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Genesis 30

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1 achelė matydama, kad ji nevaisinga, pavydėjo savo seseriai Lėjai ir tarė Jokūbui: “Duok man vaikų, kitaip aš mirsiu!”

2 Jokūbas, supykęs ant achelės, tarė: “Ar aš Dievas, kuris tau vaikų neduoda?”

3 Tada ji tarė: “Štai mano tarnaitė Bilha. Įeik pas ją, kad ji pagimdytų ant mano kelių ir aš galėčiau turėti vaikų iš jos”.

4 Ji davė jam už žmoną savo tarnaitę Bilhą, ir Jokūbas įėjo pas ją.

5 Bilha pastojo ir pagimdė Jokūbui sūnų.

6 Tada achelė tarė: “Dievas teisingai nusprendė dėl manęs, išklausydamas mano balsą ir davė man sūnų”. Todėl ji pavadino jį Danu.

7 achelės tarnaitė Bilha pastojo ir pagimdė Jokūbui antrą sūnų.

8 Tada achelė tarė: “Didžiose grumtynėse grūmiausi su savo seserimi ir nugalėjau”. Ir ji pavadino jį Neftaliu.

9 Lėja matydama, kad nebegali daugiau gimdyti, davė Jokūbui savo tarnaitę Zilpą už žmoną.

10 Zilpa, Lijos tarnaitė, pagimdė Jokūbui sūnų.

11 Tada Lėja tarė: “Laimingai!” Ir ji pavadino jį Gadu.

12 Vėliau Zilpa pagimdė Jokūbui antrą sūnų.

13 Tada Lėja tarė: “Aš laimingoji! Nes moterys vadins mane palaiminta”. Ir ji pavadino jį Ašeru.

14 Kviečių pjūties metu ubenas išėjęs rado mandragorų ir juos parnešė savo motinai Lėjai. Tada achelė tarė Lėjai: “Duok man savo sūnaus mandragorų”.

15 Bet ji atsakė: “Ar negana tau, kad turi mano vyrą, ar nori atimti ir mano sūnaus mandragorus?” achelė tarė: “Tegul jis šią naktį praleidžia su tavimi už tavo sūnaus mandragorus!”

16 Jokūbui pareinant vakare iš lauko, Lėja išėjo jo pasitikti ir tarė: “Tu eisi pas mane, nes aš tave pasamdžiau už mano sūnaus mandragorus”. Taip jis praleido su ja tą naktį.

17 Dievas išklausė Lėją; ji pagimdė Jokūbui penktąjį sūnų.

18 Tada Lėja tarė: “Dievas man atlygino, nes aš daviau savo tarnaitę savo vyrui”. Ji pavadino jį Isacharu.

19 Lėja vėl pastojo ir pagimdė Jokūbui šeštąjį sūnų.

20 Tada Lėja tarė: “Dievas apdovanojo mane gera dovana; dabar mano vyras gyvens su manimi, nes aš jam pagimdžiau šešis sūnus”. Ir ji praminė jį Zabulonu.

21 Po to ji pagimdė dukterį ir ją pavadino Dina.

22 Dievas atsiminė achelę, išklausė ją ir padarė vaisingą.

23 Ji pagimdė sūnų ir tarė: “Dievas pašalino mano gėdą”.

24 Ji pavadino jį Juozapu, sakydama: “Viešpats duos man dar kitą sūnų!”

25 achelei pagimdžius Juozapą, Jokūbas tarė Labanui: “Paleisk mane, grįšiu į tėvynę, į savo šalį!

26 Duok man mano žmonas ir mano vaikus, už kuriuos tau tarnavau, ir leisk man eiti. Tu juk žinai, kaip aš tau tarnavau!”

27 Labanas jam tarė: “O kad aš rasčiau malonę tavo akyse! Aš patyriau, kad Viešpats laimino mane dėl tavęs.

28 Nustatyk tu pats sau užmokestį, ir aš tau jį duosiu!”

29 Jokūbas atsakė: “Tu pats žinai, kaip tau tarnavau ir kokia tapo tavo banda mano priežiūroje.

30 Tu mažai turėjai prieš man atvykstant, bet dabar tai smarkiai padaugėjo, nes Viešpats tave laimino, kai aš atėjau. O dabar ar ne laikas man pasirūpinti savo namais?”

31 Labanas tarė: “Ką turiu tau duoti?” Jokūbas atsakė: “Nieko man neduok! Jei sutiksi su mano reikalavimu, aš vėl ganysiu ir saugosiu tavo kaimenę:

32 šiandien pereisiu visas avių bandas, išskirdamas iš jų kiekvieną dėmėtą bei lopiniuotą avį ir kiekvieną juodą avį, ir visas lopiniuotas bei dėmėtas ožkas. Tai bus mano atlyginimas.

33 Mano sąžiningumas kalbės už mane, kai ateis laikas man atsiimti užmokestį tavo akivaizdoje. Visa, kas nebus dėmėta bei lopiniuota tarp ožkų ir avių, tebūna kaip mano pavogta!”

34 Labanas atsakė: “Sutinku. Tebūna kaip sakai!”

35 Ir jis atskyrė tą dieną ožkas ir avis, ožius ir avinus­lopiniuotus ir dėmėtus; visus vienos spalvos gyvulius atidavė savo sūnums.

36 Labanas nustatė, kad tarp jo ir Jokūbo būtų trijų dienų atstumas. Jokūbas ganė likusią Labano kaimenę.

37 Jokūbas, paėmęs žalias drebulių, migdolų ir liepų lazdeles, išlupinėjo jose dryžius, kad tose vietose, kur buvo žievė, būtų balta.

38 Jis tas išpjaustytas lazdeles sudėjo į lovius, į kuriuos pilamas vanduo, prie kurių bandos ateidavo gerti, ir atėję gerti imdavo poruotis.

39 Ir avys poruodavosi, žiūrėdamos į lazdeles; ir jos vesdavo dryžuotus, dėmėtus ir lopiniuotus ėriukus.

40 Jokūbas perskyrė savo bandą. Jis sudėjo lazdeles taip, kad jo avys ir Labano avys matytų jas. Jis laikė savo bandas atskirai ir nesuleisdavo jų su Labano bandomis.

41 Kai poravosi stipresnieji gyvuliai, Jokūbas įdėdavo lazdeles į lovius taip, kad gyvuliai matytų jas ir poruotųsi.

42 Silpnesniems gyvuliams poruojantis, jis neįdėdavo tų lazdelių. Taigi silpnesnieji teko Labanui, o stipresnieji Jokūbui.

43 Taip šis žmogus nepaprastai pralobo. Jis turėjo daug tarnų ir tarnaičių, galvijų, avių, kupranugarių ir asilų.

   

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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 29

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1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.

2 He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth was large.

3 There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well's mouth in its place.

4 Jacob said to them, "My relatives, where are you from?" They said, "We are from Haran."

5 He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him."

6 He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep."

7 He said, "Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them."

8 They said, "We can't, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth. Then we water the sheep."

9 While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them.

10 It happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

11 Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

12 Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father.

13 It happened, when Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister's son, that he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.

14 Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh." He lived with him for a month.

15 Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?"

16 Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

17 Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.

18 Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."

19 Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."

20 Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

21 Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her."

22 Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

23 It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

24 Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.

25 It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"

26 Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.

27 Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years."

28 Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

29 Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid.

30 He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

31 Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

32 Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, "Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me."

33 She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, "Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also." She named him Simeon.

34 She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, "Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore was his name called Levi.

35 She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, "This time will I praise Yahweh." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.