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1 Ja Joosef vaipui isänsä kasvoja vasten, itki siinä kumartuneena hänen ylitsensä ja suuteli häntä.

2 Sitten Joosef käski lääkäreitä, jotka olivat hänen palveluksessaan, balsamoimaan hänen isänsä, ja lääkärit balsamoivat Israelin.

3 Siihen kului neljäkymmentä päivää, sillä niin pitkä aika kuluu balsamoimiseen. Ja egyptiläiset itkivät häntä seitsemänkymmentä päivää.

4 Sittenkuin hänen muistoksensa vietetty suruaika oli päättynyt, puhui Joosef faraon hoviväelle: "Jos olen saanut armon teidän silmienne edessä, niin puhukaa minun puolestani faraolle näin:

5 Isäni vannotti minua sanoen: 'Katso, minä kuolen, hautaa minut omaan hautaani, jonka olen kaivanut itselleni Kanaanin maassa'. Anna minun siis nyt mennä hautaamaan isäni; sitten palaan takaisin."

6 Farao vastasi: "Mene hautaamaan isäsi sen valan mukaan, jonka olet hänelle vannonut".

7 Niin Joosef meni hautaamaan isäänsä, ja hänen kanssaan menivät kaikki faraon palvelijat, hänen hovinsa vanhimmat ja kaikki Egyptin maan vanhimmat

8 sekä koko Joosefin perhe, hänen veljensä ja hänen isänsä perhe; ainoastaan vaimonsa, lapsensa, pikkukarjansa ja raavaskarjansa he jättivät Goosenin maakuntaan;

9 hänen mukanaan meni myös sekä vaunuja että ratsumiehiä. Ja niin heitä oli sangen suuri joukko.

10 Kun he saapuivat Gooren-Aatadiin, joka on Jordanin tuolla puolella, panivat he siellä toimeen ylen suuret ja juhlalliset valittajaiset, ja hän vietti isänsä surujuhlaa seitsemän päivää.

11 Ja kun maan asukkaat, kanaanilaiset, näkivät surujuhlan Gooren-Aatadissa, sanoivat he: "Siellä on egyptiläisillä suuri surujuhla". Siitä sai paikka nimekseen Aabel-Misraim; se on Jordanin tuolla puolella.

12 Ja hänen poikansa tekivät hänelle, niinkuin hän oli määrännyt heille:

13 hänen poikansa veivät hänet Kanaanin maahan ja hautasivat hänet Makpelan vainiolla olevaan luolaan, jonka vainion Aabraham oli ostanut perintöhaudaksi heettiläiseltä Efronilta ja joka oli itään päin Mamresta.

14 Senjälkeen kuin Joosef oli haudannut isänsä, palasi hän Egyptiin, hän ja hänen veljensä sekä kaikki, jotka hänen kanssaan olivat menneet hautaamaan hänen isäänsä.

15 Mutta kun Joosefin veljet näkivät, että heidän isänsä oli kuollut, ajattelivat he: "Ehkä Joosef nyt alkaa vainota meitä ja kostaa meille kaiken sen pahan, mitä me olemme hänelle tehneet".

16 Niin he lähettivät Joosefille tämän sanan: "Isäsi käski ennen kuolemaansa ja sanoi:

17 'Sanokaa Joosefille näin: Oi, anna anteeksi veljiesi rikos ja synti, sillä pahasti he ovat menetelleet sinua kohtaan'. Anna siis isäsi Jumalan palvelijoille anteeksi heidän rikoksensa." Ja Joosef itki kuullessaan nämä heidän sanansa.

18 Sitten tulivat Joosefin veljet itse, lankesivat maahan hänen eteensä ja sanoivat: "Katso, me olemme sinun orjiasi!"

19 Mutta Joosef vastasi heille: "Älkää peljätkö, olenko minä Jumalan sijassa?

20 Te tosin hankitsitte minua vastaan pahaa, mutta Jumala on kääntänyt sen hyväksi, että hän saisi aikaan sen, mikä nyt on tapahtunut, ja pitäisi hengissä paljon kansaa.

21 Älkää siis peljätkö; minä elätän teidät ja teidän vaimonne ja lapsenne." Ja hän lohdutti ja rauhoitti heitä.

22 Ja Joosef sekä hänen isänsä perhe jäivät asumaan Egyptiin. Ja Joosef eli sadan kymmenen vuoden vanhaksi.

23 Ja Joosef sai nähdä Efraimin lapsia kolmanteen polveen; myöskin Maakirista, Manassen pojasta, syntyi lapsia Joosefin polville.

24 Niin Joosef sanoi veljilleen: "Minä kuolen, mutta Jumala pitää huolen teistä ja johdattaa teidät tästä maasta siihen maahan, jonka hän valalla vannoen on luvannut Aabrahamille, Iisakille ja Jaakobille".

25 Ja Joosef vannotti Israelin poikia sanoen: "Kun Jumala pitää huolen teistä, viekää silloin minun luuni täältä".

26 Ja Joosef kuoli sadan kymmenen vuoden vanhana. Ja hänet balsamoitiin ja pantiin arkkuun Egyptissä.

   

Das Obras de Swedenborg

 

Arcana Coelestia # 6589

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6589. 'And cause you to go up out of this land to the land which He swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob' means that they are about to come into the state of the Church that the ancients lived in. This is clear from the meaning of 'the land of Egypt', from which they were to go up, as the Church when it has been laid waste - the Church laid waste was represented by the Egyptians through their oppression of the children of Israel, and the perishing of it through their drowning in the Sea Suph; and from the meaning of 'the land of Canaan', to which the children of Israel were about to go up, as the Lord's kingdom and the Church, dealt within 1607, 3038, 3481, 3705, 4447, 4517.

[2] The Ancient Church, or the state of the Church in which the ancients lived, is what is meant by God's having sworn to give that land to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. These three are used to mean in the highest sense the Lord, and in the representative sense His kingdom in heaven and His kingdom on earth, which is the Church, 1965, 1989, 2011, 3245, 3305 (end), 6098, 6185, 6276; therefore 'swearing the land to them' means confirming that they are about to come into the state of the Church that the ancients lived in. Not that the descendants of Jacob were about to do so, for they were incapable of coming into the state of that Church; they came into no more than the external aspect of that Church, that is to say, its representative acts, yet barely into these. The promise that is made refers instead to those who are meant spiritually by 'the children of Israel', that is, who are all members of the spiritual Church - both those who lived in it at that time and those who were about to come into it.

[3] 'Swearing' means confirmation from the Divine, see 1842, 3375.

The land of Canaan was promised and given to the descendants of Jacob so that they might represent the Church; and the reason for this was that the Church had existed in that land since ancient times, during which all the places there received their names and became representative, see 3686, 4447, 4516, 4517, 5136, 6516.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 3705

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3705. 'The land on which you are lying I will give to you' means that the good on which the Natural rested was His own in origin. This is clear from the meaning of 'the land' here as the good of the natural, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'on which you are lying' as on which it rested; and from the meaning of 'giving it to you' as His own in origin, also dealt with below. The reason 'the land' means the good of the natural, which Jacob will represent from now on, is that 'the land of Canaan' means the Lord's kingdom, 1413, 1437, 1585, 1607, 1866. And since it means the Lord's kingdom it also means in the highest sense the Lord, 3038 - for the Lord is the All in all of His kingdom, and anything there which does not originate in Him and have regard to Him is not part of His kingdom. The Lord's kingdom is also meant in the Word by 'heaven and earth', 1 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118 (end), though in this case the interior of that kingdom is meant by 'heaven' and the exterior by 'earth', 82, 1411, 1733, 3355 (end). Consequently 'heaven' in the highest sense means the Lord as regards His Divine Rational and 'earth' as regards His Divine Natural. Here therefore 'the land on which you are lying' means the Good of the Natural on which the Natural, represented by 'Jacob', rested. For 'Jacob' represents the Lord's Divine Natural, as stated many times above.

[2] Furthermore the word 'land' has various meanings, see 620, 636, 1066, 2571, 3368, 3379, the reason being that Canaan, which is called the Holy Land, means the Lord's kingdom in general; and when 'heaven' is mentioned together with 'earth', 'heaven' in that case means, as has been stated, that which is interior, 'earth' that which is exterior. This being so it also means the Lord's kingdom on earth, that is, the Church; and having that meaning, it also means a person who is the Lord's kingdom or who is the Church. With that person 'heaven' accordingly means that which is interior, 'earth' that which is exterior; or what amounts to the same, 'heaven' is the rational and 'earth' the natural since the rational exists more interiorly with man and the natural more exteriorly. And since 'land' [or 'earth'] has all these meanings it also means that which a person puts into effect - namely the good of love which he receives from the Divine - so that he may become the Lord's kingdom. From this it is evident in what way the meaning of 'land' in the Word varies.

[3] 'I will give to you' means that in origin it was His own. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'giving' in the Word when used in reference to the Lord, for as shown just above, the Lord is Divine Good and also Divine Truth, the former being called 'the Father' and the latter 'the Son'. Now because Divine Good is His and consequently that which is His own, it follows that 'giving to you', when spoken by Jehovah and used in reference to the Lord, means that which was His own in origin. From this one may see what is meant in the internal sense by the Lord's frequent reference to the Father's having given to Him - that is to say, to Himself, the Lord - as in John,

Father, glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, as You have given Him power over all flesh, in order that all You have given Him, to them He may give eternal life. I have glorified You on earth; I have accomplished the work which You gave Me to do. I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world; Yours they were, and You gave them to Me. Now they know that everything which You have given Me is from You; for the words which You gave Me I have given to them. I am praying for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours; for all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine. John 17:1-2, 4, 6-10.

Each reference here to the Father's giving means originating in the Divine Good that was His, and so in that which was His own.

[4] From this one may see how great an arcanum lies within the particular words spoken by the Lord, and also how greatly different the sense of the letter is from the internal sense, and more so from the highest sense. The Lord spoke in this fashion in order that mankind which at that time had no knowledge at all of any Divine truth might nevertheless be enabled in its own way to grasp and so accept the Word, while angels did so in theirs, for the angels knew that Jehovah and He were one and that the Father was Divine Good. For this reason also they knew that when He spoke of the Father giving to Him He would be giving to Himself and so drawing on what was His own.

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