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1 Mose 46

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1 Und Israel brach auf und alles, was er hatte, und kam nach Beerseba; und er opferte Schlachtopfer dem Gott seines Vaters Isaak.

2 Und Gott sprach zu Israel in den Gesichten der Nacht und sagte: Jakob! Jakob! Und er sprach: Hier bin ich.

3 Und er sprach: Ich bin Gott, (W. der Gott; El) der Gott deines Vaters; fürchte dich nicht, nach Ägypten hinabzuziehen; denn zu einer großen Nation will ich dich daselbst machen.

4 Ich will mit dir nach Ägypten hinabziehen, und ich will dich auch gewißlich heraufführen; und Joseph soll seine Hand auf deine Augen legen.

5 Da machte sich Jakob von Beerseba auf, und die Söhne Israels führten Jakob, ihren Vater, und ihre Kinder und ihre Weiber auf den Wagen, die der Pharao gesandt hatte, ihn zu holen.

6 Und sie nahmen ihr Vieh und ihre Habe, die sie im Lande Kanaan erworben hatten, und kamen nach Ägypten, Jakob und all sein Same mit ihm:

7 seine Söhne und die Söhne seiner Söhne mit ihm, seine Töchter und die Töchter seiner Söhne, und all seinen Samen brachte er mit sich nach Ägypten.

8 Und dies sind die Namen der Söhne Israels, die nach Ägypten kamen: Jakob und seine Söhne; der Erstgeborene Jakobs: uben.

9 Und die Söhne ubens: Hanok und Pallu und Hezron und Karmi.

10 Und die Söhne Simeons: Jemuel und Jamin und Ohad und Jakin und Zochar und Saul, der Sohn der Kanaaniterin.

11 Und die Söhne Levis: Gerson, Kehath und Merari.

12 Und die Söhne Judas: Gher und Onan und Schela und Perez und Serach; Gher und Onan aber starben im Lande Kanaan. Und die Söhne des Perez waren Hezron und Hamul.

13 Und die Söhne Issaschars: Tola und Puwa und Job und Schimron.

14 Und die Söhne Sebulons: Sered und Elon und Jachleel.

15 Das sind die Söhne Leas, welche sie dem Jakob in Paddan-Aram gebar, und Dina, seine Tochter. Aller Seelen seiner Söhne und seiner Töchter waren 33. -

16 Und die Söhne Gads: Ziphjon und Haggi, Schuni und Ezbon, Eri und Arodi und Areli.

17 Und die Söhne Asers: Jimna und Jischwa und Jischwi und Beria, und Serach, ihre Schwester. Und die Söhne Berias: Heber und Malkiel.

18 Das sind die Söhne Silpas, die Laban seiner Tochter Lea gab; und sie gebar diese dem Jakob, sechzehn Seelen. -

19 Die Söhne ahels, des Weibes Jakobs: Joseph und Benjamin.

20 Und dem Joseph wurden im Lande Ägypten Manasse und Ephraim geboren, welche Asnath ihm gebar, die Tochter Potipheras, des Priesters von On.

21 Und die Söhne Benjamins: Bela und Beker und Aschbel, Gera und Naaman, Echi und osch, Muppim und Huppim und Ard.

22 Das sind die Söhne ahels, die dem Jakob geboren wurden; aller Seelen waren vierzehn. -

23 Und die Söhne Dans: Huschim.

24 Und die Söhne Naphtalis: Jachzeel und Guni und Jezer und Schillem.

25 Das sind die Söhne Bilhas, die Laban seiner Tochter ahel gab; und sie gebar diese dem Jakob; aller Seelen waren sieben. -

26 Aller dem Jakob angehörenden Seelen, die nach Ägypten kamen, die aus seinen Lenden hervorgegangen waren, ausgenommen die Weiber der Söhne Jakobs, aller Seelen waren 66.

27 Und die Söhne Josephs, die ihm in Ägypten geboren wurden, waren zwei Seelen. Aller Seelen des Hauses Jakob, die nach Ägypten kamen, waren siebzig. (Nach der Alexandrinischen Übersetzung, welche in v 20 noch einen Sohn und einen Enkel des Manasse sowie zwei Söhne und einen Enkel des Ephraim erwähnt, sind es 75 Seelen. Vergl. Apg. 7,14)

28 Und er sandte Juda vor sich hin zu Joseph, um vor ihm her zu weisen nach Gosen; (O. vor ihm eine Anzeige zu machen, daß er nach Gosen käme) und sie kamen in das Land Gosen.

29 Da spannte Joseph seinen Wagen an und zog hinauf, seinem Vater Israel entgegen nach Gosen; und als er seiner ansichtig wurde, fiel er ihm um den Hals und weinte lange (O. in einem fort) an seinem Halse.

30 Und Israel sprach zu Joseph: Nunmehr mag ich sterben, nachdem ich dein Angesicht gesehen habe, daß du noch lebst!

31 Und Joseph sprach zu seinen Brüdern und zum Hause seines Vaters: Ich will hinaufziehen und dem Pharao berichten und zu ihm sagen: Meine Brüder und das Haus meines Vaters, die im Lande Kanaan waren, sind zu mir gekommen.

32 Und die Männer sind Schafhirten, (Eig. Kleinviehhirten; so auch später) denn sie haben Viehzucht getrieben; und sie haben ihr Kleinvieh und ihre inder und alles, was sie haben, mitgebracht.

33 Und geschieht es, daß der Pharao euch ruft und spricht: Was ist eure Hantierung?

34 so saget: Deine Knechte haben Viehzucht getrieben, von Jugend auf bis jetzt, sowohl wir als auch unsere Väter, auf daß ihr wohnen möget im Lande Gosen; denn alle Schafhirten sind den Ägyptern ein Greuel.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #5955

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5955. 'And to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver' means that to the intermediary a complete amount of truth from good was imparted. This is clear from the representation of 'Benjamin' as the intermediary, dealt with in 5600, 5631, 5639, 5688, 5822; from the representation of Joseph, the one who 'gave', as internal good, dealt with in 5826, 5827, 5869, 5877; from the meaning of 'three hundred' as a complete amount, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'silver' as truth, dealt with in 1551, 2954, 5658. From all this it is evident that 'to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver' means that he imparted to the intermediary a complete amount of truth from good; for the intermediary, represented by 'Benjamin', is interior truth, through an influx into it from the internal celestial, 5600, 5631. The reason why 'three hundred' means a complete amount is that this number is the product of three multiplied by a hundred - 'three' meaning what is complete, 2788, 4495, and 'a hundred' meaning much, 4400. For the meaning held by compound numbers is clear from the simple numbers that are their factors.

[2] 'Three hundred' holds a similar meaning when mentioned elsewhere in the Word, as in Genesis 6:15, where it says that Noah's ark was three hundred cubits long, also in the reference to the three hundred men whom Gideon used to strike a blow at Midian, spoken of in Judges as follows,

The number of those who lapped in their hand to their mouth was three hundred men. Jehovah said to Gideon, By the three hundred men who were lapping I will give Midian into your hand. Gideon divided the three hundred men into three lines of battle, and he put a trumpet into the hand of each one of them, and empty water-pots, and torches in the middle of the water-pots. When they sounded the blast on the three hundred trumpets, Jehovah set the sword of [each] man against his companion and against the whole camp. Judges 7:6-8, 16, 22.

By 'the three hundred men' in this description too a complete amount is meant, and the same is meant by 'three lines of battle' into which the three hundred were divided. And by 'a hundred', the number in each line of battle, is meant much or enough, consequently that there were enough men to stand against Midian. Besides, every detail in this description was representative - the selection of those who lapped the water in their hand; the trumpet given to each man; and the water-pots with the torches inside them. This was so because 'Midian', whom they were opposing, represented truth that was not truth because there was no goodness of life in it. But such details will in the Lord's Divine mercy be explained elsewhere. The fact that numbers too were representative is evident from many other places, for example the number seven in Joshua, when they were going to capture Jericho. The command was given for seven priests to carry seven trumpets of rejoicing in front of the Ark; and on the seventh day they were to go round the city seven times, Joshua 6:4.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #5826

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5826. 'You know that my wife bore me two sons' means if spiritual good is what the Church possesses, internal good and truth will exist. This is clear from the representation of Israel, who says these things about himself, as spiritual good from the natural, dealt with immediately above in 5825; from the representation of Rachel, to whom the wife who had borne him two sons refers here, as the affection for interior truth, dealt with in 3758, 3782, 3793, 3819; and from the representation of Joseph and Benjamin,' the two sons she had borne, as internal good and truth, 'Joseph' being internal good and 'Benjamin' internal truth.

[2] What is meant by internal good and truth existing if spiritual good is what the Church possesses is this: Spiritual good, which 'Israel' represents, is the good of truth, that is, truth existing in will and action. This truth or good of truth causes a person to be a Church. When truth has been implanted in his will - something he perceives to have happened from the fact that he feels an affection for truth because his intention is to live according to it - internal good and truth are present in him. When that internal good and truth are present in a person he has the Lord's kingdom within him and he is consequently the Church; and together with those who are very similar to him he constitutes the Church at large. From this it may be recognized that for the Church to be the Church spiritual good, which is the good of truth, must exist and not simply truth by itself. At the present day it is by virtue of truth alone that a Church is called the Church, and it is what marks off one Church from another. Let anyone ask himself whether truth is anything unless it has life in view. What are religious teachings without that end in view? What for example are the Ten Commandments if separated from a life led according to them? For if someone knows them and the full extent of their meaning and yet leads a life contrary to them, what use are they? Surely none at all; indeed do they not serve to condemn some people? The same is so with other religious teachings that are derived from the Word. These too, being spiritual laws, are commandments for leading a Christian life; they likewise have no use at all unless they are made a person's guide to life. Let anyone weigh up what resides with himself and discover whether he has anything there which really is anything other than what enters into the life he leads, or whether life which really is his life resides anywhere else in a person than in his will.

[3] This is the reason why the Lord has declared in the Old Testament and confirmed in the New that all the Law and all the Prophets are founded on love to God and love towards the neighbour, thus on life. They are not founded on faith apart from life, nor thus in any way at all on faith alone, nor consequently on confidence; for without charity towards the neighbour such confidence is impossible. If it seems to exist with the wicked at times when their lives are in danger or death is at hand it is a spurious or false confidence; for among such people in the next life not a trace of this confidence can be seen, however ardently they may have appeared when near to death to profess that they possessed it. But faith, no matter whether you call it confidence or else trust, does nothing for the wicked, as the Lord Himself teaches in John,

As many as received Him, to them He gave power to be sons of God, to those believing in His name, who were born, not of blood, 1 nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:12-13.

[4] Those born of blood' stands for those who do violence to charity, 374, 1005, also those who render truth profane, 4735. 'Those born of the will of the flesh' stands for those governed by evils that spring from self-love and love of the world, 3813. 'Those born of the will of man' stands for those governed by utterly false notions; for 'man' (vir) means truth and in the contrary sense falsity. 'Those born of God' stands for those who have been regenerated by the Lord and are consequently governed by good. The latter are the ones who receive the Lord; they are the ones who believe in His name; and they, not the former, are the ones to whom He gives power to be sons of God. From all this it is quite evident what contribution faith alone makes to salvation.

[5] To take the matter further, if a person is to undergo regeneration and become a Church he must be led by means of truth into good, which happens when truth becomes truth existing in will and action. This truth is good and is called the good of truth. It constantly brings forth new truths, since then for the first time it is fruitful. The truth that is brought forth or made fruitful from it is what is called internal truth; and the good from which it springs is called internal good. For nothing becomes internal until it has been implanted in the will, the will being the inmost part of a person. As long as good and truth remain outside the will and solely in the understanding they are outside the person; for the understanding is outside, the will inside.

Fusnotat:

1. literally, bloods

  
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