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Postanak 31

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1 A Jakov ču gde sinovi Lavanovi govore: Jakov uze sve što beše našeg oca, i od onog što beše našeg oca steče sve ovo blago.

2 I vide Jakov gde lice Lavanovo nije prema njemu kao pre.

3 I Gospod reče Jakovu: Vrati se u zemlju otaca svojih i u rod svoj, i ja ću biti s tobom.

4 I poslavši Jakov dozva Rahilju i Liju u polje k stadu svom.

5 I reče im: Vidim gde lice oca vašeg nije prema meni kao pre; ali je Bog oca mog bio sa mnom.

6 I vi znate da sam služio ocu vašem kako sam god mogao;

7 A otac me je vaš varao i menjao mi platu deset puta; ali mu Bog ne dade da me ošteti;

8 Kad on reče: Šta bude šareno neka ti je plata, onda se mladilo sve šareno; a kad reče: S belegom šta bude neka ti je plata, onda se mladilo sve s belegom.

9 Tako Bog uze stoku ocu vašem i dade je meni;

10 Jer kad se upaljivaše stoka, podigoh oči svoje i videh u snu, a to ovnovi i jarci što skaču na ovce i koze behu šareni, s belegama prutastim i kolastim.

11 A anđeo Gospodnji reče mi u snu: Jakove! A ja odgovorih: Evo me.

12 A on reče: Podigni sad oči svoje i gledaj, ovnovi i jarci što skaču na ovce i koze, šareni su, s belegama prutastim i kolastim; jer videh sve što ti čini Lavan.

13 Ja sam Bog od Vetilja, gde si prelio kamen i učinio mi zavet; ustani sada i idi iz ove zemlje, i vrati se na postojbinu svoju.

14 Tada odgovori Rahilja i Lija, i rekoše mu: Eda li još imamo kakav deo i nasledstvo u domu oca svog?

15 Nije li nas držao kao tuđinke kad nas je prodao? Pa je još i naše novce jednako jeo.

16 Jer sve ovo blago što uze Gospod ocu našem, naše je i naše dece. Zato čini sve što ti je Gospod kazao.

17 I podiže se Jakov, i metnu decu svoju i žene svoje na kamile;

18 I odvede svu stoku svoju i sve blago što beše stekao, stoku koju beše stekao u Padan-Aramu, i pođe k Isaku ocu svom u zemlju hanansku.

19 A Lavan beše otišao da striže ovce svoje; i Rahilja ukrade idole ocu svom.

20 I Jakov otide kradom od Lavana Sirina ne javivši mu da hoće da ide.

21 I pobeže sa svim blagom svojim, i podiže se te pređe preko vode, i uputi se ka gori Galadu.

22 A treći dan javiše Lavanu da je pobegao Jakov.

23 I uze sa sobom braću svoju, i pođe za njim u poteru, i za sedam dana stiže ga na gori Galadu.

24 Ali Bog dođe Lavanu Sirinu noću u snu, i reče mu: Čuvaj se da ne govoriš s Jakovom ni lepo ni ružno.

25 I stiže Lavan Jakova; a Jakov beše razapeo šator svoj na gori, pa i Lavan takođe razape svoj s braćom svojom na gori Galadu.

26 I Lavan reče Jakovu: Šta učini te kradom pobeže od mene i odvede kćeri moje kao na mač otete?

27 Zašto tajno pobeže i kradom otide od mene? Niti mi reče da te ispratim s veseljem i s pesmama, s bubnjevima i guslama?

28 Niti mi dade da izljubim sinove svoje i kćeri svoje? Ludo si radio.

29 Mogao bih vam dosaditi; ali Bog oca vašeg noćas mi reče govoreći: Čuvaj se da ne govoriš s Jakovom ni lepo ni ružno.

30 Idi dakle kad si se tako uželeo kuće oca svog; ali zašto ukrade bogove moje?

31 A Jakov odgovori i reče: Bojah se i mišljah hoćeš silom oteti kćeri svoje od mene.

32 A bogove svoje u koga nađeš, onaj neka ne živi više; pred našom braćom traži šta je tvoje u mene, pa uzmi. Jer Jakov nije znao da ih je ukrala Rahilja.

33 I uđe Lavan u šator Jakovljev i u šator Lijin i u šator dveju robinja, i ne nađe ih; i izašav iz šatora Lijina uđe u šator Rahiljin.

34 A Rahilja uze idole i sakri ih pod samar kamile svoje i sede ozgo; i Lavan pipaše po celom šatoru, i ne nađe.

35 A ona reče ocu svom: Nemoj se srditi, gospodaru, što ti ne mogu ustati, jer mi je šta u žena biva. Traživši dakle ne nađe idole svoje.

36 I Jakov se rasrdi, i stade koriti Lavana, i govoreći reče mu: Šta sam učinio, šta sam skrivio, te si me tako žestoko terao?

37 Pipao si sav prtljag moj, pa šta si našao iz svoje kuće? Daj ovamo pred moju i svoju braću, neka rasude između nas dvojice.

38 Evo dvadeset godina bih kod tebe: ovce tvoje i koze tvoje ne jaloviše se, a ovnova iz stada tvog ne jedoh.

39 Šta bi zverje zaklalo nisam ti donosio, sam sam podmirivao; od mene si iskao što bi mi bilo ukradeno danju ili noću.

40 Danju me ubijaše vrućina a noću mraz; i san mi ne padaše na oči.

41 Tako mi je bio dvadeset godina u tvojoj kući; služio sam ti četrnaest godina za dve kćeri tvoje i šest godina za stoku tvoju, i platu si mi menjao deset puta.

42 Da nije Bog oca mog, Bog Avramov, i strah Isakov bio sa mnom, bi me zacelo otpustio prazna. Ali je Bog video nevolju moju i trud ruku mojih, pa te ukori noćas.

43 A Lavan odgovori Jakovu i reče: Ove su kćeri moje kćeri, i ovi su sinovi moji sinovi, i ova stoka moja stoka, i šta god vidiš sve je moje; pa šta bih učinio danas kćerima svojim ili sinovima njihovim koje rodiše?

44 Nego hajde da uhvatimo veru, ja i ti, da bude svedočanstvo između mene i tebe.

45 I Jakov uze kamen i utvrdi ga za spomen.

46 I reče Jakov braći svojoj; nakupite kamenja. I nakupiše kamenja i složiše na gomilu, i jedoše na gomili.

47 I Lavan ga nazva Jegar-Sahadut, a Jakov ga nazva Galed.

48 I reče Lavan: Ova gomila neka bude svedok između mene i tebe danas. Zato se prozva Galed.

49 A prozva se i Mispa, jer reče Lavan: Neka Gospod gleda između mene i tebe, kad ne uzmožemo videti jedan drugog.

50 Ako ucveliš kćeri moje i ako uzmeš žene preko mojih kćeri, neće čovek biti između nas nego gle Bog svedok između mene i tebe.

51 I još reče Lavan Jakovu: Gledaj ovu gomilu i gledaj ovaj spomenik, koji podigoh između sebe i tebe.

52 Svedok je ova gomila i svedok je ovaj spomenik, da ni ja neću preći preko ove gomile k tebi ni ti k meni da nećeš preći preko ove gomile i spomenika ovog na zlo.

53 Bog Avramov i bogovi Nahorovi, bogovi oca njihovog, neka sude među nama. A Jakov se zakle strahom oca svog Isaka.

54 I Jakov prinese žrtvu na gori, i sazva braću svoju na večeru; i jedoše pa noćiše na gori.

55 A ujutru rano usta Lavan, i izljubi svoju unučad i kćeri svoje, i blagoslovi ih, pa otide, i vrati se u svoje mesto.

   

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3246. 'And to the concubines' sons, whom Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts' means that places in the Lord's spiritual kingdom were allotted to spiritual people adopted by the Lord's Divine Human. This is clear from the meaning of 'the concubines' sons' as those who are spiritual, to be dealt with below; from the representation of 'Abraham' here as the Lord's Divine Human (so that the words 'whom Abraham had' mean that they - those who were spiritual - were adopted by the Lord's Divine Human); and from the meaning of 'the gifts which Abraham gave them' as allotted places in the Lord's spiritual kingdom.

[2] From what has been shown several times already about those who constitute the Lord's spiritual kingdom and who are called the spiritual, as in 3235 and elsewhere, it becomes clear that they are not sons of the marriage itself of good and truth, but of a certain covenant not so conjugial. They are indeed descended from the same father but not from the same mother, that is, from the same Divine Good but not from the same Divine Truth. Indeed with those who are celestial, since they are the product of the marriage itself of good and truth, good exists and truth rooted in that good. They never make investigations into what the truth may be but have a perception of it from good. Nor in conversation do they say more than this regarding what is true, 'Yes, that is so', in keeping with the Lord's teaching in Matthew,

Let your words be Yes, yes; No, no; anything beyond this is from evil. 1 Matthew 5:37.

But those who are spiritual, since they are the product of a covenant not so conjugial, do not have any perception from which they can know what is true. Instead they call that the truth which parents and teachers have told them to be the truth. Consequently with them there is no marriage of good and truth. Nevertheless that which they believe to be the truth for the reason just given is adopted by the Lord as truth when goodness of life exists with them; see 1832. This now explains why the spiritual are here called 'the concubines' sons', which is used to mean all the sons of Keturah mentioned already, and also those descended from Hagar, dealt with shortly below in verses 12-18.

[3] In former times - to enable both those who are celestial and those who are spiritual to be represented in marriages - a man was allowed to have a concubine in addition to a wife. That concubine was given to the husband by his wife (uxor), in which case the concubine was called his wife (mulier), or was said to have been given to him as a wife (mulier), as when Hagar the Egyptian was given to Abraham by Sarah, Genesis 16:3, when the servant-girl Bilhah was given to Jacob by Rachel, Genesis 30:4, and when the servant-girl Zilpah was given to Jacob by Leah, Genesis 30:9. In those cases they are called 'wives' (mulier), but elsewhere concubines, as is Hagar the Egyptian in the present verse, Bilhah in Genesis 35:22, and even Keturah herself in 1 Chronicles 1:32.

[4] The reason why those men of old had concubines in addition to a wife, as not only Abraham and Jacob did, but also their descendants, such as Gideon, Judges 8:31; Saul, 2 Samuel 3:7; David, 2 Samuel 5:13; 15:16; Solomon, 1 Kings 11:3, was that they were permitted to do so for the sake of the representation. That is to say, the celestial Church was represented by the wife, and the spiritual Church by the concubine. They were permitted to do so because they were the kind of men with whom conjugial love did not exist; so that to them marriage was not marriage but merely copulation for the sake of begetting off-spring. With such persons those permissions were possible without any harm being done to love or consequently to the conjugial covenant. But such permissions are never possible among people with whom good and truth are present and who are internal people, or potentially so. For as soon as good and truth, and internal things, exist with the human being, such permissions come to an end. This is why Christians are not allowed, as the Jews were, to take a concubine in addition to a wife, and why such is adultery. Regarding the adoption of those who are spiritual by the Lord's Divine Human, see what has been stated and shown already on the same subject in 2661, 2716, 2833, 2834.

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