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Бытие 26

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1 Случился на землј голодъ, сверхъ прежняго голода, который былъ во дни Авраама, и пошелъ Исаакъ къ Авимелеху, царю Филистимскому, въ Гераръ.

2 Іегова явился ему и сказалъ: не ходи въ Египетъ; живи въ землј, которую укажу тебј.

3 Странствуй по сей землј; и Я буду съ тобою, и благословлю тебя, ибо тебј и потомству твоему дамъ всј земли сіи. Я подтверждаю клятву, которою Я клялся Аврааму, отцу твоему.

4 Умножу потомство твое, какъ звјзды небесныя, и дамъ потомству твоему всј земли сіи; и благословятся въ сјмени твоемъ всј народы земные.

5 За то, что Авраамъ послушался гласа Моего, и соблюлъ, что заповјдалъ Я соблюдать, повелјнія Мои, уставы Мои и законы Мои.

6 Итакъ, Исаакъ жилъ въ Герарј.

7 И когда жители мјста того спросили о женј его, то онъ сказалъ: это сестра моя; потому что боялся сказать: жена моя; чтобы не убили меня, думалъ онъ, жители мјста сего за Ревекку, потому что она прекрасна видомъ.

8 Но когда уже много времени онъ тамъ жилъ: то случялось, что Авимелехъ, царь Филистимскій, посмотрјвъ въ окно, уведјлъ Исаака, играющаго съ Ревеккою, женою своею.

9 Тогда Авимелехъ призвалъ Исаака, и сказалъ: вотъ это жена твоя, какъ же ты сказалъ: сестра моя? Исаакъ отвјтствовалъ: потому что я сказалъ самъ въ себј, чтобы не умертвили меня за нее.

10 Но Авимелехъ сказалъ: что это ты сдјлалъ съ нами? едва одинъ изъ народа не совокупился съ женою твоею, и ты ввелъ бы насъ въ грјхъ.

11 И далъ Авимелехъ повелјніе всему народу, сказавъ: если кто прикоснется къ сему человјку и къ женј его, смертію умретъ.

12 И сјялъ Исаакъ въ землј той, и получилъ въ тотъ годъ ячменя во сто кратъ; и Іегова благословилъ его.

13 И разбогатјлъ сей человјкъ; и богатјлъ больше и больше, такъ что наконецъ сталъ весьма богатъ.

14 У него были стада мјлкаго и стада крупнаго скота, и множество рабовъ, такъ что Филистимляне стали завидовать ему.

15 И всј колодези, которые выкопали рабы отца его, при жизни отца его Авраама, Филистимляне завалили и засыпали землею.

16 И Авимелехъ сказалъ Исааку: удались отъ насъ; ибо ты сдјлался гораздо сильнје насъ.

17 Итакъ Исаакъ удалился оттуда, и расположился шатрами въ долинј Герарской, и жилъ тамъ,

18 И вновь выкопалъ Исаакъ кододези водъ, которые выкопаны были во дни Авраама, отца его, и которые завалили Филистимляне по смерти Авраама; и назвалъ ихъ тјми же именами, которыми назвалъ ихъ отецъ его.

19 Однажды копали рабы Исааковы въ долинј, и нашли тамъ колодезь воды живой.

20 И спорили пастухи Герарскіе съ пастухами Исаака, говоря: наша вода; посему онъ нарекъ колодезю имя: Есекъ; потому что спорили съ нимъ.

21 Выкопали другой колодезь, спорили также и о семъ; и онъ нарекъ ему имя: Ситна (препятствіе).

22 Двигнувшись отсюда, онъ выкопалъ еще иной колодезь, о которомъ уже не спорили, посему онъ нарекъ ему имя: Реховоѕъ (пространство); ибо, сказалъ онъ, теперь Іегова далъ намъ пространное мјсто, чтобы мы возрасли на землј.

23 Оттуда перешелъ онъ въ Беэр-Шаву.

24 И въ ту ночь явился ему Іегова, и сказалъ: Я Богъ Авраама, отца твоего; не бойся; ибо Я съ тобою; и благословлю тебя; и умножу потомство твое, ради Авраама, раба Моего.

25 Тогда онъ устроилъ тамъ жертвенникъ, и призвалъ имя Іеговы. И поставилъ тамъ шатеръ свой, и выкопали тамъ рабы Исааковы колодезь.

26 Тутъ пришелъ къ нему изъ Герара Авимилехъ, и Ахузаѕъ, одинъ изъ друзей его, и Фихолъ, военачальникъ его.

27 Исаакъ сказалъ имъ: для чего вы пришли ко мнј, когда вы возненавидјли меня, и выгнали меня отъ себя?

28 Они отвјтствовали: мы увидјли ясно, что Іегова съ тобою; и потому мы сказали: дадимъ мы и ты взаимную между собою клятву, и заключимъ съ тобою союзъ,

29 чтобы ты не дјлалъ намъ зла, какъ и мы не коснулись до тебя, а дјлали тебј одно доброе, и отпустили тебя съ миромъ; теперь ты благословенъ Іеговою.

30 Тогда онъ сдјлалъ имъ пиршество, и они јли и пили.

31 И вставъ поутру, клялись другъ другу; и отпустилъ ихъ Исаакъ, и они пошли отъ него съ миромъ.

32 И какъ въ тотъ день случилось, что рабы Исааковы, пришедши, донесли ему о колодезј, который копали они, и сказали ему: мы нашли воду:

33 то Исаакъ назвалъ его: Шива (клятва). Отсюда имя города онаго: Беэръ-Шава до сего дня.

34 Когда же Исаву было сорокъ лјтъ отъ рожденія, тогда онъ взялъ себј въ жены Іегудиѕу, дочь Беэра, Хеттеянина и Васемаѕу, дочь Элона, Хеттеянина;

35 и онј оскорбляли духъ Исаака и Ревекки.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #3471

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3471. And they were bitterness of spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah. That this signifies that from this source there at first came grief, is evident from the signification of “bitterness of spirit,” as being grief; and from the representation of Isaac and Rebekah, as being the Lord’s Divine rational as to Divine good and Divine truth; for in the supreme sense the Lord is the subject here treated of; but in the representative sense, those who are likenesses or images of Him; that is, in the supreme sense it is shown how the Lord made the Human in Himself Divine; and in the representative sense how the Lord regenerates man, that is, makes him celestial and spiritual.

That the regeneration of man is an image of the Lord’s glorification, may be seen above (n. 3043, 3138, 3212, 3296). The reason why there was grief at first, is that when truths are being inserted into natural good, they at first cause pain, for they oppress the conscience, and induce anxieties, because there are concupiscences present, against which spiritual truth combats; but this first grief by degrees diminishes, and at last vanishes away. It is as with a weak and sickly body, which is to be restored to health by painful means; in this state, at first it has grief.

  
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Genesis 26

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1 There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

2 Yahweh appeared to him, and said, "Don't go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.

3 Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

4 I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,

5 because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

6 Isaac lived in Gerar.

7 The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife," lest, he thought, "the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at."

8 It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.

9 Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"

10 Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"

11 Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."

12 Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

13 The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.

14 He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

15 Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.

16 Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go from us, for you are much mightier than we."

17 Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.

18 Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

19 Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

20 The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

21 They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.

22 He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."

23 He went up from there to Beersheba.

24 Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Don't be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake."

25 He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.

26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.

27 Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?"

28 They said, "We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,

29 that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.' You are now the blessed of Yahweh."

30 He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

31 They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

32 It happened the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water."

33 He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

34 When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

35 They grieved Isaac's and Rebekah's spirits.