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1 Ali glad beše vrlo velika u onoj zemlji.

2 Pa kad pojedoše žito koje behu doneli iz Misira, reče im otac: Idite opet, i kupite nam malo hrane.

3 A Juda mu progovori i reče: Tvrdo nam se zarekao onaj čovek govoreći: Nećete videti lice moje, ako ne bude s vama brat vaš.

4 Ako ćeš pustiti s nama brata našeg, ići ćemo i kupićemo ti hrane.

5 Ako li nećeš pustiti, nećemo ići, jer nam je rekao onaj čovek: Nećete videti lice moje, ako ne bude s vama brat vaš.

6 A Izrailj reče: Što mi to zlo učiniste i kazaste čoveku da imate još jednog brata?

7 A oni rekoše: Čovek je potanko raspitivao za nas i za rod naš govoreći: Je li vam jošte živ otac? Imate li još braće? A mi mu odgovorismo kako nas pitaše. Jesmo li mogli kako znati da će kazati: Dovedite brata svog?

8 I reče Juda Izrailju ocu svom: Pusti dete sa mnom, pa ćemo se podignuti i otići, da ostanemo živi i ne pomremo i mi i ti i naša deca.

9 Ja ti se jamčim za nj, iz moje ga ruke išti; ako ti ga ne dovedem natrag i preda te ne stavim, da sam ti kriv do veka.

10 Da nismo toliko oklevali, do sada bismo se dva puta vratili.

11 Onda reče Izrailj otac njihov: Kad je tako, učinite ovo: uzmite šta najlepše ima u ovoj zemlji u svoje vreće, i ponesite čoveku onom dar: malo tamjana i malo meda, mirisavog korenja i smirne, urme i badema.

12 A novaca ponesite dvojinom, i uzmite novce što behu ozgo u vrećama vašim i odnesite natrag, može biti da je pogreška.

13 I uzmite brata svog, pa ustanite i idite opet k onom čoveku.

14 A Bog Svemogući da vam da da nađete milost u onog čoveka, da vam pusti brata vašeg drugog i Venijamina; ako li ostanem bez dece, nek ostanem bez dece.

15 Tada uzevši dare i novaca dvojinom, uzevši i Venijamina, podigoše se i otidoše u Misir, i izađoše pred Josifa.

16 A Josif kad vide s njima Venijamina, reče čoveku koji upravljaše kućom njegovom: Odvedi ove ljude u kuću, pa nakolji mesa i zgotovi, jer će u podne sa mnom jesti ovi ljudi.

17 I učini čovek kako Josif reče, i uvede ljude u kuću Josifovu.

18 A oni se bojahu kad ih čovek vođaše u kuću Josifovu, i rekoše: Za novce koji pre behu metnuti u vreće naše vodi nas, dokle smisli kako će nas okriviti, da nas zarobi i uzme naše magarce.

19 Pa pristupivši k čoveku koji upravljaše kućom Josifovom, progovoriše mu na vratima kućnim,

20 I rekoše: Čuj, gospodaru; došli smo bili i pre, i kupismo hrane;

21 Pa kad dođosmo u jednu gostionicu i otvorismo vreće, a to novci svakog nas behu ozgo u vreći njegovoj, novci naši na meru; i evo smo ih doneli natrag;

22 A druge smo novce doneli da kupimo hrane; ne znamo ko nam metnu novce naše u vreće.

23 A on im reče: Budite mirni, ne bojte se; Bog vaš i Bog oca vašeg metnuo je blago u vreće vaše; novci su vaši bili u mene. I izvede im Simeuna.

24 I uvede ih čovek u kuću Josifovu, i donese im vode te opraše noge, i magarcima njihovim položi.

25 I pripraviše dar čekajući dokle dođe Josif u podne, jer čuše da će oni onde jesti.

26 I kad Josif dođe kući, iznesoše mu dar koji imahu kod sebe, i pokloniše mu se do zemlje.

27 A on ih zapita kako su, i reče: Kako je otac vaš stari, za koga mi govoriste? Je li jošte živ?

28 A oni rekoše: Dobro je sluga tvoj, otac naš; još je živ. I pokloniše mu se.

29 A on pogledavši vide Venijamina brata svog, sina matere svoje, i reče: Je li vam to najmlađi brat vaš za kog mi govoriste? I reče: Bog da ti bude milostiv, sinko!

30 A Josifu goraše srce od ljubavi prema bratu svom, te brže potraži gde će plakati, i ušavši u jednu sobu plaka onde.

31 Posle umiv se izađe, i ustežući se reče: Dajte jelo.

32 I donesoše njemu najposle i Misircima koji obedovahu u njega, jer ne mogahu Misirci jesti s Jevrejima, jer je to nečisto Misircima.

33 A seđahu pred njim stariji po stareštvu svom a mlađi po mladosti svojoj. I zgledahu se od čuda.

34 I uzimajući jela ispred sebe slaše njima, i Venijaminu dopade pet puta više nego drugima. I piše i napiše se s njim.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 5708

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5708. 'Five measures more' means that it was much increased. This is clear from the meaning of 'five' as much, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'measures' as states of truth received from good, dealt with in 3104. As regards 'five', this is a number which can mean little, or else something, or even much. Whatever its specific meaning, this stems from its relationship with the number of which it is a factor, 5291. When it is a factor of ten, much the same as ten, but in a smaller degree, is implied, five being half the number ten. For just as compound numbers have a similar meaning to the simple ones of which they are the product, 5291, 5335, so do divisors have a similar meaning to the compound numbers they divide, as with the relationship of five to ten, also to twenty, as well as to a hundred, a thousand, and so on. 'Ten' means what is full and complete, see 3107, 4638. 'Five measures more' were given to Benjamin than to the rest of his brothers on account of what was meant by this in the spiritual sense. Ten measures could not be given because that amount would have been far too much. The ancients knew from what had been handed down to them from the Most Ancient Church the meanings that certain numbers carried; they therefore used those numbers whenever something cropped up, the meaning of which could be conveyed by those numbers, as is the case with five here. At other times they employed many other numbers, such as three to mean what was complete from start to finish, seven to mean what was holy, or twelve to mean all things in their entirety.

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 3104

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3104. 'Half a shekel in weight' means the amount needed for the introduction. This is clear from the meaning of 'a shekel', 'half a shekel', and 'weight'. 'A shekel' means the price or valuation of good and truth, and 'half a shekel' a defined amount of it, see 2959. 'Weight' means the state of something as regards good, as will be seen [below]. From these considerations it is evident that 'half a shekel in weight' means and embodies the amount as regards the good which 'a gold nose-jewel' is used to mean - that amount being the quantity of it that was needed for the introduction, as is plain from what comes before and after this point in the story.

[2] That 'weight' is the state of something as regards good is evident from the following places in the Word:

In Ezekiel where the prophet was told to eat food each day twenty shekels in weight, and to drink water in measure the sixth of a hin,

For, behold, I am breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem, so that they may eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and drink water by measure and with dismay; that they may be in want of bread and water. Ezekiel 4:10-11, 16-17.

This refers to the vastation of good and truth, which is represented by 'the prophet'. A state of good when vastated is meant by their having to eat food and bread 'by weight', and a state of truth when vastated by their having to drink water 'by measure' - 'bread' meaning that which is celestial, and so good, see 276, 680, 2165, 2177, and 'water' that which is spiritual, and so truth, 739, 2702, 3058. From this it is evident that 'weight' is used in reference to good, and 'measure' to truth.

[3] In the same prophet,

You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. Ezekiel 45:10 and following verses.

This refers to the holy land, by which the Lord's kingdom in heaven is meant, as may be recognized from every detail at this point in this prophet, where what are required are not balances, an ephah, and a bath that are just but the goods and truths meant by those weights and measures.

In Isaiah,

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand and weighed the heavens in [His] palm, and gathered the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in a balance, and the hills in the scales? Isaiah 40:12.

'Weighing the mountains in a balance and the hills in the scares' stands for the truth that the Lord is the source of the heavenly things of love and charity, and that He alone orders the states of these things. For 'the mountains' and 'the hills' referred to in connection with those weights mean the heavenly things of love, see 795, 796, 1430, 2722.

[4] In Daniel,

The writing on the wall of Belshazzar's palace was, Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. This is the interpretation: Mene, God has numbered your kingdom and brought it to an end; Tekel, you have been weighed in the scales and have been found wanting; Peres, your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians. Daniel 5:25-28.

Here 'mene' or 'He has numbered' has reference to truth, but 'tekel' or 'weighed in the scales' to good. Described in the internal sense is the time when the age is drawing to a close.

  
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