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1 Когда Рахиль увидјла, что она не рождаетъ дјтей Іакову, поревновала Рахиль сестрј своей, и сказала Іакову: дай мнј дјтей; а если не такъ, то я умру.

2 Іаковъ осердился на Рахиль, и сказалъ: неужели я вмјсто Бога, который не далъ тебј плода чрева?

3 Но она сказала: вотъ служанка моя Валла; войди къ ней; пусть она родитъ у меня на колјнахъ, тогда и я буду имјть дјтей отъ нея.

4 И такъ она дала ему Валлу, служанку свою, въ жену, и вошелъ къ ней Іаковъ.

5 Валла зачала, и родила Іакову сына.

6 При семъ Рахиль сказала: Богъ явилъ мнј судъ и услышалъ гласъ мой, и далъ мнј сына, и посему нарекла ему имя: Данъ.

7 Зачала и опять Валла, служанка Рахилина, и родила Іакову другаго сына.

8 Тутъ Рахиль сказала: борьбою Божественною боролась я съ сестрою моею, и превозмогла; посему нарекла ему имя: Нефѕалимъ.

9 Лія видя, что перестала рождать, взявъ служанку свою Зелфу, дала ее Іакову въ жену.

10 И Зелфа служанка Ліина родила Іакову сына.

11 При семъ Лія сказала: пришло счастіе; и нарекла ему имя: Гадъ.

12 Зелфа, служанка Ліина родила и другаго сына Іакову.

13 Тогда Лія сказала: это блаженство для меня! ибо блаженною будутъ называть меня женщины. И нарекла ему имя: Асиръ.

14 Однажды, во время жатвы пшеницы, Рувимъ вышелъ въ поле, и нашелъ мандрагоры, и принесъ ихъ Ліи, матери своей. Тогда Рахиль сказала Ліи: дай мнј мандрагоровъ сына твоего.

15 Но Лія сказала ей: неужели мало тебј, что ты завладјла мужемъ моимъ, ты домогаешься и мандрагоровъ сына моего? Рахиль отвјчала: хорошо, пусть, онъ спитъ съ тобою эту ночь, за мандрагоры сына твоего.

16 Итакъ вечеромъ, когда Іаковъ пришелъ съ поля, Лія вышла ему на встрјчу, и сказала: войди ко мнј; ибо я купила тебя за мандрагоры сына моего. Посему онъ и спалъ съ нею въ ту ночь.

17 И услышалъ Богъ Лію, и она зачала, и родила Іакову пятаго сына.

18 И сказала Лія: Богъ далъ мнј возмездіе мое, тогда, какъ я уже служанку мою отдала мужу моему. И нарекла имя ему Иссахаръ.

19 И еще зачала Лія, и родила Іакову шестаго сына.

20 Тогда сказала Лія: Богъ далъ мнј прекрасный даръ; теперь будетъ жить со мною мужъ мой; ибо я родила ему шесть сыновъ. И нарекла ему имя: Завулонъ.

21 Потомъ родила дочь и нарекла ей имя: Дина.

22 И помянулъ Богъ Рахиль, и услышалъ ее Богъ, и отверзъ утробу ея.

23 Она зачала и родила сына, и сказала: избавилъ меня Богъ отъ нареканія.

24 И нарекла ему имя: Іосифъ, сказавъ: Іегова дастъ мнј и другаго сына.

25 Послј того, какъ Рахиль родила Іосифа, Іаковъ сказалъ Лавану: отпусти меня, я пойду въ свое мјсто и въ свою землю;

26 отдай женъ моихъ и дјтей моихъ, за которыхъ я работалъ тебј, и я пойду; ибо ты знаешь работу мою, сколько я работалъ тебј.

27 Но Лаванъ сказалъ ему: о! еслибы я обрјлъ благодать предъ очами твоими! Я примјчаю, что за тебя Іегова благословилъ меня.

28 И сказалъ: назначь самъ себј награду отъ меня, и я дамъ тебј.

29 На сіе Іаковъ сказалъ ему: ты знаешь, сколько я работалъ тебј, и сколько сдјлалось у тебя скота при мнј.

30 Мало было у тебя до меня, а стало много; Іегова благословилъ тебя по приходј моемъ; когда же я буду работать и для своего дома?

31 Лаванъ сказалъ: что дать тебј? Іаковъ отвјтствовалъ: не давай мнј ничего; если только сдјлаешь мнј, что я скажу, то я опять буду пасти и стеречь овецъ твоихъ.

32 Я пройду сегодня по всему стаду овецъ твоихъ, и отдјлю изъ нихъ всякій скотъ съ крапинами и съ пятнами, всякую скотину черную изъ овецъ, также съ пятнами и съ крапинами изъ козъ. Послј сего такой скотъ пусть будетъ наградою мнј.

33 Такимъ образомъ справедливость моя сама собою будетъ говорить за меня въ слјдующее время предъ лицемъ твоимъ, когда придешь посмотрјть награду мою. Все, что у меня изъ козъ не будетъ съ крапинами, и изъ овецъ не будетъ черное, пусть считается за краденое.

34 На сіе Лаванъ сказалъ: хорошо, пусть будетъ по твоему слову.

35 И отдјлилъ въ тотъ день козловъ пестрыхъ, и съ крапинами, и всјхъ козъ съ крапинами и съ пятнами, всјхъ, на которыхъ было нјсколько бјлаго, и всјхъ черныхъ овецъ, и отдалъ на руки сыновьямъ своимъ;

36 и назначилъ разстояніе между собою и между Іаковомъ на три дня пути. Іаковъ же пасъ остальный мелкій скотъ Лавановъ.

37 Тогда Іаковъ взялъ свјжихъ прутьевъ стираксовыхъ, миндальныхъ и яворовыхъ, и вырјзалъ на нихъ бјлыя полосы, снявъ кору до бјлизны, которая на тјхъ прутьяхъ;

38 и положилъ прутья, которые онъ испестрилъ, передъ скотомъ въ водопойныхъ корытахъ, куда скотъ приходилъ пить, и гдј приходя пить, зачиналъ.

39 И зачиналъ скотъ у прутьевъ, и рождался скотъ пестрый, и съ крапинами, и съ пятнами.

40 Такихъ агнцевъ Іаковъ отдјлялъ, и ставилъ скотъ лицемъ къ пестрому и всему черному скоту Лаванову; но свои стада держалъ особо, и не ставилъ ихъ вмјстј со скотомъ Лавана.

41 Каждый разъ, когда зачиналъ скотъ крјпкій, Іаковъ полагалъ прутья въ корытахъ передъ глазами скота, чтобы онъ зачиналъ у прутьевъ.

42 А когда скотъ былъ слабъ, тогда онъ не клалъ. И доставался слабый скотъ Лавану, а крјпкій Іакову.

43 И сдјлался онъ весьма, весьма богатъ; такъ что у него было множество мелкаго скота, и рабыни, и рабы, и верблюды, и ослы.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #3952

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3952. And he lay with her that night. That this signifies conjunction, is evident without explication. The reason why the foregoing matters have been unfolded in the internal sense merely as to the significations of the words, is that they are of such a nature that they cannot be comprehended unless they are set forth in one series. For the subject treated of is the conjunction of truth with good and of good with truth, which conjunction is the conjugial as understood in the spiritual sense; that is, the conjunction which makes the heavenly marriage with man and in the church. The arcana of this heavenly marriage are described in the above verses, and are there revealed as follows. As before shown the heavenly marriage is that of good with truth and of truth with good, yet is not between good and truth of one and the same degree, but between good and truth of a lower and of a higher degree, that is, not between the good of the external man and the truth of the same, but between the good of the external man and the truth of the internal; or what is the same, not between the good of the natural man and its truth, but between the good of the natural man and the truth of the spiritual man. This conjunction is that which makes the marriage.

[2] It is the same in the internal or spiritual man; the heavenly marriage there is not between the good and the truth in that man; but between the good of the spiritual man and the truth of the celestial man; for the celestial man is relatively in a higher degree. Nor is there a heavenly marriage between the good and the truth in the celestial man; but between the good of the celestial man and the truth Divine which proceeds from the Lord. From this it is also evident that the Divine marriage itself of the Lord is not between the good Divine and the truth Divine in His Divine Human, but between the good of the Divine Human and the Divine Itself, that is, between the Son and the Father; for the good of the Lord’s Divine Human is that which is called in the Word the “Son of God,” and the Divine Itself is called the “Father.”

[3] These are the arcana contained in the internal sense in what is said concerning the dudaim. Everyone can see that there must be some arcanum therein, for to relate that Reuben found dudaim in the field, and that Rachel longed for them, and in return for them promised that their man should lie with Leah; and that Leah went to meet Jacob when he came from the field in the evening, and said that she had hired him with the dudaim-these things would be too trivial to make any part of the history in the Word, unless there was something Divine hidden within them. But what Divine thing is meant no one can know unless he knows what is signified by the sons of Jacob and by the tribes named from them; and unless he also knows the series of the subject in the internal sense; and moreover unless he knows what the heavenly marriage is, for this is what is treated of, namely, that it is the conjunction of the good in the external man with the affection of truth in the internal man.

[4] But in order to the better understanding of this arcanum, I may illustrate it further. The truths of the external man are the memory-knowledges and doctrinal things that the man first learned from his parents, and also from his teachers, then from books, and finally by his own study. The good of the external man is the pleasure and delight that he perceives in these things. The memory-knowledges, which are truths, and the delights, which are good, are conjoined together; but they do not make in him the heavenly marriage, for with those who are in the love of self and of the world, and thence in evil and falsity, the memory-knowledges, and even the doctrinal things, are conjoined with delights; but it is with the delights of these loves, for with these even truths can be conjoined. And yet such persons are out of the heavenly marriage. But when the pleasure or the delight that is the good of the external or natural man is from spiritual love, that is, from love toward the neighbor, toward our country or the state, toward the church and the Lord’s kingdom, and still more when it is from celestial love, which is love to the Lord; and when these flow in from the internal or spiritual man into the delight of the external or natural man and make it; then this conjunction with the memory-knowledges and doctrinal things of the external or natural man constitutes with him the heavenly marriage. This is not possible with the evil, but only with the good, that is, with those who have these things as their end. (But see how the case is with the influx of the internal or spiritual man into the external or natural man, n. 3286, 3288, 3314, 3321.)

[5] As soon as these things have become known, it is possible to know what is signified by each of the things that have been explained above in regard merely to the internal sense of the words-as that Reuben (who is the truth of faith, which is the first of regeneration) found dudaim; that he brought them to his mother Leah (who is the affection of external truth); that Rachel (who is the affection of interior truth) longed for them, and that they were given her; that Leah therefore lay with her man Jacob (who is the good of truth in the natural man) also, in what follows, that there were born to Jacob by Leah the sons Issachar and Zebulun, by whom are signified and represented the things of conjugial love, and thus of the heavenly marriage; and then that Joseph was born, by whom is signified and represented the Lord’s spiritual kingdom, which is the marriage itself that is treated of.

  
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