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创世记第33章

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1 雅各举目观,见以扫来了,後头跟着,他就把孩子们分开交给利亚、拉结,和两个使女,

2 并且叫两个使女和他们的孩子在前头,利亚和他的孩子在後头,拉结和约瑟在尽後头。

3 他自己在他们前头过去,一连次俯伏在才就哥哥

4 以扫跑来迎接他,将他抱住,又搂着他的颈项,与他亲嘴,两个人就哭了。

5 以扫举目见妇人孩子,就:这些?和你同行的是谁呢?雅各:这些孩子是施恩给你的仆人的

6 於是两个使女和他们的孩子前来下拜;

7 利亚和他的孩子也前来下拜;随约瑟和拉结也前来下拜。

8 以扫:我所遇见的这些群畜是甚麽意思呢?雅各:是要在我面前蒙恩的。

9 以扫兄弟阿,我的已经够了,你的仍归你罢!

10 雅各:不然,我若在你眼前蒙恩,就求你从我里收下这礼物;因为我见了你的面,如同见了的面,并且你容纳了我。

11 求你收下我带来给你的礼物;因为恩待我,使我充足。雅各再三地求他,他才收下了。

12 以扫我们可以起身前往,我在你前头走。

13 雅各对他:我知道孩子们年幼娇嫩,牛也正在乳养的时候,若是催赶一天畜都必死了

14 求我仆人前头走,我要量着在我面前群畜和孩子的力量慢慢地前行,直走到西珥我那里。

15 以扫:容我把跟随我的人留几个在你这里。雅各:何必呢?只要在我眼前蒙恩就是了。

16 於是,以扫当日起行,回往西珥去了。

17 雅各就往疏割去,在那里为自己盖造房屋,又为牲畜搭棚;因此那地方疏割(就是棚的意思)。

18 雅各从巴旦亚兰回的时候,平平安安到了迦南示剑城,在城东支搭帐棚,

19 就用一块银子向示剑的父亲、哈抹的子孙买了支帐棚的那块地,

20 在那里筑了一座,起名伊利伊罗伊以色列(就是神、以色列神的意思)。

   

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Arcana Coelestia#4388

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4388. Verses 17-20 And Jacob travelled on to Succoth, and built a house for himself, and made booths for his cattle; therefore he called the name of the place Succoth. And Jacob came to Salem, the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, as he was coming from Paddan Aram; and he encamped towards the face of the city. And he bought the portion of the field where he had stretched his tent, from the hand of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred kesitahs. And he set up an altar there and called it El Elohe Israel.

'Jacob travelled on to Succoth' means the state of the life of the good from truth at that time. 'And built a house for himself' means an increase of good from truth within that state. 'And made booths for his cattle' means an increase in a similar way of the things which exist in general within good from truth at that time. 'Therefore he called the name of the place Succoth' means the nature of that state. 'And Jacob came to Salem, the city of Shechem' means interior truths of faith which go with a state of serenity. 'Which is in the land of Canaan' means within the Lord's kingdom. 'As he was coming from Paddan Aram' means that which happened after the previous state. 'And he encamped towards the face of the city' means application. 'And he bought the portion of the field' means making the good that springs from that truth its own. 'Where he had stretched his tent' means holiness. 'From the hand of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem' means that the origin of that truth lay in a Divine stock from a different source. 'A hundred kesitahs' means that which is complete. 'And he set up an altar there' means interior worship. 'And called it El Elohe Israel' means that it originated in the Divine Spiritual.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.