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Бытие 33

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1 Взглянул Иаков и увидел, и вот, идет Исав, и сним четыреста человек. И разделил детей Лии, Рахили и двух служанок.

2 И поставил служанок и детей их впереди, Лию и детей ее за ними, аРахиль и Иосифа позади.

3 А сам пошел пред ними и поклонился до земли семь раз, подходя к брату своему.

4 И побежал Исав к нему навстречу и обнял его, и пал на шею его и целовал его, и плакали.

5 И взглянул и увидел жен и детей и сказал: ктоэто у тебя? Иаков сказал: дети, которых Бог даровал рабу твоему.

6 И подошли служанки и дети их и поклонились;

7 подошла и Лия и дети ее и поклонились; наконец подошли Иосиф и Рахиль и поклонились.

8 И сказал Исав: для чего у тебя это множество, которое я встретил? И сказал Иаков: дабыприобрести благоволение в очах господина моего.

9 Исав сказал: у меня много, брат мой; пусть будет твое у тебя.

10 Иаков сказал: нет, если я приобрел благоволение в очах твоих, прими дар мой от руки моей, ибо я увидел лице твое, как бы кто увидел лицеБожие, и ты был благосклонен ко мне;

11 прими благословение мое, которое я принес тебе, потому что Бог даровал мне, и есть у меня все. И упросил его, и тот взял

12 и сказал: поднимемся и пойдем; и я пойду пред тобою.

13 Иаков сказал ему: господин мой знает, что дети нежны, а мелкий икрупный скот у меня дойный: если погнать его один день,то помрет весь скот;

14 пусть господин мой пойдет впереди раба своего, а япойду медленно, как пойдет скот, который предо мною, и как пойдут дети, и приду к господину моему в Сеир.

15 Исав сказал: оставлю я с тобою несколько из людей, которые при мне. Иаков сказал: к чему это? только бы мне приобрести благоволение в очах господина моего!

16 И возвратился Исав в тот же день путем своим в Сеир.

17 А Иаков двинулся в Сокхоф, и построил себе дом, и для скота своегосделал шалаши. От сего он нарек имя месту: Сокхоф.

18 Иаков, возвратившись из Месопотамии, благополучно пришел в город Сихем, который в земле Ханаанской, и расположился пред городом.

19 И купил часть поля, на котором раскинул шатер свой, у сынов Еммора, отца Сихемова, за сто монет.

20 И поставил там жертвенник, и призвал имя Господа Бога Израилева.

   

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4351. And embraced him. That this signifies the first conjunction of love, is evident from the signification of “to embrace,” as being affection (see n. 3807). And as affection is of love, and love looks to conjunction, it is therefore the conjunction of love which is here signified. That it is the first conjunction of love, is because there follows that he fell upon his neck, and then that he kissed him, which signify closer and more interior conjunctions from love. That embracing is an effect which flows from the conjunction of love, is manifest without further explication, and consequently that in the internal sense it denotes this conjunction; for the things of the internal sense are presented in the Word by those which are external.

  
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Genesis 33

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1 Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two handmaids.

2 He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.

3 He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

4 Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

5 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, "Who are these with you?" He said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."

6 Then the handmaids came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.

7 Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

8 Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" Jacob said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."

9 Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours."

10 Jacob said, "Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.

11 Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." He urged him, and he took it.

12 Esau said, "Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you."

13 Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

14 Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir."

15 Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me." He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."

16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

17 Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

18 Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.

19 He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money.

20 He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.