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1 Jakov nastavi put i dođe u zemlju istočnu.

2 Najednom opazi studenac u polju. Tri su stada ovaca oko njega plandovala, jer se na tome studencu napajahu. Velik se kamen nalazio studencu na otvoru.

3 Jedino kad bi se svi pastiri ondje skupili, mogli bi odvaliti kamen s otvora i ovce napojiti; tada bi opet prevalili kamen na njegovo mjesto, na otvor studenca.

4 "Odakle ste, braćo moja?" - zapita ih Jakov. "Iz Harana", odgovore.

5 "Poznajete li", pitaše ih dalje, "Nahorova sina Labana?" "Poznajemo", odgovore.

6 "Je li zdravo?" - opet ih upita. "Zdravo je; a evo mu dolazi kći Rahela sa stadom", odgovore.

7 "Još ima mnogo dana", nastavi on, "nije vrijeme spraćati blago. Zašto ga ne napojite i ne otjerate na pašu?"

8 "Ne možemo dok se ne skupe svi pastiri", odgovoriše, "da odvale kamen s otvora studenca, tako da mognemo napojiti ovce."

9 Dok je on još s njima govorio, dođe Rahela s ovcama svoga oca. Bila je, naime, pastirica.

10 Kako Jakov ugleda Rahelu, kćer Labana, brata svoje majke, sa stadom svoga ujaka Labana, Jakov se primače i odvali kamen s otvora studenca te napoji stado svoga ujaka Labana.

11 Zatim Jakov poljubi Rahelu, a onda briznu u plač.

12 Potom Jakov kaza Raheli da je on sestrić njezina oca, sin Rebekin. Nato ona otrča i obavijesti oca.

13 Kad je Laban čuo vijest o Jakovu, sinu svoje sestre, potrča mu u susret. Zagrli ga i poljubi te dovede u svoju kuću. Ispriča Labanu sve što mu se dogodilo.

14 A onda Laban reče. "Zbilja si ti moja kost i moje meso!" Pošto je Jakov proboravio s Labanom mjesec dana,

15 Laban reče Jakovu: "Zar ćeš me zato što si mi sestrić badava služiti! Kaži mi koliko ćeš tražiti za najam?"

16 A Laban imaše dvije kćeri. Starijoj bijaše ime Lea, a mlađoj Rahela.

17 Lea imala slabe oči, a Rahela bila stasita i lijepa.

18 Kako je Jakov volio Rahelu, reče: "Služit ću ti sedam godina za tvoju mlađu kćer Rahelu."

19 Laban odvrati: "Bolje je da je tebi dam nego kakvu strancu. Ostani sa mnom!"

20 Tako je Jakov služio za Rahelu sedam godina, ali mu se učinile, zbog ljubavi prema njoj, kao nekoliko dana.

21 Poslije toga Jakov reče Labanu: "Daj mi moju ženu, jer se moje vrijeme navršilo pa bih htio k njoj."

22 Laban sabra sav svijet onog mjesta i priredi gozbu.

23 Ali navečer uzme svoju kćer Leu pa nju uvede k Jakovu, i on priđe k njoj.

24 Laban dade svoju sluškinju Zilpu svojoj kćeri Lei za sluškinju.

25 Kad bi ujutro, a to, gle, Lea! Tada Jakov reče Labanu: "Zašto si mi to učinio! Zar te ja nisam služio za Rahelu? Zašto si me prevario?"

26 Laban odgovori: "U našem mjestu nije običaj da se mlađa udaje prije starije.

27 Završi s njom ovu ženidbenu sedmicu, a onda ću ti dati i drugu, za drugih sedam godina službe kod mene." Jakov pristane: navrši onu ženidbenu sedmicu.

28 Onda mu Laban dade i svoju kćer Rahelu za ženu.

29 Laban dade svoju sluškinju Bilhu svojoj kćeri Raheli za sluškinju.

30 Jakov nato priđe Raheli. Rahelu je više volio nego Leu. I tako je služio Labana još sedam godina.

31 Jahve je vidio da Lea nije voljena, te je učini plodnom, dok Rahela ostade nerotkinja.

32 Lea zače i rodi sina; nadjenu mu ime Ruben, a to znači, kako je ona protumačila: "Jahve je vidio moju nevolju i stoga će me sada muž moj ljubiti."

33 Opet zače i rodi sina te izjavi: "Jahve je čuo da nisam voljena, stoga mi je dao i ovoga." Zato mu nadjenu ime Šimun.

34 Opet zače i rodi sina te izjavi: "Sad će se moj muž meni prikloniti: tri sam mu sina rodila." Zato mu nadjenu ime Levi.

35 A kad je još jednom začela i sina rodila, izjavi: "Ovaj put hvalit ću Jahvu." Stoga sinu nadjenu ime Juda. Potom prestade rađati.

   

З творів Сведенборга

 

Arcana Coelestia #3837

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3837. 'So it was in the morning' means enlightenment in that state. This is clear from the meaning of 'the morning' as enlightenment, dealt with in 3458, 3723. And since every period of time means a state, 2625, 2788, 2837, 3356, the earliest period of the day or the morning accordingly means the enlightenment belonging to that state, that is, in that state. The enlightenment has regard to that which follows shortly, that is to say, his acknowledgement that it was a joining merely to external truth.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #848

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848. When temptations have come to an end there is so to speak fluctuation. And if the temptations are spiritual it is fluctuation between truth and falsity, as also becomes quite clear from the fact that temptation is the starting point to regeneration. The purpose of all regeneration therefore is that a person may receive new life, or rather that he may receive life, and from not being a man may become one, that is, from being a dead man may become one who is alive. When therefore his former life, which is purely animal, is destroyed by means of temptations he cannot after temptations do other than fluctuate between truth and falsity. Truth belongs to the new life, falsity to the old. Unless the former life is destroyed and this fluctuation takes place, spiritual seed can never be implanted because there is no ground for it.

[2] Once that former life has been destroyed however, and this kind of fluctuation is taking place, a person knows almost nothing at all of what truth and good are. Indeed he scarcely knows of the existence of any such thing as truth. Take, for example, the situation in which a person considers whether he is able to perform from the proprium any good deeds that stem from charity, that is, good works, as people call them, and whether merit rests in his proprium. He is in that case in such obscurity and darkness that when told that nobody is able to do anything good from himself, that is, from his proprium, still less merit anything, and that all good comes from the Lord and all merit is the Lord's, it must inevitably astonish him. The same applies to all other matters of faith. Nevertheless that obscurity or darkness in which he dwells is slowly and gradually lightened.

[3] Regeneration is exactly like when a person is born as an infant. At this point he is living in the greatest obscurity, knowing virtually nothing. This being so, general ideas of things flow in first, which gradually become more definite as specific ideas are introduced into the general, and further still as yet more detailed ideas are introduced into the specific. Detailed ideas light up the general so that he knows not merely of their existence but also the nature of them. A similar process takes place with everyone emerging from spiritual temptation; and the state is similar in the case of people in the next life who have been under the influence of falsities and who are now being vastated. This state is called fluctuation and is described here as 'the waters receding, going back and forth'.

  
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