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Mooseksen kirja 33

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1 Ja tämä on siunaus, jolla Moses Jumalan mies siunasi Israelin lapsia ennen kuolemaansa,

2 Ja sanoi: Herra on tullut Sinaista, ja noussut heille Seiristä, ja ilmestynyt Paranin vuorelta, ja on tullut kymmenentuhannen pyhän kanssa, ja tulinen laki hänen oikiassa kädessänsä heidän tykönsä.

3 Hän myös rakastaa kansoja; kaikki hänen pyhänsä ovat sinun kädessäs, ja he asettavat itsensä sinun jalkais juureen, ja ottavat opin sinun sanoistas.

4 Moses on meille käskenyt lain, Jakobin sukukunnalle perimisen.

5 Ja hän oli Kuningas oikeudessa; kansan päämiehet hän kokosi yhteen, ynnä Israelin sukukuntain kanssa.

6 Ruben eläkään, ja älkään kuolko, ja hänen kansansa olkoon luettava.

7 Tämä on Juudalle siunaus: ja hän sanoi: kuule Herra Juudan ääntä, ja johdata häntä kansansa tykö; ja hänen kätensä sotii puolestansa, sinä olet apu vastoin hänen vihollisiansa.

8 Ja hän sanoi Leville: sinun täydellisyytes ja sinun valkeutes olkoon sinun pyhän miehes tykönä, jota sinä kiusasit Massassa, ja saatit hänen riitelemään riitaveden tykönä.

9 Joka sanoo isällensä ja äidillensä: en minä nähnyt heitä, ja ei tunne veljiänsä, eikä tiedä pojistansa; ne pitävät sinun sanas, ja kätkevät sinun liittos.

10 He opettavat sinun oikeuksias Jakobille ja Israelille sinun lakis, he kantavat suitsutusta sinun nenäs eteen, ja kaikkinaiset uhrit uhraavat sinun alttarillas.

11 Siunaa Herra hänen voimansa ja anna hänen kättensä työ sinulle kelvata; riko heidän lanteensa, jotka karkaavat häntä vastaan ja häntä vihaavat, niin ettei he voisi ojentaa heitänsä.

12 Ja BenJaminille sanoi hän: Herran rakkaat pitää asuman turvallisesti hänen tykönänsä; hän suojelee heitä kaiken päivän, ja hän asuu heidän hartioidensa välillä.

13 Ja hän sanoi Josephille: hänen maansa olkoon siunattu Herralta, parhaista taivaan hedelmistä, kasteesta, ja syvyydestä, joka makaa alla.

14 Siinä olkoon ihanimmat hedelmät auringosta, ja ihanimmat kypsät hedelmät kuusta,

15 Ja itäisten vuorten kukkuloilta, ja ijäisiltä kukkuloilta parhaat hedelmät,

16 Ja ne kalliimmat maan hedelmät, ja mitä siinä on. Hänen suosionsa, joka asuu pensaassa, tulkoon Josephin päähän, ja Natsirin päälaelle veljeinsä keskellä.

17 Ja hänen kauneutensa olkoon niinkuin esikoisen härjän, ja hänen sarvensa olkoon niinkuin yksisarvisen sarvet, joilla hän kansaa kuokkii yhteen, hamaan maailman ääriin asti; nämät ovat Ephraimin kymmenentuhatta, ja nämät Manassen tuhannet.

18 Ja hän sanoi Sebulonille: iloitse Sebulon uloskäymisessäs, mutta sinä Isaskar iloitse majoissas.

19 Heidän pitää kutsuman kansaa vuorelle ja siellä vanhurskauden uhria uhraaman; sillä he imevät meren kyllyyden ja santaan kätketyt tavarat.

20 Ja hän sanoi Gadille: siunattu olkoon se, joka levittää Gadin, hän asuu niinkuin hotka jalopeura, ja ryöstää sekä käsivarren että päänlaen.

21 Ja hän katsoi itsellensä ensimäisen osan maasta, että hän siinä lainopettajalta annetussa osassa olis surutoin; kuitenkin tuli hän kansan päämiesten kanssa, ja teki Herran vanhurskautta, ja hänen oikiutensa Israelin kanssa.

22 Ja Danille sanoi hän: Dan niinkuin jalopeuran penikka, joka karkaa Basanista.

23 Ja Naphtalille sanoi hän: Naphtalilla on yltäkyllä, mitä hänen mielensä tekee, ja hän täytetään Herran siunauksella, lännen ja etelän pitää hänen omistaman.

24 Ja Asserille sanoi hän: Asser olkoon siunattu pojissa, hän olkoon veljillensä otollinen, ja kastakaan jalkansa öljyyn.

25 Rauta ja vaski olkoon sinun kenkäs; ja niinkuin sinun ikäs, niin myös sinun väkevyytes lisääntyy.

26 Ei yhtään ole niinkuin oikeuden Jumala, joka istuu taivaassa, hän olkoon sinun auttajas, ja hänen kunniansa on pilvissä.

27 Jumalan asuinsia on alusta, ijankaikkisten käsivartten alla. Ja hän ajaa ulos sinun vihollises sinun edestäs ja sanoo: ole hukutettu.

28 Israel asuu levollisesti yksinänsä, ja Jakobin silmä katsoo sen maan päälle, jossa jyviä ja viinaa on, siihen myös taivaat kastetta vuodattavat.

29 Autuas olet sinä Israel: kuka on sinun kaltaises? O sinä kansa, joka Herrassa autuaaksi tulet, joka sinun apus kilpi ja sinun kunnias miekka on. Vihollises valhettelevat sinulle, ja sinä astelet heidän kukkulainsa päällä.

   


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Apocalypse Revealed # 349

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349. Sealed out of every tribe of Israel. This symbolizes the heaven and Lord's church formed from those people.

A tribe symbolizes religion as regards goodness of life, and every tribe symbolizes the church in respect to every good of love and every truth springing from that good, which produces goodness of life. For there are two elements which form the church: the goodness of love and doctrinal truth. The marriage of these two constitutes the church. The twelve tribes of Israel represented and so symbolized the church with respect to that marriage, and each tribe represented and so symbolized some universal truth accompanying goodness or some goodness accompanying truth present in that marriage.

But what each tribe symbolized has not been revealed previously to anyone, nor could it have been revealed, lest an ill-connected exposition profane the holiness that lies within these things when joined together, since their symbolism depends on their conjunction.

[2] They have one symbolism in the order in which they are listed according to their births (Genesis 29, 30, 35:18). The order there is: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, Benjamin.

They have another symbolism in the order in which they are listed when they went into Egypt, namely, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Gad, Asher, Joseph, Benjamin, Dan, Naphtali (Genesis 46:8-25).

Still another symbolism in the order in which they were blessed by their father Israel, namely, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Zebulun, Issachar, Dan, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Joseph, Benjamin (Genesis 49).

Still another symbolism in the order in which they were blessed by Moses, namely, Reuben, Judah, Levi, Benjamin, Joseph, Ephraim, Manasseh, Zebulun, Gad, Dan, Naphtali, Asher (Deuteronomy 33) - Ephraim and Manasseh being listed there, and not Simeon or Issachar.

[3] Still another symbolism in the order in which they encamped and set out, namely, the tribes of Judah, Issachar and Zebulun on the east side, the tribes of Reuben, Simeon and Gad on the south side, the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh and Benjamin on the west side, and the tribes of Dan, Asher and Naphtali on the north side, with the tribe of Levi in the middle (Numbers 2:1-34).

And still another symbolism in the order in which they are listed elsewhere, as in Genesis 35:23-26, Numbers 1:5-16; 7:1-89; 13:4-15; 26:5-57; 34:17-28, Deuteronomy 27:12-13, Joshua 15; 16; 17; 18; 19, Ezekiel 48:1-35.

Consequently, when Balaam saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes, he said, "How good are your tents, O Jacob, and your tabernacles, O Israel" (Numbers 24:1-4ff.).

[4] On the breastpiece of judgment, namely, the Urim and Thummim, containing twelve precious stones according to the names of the children of Israel (Exodus 28:15-21), the symbolism of the tribes in their arrangement depended on the inquiry to which they provided a response.

But what they symbolized in the order in which they are mentioned here in the book of Revelation, which is still another order, will be told in what follows.

Tribes symbolize religion, and the twelve tribes the church and everything pertaining to it, because "tribe" and "scepter" are, in Hebrew, the same word, 1 and a scepter means a kingdom, and the Lord's kingdom is heaven and the church.

Mga talababa:

1. Hebrew מַטֶּה or שֵׁבֶט, and also מַשְׁעֵנָה.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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Genesis 49

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1 Jacob called to his sons, and said: "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.

2 Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.

3 "Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.

4 Boiling over as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father's bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.

5 "Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.

6 My soul, don't come into their council. My glory, don't be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

8 "Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father's sons will bow down before you.

9 Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?

10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

11 Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey's colt to the choice vine; he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

12 His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk.

13 "Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.

14 "Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.

15 He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.

16 "Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

17 Dan will be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path, That bites the horse's heels, so that his rider falls backward.

18 I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

19 "A troop will press on Gad, but he will press on their heel.

20 "Asher's food will be rich. He will yield royal dainties.

21 "Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.

22 "Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.

23 The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecute him:

24 But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),

25 even by the God of your father, who will help you; by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.

26 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.

27 "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the spoil."

28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing.

29 He instructed them, and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

30 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.

31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:

32 the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth."

33 When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.