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出埃及记 1

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1 以色列的众子,各带家眷,和雅各一同埃及。他们的名字记在下面。

2 有流便、西缅、利未、犹大

3 以萨迦、西布伦、便雅悯、

4 但、拿弗他利、迦得、亚设。

5 凡从雅各而生的,共有七十人。约瑟已经在埃及

6 约瑟和他的弟兄,并那一的人,都死了

7 以色列人生养众多,并且繁茂,极其强盛,满了那

8 有不认识约瑟的新王起来,治理埃及

9 对他的百姓:看哪,这以色列民比我们还多,又比我们强盛。

10 来罢,我们不如用巧计待他们,恐怕他们多起来,日後若遇甚麽争战的事,就连合我们的仇敌攻击我们,离开这去了。

11 於是埃及人派督工的辖制他们,加重担苦害他们。他们为法老建造两座积货城,就是比东和兰塞。

12 只是越发苦害他们,他们越发多起来,越发蔓延;埃及人就因以色列人愁烦。

13 埃及人严严的使以色列人做工,

14 使他们因做苦工觉得命苦;无论是和泥,是作砖,是作田间各样的工,在一切的工上都严严的待他们。

15 有希伯来的两个收生婆,名施弗拉,名普阿;埃及王对他们

16 你们为希伯来妇人收生,他们临盆的时候,若是男孩,就把他杀了;若是女孩,就留他存活。

17 但是收生婆敬畏,不照埃及王的吩咐行,竟存留男孩的性命。

18 埃及王召了收生婆来,:你们为甚麽做这事,存留男孩的性命呢?

19 收生婆对法老:因为希伯妇人与埃及妇人不同;希伯妇人本是健壮的(原文作活泼的),收生婆还没有到,他们已经生产了。

20 厚待收生婆。以色列人多起来,极其强盛。

21 收生婆因为敬畏便叫他们成立家室。

22 法老吩咐他的众民说:以色列人所生的男孩,你们都要丢在河里;一切的女孩,你们要存留他的性命。

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Arcana Coelestia #1407

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1407. Verse 1 And Jehovah said to Abram, Go away from your land, and from the place of your nativity and from your father's house, to the land which I will cause you to see.

The events described here and in what follows took place in history as they are recorded; yet the historical events as described are representative, and every word carries a spiritual meaning. 'Abram' is used to mean in the internal sense the Lord, as stated already. 'Jehovah said to Abram' means a first awareness of all things. 'Go away from your land' means the bodily and worldly things from which He was to depart. 'And from the place of your nativity' means bodily and worldly things that were more exterior. 'And from your father's house' means such as were more interior. 'To the land which I will cause you to see' means the spiritual and celestial things that were to be brought to view.

  
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