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1 A Jakov živeše u zemlji gde mu je otac bio došljak, u zemlji hananskoj.

2 Ovo su događaji Jakovljevi. Josif kad beše momak od sedamnaest godina, pasaše stoku s braćom svojom, koju rodiše Vala i Zelfa žene oca njegovog; i donošaše Josif zle glasove o njima ocu svom.

3 A Izrailj ljubljaše Josifa najvećma izmeću svih sinova svojih, jer mu se rodio pod starost; i načini mu šarenu haljinu.

4 A braća videći gde ga otac ljubi najvećma između sve braće njegove, stadoše mrzeti na nj tako da mu ne mogahu lepu reč progovoriti.

5 Uz to usni Josif san i pripovedi braći svojoj, te oni još većma omrznu na nj.

6 Jer im reče: Da čujete san što sam snio:

7 Vezasmo snoplje u polju, pa moj snop usta i ispravi se, a vaši snopovi iđahu unaokolo i klanjahu se snopu mom.

8 Tada mu braća rekoše: Da nećeš još biti car nad nama i zapovedati nam? Stoga još većma stadoše mrzeti na nj radi snova njegovih i radi reči njegovih.

9 Posle opet usni drugi san, i pripovedi braći svojoj govoreći: Usnih opet san, a to se sunce i mesec i jedanaest zvezda klanjahu meni.

10 A pripovedi i ocu svom i braći svojoj; ali ga otac prekori i reče mu: Kakav je to san što si snio? Eda li ćemo doći ja i mati tvoja i braća tvoja da se klanjamo tebi do zemlje?

11 I zaviđahu mu braća; ali otac njegov čuvaše ove reči.

12 A kad braća njegova otidoše da pasu stoku oca svog kod Sihema,

13 Reče Izrailj Josifu: Ne pasu li braća tvoja stoku kod Sihema? Hajde da te pošaljem k njima. A on reče: Evo me.

14 A on mu reče: Idi, vidi kako su braća tvoja i kako je stoka, pa dođi da mi javiš. I opravi ga iz doline hevronske, i on otide put Sihema.

15 I čovek jedan nađe ga a on luta po polju; te ga zapita govoreći: Šta tražiš?

16 A on reče: Tražim braću svoju; kaži mi, molim te, gde su sa stokom?

17 A čovek reče: Otišli su odavde, jer čuh gde rekoše: Hajdemo u Dotaim. I otide Josif za braćom svojom, i nađe ih u Dotaimu.

18 A oni ga ugledaše iz daleka; i dok još ne dođe blizu njih, stadoše se dogovarati da ga ubiju,

19 I rekoše među sobom: Gle, evo onog što sne sanja.

20 Hajde sada da ga ubijemo i da ga bacimo u koju od ovih jama, pa ćemo kazati: Ljuta ga je zverka izjela. Onda ćemo videti šta će biti od njegovih snova.

21 Ali Ruvim kad ču to, izbavi ga iz ruku njihovih rekavši: Nemojte da ga ubijemo.

22 I još im reče Ruvim: Nemojte krv prolivati; bacite ga u ovu jamu u pustinji, a ne dižite ruke na nj. A on ga htede izbaviti iz ruku njihovih i odvesti k ocu.

23 I kad Josif dođe k braći svojoj, svukoše s njega haljinu njegovu, haljinu šarenu, koju imaše na sebi.

24 I uhvativši ga baciše ga u jamu; a jama beše prazna, ne beše vode u njoj.

25 Posle sedoše da jedu. I podigavši oči ugledaše, a to gomila Ismailjaca iđaše od Galada s kamilama natovarenim mirisavog korenja i tamjana i smirne, te nošahu u Misir.

26 I reče Juda braći svojoj: Kakva će biti korist što ćemo ubiti brata svog i zatajiti krv njegovu?

27 Hajde da ga prodamo ovim Ismailjcima pa da ne dižemo ruke svoje na nj, jer nam je brat, naše je telo. I poslušaše ga braća njegova.

28 Pa kad trgovci madijanski behu pored njih, oni izvukoše i izvadiše Josifa iz jame, i prodadoše Josifa Ismailjcima za dvadeset srebrnika; i oni odvedoše Josifa u Misir.

29 A kad se Ruvim vrati k jami, a to nema Josifa u jami; tada razdre haljine svoje,

30 Pa se vrati k braći svojoj, i reče: Nema deteta; a ja kuda ću?

31 Tada uzeše haljinu Josifovu, i zaklavši jare zamočiše haljinu u krv,

32 Pa onda poslaše šarenu haljinu ocu njegovom poručivši: Nađosmo ovu haljinu, vidi je li haljina sina tvog ili nije.

33 A on je pozna i reče: Sina je mog haljina; ljuta ga je zverka izjela; Josif je doista raskinut.

34 I razdre Jakov haljine svoje, i veza kostret oko sebe, i tužaše za sinom svojim dugo vremena.

35 I svi sinovi njegovi i sve kćeri njegove ustadoše oko njega tešeći ga, ali se on ne dade utešiti, nego govoraše: S tugom ću u grob leći za sinom svojim. Pa i njegov otac plakaše za njim.

36 A Madijani prodadoše ga u Misir Petefriju, dvoraninu Faraonovom, zapovedniku stražarskom.

   

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Exploring the Meaning of Genesis 37

Од страна на New Christian Bible Study Staff, Joe David

The stories in the Old Testament foreshadow future events -- not so much historical events, but changes in the spiritual states of humankind.

In the inner meaning, the story of Jacob, and his twelve sons, and Joseph and his dreams, deals with people's eventual rejection of the Divine truths that they would receive from the Lord in the Christian church, and their acceptance of falsities instead.

Specifically, this chapter is about the way that some theologians in the Christian church developed the idea of salvation by faith alone, when the Lord really wants us to conjoin faith and charity in our lives.

This seems like a stretch - that a story from 3500+ years ago could be foreshadowing modern theological arguments. And yet, human beings, as partly-spiritual creatures, are always players in a big, long spiritual story - and the Old Testament stories are archetypes for things we wrestle with in our own lives. For the details of this story's meaning, look at Arcana Coelestia 4665, and the following passages.

Here is an excerpt from Swedenborg's "Arcana Coelestia" that helps start explain the inner meaning of this chapter:

"The subject treated of in this chapter in the internal sense is the Divine truths which are from the Lord‘s Divine Human, that in course of time they have been rejected in the church, and that at last falsities have been received in their stead. Specifically, those are described who are in faith separate from charity, in that they are against the Lord’s Divine Human." AC 4665.

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Arcana Coelestia #4665

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4665. Genesis 37

1. And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan.

2. These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, a son of seventeen years, was pasturing the flock with his brothers; and he, still a boy, was with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's womenfolk; and Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father.

3. And Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, for he was the son of his old age; and he made him a tunic of various colours.

4. And his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.

5. And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers; and they hated him all the more. 1

6. And he said to them, Hear now this dream which I have dreamed.

7. Behold, we were binding sheaves in the middle of the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood up, and behold, your sheaves gathered round it and bowed down to my sheaf.

8. And his brothers said to him, Are you indeed going; to reign over us? Or are you indeed going to have dominion over us? And they hated him all the more 1 for his dreams and for his words.

9. And he dreamed yet another dream, and he recounted it to his brothers, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream again, and behold, the sun and the moon, and the eleven stars were bowing down to me.

10. And he recounted it to his father and to his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall we indeed come - I and your mother, and your brothers - to bow down to you to the earth?

11. And his brothers envied him; and his father kept the matter 2 [in mind].

12. And his brothers went to pasture the flock of their father, in Shechem.

13. And Israel said to Joseph, Are not your brothers pasturing [the flock] in Shechem? Go, and I will send you to them. And he said to him, Behold, here I am.

14. And he said to him, Go now, see the peace of your brothers and the peace of the flock, 3 and bring back word to me. And he sent him out of the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

15. And a man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field and the man asked him, saying, What are you looking for?

16. And he said, I am looking for my brothers; tell me now, where they are pasturing [the flock].

17. And the man said, They have travelled on from here, for I heard them saying, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan.

18. And they saw him from a distance; and before he drew near to them they plotted against him, to put him to death.

19. And they said, a man to his brother, Behold, that dreamer 4 is coming.

20. So now come, and let us kill him, and let us throw him into one of the pits, and let us say, An evil wild animal has devoured him, and we shall see what his dreams are going to be.

21. And Reuben heard it and rescued him out of their hands, and said Let us not strike him, [as to his] soul. 5

22. And Reuben said to them, Do not shed blood; throw him into this pit in the wilderness and do not lay a hand on him - so that he might therefore rescue him out of their hands, to return him to his father.

23. And it happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of various colours that was on him.

24. And they took him and threw him into the pit, and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

25. And they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted up their eyes and saw, and behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites came from Gilead, and their camels bearing spices, and resin, and stacte, 6 taking them down to Egypt.

26. And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is there in our killing our brother and concealing his blood?

27. Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, because he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers hearkened.

28. And men passed by, Midianites, who were traders; and they drew Joseph out and caused him to come up out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they led Joseph to Egypt.

29. And Reuben resumed to the pit, and behold, there was no Joseph in the pit; and he rent his clothes.

30. And he resumed to his brothers and said, The lad is no more; and I, where do I go?

31. And they took Joseph's tunic and killed a he-goat of the she-goats, and dipped the tunic in the blood.

32. And they sent the tunic of various colours, and brought it to their father, and said, We have found this; recognize now whether this is your son's tunic or not.

33. And he recognized it, and said, My son's tunic! An evil wild animal has devoured him; Joseph has been torn to pieces.

34. And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned over his son many days.

35. And all his sons rose up, and all his daughters, to comfort him; and he refused to comfort himself, and said, For I will go down to my son, to the grave mourning. And his father wept for him.

36. And the Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, Pharaoh's bedchamber-servant, the chief of the attendants.

CONTENTS

This chapter deals in the internal sense with the eventual rejection, within the Church, of Divine truths received from the Lord's Divine Human, and the acceptance at length of falsities instead. Specifically the chapter deals with the opposition to the Lord's Divine Human of those governed by faith separated from charity.

Фусноти:

1. literally, they added more still to hating him

2. literally, word

3. A Hebrew idiom meaning See whether all is well with your brothers and with the flock.

4. literally, lord of dreams

5. i. e. Let us not kill him

6. spices, resin, and stacte are all aromatic substances.

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