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Genezo 35

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1 Kaj Dio diris al Jakob: Levigxu, iru al Bet-El kaj logxu tie; kaj faru tie altaron al Dio, kiu aperis al vi, kiam vi kuris de via frato Esav.

2 Tiam Jakob diris al sia domanaro, kaj al cxiuj, kiuj estis kun li: Forigu la fremdajn diojn, kiuj estas inter vi, kaj purigxu kaj sxangxu viajn vestojn.

3 Kaj ni levigxu, kaj ni iru al Bet-El; kaj mi faros tie altaron al Dio, kiu atentis min en la tago de mia mizero, kaj estis kun mi sur la vojo, kiun mi iris.

4 Kaj ili donis al Jakob cxiujn fremdajn diojn, kiuj estis en iliaj manoj, kaj la ringojn, kiuj estis en iliaj oreloj; kaj Jakob enfosis ilin sub la kverko, kiu estis apud SXehxem.

5 Kaj ili ekiris. Kaj timo de Dio venis sur la urbojn, kiuj estis cxirkaux ili, kaj ili ne persekutis la filojn de Jakob.

6 Jakob venis al la urbo Luz, kiu estas en la lando Kanaana kaj havas ankaux la nomon Bet-El, li kaj cxiuj homoj, kiuj estis kun li.

7 Kaj li konstruis tie altaron, kaj donis al la loko la nomon El-Bet-El; cxar tie aperis al li Dio, kiam li kuris de sia frato.

8 Tiam mortis Debora, la mamnutrintino de Rebeka, kaj oni sxin enterigis apud Bet-El, sub la kverko. Kaj tiu loko ricevis la nomon Alon-Bahxut.

9 Kaj denove Dio aperis al Jakob, kiam li revenis el Mezopotamio, kaj benis lin.

10 Kaj Dio diris al li: Via nomo estas Jakob; tamen ne plue estu nomata Jakob, sed Izrael estu via nomo. Kaj Li donis al li la nomon Izrael.

11 Kaj Dio diris al li: Mi estas Dio la Plejpotenca; fruktu kaj multigxu; popolo kaj popolaro farigxos el vi, kaj regxoj eliros el via lumbo.

12 Kaj la landon, kiun Mi donis al Abraham kaj al Isaak, Mi donos al vi, kaj al via idaro post vi Mi donos la landon.

13 Kaj Dio forlevigxis de li sur la loko, kie Li parolis kun li.

14 Jakob starigis monumenton sur la loko, kie Li parolis kun li, monumenton sxtonan; kaj li versxis sur gxin versxoferon kaj versxis sur gxin oleon.

15 Kaj al la loko, kie Dio parolis kun li, Jakob donis la nomon Bet-El.

16 Kaj ili forlasis Bet-Elon. Kiam restis ankoraux negranda interspaco, por veni al Efrata, Rahxel naskis, kaj sxia akusxigxo estis malfacila.

17 Dum sxia akusxigxa suferado la akusxistino diris al sxi: Ne timu, cxar ankaux cxi tiu cxe vi estas filo.

18 Dum la elirado de sxia animo, cxar sxi estis mortanta, sxi donis al li la nomon Ben-Oni; sed lia patro donis al li la nomon Benjamen.

19 Kaj Rahxel mortis, kaj oni enterigis sxin sur la vojo al Efrata, kiu estas Bet-Lehxem.

20 Kaj Jakob starigis monumenton super sxia tombo. Tio estas la tomba monumento de Rahxel gxis la nuna tago.

21 Kaj Izrael formigris, kaj starigis sian tendon transe de la turo Eder.

22 En la tempo, kiam Izrael logxis en tiu lando, Ruben iris kaj kusxis kun Bilha, la kromvirino de lia patro. Kaj pri tio auxdis Izrael. La filoj de Jakob estis dek du:

23 la filoj de Lea: Ruben, la unuenaskito de Jakob, kaj Simeon kaj Levi kaj Jehuda kaj Isahxar kaj Zebulun;

24 la filoj de Rahxel: Jozef kaj Benjamen;

25 kaj la filoj de Bilha, sklavino de Rahxel: Dan kaj Naftali;

26 kaj la filoj de Zilpa, sklavino de Lea: Gad kaj Asxer. Tio estas la filoj de Jakob, kiuj naskigxis al li en Mezopotamio.

27 Kaj Jakob venis al sia patro Isaak en Mamre, al Kirjat-Arba (tio estas HXebron), kie vivis fremdule Abraham kaj Isaak.

28 Isaak havis la agxon de cent okdek jaroj.

29 Kaj Isaak konsumigxis kaj mortis kaj alkolektigxis al sia popolo, estante maljuna kaj sata de vivo. Kaj lin enterigis liaj filoj Esav kaj Jakob.

   

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4580. And Jacob set up a pillar in the place in which He spoke with him, a pillar of stone. That this signifies the holy of truth in that Divine state, is evident from the signification of a “pillar,” as being the holy of truth (of which in what follows); and from the signification of “in the place in which He spoke with him,” as being in that state (see just above, n. 4578). Something shall first be said with regard to the origin of the setting up of pillars, and of the pouring a drink-offering upon them, and of pouring oil upon them.

[2] The pillars set up in ancient times were either for a sign, or for a witness, or for worship. Those for worship were anointed, and were then holy, and worship was also held there, thus in temples, in groves, in forests under the trees, and in other places. This ritual derived its representation from the fact that in the most ancient times stones were set up on the boundaries between families of nations, lest they should pass over the boundaries to do one another evil (as for instance in the case of Laban and Jacob, Genesis 31:52). That they should not pass the boundaries to do evil was to them a law of nations. And as the stones were on the boundaries, when the most ancient people (who in everything on the earth saw a corresponding celestial and spiritual thing) saw these stones as boundaries, they thought about the truths which are the ultimates of order. But their descendants, who beheld in objects less of what is spiritual and celestial, and more of what is worldly, began to think of them with sanctity merely from the veneration derived from old time. And at last the descendants of the most ancient people who lived immediately before the flood, and who no longer saw anything spiritual and celestial in earthly and worldly things regarded as objects, began to regard these stones as holy, pouring drink-offerings upon them, and anointing them with oil; and they were then called “pillars,” and were used for worship.

[3] This remained after the flood in the Ancient Church, which was representative, but with the difference that the pillars served these people as a means for attaining to internal worship; for the infants and children were instructed by their parents in regard to what they represented, and were thus brought to know holy things, and to be affected with the things which the pillars represented. It is for this reason that the ancients had pillars for worship in their temples, groves, and forests, and upon hills and mountains. But when the internal of worship altogether perished with the Ancient Church, and they began to hold the externals as holy and Divine, and thus to worship them idolatrously, they then erected pillars for their several gods. And as the posterity of Jacob were most prone to idolatrous things, they were forbidden to erect pillars, and also to have groves, and even to hold any worship upon mountains and hills; but they were to be gathered together to one place, where the ark was, and afterwards where the temple was, thus to Jerusalem; otherwise each family would have had its own externals and idols that they would have worshiped, and consequently a representative of a church could not have been instituted with that nation. (See what was above shown concerning pillars, n. 3727.) All this shows what was the origin of the pillars, and what they signified, and that when they were employed in worship they represented holy truth, and therefore it is here said “a pillar of stone,” for a “stone” signifies truth in the ultimate of order (n. 1298, 3720, 3769, 3771, 3773, 3789, 3798). Be it known moreover that what is holy is especially predicated of Divine truth; for the Divine is in the Lord, and Divine truth proceeds from Him (n. 3704, 4577), and is called the Holy.

  
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Genesis 35

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1 God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother."

2 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

3 Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went."

4 They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

5 They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Jacob.

6 So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

7 He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

8 Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.

9 God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.

10 God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel." He named him Israel.

11 God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.

12 The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your seed after you will I give the land."

13 God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.

14 Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.

15 Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him "Bethel."

16 They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

17 When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son."

18 It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

19 Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).

20 Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.

21 Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.

22 It happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

23 The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

25 The sons of Bilhah (Rachel's handmaid): Dan and Naphtali.

26 The sons of Zilpah (Leah's handmaid): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.

27 Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.

28 The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.

29 Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.