into Egypt, as in Isaiah,

Thus said the Lord Jehovih, My people went down to Egypt at first to sojourn there, and Asshur oppressed them without cause. Isaiah 52:4.

Here 'Asshur' stands for reasonings. This is also why in the Jewish Church people who were receiving instruction were called 'sojourners, sojourning in their midst' who, it was commanded, were to receive the same treatment as the native-born, Exodus 12:48-49; Leviticus 24:22; Numbers 15:13-16, 26, 29; 19:10. Regarding sojourners it is said in Ezekiel,

You shall divide this land among you according to the tribes of Israel. You shall divide it by lot as an inheritance for yourselves and for sojourners, sojourning in your midst. They shall be to you as native-born among the children of Israel, they shall cast lots with you for an inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Israel. In the tribe with which the sojourner has sojourned, there shall you give him his inheritance. Ezekiel 47:21-23.

This refers to the new Jerusalem, or the Lord's kingdom. 'Sojourners sojourning' is used to mean people who allow themselves to receive instruction, consequently the gentiles. That 'sojourners' stands for people who are receiving instruction is clear from the fact that it is said 'in the tribe with which he has sojourned, there shall an inheritance be given him'. 'Tribes' stands for the things that constitute faith.

[3] 'Sojourning' is also similar in meaning to travelling and dwelling. 'Travelling' means the established patterns and order of life, while 'dwelling' means living, both dealt with already in 1293. For the same reasons the land of Canaan is also called 'the land of the sojournings of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob', in Genesis 28:4; 36:7; 37:1; Exodus 6:4. And Jacob said to Pharaoh,

The days of the years of my sojournings; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojournings. Genesis 47:9.

Here 'sojourning' stands for life and for forms of instruction.

  
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