6227. Verses 3-7. And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Shaddai appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me. And He said unto me, Behold I will make thee fruitful, and will cause thee to be multiplied, and will make of thee a company of peoples; and I will give this land to thy seed after thee for an eternal possession. And now thy two sons who were born to thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, they are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine. And thy generation which thou begettest after them shall be thine; upon the name of their brethren they shall be called in their inheritance. And I, in my coming from Paddan, Rachel died upon me in the land of Canaan, in the way, when there was still a tract of land to come unto Ephrath; and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath, the same is Bethlehem. “And Jacob said unto Joseph,” signifies the communication of the truth of the natural with the internal; “God Shaddai appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan,” signifies the Divine appearing in the natural in a former state; “and blessed me,” signifies prediction about vivification; “and He said unto me, Behold I will make thee fruitful, and will cause thee to be multiplied” signifies vivification through the good of charity and the truth of faith; “and will make of thee a company of peoples,” signifies increase indefinitely; “and I will give this land to thy seed after thee for an eternal possession,” signifies the Lord’s kingdom for those who are in that good and truth; “and now thy two sons, who were born to thee in the land of Egypt,” signifies good and truth in the natural from the internal; “before I came unto thee into Egypt,” signifies before the truth of the natural was in the memory-knowledges there; “they are mine,” signifies that they are in me; “Ephraim and Manasseh,” signifies the intellectual and the will of the church; “as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine,” signifies that they shall be truth and the good of truth; “and thy generation which thou begettest after them,” signifies interior truths and goods, which are afterward; “shall be thine,” signifies that they shall be in the rational which is from the internal; “upon the name of their brethren they shall be called in their inheritance,” signifies that they would be of the quality of the truths and goods of the church, and together among them; “and I, in my coming from Paddan,” signifies from a state of knowledges; “Rachel died upon me in the land of Canaan,” signifies the end of the former affection of interior truth; “in the way, when there was still a tract of land,” signifies what is intermediate; “to come unto Ephrath,” signifies the spiritual of the celestial in the former state; “and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath,” signifies the rejection of that state; “the same is Bethlehem,” signifies in its place a state of new affection of truth and good.