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1 Вотъ родословіе сыновъ Ноевыхъ Сима, Хама и Іафета. Послј потопа родились у нихъ дјти:

2 Сыны Іафета: Гомеръ, Магогъ, Мадай, Іаванъ, Ѕувалъ, Мешехъ и Ѕирасъ.

3 Сыны Гомера: Аскеназъ, Рифатъ и Ѕогарма,

4 Сыны Іована: Елиса, Ѕарсисъ, Киттимъ и Доданимъ.

5 Отъ сихъ населились острова народовъ въ зсмляхъ ихъ, по различію языка ихъ, по племенамъ ихъ въ народј ихъ.

6 Сыны Хама: Хушъ, Минраимъ, Футъ и Ханаанъ.

7 Сыны Хуша: Сева, Хавила, Савта, Раама и Савтеха, а сыны Раамы Шева и Деданъ.

8 Хушъ родилъ также Нимрода: сей началъ быть силенъ на землј.

9 Онъ былъ силснъ звјроловствомъ предъ Іеговою; потому п говорится: силенъ звјроловствомъ, какъ Нимродъ предъ Іеговою.

10 Царство его въ началј составляли: Вавилонъ, Эрехъ, Аккадъ и Халне, въ землј Сеннааръ.

11 Изъ сей земли вышелъ Ассуръ и построилъ Ниневію, Реховоѕиръ, Калахъ,

12 и Ресенъ между Ниневію и Калахомъ, городъ великій.

13 Отъ Мицраима произошли Лудимъ, Анамимъ, Легавимъ, Нафтухимъ,

14 Патрусимъ, Каслухимъ, (откуда вышли Филистимляне), и Кафторимъ.

15 Отъ Ханаана родились: Сидонъ, первенецъ его, Хетъ,

16 Іевусей, Аморрей, Гергесей,

17 Евей, Аркей, Синей,

18 Арвадей, Цемарей и Емаѕей. Въ послјдствіи времени племена Ханаанскія разсјялись.

19 И простирался предјлъ Хананеевъ отъ Сидона къ Герару до Газы, отсюда къ Содому, Гомору, Адмј и Цевоиму до Лаши.

20 Сіи суть сыны Хамовы, по племенамъ ихъ, по языкамъ ихъ въ земляхъ ихъ, въ народахъ ихъ.

21 Были дјти и у Сима, отца всјхъ сыновъ Еверовыхъ, старшаго брата Іафетова.

22 Сыны Сима: Еламъ, Ассуръ, Арфаксадъ, Лудъ и Арамъ.

23 Сыны Арама: Уцъ, Хулъ, Геѕеръ и Машъ.

24 Арфаксадъ родилъ Салу, Сала родилъ Евера.

25 У Евера родились два сына: имя одному Фалекъ, потому что во дни его земля раздјлена; имя брату его Іоктанъ.

26 Отъ Іоктана родились: Алмодадъ, Шалефъ, Хоцармоветъ, Іерахъ,

27 Гадорамъ, Узалъ, Дикла,

28 Овалъ, Авимаилъ, Шева,

29 Офиръ, Хавила и Іовавъ. Всј сіи былн дјти Іоктана.

30 Поселенія ихъ простираются отъ Меши до Сефара, горы восточной.

31 Сіи суть сыны Симовы по племенамъ ихъ, по различію языковъ ихъ, вь земляхъ ихъ, по народамъ ихъ.

32 Вотъ племена сыновъ Ноевыхъ, въ родословномъ ихъ порядкј, въ народахъ ихъ. Отъ сихъ распространились на землј народы послј потопа.

   

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1171. 'The sons of Raamah' similarly means those who had no internal worship but cognitions of faith, in the mere possession of which they made religion consist; and 'Sheba and Dedan' are nations with whom they existed and by these same nations cognitions themselves are meant in the internal sense. This is evident from the places in the Prophets given below, and from the following in David concerning Seba, Sheba, and Raamah,

The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring a gift, and the kings of Sheba and Seba will offer a present; and all kings will fall down before Him. Psalms 72:10-11.

This refers to the Lord, His kingdom, and the celestial Church. Anyone may see that here 'gift' and 'present' mean types of worship, though exactly which types of worship, and the nature of them, cannot be known unless it is known what 'Tarshish and the islands' and 'Sheba and Seba' are used to mean. The fact that 'Tarshish and the islands' is used to mean forms of external worship corresponding to internal has been shown already, from which it follows that 'Sheba and Seba' is used to mean forms of internal worship - 'Sheba' the celestial things of worship, and 'Seba' the spiritual.

[2] In Isaiah,

I gave Egypt as your expiation, Cush and Seba in place of you. Isaiah 43:3.

Here 'Cush and Seba' stands for the spiritual things of faith. In the same prophet,

The labour of Egypt, and the wares of Cush and of the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you. Isaiah 45:14.

'The labour of Egypt' stands for knowledge, 'the wares of Cush and the Sabeans' for cognitions of spiritual things which serve people who believe in the Lord.

[3] In the same prophet,

A drove of camels will cover you, dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all those from Sheba will come. They will bring gold and frankincense and will proclaim the praises of Jehovah. The whole Rock of Arabia will be gathered to you. Isaiah 60:6-7.

Here 'Sheba' is used to mean celestial things and the spiritual things deriving from these, described as 'gold and frankincense', which, as now explained, are 'the praises of Jehovah', that is, internal worship.

[4] In Ezekiel,

The traders of Sheba and Raamah, they were your traders in the best of every spice, and in every precious stone, and they gave gold for your resources. Ezekiel 27:22-23.

This refers to Tyre. What 'Sheba and Raamah' means is clear from the commodities in which they are said to have traded - spices, precious stones, and gold. 'Spices' in the internal sense are charity, 'precious stones' are faith deriving from charity, and 'gold' is love to the Lord, all of which are the celestial things meant by 'Sheba'. Strictly, 'Sheba' means the cognitions of those things - and this is why they are here called 'merchandise' - with which those who become members of the Church are endowed, for without cognitions no one is able to become a member of the Church.

[5] Similar things were represented by the Queen of Sheba who came to Solomon and brought him spices, gold, and precious stones, 1 Kings 10:1-3, and also by the wise men from the east who came to Jesus at His birth, and who fell down and worshipped Him, and who opened their treasures, and offered Him gifts, gold, frankincense, and myrrh, Matthew 2:1, 11. These gifts meant celestial, spiritual, and natural good. In Jeremiah,

To what purpose does frankincense come to Me from Sheba, and best sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable. Jeremiah 6:20.

Here also it is evident that 'Sheba' stands for cognitions and adoration, meant by 'frankincense and sweet cane', though here they are those things devoid of charity, which are not pleasing.

  
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Genesis 37

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1 Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the land of Canaan.

2 This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.

3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.

4 His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him.

5 Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.

6 He said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:

7 for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf."

8 His brothers said to him, "Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?" They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.

9 He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."

10 He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?"

11 His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

12 His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.

13 Israel said to Joseph, "Aren't your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." He said to him, "Here I am."

14 He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again." So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

15 A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, "What are you looking for?"

16 He said, "I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock."

17 The man said, "They have left here, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.

18 They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

19 They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes.

20 Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."

21 Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, "Let's not take his life."

22 Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him"--that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.

23 It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;

24 and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.

25 They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

26 Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

27 Come, and let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh." His brothers listened to him.

28 Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.

29 Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn't in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

30 He returned to his brothers, and said, "The child is no more; and I, where will I go?"

31 They took Joseph's coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.

32 They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, "We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son's coat or not."

33 He recognized it, and said, "It is my son's coat. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces."

34 Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

35 All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning." His father wept for him.

36 The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.