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Genesis 42

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1 Kui Jaakob kuulis, et Egiptuses oli vilja, siis Jaakob ütles oma poegadele: 'Miks te üksteisele otsa vaatate?'

2 Ja ta ütles: 'Vaata, ma olen kuulnud, et Egiptuses on vilja. Minge sinna ja ostke meile sealt, et jääksime elama ega sureks!'

3 Siis läks kümme Joosepi venda Egiptusest vilja ostma.

4 Aga Benjamini, Joosepi venda, Jaakob ei läkitanud koos vendadega, sest ta ütles: 'Et temale õnnetust ei juhtuks!'

5 Ja Iisraeli pojad tulid vilja ostma teiste tulijate seltsis, sest Kaananimaal oli nälg.

6 Joosep oli maal valitsejaks; tema müüs vilja kogu maa rahvale. Ja Joosepi vennad tulid ning kummardasid tema ette silmili maha.

7 Kui Joosep nägi oma vendi, siis ta tundis nad ära, aga tegi ennast neile võõraks ja rääkis nendega karmilt ning küsis neilt: 'Kust te tulete?' Ja nad vastasid: 'Kaananimaalt, et leiba osta.'

8 Joosep tundis oma vendi, aga nemad ei tundnud teda.

9 Siis meenusid Joosepile unenäod, mis ta neist unes oli näinud, ja ta ütles neile: 'Te olete maakuulajad. Olete tulnud vaatama, kust maa lahti on!'

10 Aga nemad ütlesid: 'Ei, mu isand, su sulased on tulnud leiba ostma.

11 Me kõik oleme ühe mehe pojad, oleme ausad mehed, su sulased ei ole maakuulajad.'

12 Tema aga ütles neile: 'Ei, küllap olete tulnud vaatama, kust maa lahti on!'

13 Siis nad vastasid: 'Meie, su sulased, olime kaksteist venda, ühe mehe pojad Kaananimaalt. Ja vaata, noorim on praegu Meie isa juures, aga ühte ei ole enam olemas.'

14 Aga Joosep ütles neile: 'See on nõnda, nagu ma teile olen rääkinud ja öelnud: te olete maakuulajad!

15 Selles asjas ma katsun teid läbi: nii tõesti kui vaarao elab, ei pääse te siit minema enne, kui teie noorim vend on siia tulnud!

16 Läkitage eneste hulgast üks, et ta tooks teie venna. Teid aga jäetakse vangi ja teie kõnesid uuritakse, kas neis on tõtt. Muidu olete, nii tõesti kui vaarao elab, maakuulajad!'

17 Ja ta pani nad üheskoos kolmeks päevaks vahi alla.

18 Ja kolmandal päeval ütles Joosep neile: 'Tehke seda, siis jääte elama! Mina olen jumalakartlik:

19 kui olete ausad mehed, jäägu üks teie vendadest aheldatuna hoonesse, kus te olite vahi all, aga teised minge viige vilja näljahäda pärast teie kodudes

21 Ja nad ütlesid üksteisele: 'Me oleme tõesti süüdi oma venna pärast, kelle hinge kitsikust me nägime, kui ta palus meilt armu ja meie ei võtnud teda kuulda. Sellepärast on see kitsikus meile tulnud!'

22 Ja Ruuben vastas neile, öeldes: 'Eks ma rääkinud teile ja öelnud: Ärge tehke pattu poisi vastu! Aga teie ei kuulanud. Vaata, nüüd nõutaksegi tema verd!'

23 Aga nad ei teadnud, et Joosep seda mõistis, sest ta rääkis nendega tõlgi kaudu.

24 Ja ta pöördus ära nende juurest ning nuttis; siis ta tuli tagasi nende juurde ja rääkis nendega ning võttis nende hulgast Siimeoni ja laskis tema nende silme ees vangistada.

25 Ja Joosep käskis täita nende kotid viljaga, panna igaühe raha tagasi ta kotti ja anda neile teemoona; ja neile tehti nõnda.

26 Siis nad tõstsid vilja eeslite selga ja läksid sealt ära.

27 Kui üks oma koti avas, et öömajal eeslile toitu anda, siis ta nägi oma raha, ja vaata, see oli koti suus.

28 Ja ta ütles oma vendadele: 'Mu raha on tagasi antud, ja vaata, see on mu kotis!' Siis kadus nende julgus ja nad värisesid, öeldes isekeskis: 'Miks on Jumal meile seda teinud?'

29 Ja nad tulid oma isa Jaakobi juurde Kaananimaale ning andsid temale teada kõik, mis neile oli juhtunud, öeldes:

30 'See mees, maa isand, rääkis meiega karmilt ja pidas meid salajasiks maakuulajaiks.

31 Aga me ütlesime temale: Me oleme ausad mehed, me ei ole maakuulajad.

32 Meid oli kaksteist venda, oma isa pojad. Ühte ei ole enam ja noorim on praegu meie isa juures Kaananimaal.

33 Ja see mees, maa isand, ütles meile: Sellest ma saan teada, kas te olete ausad: jätke üks oma vendadest minu juurde ja võtke vilja näljahäda pärast teie kodudes ja minge

34 ning tooge oma noorim vend minu juurde, et saaksin teada, et te ei ole maakuulajad, vaid olete ausad mehed. Siis ma annan teile venna tagasi ja te võite maal liikuda vabalt.'

35 Ja kui nad oma kotte tühjendasid, vaata, siis oli igaühe rahakukkur ta kotis! Ja oma rahakukruid nähes hakkasid nemad ja nende isa kartma.

36 Ja nende isa Jaakob ütles neile: 'Te võtate minult lapsed! Joosepit ei ole enam ja Siimeoni ei ole enam ja Benjamini tahate ka võtta. See kõik on tulnud minu peale!'

37 Aga Ruuben rääkis oma isale, öeldes: 'Võid surmata mu mõlemad pojad, kui ma ei too teda sinu juurde! Anna ta minu hooleks ja ma toon ta tagasi sinu juurde!'

38 Kuid tema ütles: 'Minu poeg ei lähe koos teiega alla, sest ta vend on surnud ja tema üksi on üle jäänud. Kui temaga teel, mida te käite, õnnetus juhtub, siis saadate mu hallid juuksed murega hauda!'

   

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Jacob or Israel (the man)

  

Jacob is told twice that his name will now be Israel. The first time is when he wrestles with an angel on his journey to meet Esau, and the angel tells him that his name will be changed. After he is reconciled with Esau, they go their separate ways. Jacob moves to Shechem and then on to Bethel, where he builds an altar to the Lord. The Lord appears to him there, renews the covenant He first made with Abraham and again tells him that his name will be Israel (Genesis 35). The story goes on to tell of Benjamin's birth and Rachel's death in bearing him, and then of Jacob's return to Isaac and Isaac's death and burial. But at that point the main thread of the story leaves Israel and turns to Joseph, and Israel is hardly mentioned until after Joseph has risen to power in Egypt, has revealed himself to his brothers and tells them to bring all of their father's household down to Egypt. There, before Israel dies, he blesses Joseph's sons, plus all his own sons. After his death he is returned to the land of Canaan for burial in Abraham's tomb. In the story of Jacob and Esau, Jacob represents truth, and Esau good. Jacob's stay in Padan-Aram, and the wealth he acquired there, represent learning the truths of scripture, just as we learn when we read the Ten Commandments or the Sermon on the Mount. The change of name from Jacob to Israel represents the realization that what we learn should not simply be knowledge, but should be the rules of our life, to be followed by action. This action is the good that Esau has represented in the story up to that time, but after the reconciliation between Jacob and Esau, Jacob as Israel now represents the truth and the good, together. It is interesting that even after his name change Jacob is rarely called Israel. Sometimes he is called one and sometimes the other, and sometimes he is called both Jacob and Israel in the same verse (Genesis 46:2, 5, & 8 also Psalm 14:7). This is because Jacob represents the external person and Israel the internal person, and even after the internal person comes into being, we spend much of our lives living on the external level.

(Референци: Arcana Coelestia 4274, 4292, 4570, 5595, 6225, 6256, Genesis 2:5, 46:8)

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Genesis 35

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1 God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother."

2 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

3 Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went."

4 They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

5 They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Jacob.

6 So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

7 He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

8 Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.

9 God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.

10 God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel." He named him Israel.

11 God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.

12 The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your seed after you will I give the land."

13 God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.

14 Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.

15 Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him "Bethel."

16 They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

17 When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son."

18 It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

19 Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).

20 Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.

21 Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.

22 It happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

23 The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

25 The sons of Bilhah (Rachel's handmaid): Dan and Naphtali.

26 The sons of Zilpah (Leah's handmaid): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.

27 Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.

28 The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.

29 Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.